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A 33-year-old Red Bank Middle School social studies teacher was found dead in her Neptune City apartment this morning, and investigators are treating the matter as suspicious, the Asbury ParkContinue reading "PRESS: RBMS TEACHER’S DEATH ‘SUSPICIOUS’"
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September 14th, 2009 @ 5pm
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NEARLY EMPTY COMPLEX MAY GET RESTAURANT
Except for limited office use, Red Bank Corporate Plaza has been empty since completion two years ago. By Dustin Racioppi Red Bank’s comeback from the depths of the economic downturnContinue reading "NEARLY EMPTY COMPLEX MAY GET RESTAURANT"
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September 14th, 2009 @ 5am
Mother Nature could have been a touch more sympathetic. But many of the more than 100 residents who signed up to participate as sellers in the second annual Red BankContinue reading "UNDAUNTED BY A SOGGY DAY"
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September 14th, 2009 @ 5am
An after-school and weekend community center for all Red Bank kids is scheduled to open today, with staff from the Boys & Girls Club of Monmouth County managing the programContinue reading "BOYS & GIRLS CLUB DEBUTS"
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September 14th, 2009 @ 5am
Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of September 4 to September 11, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring on 9-4-09 atContinue reading "BLOTTER: GOLD CADILLAC SUV STOLEN"
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September 14th, 2009 @ 5am
SOMEBODY CALL A CAB?
A taxicab somehow wound up on top of the fence outside a home at Branch Avenue and Tower Hill Avenue in Red Bank at about 5:30p Sunday. No official explanationContinue reading "SOMEBODY CALL A CAB?"
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September 13th, 2009 @ 6pm
THEY’RE OUT THERE
Shoppers perusing the wares under plastic at a home on River Road this morning. (Click to enlarge) It may be moist-to-soggy weather, but today’s Red Bank Townwide Yard is inContinue reading "THEY’RE OUT THERE"
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September 12th, 2009 @ 11am
YARD SALE MAPS & ADDRESSES AVAILABLE
The info pack for Saturday’s rain-or-shine 2009 Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale is now available on the site’s webpage. It contains the addresses of all participating sellers, a locator map,Continue reading "YARD SALE MAPS & ADDRESSES AVAILABLE"
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September 11th, 2009 @ 1pm
IN ONE TOWN, A HUNDRED YARD SALES
OK, so the weather forecast isn’t great. But a 30-percent chance of rain Saturday morning could be worse. Like, 70 percent worse. Perhaps the optimism of the more than 100Continue reading "IN ONE TOWN, A HUNDRED YARD SALES"
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September 11th, 2009 @ 5am
Football practice under the big bulbs last night at RBR, getting ready tonight’s big game against Spotswood. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI It’s not often that Red Bank RegionalContinue reading "SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT FOR BUCS FANS"
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September 11th, 2009 @ 5am
IN oRBit: RUSTED, AND NEVER SLEEPING
Here at satellite site Red Bank oRBit, we can vouch that what used to be considered the iron curtain of Labor Day has become as threadbare a concept as the fallContinue reading "IN oRBit: RUSTED, AND NEVER SLEEPING"
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September 11th, 2009 @ 5am
A BUNCH OF GALS WHO TRI, TRI, TRI
Members of the Jersey Shore Tri Gals take to the ocean on a training swim Wednesday. (Click to enlarge) Twenty years ago, in the early days of the Danskin Triathlon,Continue reading "A BUNCH OF GALS WHO TRI, TRI, TRI"
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September 11th, 2009 @ 5am
A former broker at the Red Bank office of Merrill Lynch was indicted by a Monmouth County grand jury yesterday on charges that he swindled $500,000 from more than twoContinue reading "MERRILL BROKER INDICTED FOR FRAUD"
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September 11th, 2009 @ 5am
PHS: WE PAY, AND WILL CONTINUE TO PAY
An architect’s rendering of the already approved six-story addition hangs on a fence next to the existing 12-story Atrium at Navesink Harbor, on Riverview Avenue. Apparent confusion over the theContinue reading "PHS: WE PAY, AND WILL CONTINUE TO PAY"
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September 10th, 2009 @ 10am
SEA BRIGHT CHARGES INTO SKIM BOARD FEST
A competitor goes airborne in last year’s edition of the event, now in its sixth year. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Forget those end-of-summer blues this weekend. Sea Bright’s got some hotContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT CHARGES INTO SKIM BOARD FEST"
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September 10th, 2009 @ 7am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Thanks to Mark Molzon, Lindsey Hintelmann and J.C. Kelly for writing in about last week’s image, which zeroed in on an iron gate festooned with a bunch of grapes. EachContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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September 10th, 2009 @ 6am
IN oRBit: FORNATALE’S ON FIRST
For the past four decades, Pete Fornatale has offered one of the most distinctive voices on New York radio as a disc jockey, interviewer and well-nigh legendary collector of oralContinue reading "IN oRBit: FORNATALE’S ON FIRST"
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September 10th, 2009 @ 5am
TOWN: LOT IS TOO SOON, IF NOT TOO MUCH
The lot at the corner of Maple Avenue and Monmouth Street was paved without a permit, say borough officials. Red Bank borough employees returned to work after the Labor DayContinue reading "TOWN: LOT IS TOO SOON, IF NOT TOO MUCH"
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September 9th, 2009 @ 11am
A tentative contract with the collective bargaining unit representing Red Bank police calls for three-percent pay raises this year and next, borough officials said Tuesday night. The terms of theContinue reading "POLICE PACT: SIX PERCENT OVER TWO YEARS"
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September 9th, 2009 @ 6am
WALK THIS WAY… PLEASE
Spotted by redbankgreen‘s accidental photographer one evening last week: a busy spider building a web near the corner of Hubbard Avenue and Navesink River Road in Middletown.
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September 8th, 2009 @ 8am
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PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.