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IN oRBit: PADDLING AROUND MANHATTAN
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Today’s Red Bank oRBit brings you the data on some high-profile midweek concerts, including a benefit for the Count Basie Theatre restoration project starring Counting Crows — in addition to an oddball fundraising eventContinue reading "IN oRBit: PADDLING AROUND MANHATTAN"
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August 24th, 2009 @ 6am
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THEFTS, VANDALISM DOMINATE BLOTTER
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Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of August 14, to August 21, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Theft occurring at E. Newman SpringsContinue reading "THEFTS, VANDALISM DOMINATE BLOTTER"
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August 24th, 2009 @ 6am
BAKED, NOT FRIED, MAKES FOR THE CRABBIEST
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Red Bank’s Red restaurant came out on top at the Star-Ledger’s Munchmobile Crab Cake Festival and Shore Chef Cook-Off at Monmouth Park Sunday. Red’s crab cake was selected as theContinue reading "BAKED, NOT FRIED, MAKES FOR THE CRABBIEST"
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August 24th, 2009 @ 6am
Red Bank police have arrested three juveniles on charges they viciously attacked an 18-year-old borough man late Tuesday night. The suspects — borough residents aged 15, 16 and 17 —Continue reading "THREE ARRESTED IN WEST SIDE BEAT-DOWN"
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August 21st, 2009 @ 3pm
RED BANK RED BRICK
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The plastic sheathing that had covered a scaffold on the east side of 2 Broad Street in Red Bank for months came down this week, exposing the structure’s original redContinue reading "RED BANK RED BRICK"
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August 21st, 2009 @ 7am
The site of Congressman Frank Pallone’s town hall meeting on national health insurance has been changed from Red Bank borough hall to the middle school, according to an announcement onContinue reading "PALLONE TOWN HALL MOVED FROM TOWN HALL"
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August 20th, 2009 @ 3pm
Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre, who’s running for Congress in 2010, has scheduled a public forum on President Obama’s national health insurance plan — to be held 90 minutes earlier,Continue reading "HALFACRE: BEAT THE RUSH ON ‘OBAMACARE’"
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August 20th, 2009 @ 2pm
A Red Bank man has been arrested and charged with conducting a spree of out-of-town burglaries as far away as Millburn, the Asbury Park Press reports. Thirty-year-old Miguel Dela CarreraContinue reading "RED BANKER CHARGED IN BREAK-IN SPREE"
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August 20th, 2009 @ 1pm
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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“They’re so lonesome, and I wonder why anyone would go sit out there,” Sandra Talarico said of the benches shown in last week’s Where.
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August 20th, 2009 @ 8am
IN oRBit: PEARLS, CURLS & FRANK TALK
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Today’s Red Bank oRBit brings you an interview with Marybeth Maida — Red Bank resident, Borough Education Foundation vice president, mom and media professional — to say nothing of active, dynamic,Continue reading "IN oRBit: PEARLS, CURLS & FRANK TALK"
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August 20th, 2009 @ 8am
THE NEW LAWN ORNAMENT
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What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, ofContinue reading "THE NEW LAWN ORNAMENT"
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August 20th, 2009 @ 8am
MAN HOSPITALIZED AFTER WEST SIDE BEATING
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An 18-year-old man was in stable condition with head trauma at Riverview Medical Center Wednesday afternoon following a beating he took from an unknown number of assailants Tuesday night, RedContinue reading "MAN HOSPITALIZED AFTER WEST SIDE BEATING"
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August 19th, 2009 @ 5pm
AN ETERNAL MESSAGE, IN CHALK
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Sidewalk outside the Madison Commons apartments, South Street, Red Bank, 5p, Tuesday, August 18, 2009. (Click to enlarge)
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August 19th, 2009 @ 8am
BLOTTER: KNIFEPOINT ROBBERY REPORTED
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Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of August 7 to August 14, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring at West FrontContinue reading "BLOTTER: KNIFEPOINT ROBBERY REPORTED"
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August 19th, 2009 @ 7am
IN oRBit: OUNCES OF PREVENTION
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Today’s Red Bank oRBit has a preview of a benefit concert happening Friday night at the Two River Theater — a fundraiser for the Monmouth County-based nonprofit Prevention First and its slate of programsContinue reading "IN oRBit: OUNCES OF PREVENTION"
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August 19th, 2009 @ 7am
SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES DARROW CONTRACT
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Administrator Annie Darrow, foreground, with Superintendent Laura Morana earlier this year. Red Bank’s Board of Ed last night approved a one-year contract with a four-percent salary bump for Administrator AnnieContinue reading "SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES DARROW CONTRACT"
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August 19th, 2009 @ 6am
HALFACRE HALF-OK WITH STIMULUS MONEY
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Mayor Mike Halfacre in 2008. With his town having  just landed a whopping $477,000 in federal stimulus money, one might think that Fair Haven mayor and congressional aspirant Mike HalfacreContinue reading "HALFACRE HALF-OK WITH STIMULUS MONEY"
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August 18th, 2009 @ 2pm
MANSION-TO-OFFICE PLAN OK’D IN SQUEAKER
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New owner Charlie McCague says he spent $50,000 to restore the slate-and-copper roof of the structure and will preserve the clapboard exterior and interior layout. After a vote that sharplyContinue reading "MANSION-TO-OFFICE PLAN OK’D IN SQUEAKER"
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August 18th, 2009 @ 8am
BUMPER TO BUMPER ON MADISON
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Mary Ann Hance of Madison Avenue with her damaged car Tuesday morning. Red Bank police are investigating hit-and-run incidents in which two cars parked about 75 yards apart on MadisonContinue reading "BUMPER TO BUMPER ON MADISON"
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August 18th, 2009 @ 8am
IN oRBit: BRUCE, BACK ON THE BOARDWALK
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That’s cabaret crooner and top-shelf nightclub entertainer Eddie Bruce (right), the Philly-based star whose acclaimed appearances in Manhattan and AC haven’t stopped him from making the Shore part of a balancedContinue reading "IN oRBit: BRUCE, BACK ON THE BOARDWALK"
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August 18th, 2009 @ 6am
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KAYAKERS CLEAR RIVER JUNK
Partyline photo: "The Navesink Nymphs" clear floating tires from the river.
PAINT IT PURPLE?
Caption: ‘Should it be done purple?’ Perfect day. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
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MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner photographs praying mantis at church.
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)