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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
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RED BANK RED BRICK
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?
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Once again, we’re glad to see so many good candidates for Comment of the Week in our files from last week. Thanks to everyone who posted something. The comments weContinue reading "‘NOT THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD…’"
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August 17th, 2009 @ 1pm
Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. has scheduled a town-hall style Q&A about health insurance reform for Tuesday, August 25 in Red Bank. But Pallone, a Long Branch Democrat who chairs aContinue reading "PALLONE PLANS TOWN HALL ON HEALTHCARE"
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August 17th, 2009 @ 10am
TOWNWIDE YARD SALE REGISTRATION OPENS
Coming into view in Red Bank: block after block of tables groaning under the weight of good, used stuff. Registration is now open for the second annual Red Bank TownwideContinue reading "TOWNWIDE YARD SALE REGISTRATION OPENS"
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August 14th, 2009 @ 3pm
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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.