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Sale prices on existing homes in the area that includes Monmouth County plunged 11.3 percent in the first quarter, today's Absury Park Press reports. The National Association of Realtors pegged the median home price in the Central Jersey region at...
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May 13th, 2009 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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The City Centre strip mall at Maple Avenue and West Front Street is one of five properties under common ownership that will see lower tax bills. The Red Bank Council last night greenlighted settlements of five tax appeal lawsuits, but...
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May 12th, 2009 @ 11am
A now-disbarred Red Bank lawyer faces up to seven years in state prison after pleading guilty yesterday to stealing $300,000 from trust accounts for clients, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office. Gary Edelson, 48, formerly of Red Bank, entered...
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May 12th, 2009 @ 9am
Today's Red Bank oRBit tourbus offers up an exclusive chat — yes, it's a talking bus — with a true living legend of show business: Uncle Floyd Vivino, fabled farouk of local cable and UHF broadcasts, and a man who...
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May 12th, 2009 @ 7am
At last night's borough council meeting, Human Relations Committee chairman David Pascale showed off t-shirts that the committee plans to sell at the second annual Red Bank Day celebration this Saturday. The shirts are available in a handful of designs...
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May 12th, 2009 @ 6am
A public works department database contains photos of violations, like this heap of curbside furniture. Red Bank residents hoping never to get stung —or restung — with a ticket for violating borough laws governing curbside brush, leaves and bulk items...
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May 12th, 2009 @ 6am
Today's Asbury Park Press takes a look at how some New Jersey school districts, including those of Red Bank and Fair Haven, are responding to the high cost of sending children with special needs out-of-district. The approach in Red Bank,...
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May 12th, 2009 @ 5am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit takes a close look at High School Reunion: The Musical, the latest original show by local-kids-made-good Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. They're the Emmy-nominated TV writers and producers who return to Monmouth County...
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May 11th, 2009 @ 10am
Fans of women's basketball take note: a semi-pro league has established a new team that will use the Salvation Army gym in Red Bank as its home court. The Jersey Fusion is one of the latest members of the Women's...
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May 11th, 2009 @ 9am
Scenes from last year's post-parade picnic on Centennial Day, the precursor to Saturday's Red Bank Day. (Click to enlarge) At the picnic that followed the parade for Red Bank's Centennial last year, Mayor Pasquale Menna was telling everyone he wanted...
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May 11th, 2009 @ 8am
Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of May 01 to May 8, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring at Prospect Ave. on 5-1-09. Unknown subject attempted to gain entry into residence...
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May 11th, 2009 @ 5am
An average 1,000 shoppers stock up on vegetables, fruit, pies and crafts every Sunday at the Red Bank institution, one of the state's largest farm markets. Freshly supplied with approvals to build a parking garage/office building, the owners of the...
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May 8th, 2009 @ 8am
Over on our sib site Red Bank oRBit, a special week of musically minded coverage climaxes today with a lookahead at three days' worth of sublime sounds from all imaginable corners of the local tunescape. Beginning with a big Pink...
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May 8th, 2009 @ 7am
Here's hoping for less-ominous weather than we've had recently when residents gather for the official opening of the borough dock Monday evening. Fair Haven officials have scheduled a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday to mark the reopening of the borough dock on...
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May 8th, 2009 @ 6am
Here are some scenes from Thursday night's 'Soul Sister Party' at the Children's Cultural Center in Red Bank, part of the weeklong 'Paint the Town Pink' breast cancer awareness effort. The center's second-floor auditorium was transformed into a pink-hued disco...
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May 8th, 2009 @ 6am
Red Bank police arrested two 18-year-old borough men today shortly after a Mechanic Street resident reported she surprised the pair in the midst of burglarizing her home. The incident unfolded after the 26-year-old resident returned home around 11:06a and noticed...
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May 7th, 2009 @ 4pm
Ledger Live host Brian Donohue again uses his hometown Red Bank as the backdrop for his daily vidpost, this one featuring him seated outside Zebu Forno as he riffs, bloggerlike, on the friction between GOP gubernatorial contenders Chris Christie and...
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May 7th, 2009 @ 12pm
Today's Red Bank oRBit has a first look at Private Lives, the latest (and last of the season) production at Two River Theater. As you'll see, it's an old warhorse of the British stage — Noel Coward wrote and originally...
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May 7th, 2009 @ 7am
Did Christo and Jeanne-Claude slip in and out of town, leaving behind nothing but a coverup? OK, so it isn't an endeavor on a par with, say, the Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin. Yet this public display remains a mysterious, vaguely...
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May 7th, 2009 @ 6am
A Fair Haven investment adviser who is reported to have a villa in France was charged in federal court in Newark today with running a Ponzi scheme, the Star-Ledger is reporting. The criminal allegations against Maxwell Smith follow earlier allegations...
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May 6th, 2009 @ 2pm
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PAINT IT PURPLE?
Caption: ‘Should it be done purple?’ Perfect day. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
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)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...