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Music Week marches on in Red Bank oRBit, as today we rate your chances of soaking up some much-needed tuneshine this Cinco de Mayo. With options that range from the Latin sounds of Asbury Park's Xol Azul and Perth Amboy's...
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May 5th, 2009 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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The developer agreed to redesign the upper floors to incorporate more brickwork than shown in these earlier elevations of the west and east sides of the proposed structure. (Click to englarge) By LAURA KOSS The Red Bank planning board last...
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May 5th, 2009 @ 7am
For unknown reasons, bundles of mail were left out in the rain atop a drop box on Broad Street in Red Bank Monday afternoon. In today's mail: a forecast for more rain. In fact, the soggy weather will dominate through...
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May 5th, 2009 @ 6am
Craig Widmaier of Red Bank and son Gregory tackle the job of digging out the invasive plant Japanese knotweed at Saturday's cleanup of the Maple Avenue lot. For the second year in a row, a crew of volunteers descended on...
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May 4th, 2009 @ 10am
Buona Sera's outdoor dining arrangement on Maple Avenue, as seen from the corner of Monmouth Street. They're back, this time with the blessing of the Red Bank mayor and council. We're talking about new outdoor tables at Buona Sera Ristorante,...
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May 4th, 2009 @ 6am
Don't look now, but it's Music Week over at our sister site Red Bank oRBit. Actually, do look now, because today and every day this week we'll be bringing you tips and tweetable tidbits pertaining to what our editor calls...
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May 4th, 2009 @ 5am
Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of April 24 to May 01, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Theft occurring between 4-19-09 and 4-16-09 at West Bergen Place. Victim reported that unknown person stole...
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May 4th, 2009 @ 5am
Dozens of people looking for used clothing turned out at the Red Bank train station Saturday for a giveaway organized by the Red Bank Community Church. The event is held periodically, says church Pastor Lenny Liebmann. Email this story
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May 4th, 2009 @ 5am
Aurora Donohue finds something she likes at a Paint the Town Pink sale table outside the Broadway Diner on Saturday. Paint the Town Pink got off to a slippery start Saturday, with sporadic drizzles and showers into early afternoon before...
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May 2nd, 2009 @ 8pm
Owner George Galanti and stylist Olga Natsis of Ariston Hair Design hang a pink heart-shaped boa in the salon's window on Broad Street Friday to mark "Paint the Town Pink" week in Red Bank. The third annual "shop, dine, pledge"...
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May 2nd, 2009 @ 1am
Photographers for the Asbury Park Press and the New York Post were the last holdouts Thursday afternoon outside the home of Megan McAllister. For nearly two weeks, they camped out just off Rumson Road in Little Silver, an army of...
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May 1st, 2009 @ 1pm
Having already whetted your appetite with features this week on Martin Short, Roger McGuinn, Paint the Town Pink, M Shanghai String Band and the return of the Red Bank International Film Festival, today's edition of Red Bank oRBit fires up...
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May 1st, 2009 @ 6am
Click to enlarge map Continuing its quest to promote local yard sales, redbankgreen today has word of one in the Fairview section of Middletown scheduled for this weekend. date: Sat, May 2nd time: 10a to 3p location: 40 Stephenville Boulevard...
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May 1st, 2009 @ 6am
Dana Ujobagy, owner of Paw Palace, plans to relocate her shop to Monmouth Street in June. One of downtown Red Bank's premier addresses is going to the dogs. Dana Ujobagy (pronounced 'you-ja-bayj'), owner of the Paw Palace luxury dog boutique...
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April 30th, 2009 @ 9am
Last week, we probably got too obscure for our own good. Hey, it happens when you're trying to strike a balance between the overly obvious and the impossible-to-identify each week. Every once in a while, you tilt too much in...
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April 30th, 2009 @ 7am
Two days ago on redbankgreen, we gave you a "you Are there" early morning perspective on the painting of a pink line down the middle of Broad Street. The occasion, of course, was the anticipated start of the third annual...
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April 30th, 2009 @ 7am
The Oceanic Bridge, as seen from the Rumson side. The Army Corps of Engineers will spend $2.55 million on dredging to improve boat traffic and safety on the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers, the agency announced yesterday. The funding will come...
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April 30th, 2009 @ 6am
The extra floors would be tacked onto an addition already approved for the lot between the Atrium at Navesink Harbor, center, and Riverview Towers, right. The lot at left foreground would provide parking for the Atrium. The six-story six-story addition-to-the...
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April 29th, 2009 @ 11am
Red Bank's municipal budget for the coming fiscal year sailed to approval Monday night despite the misgivings of several residents. Kim Senkeleski of John Street questioned increases in salary and health insurance costs. Harrison Avenue's Jim Willis bemoaned the "increasing...
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April 29th, 2009 @ 9am
Mandolin player and (Rumson-Fair Haven grad) Richard Morris can claim no credit for arranging this Saturday's appearance of the M Shanghai String Band in Atlantic Highlands, though he's a member of the Brooklyn-based urban-bluegrass band and a resident of neighboring...
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April 29th, 2009 @ 6am
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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.