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Crime reports provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of April 17 to April 24, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Auto theft occurring at Broad St. on 4-18-09. Victim reported that his parked vehicle was stolen....
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April 29th, 2009 @ 5am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Fair Haven residents can sign up for alerts about emergencies as well as ordinary community events, features that will also be incorporated into Red Bank's website, officials say. A North Jersey web design firm won approval Monday night to build...
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April 28th, 2009 @ 1pm
Video documentarian Bill Day is back with another short, this time focusing on the impact of the recession on boaters and the vendors who depend on them in Red Bank. Among the locals interviewed are John Matteo and Chann Irwin...
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April 28th, 2009 @ 11am
PINK LINE FEVER
Mark Arnone of Liberty Line Striping donated his services Tuesday morning to lay down a temporary pink stripe along Broad Street in Red Bank. The paint job was part of the third annual mini-makeover of the business district known as...
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April 28th, 2009 @ 7am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit follows up Monday's Martin Short interview with a virtual visit to Roger McGuinn, the founder of The Byrds and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer whose mastery of traditional folk music is matched only...
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April 28th, 2009 @ 6am
The owner of the Atrium at Navesink Harbor, center, wants to add six stories to a planned addition, and to use the lot in the foreground for parking. Riverview Towers is at right; the addition is to go between the...
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April 27th, 2009 @ 3pm
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit gets a running start on the coming weekend with a focus on two major events. One is the Count Basie Theatre's annual Benefit Concert and Gala — a swell, street-closing affair for which the...
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April 27th, 2009 @ 10am
Sure beets store-bought: Wendy Weiner in her vegetable garden. When Wendy Weiner moved to Little Silver from Hunterdon County a little more than a year ago, she hoped to plant a back yard vegetable garden. But the yard didn't get...
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April 27th, 2009 @ 7am
The three elected officials have their legislative office at 32 Monmouth Street in Red Bank. The three 12th-district state legislators plan to hold their first-ever "tele-town hall" Tuesday night. The one-hour conference call, starting at 7:20p, is being touted by...
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April 27th, 2009 @ 6am
Former shop owner Susan Ericson's "gigantic, blowout, clean-out-the-house" yard sale has turned into a neighborhood event on her cul-de-sac. Susan Ericson used to have a store on River Road in Fair Haven called Black Eyed Susans Kitchen that sold vintage...
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April 24th, 2009 @ 7am
Thanksgiving at Lunch Break was on Branches Catering in 2008. On Monday night, the West Long Branch facility hosts some three dozen restaurants to raise funds for the Red Bank soup kitchen. This long-overdue edition of Done Good — a...
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April 24th, 2009 @ 6am
A Morris County judge today froze the assets of a Fair Haven investment adviser who is alleged to have swindled an elderly client out of $9 million over a decade, according to reports by the Star-Ledger and Morristown's Daily Record....
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April 23rd, 2009 @ 4pm
Instead of razing and rebuilding, Chubby's will get a sprucing-up aimed at attracting a more mature crowd. Chubby's Waterside Café, the increasingly trouble-plagued Red Bank night spot that has been stymied by the economy in its plans for a wholesale...
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April 23rd, 2009 @ 11am
Last week's 'Where" showed the decorative piece of stone- and brickwork atop 58-64 Broad Street in downtown Red Bank. In "Images of America: Red Bank," one of his three photo books on the history of the borough, prolific author Randall...
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April 23rd, 2009 @ 8am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit features interviews with two photographers, women whose areas of focus could hardly be farther apart. But each is making a book-signing appearance in Red Bank this Saturday that should stir fans of their subject...
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April 23rd, 2009 @ 8am
A Mercer County grand jury has indicted a Little Silver woman as part of a wide-ranging investigation into the alleged fraudulent sale of automobile titles through the state Motor Vehicle Commission. Fifty-year-old Maryleigh Barbusin was charged with conspiracy, official misconduct...
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April 23rd, 2009 @ 6am
David Goldman with his son, Sean, before the boy was moved to Brazil four years ago by his mother. A Brazilian official says a federal court in that nation shouldn't give absolute custody to either party fighting over Sean Goldman,...
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April 23rd, 2009 @ 6am
Plans for $8 million in new facilities at the Community YMCA on Maple Avenue in Red Bank have raised concerns about traffic safety, according to today's Asbury Park Press. The newspaper reports that the Y's expansion project would add a...
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April 23rd, 2009 @ 6am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit pays tribute to the talented men who in turn pay tribute to some of the most iconic figures in showbiz history. First, we introduce you to Frank Ferrante, a non-household name who nonetheless has...
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April 22nd, 2009 @ 4pm
In today's edition of Ledger Live, host Brian Donohue sings the praises of composting and 'freecycling,' using his Red Bank home and yard as the video's setting to make a couple of points about green living. Check it out, folks......
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April 22nd, 2009 @ 4pm
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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.