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Those three spheres featured in last week's 'Where' seem to be quite the eye-catchers. Installed outside the TD Ameritrade office on Broad Street (Route 35) at Monroe Avenue in Shrewsbury, they're clearly decorative, and lend a touch of whimsy to...
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April 9th, 2009 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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As noted in a redbankgreen reader comment, the state Attorney General has backed off a plan to fine 81 percent of the state's bowling alleys $3,000 each for violating raffle regulations. From a statement issued by the AG's Consumer Affairs...
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April 9th, 2009 @ 7am
Jade Garden restaurant on Broad Street, near Harding Road, was one of seven properties tagged between Monday night and Tuesday morning, police say. A rash of graffiti taggings earlier this week has Red Bank authorities trying to figure out if...
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April 9th, 2009 @ 5am
Today's Red Bank oRBit offers up a double feature that spotlights the return of a local classic and a coming-attractions trailer for one of the most highly anticipated sequels in cinema-buff circles. First, we finally get around to answering the...
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April 8th, 2009 @ 1pm
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa outside the Count Basie Theatre last May. Almost three years after Bruce Springsteen and wife Patti Scialfa went shopping at the Antique Center of Red Bank to help dispel rumors of a split, a West...
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April 8th, 2009 @ 1pm
Some six months ahead of schedule, a photo crew and stylists made up a house on Hudson Avenue in Red Bank for Halloween yesterday. Brenda Angelilli, design director for All You magazine, said the setup was for a photo to...
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April 8th, 2009 @ 7am
Rumson's future borough hall may be ready for occupancy as early as June 1, Mayor John Ekdahl tells the today's Asbury Park Press after the town council authorized the purchase of $124,000 worth of desks, chairs and other furniture last...
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April 8th, 2009 @ 7am
A dolphin in the Shrewsbury River in November. The whitened body of an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin was found near the Route 36 bridge between Highlands and Sea Bright Tuesday and will be examined by federal scientists today to determine if...
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April 8th, 2009 @ 7am
Sebastian Sokolowski of Laborers Local 78 stood outside Red Bank Corporate Plaza with a large, inflatable rodent on West Front Street for the second day Tuesday. The union is protesting the hiring of a non-union asbestos abatement contractor on a...
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April 8th, 2009 @ 6am
The state Consumer Affairs division took the action as part of a raffle-licensing enforcement. Memory Bowling in Shrewsbury was among 59 bowling alleys statewide cited for conducting 50/50 raffles that violate New Jersey regulations, the state Attorney General's office announced...
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April 7th, 2009 @ 8am
Tuesday's Red Bank oRBit brings you an update on the kids from Rockit! For Kids, the Red Bank-based classic rock conservatory whose students have been leaving parents, professional musicians and even Rockit commander Bruce Gallipani "blown away" with their rapidly...
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April 7th, 2009 @ 5am
A view of the Count Basie Field grandstand. A Red Bank man remained hospitalized in critical condition with head injuries Monday, two days after police say he jumped off the side of the Count Basie Field grandstand. Manuel Trejo-Martinez, 24,...
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April 6th, 2009 @ 6pm
Two Red Bank men face long prison sentences after being convicted last week in a 2007 armed robbery of a West Side jewelry store in which the owner, his wife and year-old son were menaced at gunpoint. The verdict, announced...
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April 6th, 2009 @ 6pm
A Red Bank man has been convicted of robbing one person at gunpoint, threatening a second and firing the weapon into the air nearly three years ago, the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office announced Monday. After a two-week trial in Freehold,...
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April 6th, 2009 @ 6pm
While last week we brought you the Poet Laureate of the United States, today's Red Bank oRBit book nook is all about guiltier pleasures: a visit with the internationally published writer of historical romance novels known as Kaitlin O’Riley. At...
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April 6th, 2009 @ 11am
Gov. Jon Corzine presents the folded flag from the casket of former Daniel J. O'Hern to O'Hern's widow, Barbara, as family and friends look on outside St. James Church on Saturday. (Click photos to enlarge) Red Bank bid farewell to...
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April 6th, 2009 @ 7am
For decades, this is what library patrons curious about the upper floors have encountered. In what were once the demurely separate bedrooms of Mr. & Mrs. Sigmund Eisner, the Red Bank Public Library last year created two new second-floor reading...
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April 3rd, 2009 @ 11am
Today's Red Bank oRBit shines a spotlight on Woody Guthrie, the folksinger-songwriter-painter-author whose legacy looms ever larger as we all reacquaint ourselves with the subtleties of those official Hobo Signs. The artist, who died in 1967, is the subject of...
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April 3rd, 2009 @ 7am
Zoning board member Karen Waldman mulls her position on the Siros plan. The developers lopped a whole floor off their proposed building and reduced the number of condo units they wanted to build by a third. The moves left them...
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April 3rd, 2009 @ 7am
George Lynch and Rich Hardy of DPW do the honors, above. Below, Hardy paints a new stop line and Nick Piscitelli shows off one of the new lenses for the blinking traffic light. (Click to enlarge) It's official: there's now...
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April 2nd, 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.