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Dr. Howard Rubenstein at the nursing station of the new ground-floor facility, which opens its doors March 17. Howard Rubenstein remembers a childhood trip to a hospital emergency room in Rahway in the 1960s. He'd broken his arm and sat...
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March 11th, 2009 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Hovnanian's head office, as seen from the foot of Maple Avenue. Red Bank-headquartered Hovnanian Enterprises, one of the nation's largest homebuilding companies, saw its losses accelerate in the most recent quarter. The company posted a net loss of $178.4. million...
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March 11th, 2009 @ 6am
A fine art exhibit of "Spraypaint SurrealiZm" and a concert featuring Israel's hottest reggae/klezmer/jam band? It's just another day of illuminating finds at Red Bank oRBit, redbankgreen's companion site for arts and entertainment. Today's edition takes you to McKay Imaging...
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March 11th, 2009 @ 6am
The borough-based Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey may feel the pinch. For the second time in recent months, the Red Bank Council has contracted services to Monmouth County in an effort to cut costs. The governing body last night...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 9am
Former Fair Haven furniture dealer William Neumann faces seven years in state prison after pleading guilty yesterday to defrauding customers out of $330,000 for goods that were never delivered, the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office says. Under the terms of a...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 9am
The dispatcher's desk at police headquarters won't be staffed nights and weekends, officials acknowledge. A late-entry proposal from Little Silver to take over police dispatching duties won approval by Fair Haven's council Monday night, the Asbury Park Press reports. From...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 6am
With the disclosure, Menna delivered on a pledge he made January 1, 2008. Without fanfare, Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna last night released two lists he'd promised to disclose fourteen months ago: the names residential landlords with the worst records...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 6am
Red Bank Police were searching Monday night for two suspects who posed as coin sellers in an afternoon holdup of a Shrewsbury Avenue jewelry store. According to police Capt. Steve McCarthy, one of the suspects — two black males in...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 5am
When Jackie Martling enters an establishment of mixology, the scatology hits the fans, as the Joke Man breaks down all resistance with his patented blend of good cheer and appalling taste. The longtime Howard Stern sidekick comes to Monmouth County's...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 5am
One of two robbers showed a gun, an employee said. A Red Bank jewelry store was held up at gunpoint Monday afternoon. There's no official word on the crime yet from police, who were just leaving the scene on Shrewsbury...
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March 9th, 2009 @ 3pm
redbankgreen got a kick out of this video that reader and documentary filmmaker Bill Day of Red Bank shot over the weekend. It features John 'Cha Cha' Ciarcia, who played Albie Cianflone on 'The Sopranos,' hawking his new 'Grandpa Cha...
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March 9th, 2009 @ 1pm
Red Bank Police Department logbook entries from February 27 to March 06, 2009. This information is unedited. Criminal mischief occurring Linden Place on 2-27-09. Victim reported that unknown person(s) broke out one window each on two parked vehicles. Ptl Ashon...
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March 9th, 2009 @ 11am
The law is aimed at heading off conditions that last year led to the imposition of $36,000 in fines on the owners of 179-181 Shrewsbury Avenue. More than a year after Mayor Pasquale Menna pledged to shame landlords by publishing...
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March 9th, 2009 @ 8am
Bob Sickles Jr. Sickles Farm Market in Little Silver got some lovin' this weekend as one of four specialty grocers called out in an article in the New Jersey section of Sunday's New York Times. Dovetailing off the opening of...
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March 9th, 2009 @ 5am
Luis Cortez hand-rolls some 250 cigars a day, using techniques and equipment much like generations of women in his family used. (Photos by Laura Koss) By LAURA KOSS There's nothing fancy about Cortez Cigars. Occupying a former home on Broad...
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March 6th, 2009 @ 10am
Fair Haven's first-ever trip to the Wall Street debt markets yesterday resulted in a bond sale at a better-than-expected interest rate, borough officials tell the Asbury Park Press. From the Press: The 10-year bonds sold for an interest rate of...
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March 6th, 2009 @ 8am
Phoebe Ryan's much-anticipated — at least in the hallways of Red Bank Regional High, where she's a senior — pass through the American Idol machinery may not have proved as Tivo-worthy as her admirers wished. The 17-year-old Rumson resident's Idol...
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March 6th, 2009 @ 6am
Two Howell men have been arrested in connection with a fracas last month outside Chubby's Waterside Café that left a Middletown man with a stab wound to one leg, Red Bank police are reporting this afternoon. Eighteen-year-old Travis LaFalce was...
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March 5th, 2009 @ 2pm
The Asbury Park Press today has a feature article about new security systems installed at the Red Bank primary and middle schools. The high-tech system uses swipe cards to control access to the buildings and video cameras that enable borough...
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March 5th, 2009 @ 1pm
Under Little Silver's proposal, a dispatcher in Little Silver would direct patrol responses to calls from Fair Haven. Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre has published on his blog a head-to-head analysis of the competing offers from Monmouth County and Little...
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March 5th, 2009 @ 8am
Partyline
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.