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John Belushi, Bill Murray, John Candy, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert — and Shad Kunkle? Well, why not? Today, Red Bank oRBit, talks to one of the rising stars of Second City, the legendary comedy troupe that spawned all of those...
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March 5th, 2009 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Last week's image seems to have been a stumper, probably because it was a night shot without much in the way of reference points. So you really had to know it to know it, if you know what we mean....
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March 5th, 2009 @ 6am
Work on a $1.54 million state Department of Transportation project to improve traffic flow and safety conditions at a key Red Bank intersection is now scheduled to begin March 16, a week later than previously announced. The job, which is...
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March 4th, 2009 @ 3pm
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit has details of a special tribute being paid this weekend to the memory of a local resident who left us recently at the age of 87 — the businessman, college athlete and music lover...
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March 4th, 2009 @ 10am
David Goldman with his son, Sean, in an undated photo taken before the boy was moved to Brazil four years ago by his mother. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she is working to resolve the prolonged international custody case...
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March 4th, 2009 @ 8am
From NJTransit at 6:41a: Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast Line and MidTOWN DIRECT train service has resumed operating into and out of New York Penn Station. Email this story
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March 4th, 2009 @ 7am
Notice from New Jersey Transit this morning: Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast Line and MidTOWN DIRECT trains service into and out of New York Penn Station is temporarily suspended. Email this story
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March 4th, 2009 @ 6am
Utility lines on River Street in Red Bank looked like limp strands of neon tubing late Monday as they reflected the late afternoon sun. The view was west from Shrewsbury Avenue. Expect lots of sunshine today, but cold temperatures rising...
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March 4th, 2009 @ 6am
Then-Mayor Ed McKenna in December, 2006. Former Red Bank Mayor Ed McKenna's car struck a pedestrian crossing East Front Street outside Riverview Medical Center last night, Red Bank Police report. According to Capt. Steve McCarthy, 49-year-old borough resident and hospital...
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 3pm
TO DIAMOND MAN, BROAD ST. STILL SHINES
Displaced from his longtime storefront, Alan Fisher plans to take over the space now occupied by Papyrus in the red brick structure visible over his left shoulder. Alan Fisher got his walking papers in late January. After 25 years operating...
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 11am
California Closets has vacated its location at 116 Broad Street in Red Bank, opposite Garmany. In keeping with its reputation for orderliness, California Closets has packed up and left town, and it seems there's not a stray hanger left behind....
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 10am
And now, a public service announcement from the video lab at the Red Bank Middle School... The video is the work of seventh-grade students of teacher Chris Ippolito, whose students have busted a couple of entertaining video raps in the...
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 8am
Red Bank crimes as reported from February 20 to February 27. This information, which is supplied by the police department, is unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring at Broad St. between 2-13-09 and 2-17-09. Victim reported that unknown person(s) punctured a hole...
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 5am
It's doubtful anyone had more fun in the snow than these two guys roughhousing on Monmouth Street in Red Bank Monday afternoon. OK, except for maybe the kids sledding on Tower Hill. Or maybe Euckie, the snow-crazy Bernese mountain dog...
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March 2nd, 2009 @ 5pm
A lone pedestrian makes her way down Waverly Place in Red Bank early Monday morning. (Click to enlarge) Winds were driving moderate if freezing temperatures down to the low teens shortly after 4a today, when redbankgreen took a quick spin...
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March 2nd, 2009 @ 6am
No surprise here, but just to make it official: The Borough of Fair Haven will suspend trash collection scheduled for Monday, March 2nd due to severe weather conditions. Trash will be collected from zones 1 and 2 on Thursday, March...
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March 2nd, 2009 @ 6am
Here are the announced school closings as of 10:50p Sunday: Little Silver Public Schools Middletown Township Public Schools Red Bank Catholic Red Bank Charter School Red Bank Public Schools Red Bank Regional High School Shore Regional High Shrewsbury Borough School...
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March 1st, 2009 @ 10pm
Here's an announcement made early Sunday afternoon by the Borough of Red Bank, issued in light of the National Weather Service forecast of a possible 5 to 9 inches of snow overnight: Garbage pickup suspended during snow emergency RED BANK—Borough...
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March 1st, 2009 @ 1pm
Girls in the limited-enrollment program for three- and four-year-olds holding hands as they run outside the Red Bank Middle School this week. Below, kids lined up for the start of playtime. (Click to enlarge) By JUDY DeHAVEN March 12 is...
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February 27th, 2009 @ 2pm
By JUDY DeHAVEN Specials are common at the Milagro Spa, but most feature an exotic indulgence: 'aromatic sugar scrubs,' 'stonecrop body wraps' and 'facial tea tree oil waxings,' to name a few. An event scheduled for Monday, March 2, is...
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February 27th, 2009 @ 10am
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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.