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A seagull takes in the view of the choppy Navesink River (wasn't it just a sheet of ice?) at Marine Park in Red Bank. Across the region, emergency personnel are responding to burglar alarms and reports of downed limbs. At...
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February 12th, 2009 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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No, I insist — after you: access holes to the Chestnut Street tanks are only about 16 inches wide. Red Bank officials are racing this month for a piece of the federal stimulus dole as a way of reducing the...
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February 12th, 2009 @ 8am
Sovereign Bancorp's Broad Street branch got a reduction in its tax bill. Assorted items and actions from Monday night's Red Bank Council meeting: • The council approved a tax appeal settlement that reduced the assessment on the Sovereign Bank property...
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February 12th, 2009 @ 7am
The item highlighted in last week's 'Where' seems to have something of a doppleganger nearby, leading our respondents to split their answers. About half of those who wrote in thought the pictures showed lighting fixtures at the Salt Creek Grille...
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February 12th, 2009 @ 5am
The suspects, from left: alleged gunman Antonio Domingo 'Mingo' Suarez-Perez; Samson Theodore 'Freedom' Hearn; and Eric Joel 'Pun' Figueras. A chain of events that began as chance meeting at a local gas station ended with the "brutal" murders of two...
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February 11th, 2009 @ 2pm
Town officials are talking about taking a bulldozer to two houses on the site of the approved-but-not-begun Courtyard at Monmouth complex of apartments, stores and offices. Calling them "a blight on the community," Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna and members...
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February 11th, 2009 @ 8am
Mayor Menna wants the borough to hand off signmaking, health inspections and other tasks to Monmouth County. Should Red Bank job out to Monmouth County services now provided by borough employees or contractors? Coming off a recent deal with the...
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February 11th, 2009 @ 7am
A neighbor tells the Press that one man was dead in the street, the other in a car. Two Red Bank men and a Fair Haven man were arrested and charged in connection with the predawn shooting that left two...
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February 11th, 2009 @ 5am
A dolphin in the Shrewsbury River in November. The federal agency in charge of protecting the dolphins that took up residence in the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers last June says it has no evidence that any are left in the...
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February 10th, 2009 @ 4pm
The crime scene on Locust Avenue this morning. A suspect in this morning's double homicide on Red Bank's West Side is in custody, redbankgreen has learned. The information came from a knowledgeable source. The suspect, we're told, was located using...
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February 10th, 2009 @ 2pm
Investigators on the scene on Locust Avenue, which remained closed between Leighton Avenue and Leighton Place at midmorning. The Monmouth County Prosecutor's office hasn't released any new information about this morning's apparent double homicide in Red Bank except to say...
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February 10th, 2009 @ 12pm
Evidence markers in the middle of Locust Avenue during this morning's investigation. The Asbury Park Press, quoting a spokesman for the Monmouth County Prosecutor, says two men were murdered on Locust Avenue early this morning. Here's the report: Two men...
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February 10th, 2009 @ 10am
The website Red Bank officials want to replace. Looks like Red Bankers will be stuck with the borough's clunky website for a while longer. Two weeks ago, Mayor Pasquale Menna announced that the borough would be getting a new website...
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February 10th, 2009 @ 8am
Police at the corner of Locust and Leighton avenues at about 7:15a. Red Bank police closed off Locust Avenue Tuesday morning as they investigated an undisclosed crime. An officer on the scene tells us only that there's "an active investigation"...
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February 10th, 2009 @ 7am
David Goldman with his son, Sean, who was taken to Brazil on "vacation" by his late wife four years ago and never returned. David Goldman, the Tinton Falls man whose child custody battle has attracted national attention, finally got to...
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February 10th, 2009 @ 5am
The vessel numbered 1 is one of four tanks at the Chestnut Street water plant that the state says must be replaced. Three others are at the Tower Hill facility. Maintenance work at the Red Bank water utility that was...
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February 9th, 2009 @ 10am
Sutton Commons on Branch Avenue is one of two properties on which tax appeal settlements are up for approval by the Red Bank Council tonight. An ordinance to bar minors from entering liquor stores unless accompanied by an adult is...
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February 9th, 2009 @ 10am
Employees of McGhee Contracting, hoisted into position by a lift, hammer away at RBC's stack Saturday morning. Demolition of Red Bank Catholic's smokestack got underway Saturday, a few days earlier than expected. Tim McGhee, owner of McGhee Contracting in Oceanport,...
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February 9th, 2009 @ 8am
Jim Fitzmaurice leads an apparently coherent group of runners out of the Red Bank train station Saturday morning... Thirty years of weekly runs, and still they have no idea where the hell they're going. ...but just two blocks later, some...
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February 9th, 2009 @ 7am
View Larger Map The man was at the home of a non-resident relative on Ridge Road in Rumson, according to the Press. A 49-year-old Rumson man, said to be despondent over financial difficulties, was hospitalized after heavily armed police from...
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February 9th, 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.