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The homepage of the soon-to-be-replaced borough website. Score one for public pushback. Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna anounced last night that he won't sign a contract that would have paid C3 Citizen Communication Center $2,000 a month to build and...
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January 27th, 2009 @ 7am
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Priced to sell, but you must buy now. By JoANN PILEGGI It's not only stores and restaurants using markdowns to attract scarce consumer dollars. Trying to get a jump on the competition from private beach clubs and other municipalities while...
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January 27th, 2009 @ 6am
Kim Ambrose says local dispatchers provide a sense of comfort to seniors that might not be available from the county system. On the agenda at tonight's meeting of the Fair Haven Council: discussion of a proposal to hand off to...
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January 26th, 2009 @ 10am
In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, editor Tom Chesek reports on how an Asbury Park restaurateur wound up going toe-to-toe with professional skinflint Suze Orman on a webcast edition of the Oprah Show recently. Jeff Haveson of Restaurant Plan...
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January 26th, 2009 @ 9am
The Asbury Park Press had a story over the weekend about an alleged theft that, if true, involved a pretty nervy thief. The article, which ran Saturday, reports that 29-year-old Rodney Beharry of Long Branch was arrested Friday after he...
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January 26th, 2009 @ 8am
Entries from the Red Bank Police Department activity log for the week of January 16 to 23. This report is unedited. Burglary occurring between 1-15-09 and 1-16-09 at Monmouth St.—Grocery Store. Unknown subject(s) broke window in rear of building and...
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January 26th, 2009 @ 6am
Every few years, Red Bank's summer playground — the Navesink River — comes out of dormancy to play the same role for a few precious winter days or weeks. On Sunday, a day after temperatures climbed into the mid-40s, winter...
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January 26th, 2009 @ 6am
Prospective buyers packed a ballroom at the Molly Pitcher Inn, but few bid. An auction of units at the nearly completed Metropolitan condo project on Red Bank's Wallace Street was halted early Saturday afternoon after just two were sold. Officials...
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January 24th, 2009 @ 3pm
Did the remaining five Atlantic bottlenose dolphins make it out to Sandy Hook Bay before their temporary home in the Shrewsbury River froze over? Two weekly newspapers have accounts in their current issues from witnesses who say they saw the...
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January 23rd, 2009 @ 5pm
Something called the Men’s Expo and Texas Hold ‘em Tournament parks its snorting hog outside Convention Hall tomorrow, bringing the musky scent of Axe Body Spray to the seabreeze-kissed timbers of Asbury Park this non-Super weekend. Among the attractions: exhibits...
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January 23rd, 2009 @ 11am
Help keep them clear, please. The Red Bank Volunteer Fire Department is asking residents to lend a hand in keeping fire hydrants accessible in case of emergency. Though department members are dispatched during and after snowfalls to remove snow around...
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January 23rd, 2009 @ 7am
An item in today's Newsday says a 56-year-old Tinton Falls man arrested last August on charges of robbing five banks — including one at the City Centre strip mall in Red Bank — faces up to 18 years in prison...
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January 23rd, 2009 @ 6am
Unedited entries from the Red Bank Police Department activity log for the week of January 7 to 14. Burglary occurring at Monmouth Street residence on 1-10-09 between the hours of 1100 and 1400. Victim reported that residence was entered by...
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January 23rd, 2009 @ 6am
Don Abrams of Little Silver breaks down his 'icebird' after the first sail of the season on the Navesink Wednesday afternoon. A couple of ice boaters took to the Navesink River yesterday afternoon after the ice reached the requisite four...
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January 22nd, 2009 @ 6am
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January 22nd, 2009 @ 6am
Slow week in the 'Where' emailroom last week. Must have been the subdued shot we asked readers to identify. Still, Jenn Woods, Mark Molzon, J.C. Kelly and Trish DePonti took the time to write in, as usual, and each correctly...
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January 22nd, 2009 @ 5am
The new president recited the oath of office, and Red Bank tuned in. They interrupted their usual routines and silenced their lunchtime chatter to watch, their eyes drawn to television screens and the making of what all agreed was American...
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January 21st, 2009 @ 6am
Jane Simmons at Pigrim Baptist Church on Tuesday. By LAURA KOSS Like many of her contemporaries, Jane Simmons remembers the indignity of segregation. As a young woman growing up in North Carolina, "I sat in the back of the bus,"...
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January 21st, 2009 @ 6am
A registered nurse was arrested while on the job at Riverview Medical Center Saturday, charged with scheming with a Bayshore pizza delivery man to distribute a painkiller, according to Gannett News Service. The arrest of 48-year-old Vivian Seaman of Union...
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January 20th, 2009 @ 8am
Red Bank voters lined up at dawn on Nov. 4 to participate in the election that today puts Barack Obama in the White House as the 44th President of the United States of America. Among the one to two million...
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January 20th, 2009 @ 6am
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FALL AT THE COURTS OF RED BANK
On the Partyline: stunning foliage at Red Bank's "medieval office park."
WALK FOR DEMOCRACY
The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center led a "Walk for Democracy" Sunday from Riverside Gardens Park to the cultral center on Drs. James Park ...
Go big or go home
On the redbankgreen Partyline: Gourd display at Lighthouse on its penultimate night of the season.
MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
LONG LIVE LOCAL NEWS!
"Long Live Local News" flags from redbankgreen's 20th anniversary celebration in Marine Park Tuesday prove to be the perfect compliment to s ...
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