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Today's the last chance for motorists to cash in their Garden State Parkway tokens. Today's Asbury Park Press reports that token holders have brought 180,000 tokens into the New Jersey Turnpike Authority offices in Woodbridge to redeem them, at 33...
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December 31st, 2008 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Middletown police are looking for a Red Bank man in connection with an attempted sexual assault on a woman as she lay asleep next to her husband on Christmas morning. The Asbury Park Press reports that the assailant was known...
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December 30th, 2008 @ 10am
The Route 520 bridge as seen from the Chapel Beach Club on Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright. By SUE MORGAN It's not too much holiday sugar that has Sea Bright and Rumson officials and residents hopped up about a proposed...
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December 30th, 2008 @ 5am
The house at 38 West River Road, visible from the Victory Park gazebo, has been acquired by Rumson for a park expansion. Monmouth County has awarded Rumson $250,000 toward its $875,000 purchase of land adjoining Victory Park for a westward...
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December 29th, 2008 @ 5am
Dolphins near the Oceanic Bridge in mid-July. (Photo courtesy of Mary Fenton) The dolphin found dead on a bank of the Shrewsbury River in Sea Bright on Christmas was a pregnant female whose stomach was empty of food, according to...
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December 29th, 2008 @ 5am
Boats ready for rain at Oceanic Marina, Rumson. Here's the weekend forecast from the National Weather Service: Today: Increasing clouds, with a high near 43. North wind around 6 mph becoming south. Tonight: Rain likely, mainly after 11pm. Cloudy, with...
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December 26th, 2008 @ 6am
Thursday's sunset, as seen from River Road, Fair Haven. Speaking of Fair Haven, today's Asbury Park Press has an article taking a look at the efforts of the Fair Haven Business Association to spark interest in the town's commercial district....
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December 26th, 2008 @ 5am
A dolphin found dead on the eastern bank of the Shrewsbury River at the foot of the Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge Thursday morning was a member of the original pod of 16. (Photo courtesy of Robin Dowd) One of the original...
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December 26th, 2008 @ 5am
First place: The Ferreri residence at 53 South Street. Mayor Pasquale Menna announced the winners of Red Bank's first (in recent memory, at least) holiday home decoration contest Monday night. Only nine homeowners nominated themselves or were nominated by others,...
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December 24th, 2008 @ 7am
The site of the former Worden-Hoidal Funeral Home on East Front Street, owned by Riverview Medical Center, is not covered by the deal. After a year trying to knit together a consensus, Councilman Mike DuPont finally got a watered-down version...
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December 23rd, 2008 @ 2pm
A distinctive mural dominates the store's White Street facade. Toy and game merchant Hobbymasters has gotten a Christmas/Hannukah gift of its own this year: Forbes Traveler magazine picked it as one of the nation's 10 best toy stores. Inclusion on...
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December 23rd, 2008 @ 2pm
Grace Cangemi at her final appearance as a council member last night. Republican Grace Cangemi closed out her 21-month tenure on the Red Bank Council last night with pointed attacks on Democratics for "behind the curtain" decision-making. In her final...
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December 23rd, 2008 @ 7am
Bruce Springsteen returned to the Count Basie Theatre last night for an unbilled appearance at the venue he helped refurbish last year. That presumably multiplied the local-boy-makes-superstardom megawattage already on the stage in the t-shirted form of Jon Bon Jovi,...
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December 23rd, 2008 @ 6am
A curtain of smoke drifts past Red Bank volunteer firefighters Sunday night. Below, while the trailer burned, at left, onlookers gathered to watch the fire. (Click to enlarge) Last night's smoky fire on Newman Springs Road was caused by a...
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December 22nd, 2008 @ 10am
Entries from the Red Bank Police Department desk blotter for the week of December 12 to December 19. This report is unedited by redbankgreen. Theft of Services occurring at Monmouth St. restaurant on 12-13-08. Employee reported that male subject left...
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December 22nd, 2008 @ 6am
Today's forecast from the National Weather Service calls for partly sunny skies, temperatures peaking at 29 degrees, and potentially dangerous wind conditions. A wind advisory remains in effect until 1p today. Sustained winds of 20 to 30 mph and gusts...
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December 22nd, 2008 @ 5am
A Red Bank man was killed early Sunday when the van he was driving on the Garden State Parkway ran off the highway and rolled over in Wall Township, according to news accounts. Yesterday's Star-Ledger reported that Frank Martinez, 21,...
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December 22nd, 2008 @ 5am
The view west along Newman Springs Road as firefighters battled a truck blaze beside Spirits Unlimited, at center; below, fire still burns beside the shell of a tractor-trailer cab. [THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED SINCE ITS INITIAL POSTING AT 6:30p...
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December 21st, 2008 @ 6pm
Customers at the Red Bank Post Office head back out into the slush on Broad Street at noontime Friday. With this morning's snow having turned to rain, the Red Bank area is in for a wet, chilly evening, according to...
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December 19th, 2008 @ 2pm
The building, nearing completion, stands on the former site of Dorn's Photography and several old houses. The developer of The Metropolitan, a 37-unit condo project on Wallace Street in Red Bank, will auction off 31 of them at deeply slashed...
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December 19th, 2008 @ 9am
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MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner films praying mantis at church.
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...