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Sorry this image doesn't enlarge, folks. But if you lean in close, you should be able to generally make out the scene it captures — and maybe even identify the location. If you know it, we'd enjoy hearing from you....
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December 4th, 2008 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Bank Street's Brian Donohue videotaped a recent encounter with a Chapin Avenue condo owner over public access to the Navesink River and posted it on YouTube. On the agenda for tonight's Red Bank zoning board meeting are the terms and...
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December 4th, 2008 @ 6am
Today's Asbury Park Press describes a bloody scene as a 22-year-old Red Bank man stabbed his former girlfriend outside the Red Bank Primary School shortly before 9a Wednesday. Being held on attempted murder and weapons charges is Jorge Vargas Mancilla,...
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December 4th, 2008 @ 6am
Red Bank Schools Superintendent Laura Morana tells redbankgreen that the primary school is functioning normally this morning following a domestic dispute on the school grounds but outside the building. No staff members or children were involved in the incident, which...
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December 3rd, 2008 @ 10am
Police had the entry road to the school blocked at 9:45a. The Red Bank Primary School was in a state described by one parent as a "lockdown" at midmorning today as authorities dealt with what sources said was a domestic...
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December 3rd, 2008 @ 10am
The axe has fallen in an expected third round of job cuts this year at the Asbury Park Press, with unconfirmed reports that the entire Trenton bureau was fired and the department that produces art & graphics for the news...
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December 3rd, 2008 @ 8am
It's Japanese for "empty orchestra," and for some devotees, karaoke remains a hollow version of their real dream: fronting a live band and bringing a crowded room under their sway. Well, sayonara, second-best. The Downtown, one of Red Bank's few...
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December 3rd, 2008 @ 6am
Tad Emptage and MelissaMarie Wilhelm dazzled students with a sampling of flips, spins and slides from their aerial show Monday. The kids also got into the act. A pair of performers from a show called Circurious rolled into the gym...
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December 2nd, 2008 @ 10am
The Welsh Farms convenience store on East Front Street in Red Bank was robbed at gunpoint Sunday evening, the Asbury Park Press reports. From the report: Police were called to the store about 5 p.m. A clerk told officers that...
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December 2nd, 2008 @ 9am
Mary Randolph Carter is a collector who loves old objects. But not just aged items; things that wear their age proudly, like a door with paint flaking off its surfaces. It's an aesthetic born of biography: Carter grew up on...
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December 2nd, 2008 @ 7am
A string of mutiple births kept hospital staffers busy recently. Today's Asbury Park Press reports that Riverview Medical Center had a streak going this autumn: a spate of twin births. From the article: In an eight-week period from September to...
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December 2nd, 2008 @ 6am
Owner PRC Group is seeking permission to convert the 91 rental units at Grandville Towers to condos. Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna tells today's Asbury Park Press that senior-citizen tenants of Grandville Towers won't be forced to move if the...
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December 1st, 2008 @ 10am
To be sure, his annual arrival on the cultural scene is as reliable as the post-Thanksgiving markdown. But rarely have we seen old Ebenezer Scrooge quite so ubiquitous. The next few days will see not one, not two, but three...
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December 1st, 2008 @ 9am
Thousands of Red Bankers and visitors packed Broad Street on Friday night for the annual night-after-Thanksgiving gleefest that kicks off the holiday season hereabouts. Bagpipers led a parade into town from the train station. Holiday Express laid down its R&B-flavored...
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December 1st, 2008 @ 6am
Long-awaited increases in the cost of traveling the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike went into effect at 12:01a today. From the Asbury Park Press, regarding Parkway tolls: At most booths the price will rise from their current...
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December 1st, 2008 @ 5am
A volunteer serves salad at Lunch Break yesterday. Norma Todd's Lunch Break, the 25-year-old Red Bank soup kitchen, was transformed into a fine-dining hall yesterday, providing free Thanksgiving meals on linen tablecloths to more than 200 area residents in two...
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November 28th, 2008 @ 8am
The above image is the work of a two of Red Bank's more creative couples: Mike Harper and Megan Prenderville, who own the Frame to Please framing shop on Waverly Place; and Liz and Bob McKay of McKay Imaging, a...
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November 27th, 2008 @ 7am
Last week's 'Where' proved a bit obscure, as only one reader identified it — and she had to make a special trip to confirm her hunch. The photo showed an industrial building at 6 River Street in Sea Bright, which...
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November 27th, 2008 @ 7am
Mrs. Claus spreads some cheer, and gets the once-over, at last year's lighting event. (Click to enlarge) As it has for the past 15 years, Red Bank kicks off the holiday season in grand style Friday with a full slate...
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November 26th, 2008 @ 11am
Not-so-stiff upper lips: R-FH Superintendent Pete Righi, far left, with teachers Tom Toohey, Darren Beatty, Zack Wilson and Tom Highton. It's crunch time at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High, where five staffers remain in a mustache-growing competition for charity. The contest...
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November 26th, 2008 @ 7am
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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 ...