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Here's a new video showing the work done on the interior of the Count Basie Theatre during the $8 million sprucing up of the Red Bank showcase this summer. The video consists of still photos taken every 15 seconds from...
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November 18th, 2008 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Monmouth County Freeholder candidate Amy Mallet had a 141-vote edge over Republican rival John Curley after a partial count of provisional ballots from the the election two weeks ago, the Asbury Park Press reports today. About 1,500 additional provisional ballots...
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November 18th, 2008 @ 7am
Grace Scott, left and Cionna Rosenthal of the Rumson Country Day School help homeowner Yvonne Grayson repaint her repeatedly vandalized Obama sign Sunday morning. Late last month, redbankgreen reported on a rash of Obama campaign signs being stolen and vandalized...
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November 17th, 2008 @ 7am
The water was slate gray, but nature provided a moving swath of autumn gold along the shore of the Navesink River in front of the Salt Creek Grille in Rumson yesterday. (Click to enlarge) We may be seeing a slight...
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November 17th, 2008 @ 6am
Unedited entries from the Red Bank Police Department activity log for the week of November 7 to 14. Criminal Mischief occurring at Globe Court between 11-6-08 and 11-7-08. Victim reported that unknown person(s) broke two window in the business. Ptl....
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November 17th, 2008 @ 6am
The Asbury Park Press, quoting a marine mammal expert, says the dolphin found floating in the Shrewsbury River this morning was not from the pod that's been in the river and the nearby Navesink since early summer. And a separate...
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November 14th, 2008 @ 12pm
A dead dolphin has been found in the Shrewsbury River near the Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has confirmed. From a media alert sent out by NOAA spokeswoman Teri Frady this morning: A dead dolphin was...
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November 14th, 2008 @ 11am
"Stairs and Shadows," above, by Warner White of Fair Haven, might have made a good 'Where Have I Seen This?' (See below for location.) At right, a shot by an unknown photographer; the young woman is believed to be June...
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November 14th, 2008 @ 10am
Verizon's facility at 183 Broad Street. Citing a 1940 law, phone services giant Verizon is telling New Jersey municipalities it is not liable for taxes on utility lines and other equipment because of its shrinking share of the telecom market,...
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November 14th, 2008 @ 7am
Broad Street, Red Bank, late Thursday afternoon. Yesterday's rain gave way to this morning's dense fog, which will last until about 10a, according to the National Weather Service forecast for our area. Later today, expect cloudy skies, with a high...
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November 14th, 2008 @ 6am
You'd have thought it was a sweltering week in the dead of summer instead of the crisp, Thanksgiving-tinged days of autumn. Last week's Where, showing a blue and white striped fence, attracted 23 responses, which may be a record for...
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November 13th, 2008 @ 6am
Here's a charming video by Larry Higgs of the Asbury Park Press, who accompanied a fourth-grade class from the Red Bank Charter School on a trip to the newly rebuilt 7 World Trade Center recently. Dana McQuillan, who's both a...
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November 13th, 2008 @ 5am
Driveway docking of boats would be prohibited in winter months in Fair Haven. By SUE MORGAN Peter and Patricia O’Such say that what they see as over-regulation in Fair Haven is leaving the town's residents feeling disaffected, alienated, and bullied....
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November 12th, 2008 @ 8am
By SUE MORGAN Fair Haven Borough Council President Tom Gilmour is stepping down after nine years, he announced Monday night. Gilmour submitted his resignation effective Dec. 31 in a letter to Mayor Mike Halfacre and his council colleagues. He cited...
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November 12th, 2008 @ 7am
The Red Bank yards of, from left, Ruben Gomez, Anne Davis and J.P. Nicolaides and Ed Zipprich, were among those cited by the Navesink Garden Club. (Click to enlarge) They're called "random sightings of beauty," and the idea is to...
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November 12th, 2008 @ 7am
They've long had dual residences just a dozen miles apart, in Rumson and Colts Neck. Now, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa have added the keys to a place in Florida to their key rings. Since June, Monmouth County's most famous...
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November 12th, 2008 @ 6am
Going mobile, data-wise. Here are highlights from Monday night's bimonthly meeting of the Red Bank Council: • Mayor Pasquale Menna announced a settlement between the borough and the Fair Share Housing Center of Cherry Hill over how many affordable housing...
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November 11th, 2008 @ 8am
Forty-four days to go until Christmas and the decorations are already up at Riverside Gardens Park in Red Bank. Email this story
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November 11th, 2008 @ 7am
Red Bank's Riverview Medical Center is one of three hospitals in New Jersey eligible to join a controversial nationwide study of artery-clearing angioplasty despite their lack of dedicated cardiac surgery facilities, today's Star-Ledger reports. State Health Commissioner Heather Howard cleared...
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November 11th, 2008 @ 6am
Councilman Mike DuPont takes his lumps at Monday's meeting. Is the ordinance that wouldn't die finally dead? As he has repeatedly over the past ten months or so, Councilman Mike DuPont tried getting his ban on plastic bags passed by...
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November 10th, 2008 @ 11pm
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(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.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.