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The Springsteens go goo-goo over an infant outside the Count Basie Theatre in May. The wonder of it is that they kept it up as long as they did. The Star-Ledger reports this afternoon that Bruce Springsteen and his wife,...
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October 28th, 2008 @ 3pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Here's a recap of Monday night's Red Bank Borough Council meeting. (Follow along with the agenda, if you like.) • Mayor Pasquale Menna accepted a $162,975 dividend payment to the borough from the Central Jersey Health Insurance Fund, the shared-services...
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October 28th, 2008 @ 9am
Eighth-graders Michelle Reyes, in white, and Anisa Abella watch the RBMS video at Monday night's council meeting. This time last year, the kids at the Red Bank Middle School were jamming on a video entry for a contest that might...
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October 28th, 2008 @ 6am
Red Bank's annual Halloween Parade, pulled together as usual by the Parks & Rec department, filled Broad Street with a whole lotta cute and scary under a brilliant autumn sky Sunday afternoon. As is the custom, the event wrapped up...
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October 27th, 2008 @ 8am
Entries from the Red Bank Police Department logbook for the week of October 17 to 24. Burglary reported on 10-17-08 at W. Bergen Place vacant residence within the last two weeks. Owner reported that unknown person(s) gained entry into the...
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October 27th, 2008 @ 6am
Dolphins on the west side of the Oceanic Bridge in mid-July. (Photo courtesy of Mary Fenton) A team of experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has decided that the dolphins in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers are just...
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October 24th, 2008 @ 2pm
Some of the dolphins off Rumson in July, shortly after they moved upriver from the Shrewsbury to the Navesink. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has jurisdiction over the pod of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins that has been in local...
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October 24th, 2008 @ 11am
Aficionados of gore, this is your season. And up in Keyport, brothers Mike and Tom Borelli — the unspattered brains behind the long-running Weeping Willow Cemetery installation in Jackson Township — have teamed with an expert in splatterific horror FX...
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October 24th, 2008 @ 8am
Sheep grazing recently on a farm at the corner of Nut Swamp and Middletown-Lincroft roads in Middletown. Today's weather forecast is lamby-mild, but showers are expected tomorrow. Here's the outlook as the National Weather Service sees it: Today: Areas of...
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October 24th, 2008 @ 8am
In the driver's seat: John Curley and his running mate, as seen at Red Bank's Centennial Parade in May. The Asbury Park Press editorial page has thrown its weight behind former Red Bank Councilman John Curley in his race for...
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October 24th, 2008 @ 7am
Sunny Sharma has lost his appeal of Red Bank's revocation of his license to sell booze through his problem-plagued Best Liquors store on Leighton Avenue, the Asbury Park Press reports this evening. From the Press: A decision released today [by...
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October 23rd, 2008 @ 7pm
A new chandelier will hang from a skyscape-painted dome that was crumbling before the latest renovations at the Count Basie Theatre. (Photo courtesy of Jim Willis) In less than a week, the Count Basie Theatre gets back to the business...
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October 23rd, 2008 @ 10am
Grace Cangemi at home on Rector Place. On Nov. 4, Red Bank voters will have four ballot choices for two seats on the borough council, now composed of four Democrats and two Republicans. Both open seats, by happenstance, are held...
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October 23rd, 2008 @ 9am
Last week's image, which showed two pairs of sneakers dangling from overhead utility lines, offered little in the way of reference points. Still, one keen-eyed reader was able to correctly identify it. But first, another reader expressed concern that there's...
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October 23rd, 2008 @ 6am
Dolphins in the upper Shrewsbury in late June. Federal marine experts say they have an answer to slippery question: How may dolphins are there in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers? Answer: Twelve, at least 10 of which have spent most...
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 1pm
Juanita Lewis at home on Shrewsbury Avenue. On Nov. 4, Red Bank voters will have four ballot choices for two seats on the borough council, now composed of four Democrats and two Republicans. Both open seats, by happenstance, are held...
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 11am
Jamian LaViola has seen the future, and it does not only happen at night. He's overhauling the look, name and business strategy of Echo, the nightspot he owns on Monmouth Street that he now thinks may have veered a little...
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 8am
Taylor Crystian, center, joins her teammates for the last huddle of the season after a game under the lights at Count Basie Field Monday night. Even though he'd caught a pass for a nice gain, one kid was near tears...
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 8am
Ayala Naphtali, with neighbor Andrew Crockett, had a spare Obama sign to replace the one stolen from her yard. Below, Yvonne Grayson's sign is anchored in concrete after vandals ripped it out of the ground. A rash of campaign-sign thefts...
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 5am
In Chicago, they sexed it up from the original script. In Poland, they added a scene in which the husband beats his wife, apparently thinking that's what the audience would demand. In Long Branch, though, NJ Rep shoots for a...
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October 21st, 2008 @ 11am
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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.