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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
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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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
John Tyler Jr. at home on Leighton Avenue with the family dog, Goldie. 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...
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October 21st, 2008 @ 10am
You can hold it. Just don't light it up on hospital property. The last refuge of the workday smoker — the sidewalk of shame, where the nicotine-addicted get their fixes under the baleful watch of passersby — is about to...
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October 21st, 2008 @ 8am
Readers with cinemaphotographic memories will recall our tongue-in-cheek lineup of films that the Count Basie Theatre might have pulled together to commemorate the old Carlton's 80th birthday this year — a whacky assemblage of mostly forgotten movies that have in...
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October 20th, 2008 @ 11am
Ed Zipprich at home on River Road. 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 20th, 2008 @ 9am
Well, Andres Simonson of William Street in Red Bank found it. Or rather, it found him. He writes to redbankgreen: This darling cat showed up on our front stoop a couple of days ago. We have been feeding it and...
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October 20th, 2008 @ 8am
Entries from the Red Bank police logs for the week of October 10 to 17, unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring at Monmouth St. on 10-10-08. Unknown person(s) spray painted graffiti on side of building. Ptl. Jorge Torres. Theft occurring at Shrewsbury...
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October 20th, 2008 @ 6am
OK, maybe we're getting a little ahead of ourselves and won't be seeing any Shiba Inus walking on the Navesink anytime soon. Still... Attention gardeners hoping to extend the last of this year's tomato and eggplant crops: the National Weather...
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October 19th, 2008 @ 4pm
Emergency personnel behind Greentree Apartments on Spring Street. Police, fire and first aid workers were on the scene early Sunday morning after a car heading west on Harding Road in Red Bank went off the road and down into a...
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October 19th, 2008 @ 1am
Salon 31 owner Bu Kapelewski, right, and employee Maria Berrocal carry armloads of shrimp, crudités and other refreshments in for a grand opening of the Monmouth Street hairdresser Friday afternoon. It's going to be a cool and sunny weekend, the...
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October 17th, 2008 @ 6pm
NOAA officials on dolphin watch in the Shrewsbury River in late June. Federal marine authorities say they are one week closer to implementing an effort to lure or drive visiting dolphins out of the Navesink River and toward the Atlantic...
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October 17th, 2008 @ 6pm
Bill Meyer says the borough shouldn't negotiate over the former borough hall until it's investigated the sale to Kids Bridge eight years ago. Below right: a copy of a business entity status report he says raises questions about the deal....
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October 17th, 2008 @ 10am
Yes, folks, that's him: Peter Tork, the manically cute Monkee grown older and wiser. Forty years later, he's still at the music game, and tonight steers some variant of the Monkeemobile into the lot at Long Branch's Brighton Bar. That's...
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October 17th, 2008 @ 7am
The treeful of orange leaves underscores the message of this truck parked at the foot of Hudson Avenue on East Bergen Place in Red Bank. Email this item
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October 17th, 2008 @ 6am
Inspired in seemingly equal parts by Karl Marx, Woody Guthrie and the Clash, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg has cut a singular path through the world of popular music. On Sunday, the iconoclastic guitar slinger from Barking, England brings his axe and...
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October 16th, 2008 @ 12pm
The scene at the River Street Commons auditorium last night. The candidates rarely differed on policy or outlook, and when they did, not by much. The only raised voices were those of audience members calling for the candidates to speak...
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October 16th, 2008 @ 11am
Several dozen citizens turned out at the Pilgrim Baptist Church on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank last night to watch the final presidential debate between senators Barack Obama and John McCain on a projection screen suspended above the altar. The...
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October 16th, 2008 @ 7am
Yogi said it ain't over 'til it's over, but after seven years on Monmouth Street, Julie Baron and husband Bruce are signing off at their memorabilia showcase store. By TOM CHESEK RETIREMENT SALE. EVERYTHING MUST GO. 50% OFF. The signs...
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October 16th, 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 ...