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Six months after the death of the woman who founded it, Norma Todd's Lunch Break has named a new executive director. The volunteer outfit on Drs. Parker Boulevard in Red Bank that provides a hot meal a day to anyone...
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October 15th, 2008 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Today's Press has a brief item on a code-red search for a missing four-year-old Rumson boy that ended an hour later when the child was found asleep in a closet in his own home. Police used an infrared camera to...
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October 15th, 2008 @ 7am
David Goldman with his son, Sean, who was taken to Brazil on "vacation" by his late wife four years ago and never returned. Today's Asbury Park Press has a lengthy piece about David Goldman of Tinton Falls, who has been...
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October 15th, 2008 @ 6am
A boat nears a dolphin in the Shrewsbury River early last summer, before the pod headed upriver along the Navesink. The Asbury Park Press is reporting that dolphins have been spotted in the Shrewsbury River in recent days, giving rise...
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October 14th, 2008 @ 1pm
Pressing ahead with a campaign to address alcohol and drug abuse, Red Bank Regional High will host a two-pronged program Thursday. At 7p, John Underwood, president of the American Athletic Institute, will give a presentation for parents in the school...
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October 14th, 2008 @ 10am
From left, with their new ranks: Lt. Daniel Bannon; Sgt. Robert Gannon; Capt. Thomas McDonough; Lt. Eliot Ramos; Capt. Darren McConnell; Sgt. Robert Kennedy; Lt. Richard Mangold and Sgt. Errico Vescio. (Click to enlarge) Following through on a recent department...
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October 14th, 2008 @ 7am
A judgment of that size could hit home at the Bongiovanni residence on the Middletown side of the Navesink. A Boston-area man has filed a $400 billion lawsuit against Bon Jovi, Major League Baseball and TBS over a song he...
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October 14th, 2008 @ 6am
You gotta be in it for your candidate to win it. It's deadline time for citizens who want a voice that counts in the Nov. 4 elections. New Jersey law requires that would-be voters register no less than 21 days...
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October 13th, 2008 @ 9am
The kids were wide-eyed, learning how to use fire extinguishers, how to drop-and-roll, and how to escape from a smoke-filled house — in this case, a specially-rigged mobile home. But the adults also no doubt learned a thing or two...
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October 13th, 2008 @ 6am
Unedited entries from the Red Bank Police Department crime blotter for the week of October 3 to October 10. Theft occurring between 10-5-08 and 10-6-08 at Count Basie Field. Victim reported that his cell phone T Mobile Sidekick Slide, color...
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October 13th, 2008 @ 6am
The view downriver from the Oceanic Bridge, the route the remaining dolphins would need to travel to reach the Shrewsbury River and, ultimately, Sandy Hook Bay. Federal marine experts this afternoon outlined two acoustics-based approaches to moving the remaining bottlenose...
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October 10th, 2008 @ 3pm
Jesus Navarro of Cali Painting, Long Branch, adds some white shine to a picket fence along Fair Haven Road in Fair Haven this morning. Sun, sun, sun: that's what the weatherlady is saying the weekend holds in store. We've gotten...
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October 10th, 2008 @ 10am
Closing post offices at lunchtime is "stupid," says Red Banker Tom Salmon. It's a loaded question, but it begs to be asked: is the U.S. Postal Service deliberately courting outrage among its customers? How else to explain the newest changes...
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October 10th, 2008 @ 8am
A boater stands for a better look at dolphins near the Oceanic Bridge Wednesday afternoon. (Click to enlarge) The deaths of two dolphins in recent weeks has prompted a telephone confab among marine and federal officials to consider whether and...
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October 10th, 2008 @ 7am
'The Laramie Project' is back in Monmouth County — minus, so far, any hint of the outrage that made it a hot topic last year in Ocean Township. That's when the high school principal and the district superintendent tried putting...
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October 9th, 2008 @ 6pm
Incumbent Republican Grace Cangemi, left, and running mate John Tyler Jr., right square off against Ed Zipprich and Juanita Lewis, center, at next week's candidates' forum. (Click to enlarge) Big night for the politically tuned-in next Wednesday — particularly those...
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October 9th, 2008 @ 3pm
Ah, you know this one. Right? Please drop us a note to tell us where you've seen it. Last week's photo was a no-brainer for a number of Where regulars (and yes, you can become one, too! There are no...
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October 9th, 2008 @ 7am
A State Police Marine Unit boat travels east along the Navesink yesterday afternoon, shortly after receiving the report of a dead dolphin on the Middletown side. The decomposed corpse of a young dolphin was found in the Navesink River yesterday,...
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October 9th, 2008 @ 6am
Firefighters and other emergency personnel from a handful of towns were on the scene of a midmorning residential fire at 105 Rumson Road in Little Silver Wednesday. As of about 10:45a, the fire, said to have started in the basement,...
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October 8th, 2008 @ 11am
Mark Mahon of Lincroft soaks up some rays while laying down some twang at Riverside Gardens Park in Red Bank yesterday. We've got a fine fall day on tap today, according to the National Weather Service, with mostly sunny skies...
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October 8th, 2008 @ 7am
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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.