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Today's edition gives the rundown on these events happening locally tonight and tomorrow: • A funeral, of sorts, for Gram Parsons, a guy who's been dead 35 years but whose music is very much alive in a tribute show in...
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September 19th, 2008 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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We're getting a lot of inquiries today at redbankgreen asking when the list of participating sellers in the Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale will be available. Answer: Late Friday morning. Registrations are still coming in at the Red Bank DPW,...
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September 18th, 2008 @ 1pm
'Halfway to St. Paddy's Day?' That's a holiday? In the immortal word of Frank McCourt, 'Tis. Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit stumbles upon a brewing local phenomenon: beer-serving establishments, and the bands that play them, celebrating the midpoint between...
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September 18th, 2008 @ 7am
Step right up if you think you can identify the location of this week's Where, folks. The email in-basket is now accepting entries. In fact, it's overdue for some. Last week's image drew no responses at all. The location of...
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September 18th, 2008 @ 7am
A side-view mirror from the bus lies on the ground and the crumbled pickup truck is visible in the intersection, above. Below, damage to the bus shows the impact was in the area of the driver's seat. A pickup truck...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 3pm
A Middletown woman has a date in muncipal court next month on disorderly persons charges that she abandoned three gerbils and a hamster in the woods, the Asbury Park Press reports. If found guilty, she faces up to $8,000 in...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 11am
A stray bag flutters along Monmouth Street recently. A proposed ban on plastic bags may be tabled yet again while its sponsor, Red Bank Councilman Mike DuPont, meets with objectors and other interested parties, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 10am
Bushels of clams await transport from a dock in Sea Bright earlier this summer. A lawsuit filed in federal court last month by local clammers names Red Bank as one of several "culprits" responsible for pollution that has cut their...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 10am
In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, editor Tom Chesek tries to pin down just what it was about Zuleyka's Kitchen in Red Bank that first captivated him: It could have been the surprising and innovative sides that garnished a...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 6am
Entries from Red Bank's police logs for the week of September 5 to 12. The information is unedited. Theft reported on 9-8-08 at Catherine St. Victim reported that unknown subject entered garage at residence and removed a bicycle and grass...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 6am
One man is dead and another injured after the in a car in which they were traveling struck a utility pole and flipped onto its roof in Middletown last night, according to two reports. The Star-Ledger says the unidentified dead...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 5am
Red Bank's Waverly Place, one of the borough's more badly pitted streets, gets a fresh coat of asphalt yesterday. Ditch Waverly, have at it... Email this story
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September 16th, 2008 @ 6am
Driving Mrs. Burry: John Curley and his running mate, as seen at Red Bank's Centennial Parade in May. For years, former Red Bank Councilman John Curley has railed against what he's called a "good old boys" way in which the...
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September 16th, 2008 @ 6am
In the view of Red Bank police, there's no question a crime was committed. An unidentified, shirtless man loaded goods that didn't belong to him into a car and vanished into the dead of a sultry summer night. But was...
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September 15th, 2008 @ 10am
Sunday's Danskin Women's Triathlon at Sandy Hook drew dozens of competitors — they were the ones with the indelible numbers on their biceps — to the streets of downtown Red Bank this weekend. Among them were these women from Bergen...
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September 15th, 2008 @ 7am
After feeding near the Oceanic Bridge since July 7, it's time for the pod to go, says a marine biologist. Wildlife experts should execute a plan to remove a visiting dolphin pod from the Navesink River or risk the animals...
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September 15th, 2008 @ 7am
A West Long Branch woman claims in an interview with CBS News that she was wrongly charged with drunken driving and "mishandled by police in Red Bank just hours after she had surgery" and rear-ended another car on Broad Street...
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September 15th, 2008 @ 7am
Bargains, lightly used, in Atlantic Highlands Saturday. In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, your comprehensive guide to what's going on around The Green, you'll find: • a item on the nearly nude, airborne dancers in "Garden of Earthly Delights"...
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September 12th, 2008 @ 9am
Just one month ago, Frank Edgerly gave up the head football coaching job at Red Bank Catholic to become an assistant coach for Rutgers University's Scarlet Knights. Last night, he was back on the sidelines of an RBC practice, having...
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September 11th, 2008 @ 6am
It seems that greater Red Bank suddenly has a thing for hemp, and it has less to do with behavior that might land you in the police blotter than eco-fashion. Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, redbankgreen's sibling site, pays...
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September 11th, 2008 @ 6am
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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 ...