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Keith Rella, newsman in a hurry. If all goes according to his remarkably hasty plan, this time next week, Keith Rella will oversee a bunch of teenagers in newsie caps calling out "Extra, extra!" while distributing first editions of a...
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August 8th, 2008 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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This week: a rare multiple-angle clue set, because it's August and your brain is in the south of France, or maybe Beijing, while your body's here, stateside, on staycation. Last week's image showed an unusually tall fire hydrant being admired...
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August 7th, 2008 @ 7am
Frank Edgerly, head football coach at Red Bank Catholic for the past nine years, has taken a job as director of pigskin recruiting operations for Rutgers University, where he was a standout quarterback. The university announced Edgerly's hiring yesterday. He'll...
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August 7th, 2008 @ 6am
A 30-year-old Middletown man was ordered to a year's worth of psychiatric counseling after he pleaded guilty yesterday to beating three goslings to death with an umbrella, today's Press reports. Middletown Municipal Court Judge Michael D. Pugliese sentenced Michael Gonzalez...
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August 7th, 2008 @ 6am
Have you checked in on Red Bank oRBit yet today? We've got two new articles that might stoke your taste buds. • Big name chef/restaurateur/cuisine imp David Burke is the star of the salad bar this month at, of all...
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August 6th, 2008 @ 2pm
Motorists flock to the railing of the Oceanic Bridge when car traffic is stopped for boat traffic. Cars have also been stopping when they're not supposed to, county officials say. Monmouth County is warning motorists not to park on the...
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August 6th, 2008 @ 7am
Sen. John and Cindy McCain, Jersey-bound. Trailing in three recent New Jersey polls, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is set to visit a GOP redoubt next week: Rumson, where no Democrat is said to have been...
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August 6th, 2008 @ 7am
Today's Press reports that newly installed 'no parking' signs on an out-of-the way residential street in Little Silver have disappeared — every last trace of them, including the posts they were attached to. The signs were installed just last month...
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August 6th, 2008 @ 6am
Now available: 46,000 square feet in Shrewsbury. Just ten months after the owners of Red Bank's SuperFoodtown expanded into the former Stop & Shop supermarket half a mile away on Newman Springs Road, the new store will be shut down,...
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August 5th, 2008 @ 1pm
An Atlantic bottlenose breaks the surface of the Navesink on the Middletown side Monday afternoon. (Click to enlarge) It's been some time since there's been anything to report on the dolphin pod that moved into local inland waters seven weeks...
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August 5th, 2008 @ 10am
Hatless at the moment, Rich Gardella wears several at his Allen Street office. By SUE MORGAN He's been on the job little more than seven months, but Rich Gardella, 35-year-old, spike-haired Fair Haven employee, is saving the modest-sized bedroom community...
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August 5th, 2008 @ 10am
Today's Asbury Park Press reports that two personal watercraft collided in mid-air on the Navesink River in Fair Haven Monday afternoon, injuring one of the operators. Both riders had jumped the wake of a boat when they crashed, the Press...
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August 5th, 2008 @ 6am
File photo of a Great Start event at the Primary School in 2006. Red Bank parents of children who turn three years old on or before October 1 may be interested in a pair of information sessions on the new...
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August 4th, 2008 @ 11am
Mayor Mike Halfacre will really loosen his tie Tuesday night. Fair Haven will participate in the anti-crime, anti-drug National Night Out on Tuesday, and events include a chance to put the mayor in the drink. From Mayor Mike Halfacre's blog:...
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August 4th, 2008 @ 10am
Today's postings on Red Bank oRBit, the new three-times-a-week entertainment publication of redbankgreen, include: • A pop-in on Gillian Elbroji at Bellini, her new shoe store on White Street • A vibe check on the new Red Bank Beer Garden...
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August 4th, 2008 @ 10am
Red Bank crimes from July 25 to August 1, as reported by the borough police. Entries are unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring on 7-25-08 at the Red Bank Train Station parking lot off of Chestnut. Victim reported that unknown person(s) smashed...
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August 4th, 2008 @ 6am
Kathy Karinja of Rumson takes a photo of the flattened gazebo at Victory Park. The bandstand at the center of the park was spared. A thunderstorm that tore through The Green Saturday afternoon pummeled the Oceanic section of Rumson while...
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August 2nd, 2008 @ 3pm
Various unconfirmed emergency calls picked up over the police scanner during the storm: • A swimming pool reported in the middle of Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright • Phone line to Barnacle Bill's in Rumson pulled down (initial report said...
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August 2nd, 2008 @ 1pm
You've seen the teaser logos for about eight months. Well, the countdown is finally over. Today, redbankgreen marks its first significant expansion with the launch of Red Bank oRBit, a new website dedicated to comprehensive coverage of the local arts,...
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August 1st, 2008 @ 8am
Every once in a while, these posts just write themselves... From redbankgreen's email in-basket this week: Hello! Last weekend, my friend posted her garage sale on your website and she said she had an awesome response because of it! I'm...
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August 1st, 2008 @ 6am
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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.