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New Jersey's largest daily is "losing a battle to survive," its publisher says. The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest newspaper, has to shrink its payroll by 200 jobs and retool two union contracts by October 1 or it will have to...
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July 31st, 2008 @ 2pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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It's a highlight of his daily walk, we're guessing. In keeping with the mood of the season, perhaps, it was a slowooow week here in Whereville. We got only one response since posting last week's pic, and it seems to...
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July 31st, 2008 @ 7am
A dead fish seen in the Navesink off Maple Avenue earlier this summer. Today's Press reports a trio of local fish kills, including one on the Navesink River between Maple Avenue and Riverside Gardens Park. From the report: About 50...
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July 31st, 2008 @ 7am
The garage adjoins the mostly empty Red Bank Corporate Plaza on West Front Street. Fulfilling the terms of a five-year-old deal with the borough government, the owner of the Red Bank Corporate Plaza will make the parking garage at the...
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July 30th, 2008 @ 11am
A 31-year-old Bordentown vice principal has been hired as the new principal of the Markham Place School in Little Silver, today's Press reports. Dennis Morolda, who starts in the $108,000-a-year job on Friday, succeeds Don Merce, who was killed in...
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July 30th, 2008 @ 8am
Today's Press reports that controversial pain-management physician Dr. Philip Eatough has pleaded guilty to federal money laundering and the illegal distribution of oxycodone. The 61-year-old Rumson resident faces 36 to 42 months in prison when he is sentenced by U.S....
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July 30th, 2008 @ 7am
Eight to 10 social services organizations are expected to be present at a four-hour health fair scheduled for Saturday, August 9 on Red Bank's West Side. The Red Bank Family Support Center is organizing the open-air event in the parking...
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July 30th, 2008 @ 7am
Area residents came out in force July 9, when consultant Brian Valentino, left, described the preliminary findings of his police-consolidation analysis. Round two of discussions about a proposal to merge the police departments of Fair Haven, Little Silver and Rumson...
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July 29th, 2008 @ 2pm
Believe it, Mike, you're on the list. No Joe's proprietor Mike Tierney welcomes customers during the Sheehan Classic in June. New Jersey Monthly magazine's annual list of the state's best restaurants is out, and the Red Bank area is represented,...
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July 29th, 2008 @ 12pm
A bit of the usual mayhem as motorists try to cross Bridge Avenue this morning. Cabbie John O'Brien thinks the four-way stop is a "great idea." For many motorists, it's right up there with the traffic circle on the dread...
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July 29th, 2008 @ 10am
Ready to serve, he says: John Tyler at borough hall last night. As expected, the Red Bank Republican organization has nominated John Tyler of Leighton Avenue and two others for the borough council spot vacated by the resignation of John...
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July 29th, 2008 @ 6am
Broad Street, Red Bank, last Friday at 2p. Email this story
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July 28th, 2008 @ 7am
Crimes for the week of July 18 through July 25, as reported by the Red Bank Police Department. Entries are unedited. Theft occurring between 7-16-08 and 7-17-08 at Monmouth Street restaurant. Victim reported that unknown person stole her pocketbook, containing...
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July 28th, 2008 @ 7am
Authorities say the man who was killed by a lightning strike on Sandy Hook Sunday was a 38-year-old Elizabeth resident. Two others, women in their 30s whose identities have also not been disclosed, were injured by the strike. They were...
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July 28th, 2008 @ 7am
This is from the National Weather Service at 1:56p today: * AT 156 PM EDT.NATL WEATHER SVC DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED...
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July 27th, 2008 @ 2pm
The Star-Ledger reports that one of three people struck by lighting on Sandy Hook around noontime today has died. The victims have not been identified, but the one who was killed is reported to be a man in his 40s....
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July 27th, 2008 @ 2pm
Monmouth County and Sea Bright emergency personnel reported at 12:21p that three people were struck by lightning on Sandy Hook's Beach B. Emergency personnel from Highlands were reported at 12:45p to be enroute with two victims to Monmouth Medical Center...
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July 27th, 2008 @ 12pm
Bargain hunters went sniffing along Monmouth Street this morning. One woman brought her pooch, apparently to give the goods an expert sniff. The streets of downtown Red Bank were thronged all day Friday, day one of the 54th annual Sidewalk...
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July 26th, 2008 @ 11am
Sea Bright and other coastal areas could expect more scenes like this one, from tropical storm Ernesto in 2006, according to a report that also examines the economic wallop of rising seas. The economic impacts of global warming on New...
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July 25th, 2008 @ 8am
OK folks, we have just one taker so far on our recent offer to post free notices of local yard sales. But it's a start. Saturday and Sunday, from 8a to 3p, swing by 25 Hubbard Park in Red Bank,...
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July 25th, 2008 @ 7am
Partyline
(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.