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Whoa, flashback: John Easdale of Dramarama headlines the bill at the annual Dunesday event this Saturday at Donovan's Reef. By TOM CHESEK Less than a year ago, the mood around Donovan's Reef had a touch of doomsday about it. The...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 11am
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Dolphins near the Oceanic Bridge late Wednesday afternoon. (Photo courtesy of Mary Fenton) We were just wrapping up our sixth visit to the dolphins since they moved into the Navesink River more than a week ago when we heard on...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 8am
Jenn Woods, Donald Patters, William Crooks, Fred Blumberg, Pete DeFazio, Matt Borowski and Carl Colmorgen all wrote in to correctly identify the slice of urban skyline we featured in last week's photo. It's a view looking northeast across Broad Street...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 8am
Belmar Mayor Ken Pringle has apologized for cartoonish characterizations of Staten Islanders and "guidos" in a newsletter distributed earlier this month to residents of rental houses in town, according to a wire service report. Pringle, who also serves as Red...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 8am
Red Bank resident Del Dal Par was named athletic director by the board of Red Bank Regional High, today's Asbury Park Press reports. Dal Par has been working as baseball coach at Ocean Township High for the past nine seasons,...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 7am
Here's a bizarre and scary break-in case in Rumson, as reported today's Asbury Park Press: Police arrested a Middletown man who was found sleeping in a child's bed in a Club Way home early Wednesday morning. Robert W. Sampson, 20,...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 6am
Spanish mudslinger extraordinaire Juan Pablo 'Tito' Martinez will bring a load of Andalucian clay and a borrowed potter's wheel to downtown Red Bank this weekend. Martinez, like his father and grandfather — both also called 'Tito' — before him, is...
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July 16th, 2008 @ 2pm
In the grillwork of the now-vacant Meridian nursing home on West Front Street in Red Bank, a family of house sparrows has taken up summer residence. Last week, the little ones had mom flying off again and again to return...
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July 16th, 2008 @ 9am
Ken Pringle at a 2007 Red Bank meeting. Belmar Mayor (and Red Bank Borough Attorney) Ken Pringle is in the hotseat today for what he calls a "tongue-in-cheek" newsletter and at least one visitor to his town calls the work...
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July 16th, 2008 @ 9am
Shortly after dawn, there were about 200 people in line. Mexican nationals began lining up before 10p Tuesday in a bid to be among the first to get passports and consular IDs from the 'Mexican Consulate on Wheels' program being...
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July 16th, 2008 @ 6am
Large numbers of undocumented Mexican immigrants are expected to begin lining up outside the Red Bank Charter School as early as this evening for a five-day visit by employees of the Mexican Consulate in New York beginning tomorrow. Thirteen consulate...
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July 15th, 2008 @ 12pm
The burden of providing services to nonprofits such as Riverview Medical Center, above, that pay no property taxes was cited by Red Bank officials in their application for special state aid this year. An award of $350,000 in extraordinary state...
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July 15th, 2008 @ 10am
Monmouth County Engineer Joe Ettore silhouetted by a rendering of the proposed replacement for Hubbards Bridge. Part of the existing structure, seen in the inset, may be turned into a pocket park, shown in brown in the rendering. The news...
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July 15th, 2008 @ 9am
Elmer Jackson makes it to the peak of a monster incline in Colorado late last month. (Photo courtesy of Tim Hathaway) Two weeks after the sudden departure of their one-man support crew, Elmer and Jeff Jackson's pedalthon from San Francisco...
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July 15th, 2008 @ 7am
Councilman John Curley embraces Mayor Pasquale Menna after tonight's council session. With four months left to his term, firebrand Republican John Curley announced his resignation from the Red Bank Council tonight, creating the possibility that a party-chosen successor could get...
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July 14th, 2008 @ 8pm
Reconstituted as The Driving Service, the company's founders (seen outside Brannigan's in Red Bank in this 2007 photo) are Vince Falcetano, Norm Dannen, Zach McCue and Colin Keany. Readers of redbankgreen may recall our feature article of a year ago...
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July 14th, 2008 @ 12pm
The Asbury Park Press is reporting the rescue of six boaters after their vessel sank one mile off Sandy Hook yesterday afternoon. According to the story, a good samaritan and the crew from and a crew from Sea Tow, a...
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July 14th, 2008 @ 12pm
Motorists took advantage of bridge-opening intervals to get out of their cars and look at the dolphins feeding in the Navesink just west of the Oceanic Bridge Sunday evening. Except for the river itself. the bridge is the only publicly...
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July 14th, 2008 @ 10am
John Forte of D&D Painting in Red Bank lays a coat of paint on the spindles of a curved stairway landing at 15 Broad Street last week. Email this item
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July 14th, 2008 @ 9am
Jet-skiers Scott Wolf and Manny Carabel, on rocks, are joined at Oyster Point by IMPACT members Grace Pedretti (in blue top); Laurie Medoro; Emily Lennon and her mom, Virginia; Marilyn Price; Danny Kalinoski and his mom, Stephanie; and Paul Panicali...
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July 14th, 2008 @ 9am
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On the redbankgreen Partyline: Gourd display at Lighthouse on its penultimate night of the season.
MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
LONG LIVE LOCAL NEWS!
"Long Live Local News" flags from redbankgreen's 20th anniversary celebration in Marine Park Tuesday prove to be the perfect compliment to s ...
MUMS AND WITCHES
17 Prospect Ave (Photo by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
KAYAKERS CLEAR RIVER JUNK
Partyline photo: "The Navesink Nymphs" clear floating tires from the river.
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