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A summer storm that barreled through the area set off a handful of security alarms in Red Bank Sunday afternoon and had some volunteer firefighters running from one scene to another in the downpour. According to Fire Chief Noel Blackwood,...
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June 29th, 2008 @ 7pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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A sailboat under power gets close to the dolphins between Sea Bright and Highlands late Friday afternoon. Trailed and often surrounded by big boats, small boats and personal watercraft, a pod of dolphins moved back and forth in the upper...
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June 28th, 2008 @ 6am
Dolphins in the Shrewsbury River near the confluence of the Navesink yesterday. The Asbury Park Press reports that the dolphin pod in the Shrewsbury River is heading north. The U.S. Coast Guard and state Marine Police [are] giving them an...
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June 27th, 2008 @ 2pm
By TOM CHESEK Well, that was certainly the summer that was: the season of beach badges, clam shooters and Met meltdowns is barely a week old, but over at the Count Basie Theatre it's a time to shut off the...
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June 27th, 2008 @ 10am
The Fab Faux put a faux finish on the Count Basie's season of shows at Saturday's sold-out fundraiser. By TOM CHESEK Heading into a four-month, multimillion-dollar refurbishing, the Count Basie Theatre pulls the plug on summer shows this weekend with...
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June 27th, 2008 @ 8am
Some boats are zooming past the dolphins in the Shrewsbury River; this one idled near the pod this afternoon. Boaters continue to navigate the Shrewsbury River without regard to the presence of a pod of stray dolphins in the waterway,...
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June 26th, 2008 @ 4pm
Some shots from last night's Tiki Party at the Red Bank Elks Club overlooking the Navesink. Organized by Red Bank RiverCenter, the annual event raises funds to pay for the lights and decorations on display downtown at Christmastime. Email this...
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June 26th, 2008 @ 8am
Last week's 'Where' was too dam easy for six readers. They recognized it right away as the Shadow Lake spillway on Hubbard Avenue in the River Plaza section of Middletown. If you don't know it, the structure has the words...
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June 26th, 2008 @ 7am
A north Jersey man already facing arson and insurance fraud charges with former Red Bank Middle School Principal Terrence Wilkins now faces additional allegations, the Star-Ledger reports. According to a new indictment by an Essex County grand jury, Kenyatta O'Bryant...
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June 26th, 2008 @ 6am
Sunset over the Navesink as seen last night from Riverside Gardens Park in Red Bank. (Photo by Jim Willis) Email this item
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June 25th, 2008 @ 9am
John Astin, haunted by his famously macabre characterizations Gomez Addams and Edgar Allan Poe. The actor visits the area this week for a pair of special appearances. (Recent photo by David Colwell) By TOM CHESEK Who wouldn't want to be...
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June 25th, 2008 @ 7am
Moisture-laden clouds roll in over Sea Bright in this view from the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Tuesday afternoon. Isolated showers and thunderstorms are expected to continue into this evening. Wednesday's forecast, according to the National Weather Service: Sunny, with a high...
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June 24th, 2008 @ 4pm
Yes, Thorsten Veblen is surely rolling in his grave. But you know what? He's been spinning for years. One more taste of the Hamilton Jewelers-sponsored fleet of Ferraris event in downtown Red Bank on Sunday isn't going to significantly boost...
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June 24th, 2008 @ 2pm
When the dolphins are out, "It's just boats, boats, boats parked out there," says Ruben Nagy of McLoone's Rum Runner. Amid rising concern about their safety, a pod of dolphins will be led out of the Shrewsbury River toward open...
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June 24th, 2008 @ 12pm
Volunteers working to clear the lot of debris at low tide earlier this month. Hoping to head off bureaucratic problems later on, Red Bank officials have tabled a measure to preserve a borough owned lot fronting on the Navesink River...
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June 24th, 2008 @ 10am
Elmer Jackson, left, and his son, Jeff, on their arrival in Utah. (Photos by Tim Hathaway) Last week saw some ups and downs for Red Bank's intrepid cross-country bikers, Elmer and Jeff Jackson. Both father and son had some serious...
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June 24th, 2008 @ 8am
The sign bears an icon resembling the Dorn's Photo logo. The business is gone now, and with it, the giant sign in the shape of an old-time bellowed camera. Condos are going up where Daniel Dorn Sr.'s camera and film...
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June 24th, 2008 @ 7am
The view Saturday as the dolphin pod frolicked near McLoone's. (Photos by Colleen Curry) By COLLEEN CURRY Beachgoers were not the only ones invading the Jersey Shore this weekend, as a pod of bottlenose dolphins was seen swimming and jumping...
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June 23rd, 2008 @ 10am
A fleet of Ferraris rolled into downtown Red Bank yesterday as part of a fundraiser sponsored by Hamilton Jewelers, much to the delight of car lovers. Email this story
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June 23rd, 2008 @ 10am
Rik van Hemmen, above, rough-hews a tulip tree log with a chain saw while Boris Kofman, left, begins shaping one end of what will become a canoe. A giant tulip tree log that's been lying on the ground outside the...
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June 23rd, 2008 @ 8am
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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.