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After a total gut job, the Downtown plans to re-open in March as a double-wide. By TOM CHESEK "We're taking a gamble, there's no doubt about it," says Downtown co-owner Danny Lynch, as he shows off the impressive results of...
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February 29th, 2008 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Middletown resident Kevin Freibott, a former township police officer, was sentenced to 11 years in state prison yesterday for a car crash that killed a two-year-old boy and left his mother comatose and severely brain-injured, today's Star-Ledger reports. The accident...
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February 29th, 2008 @ 7am
Oh, brother: this one's headed to Freehold. The Red Bank council has authorized Borough Attorney Tom Hall to file a suit against the Community YMCA over that organization's plan to sell the Children's Cultural Center, redbankgreen has learned. At issue,...
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February 28th, 2008 @ 2pm
Centennial logo design winner Alexis Holiday is a fourth-generation Red Banker. The winner of a contest for a logo to commemorate Red Bank's first hundred years is a 14-year-old Charter School student who only recently began dabbling in Adobe Photoshop,...
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February 28th, 2008 @ 9am
When the economy is, um, flush, and the infrastructure doesn't break down, Red Bank's water utility sometimes generates a surplus that gets poured into the general fund. That happened last year, when $300,000 was moved, offsetting the need for that...
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February 28th, 2008 @ 8am
Devoted fans of Patricia Mink's Savoury Fare at 3 West River Road in Rumson have had their taste buds on hold in recent days, waiting for the take-out cuisine business to reopen after a vacation. And here goes redbankgreen, tempting...
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February 28th, 2008 @ 7am
Four-year old Maya Williams, center, examines a display at the one-night Black History Month exhibit last night. Maya was joined by her sister Kayla, 10, at left and Amani Cureton, also 10. About 150 people gathered Wednesday evening at the...
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February 28th, 2008 @ 6am
Light on his hooves: Pink Floyd's pig, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, floats into the Count Basie Theatre on Saturday. By TOM CHESEK Roosevelt Stadium, June 1973. A capacity crowd in this Jersey City deco landmark is getting its first...
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February 28th, 2008 @ 5am
Borough facilities could be in for a wholesale upgrade, with this beachfront parking lot playing a starring role. By LINDA G. RASTELLI Sea Bright's public buildings don't exactly show the tiny seaside borough in the best light. Scattered along a...
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February 27th, 2008 @ 11am
A Great Black-backed Gull — the largest member of the gull family — takes in a view of the Shrewsbury River from a pile off Bellevue Place in Sea Bright yesterday afternoon. Here are a few "cool facts" about Great...
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February 27th, 2008 @ 7am
Red Bank voters will be asked to approve a local schools budget that increases the tax rate by a penny per $100 of property value, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The owner of a home assessed at the borough-average $404,627...
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February 27th, 2008 @ 7am
A 19-year-old Red Bank man is being held on $345,000 bail in connection with what police say was an armed burglary of an acquaintance's apartment on Harding Road early Tuesday morning. Prince Johnson was arrested at his West Westside Avenue...
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February 27th, 2008 @ 6am
The Red Bank school district was among 170 statewide that received beef products involved in the nation's largest-ever meat recall, today's Star-Ledger reports. There's no word yet from the district about when the beef arrived here. Officials said the meat...
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February 26th, 2008 @ 8am
Let it go, people. Your cellphone that is, while driving. Until now, the state of New Jersey's law against holding your cellphone to your ear while operating a motor vehicle has been easy to flout. Police, if they were to...
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February 26th, 2008 @ 6am
Today's Asbury Park Press provides a district-by-district rundown of candidacies for school boards in Monmouth County. The elections are scheduled for April 15. Declarations by candidates were due yesterday at 4p. Here's what the Press reported regarding filers in our...
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February 26th, 2008 @ 6am
A virtual tie at Saturday's screening committee session for potential Monmouth County Freeholder candidates means that Red Bank Councilman John Curley and Holmdel Mayor Serena DiMaso will have another month to court favor with county Republicans. Party chairman Adam Puharic...
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February 26th, 2008 @ 5am
A Monmouth County grand jury has indicted a 52-year-old Fair Haven woman in connection with what authorities say were her efforts to fraudulently obtain prescription painkillers. Janice Rogers (no street address given) was charged iwith two counts of third-degree attempting...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 4pm
Ilsa crashes Sam's pity party at the Café Américain in 'Casablanca.' By TOM CHESEK We'll always have Red Bank. Beginning tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5:00p, the Count Basie Theatre kicks off a series of free classic film screenings with Bogart, Bergman...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 12pm
HEY! That's our DOG! Roddy McDowall with the original Red Bank-bred 'Lassie' in 1943's 'Lassie Come Home.' By TOM CHESEK While redbankgreen applauds the slate of picture shows on display in the Count Basie Theatre's "Take 9 at the Basie:...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 12pm
The special assessments are being collected — and have been since last September. Now, Red Bank RiverCenter is moving to solicit input from business owners in the West Side expansion zone about how those funds might best be spent to...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 10am
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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.