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After being stabbed in his store, at left, victim Charlie Williams made his way to Golf Greens Fore U, at right. A Shrewsbury Avenue merchant was pistol-whipped and stabbed by two hooded robbers this morning. The victim, Charlie Williams, is...
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December 10th, 2007 @ 1pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Nicole Atkins in a rare moment of relaxation. Yes, we know that Nicole Atkins has a full dance card as she more than lives up to her inclusion on Rolling Stone's 10 Artists to Watch list of 2006. A torchy...
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December 10th, 2007 @ 9am
Today's New York Post features a Q&A with Rumsonian Mickey Gooch, who among other things is a Wall Street billionaire, head New Jersey fundraiser for GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani and co-owner, with his wife Diane, of the Red Bank-based...
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December 10th, 2007 @ 9am
An ebb tide of property values and glut of 'for sale' signs has Middletown officials thinking this might not be he best time for a revaluation, today's Asbury Park Press reports. Township officials have hired a taxation law expert to...
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December 10th, 2007 @ 6am
Revelers beware: Red Bank Police are stepping up their enforcement of drinking-and-driving laws this month. It starts tonight, with a DWI checkpoint on Newman Springs Road. Cops will be out there from 11p to 3a. There will also be more...
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December 8th, 2007 @ 12pm
By TOM CHESEK The spirits have been restless of late over at Two River Theater, first during October's psych-out thrill ride "The Charlatan's Seance," then in the massive preparations for their upcoming Grand Guignol take on Shakespeare's bloody and accursed...
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December 7th, 2007 @ 9am
Architect Tony Busch Jr. discusses the proposed design for a building to replace Chubby's, shown superimposed at left on a photo of West Front Street buildings. (Click to enlarge) Had their business been treated as a brand-new one, the owners...
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December 7th, 2007 @ 9am
There's a bit more detail about the allegedly drunk substitute teacher from Middletown this morning. From an Associated Press story in today's Star-Ledger: School officials said fourth-grade students at Pine Brook Elementary School [in Manalapan] knew something was wrong when...
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December 7th, 2007 @ 8am
By TOM CHESEK He was the first to play the title role in Spring Lake Theatre Company's annual production of the musical "Scrooge," and went on to don the nightcap for countless performances in Premier Theatre Company's equally long-running revival...
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December 7th, 2007 @ 6am
Sometimes, there's nothing we can add to a story, partly because we're speechless. This is from the Asbury Park Press this afternoon: FREEHOLD — A Middletown woman working as a substitute teacher in a Manalapan elementary school was arested Wednesday...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 2pm
Takin' it to 'The Bank?' An owner of Chubby's hopes so. Chubby's Waterside Cafe, a timeworn nightclub that claims the only cabaret license in Red Bank, wants to go upscale, and skyward, too. Co-owner Michael Gilson of Little Silver hopes...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 11am
In recent years, photographers Bob McKay & Elisabeth Koch-McKay have been Red Bank's foremost curators of photographic work, cultivating art that's bold and demure, edgy and comforting, but always transporting. For their newest show at the McKay Imaging gallery on...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 10am
Though the little man shown in last week's 'Where' has many clones (or more likely, is himself a clone), three readers had no problem identifying where he hangs his cap at night. Bobby Holiday was the first in with the...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 10am
Mayor Pasquale Menna and Police Chief Mark Fitzgerald continue to stick to the information blackout imposed on them by by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office last week in the wake of the shootings at the Montgomery Terrace public housing units...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 8am
The former Count Basie Learning Center, a site that proponents favor as the future home of a community center. Outrage over social conditions that some citizens linked to last month's double shootings at the Montgomery Terrace public-housing project pushed the...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 7am
A former political opponent of soon-to-be-ex Sea Bright Mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka-Adams has asked the Monmouth County Prosecutor to investigate the role the mayor may have played in a recent borough court matter that resulted in a local noise ordinance being...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 12pm
Red Bank officials are hoping to boost fees for the licensing of dogs and cats. A proposed ordinance amendment slotted for introduction at tonight's council meeting would increase the dog license fee to $10.80 per year, from $6.80. A $1.20...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 10am
By TIM HATHAWAY The extra $368,000 in state funding that Red Bank schools received last year may have been a windfall, but schools Superintendent Laura Morana says there should be even more in the kitty this year. According to Morana,...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 10am
Federal immigration-law enforcers nearly doubled the number of arrests of illegal aliens in New Jersey during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, today's Star-Ledger reports. A total of 2,079 illegal aliens were taken into custody by four teams of...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 7am
Buona Sera's plan to expand into the space now used by Fins and Feathers was approved by the Planning Board earlier this week. It doesn't have a single parking space to offer its customers, but Buona Sera Ristorante has gotten...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 7am
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SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.