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Here's an update to the story below. redbankgreen spoke tonight with Judy Barnaby, the Antique Center employee who waited on Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa on Friday afternoon. Barnaby echoes what Guy Johnson told us earlier: that the couple was...
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August 26th, 2006 @ 9pm
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By now, everyone in the eight-planet solar system has probably heard some version of the New York Post's gossip item claiming a Bruce Springsteen-Patti Scialfa split is in the works. The story, sexed-up with tantalizing hints of another redhead—this one...
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August 26th, 2006 @ 11am
The acrimony between departing Mayor Ed McKenna and mayoral candidate John Curley spilled over into the business of the Monmouth County Freeholders last night. Today's Asbury Park Press reports that Curley and other Republicans were, um, displeased with the Freeholders'...
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August 25th, 2006 @ 11am
The Hub is reporting today that Red Bank Parking Director Neil Burnip is on leave from his post pending completion of an investigation into a sexual harrassment complaint lodged against him by another Borough Hall employee. The name of the...
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August 24th, 2006 @ 11am
Kittie, an all-female heavy metal band from Canada that has sold more than 1.2 million records, is wrapping up a month of recording at RetroMedia Studios in Red Bank this week. Though redbankgreen is eternally stupefied by heavy metal—and not...
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August 23rd, 2006 @ 11pm
David Prown, who is as deserving of the title of Mr. Red Bank as anyone in this town (see Tom Chesek's profile of him in the current issue of Red Bank Red Hot, if you need more info), is the...
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August 23rd, 2006 @ 11pm
Maybe Red Bank-based Navesink River Rowing, which is always looking for a good strong back, should give Bruce Springsteen a call. The Star-Ledger's MaryAnn Spoto has a story on Springsteen taking a stab at rowing a lifeguard boat in the...
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August 23rd, 2006 @ 4pm
The owner of a jewelry store in The Grove was sentenced to federal prison earlier this week for tax evasion that a judge called an example of "appalling" greed. The Asbury Park Press has the story about Lincinio Neves, owner...
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August 23rd, 2006 @ 9am
Red Bank Middle School and Red Bank Regional High School were among the 643 schools statewide that failed to make “adequate yearly progress” under the federal No Child Left Behind law, the state Department of Education disclosed today. The results...
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August 22nd, 2006 @ 3pm
For anyone who's ever craved a few minutes more peace and quiet before the anal leaf-blower next door starts his weekly lawn scour, Middletown is offering a modicum of relief. Under an ordinance approved by the town council last night,...
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August 22nd, 2006 @ 12pm
Turns out one of the two women who jumped off the Oceanic Bridge earlier this month was wanted on drug charges in Broward, County, Florida, and had outstanding warrants in Hazlet and Middletown, the Asbury Park Press reports today. Yvonne...
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August 22nd, 2006 @ 11am
Fatalities on New Jersey's major raodways are up this year by 18 percent, reversing a general trend of increasing roadway safety, today's Bergen Record reports. The article comes less than a week after two accidents on a short stretch of...
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August 22nd, 2006 @ 11am
Disaster planners in New Jersey will have to come up with strategies for saving pets in an emergency under a law signed by Gov. Jon Corzine yesterday. The law was inspired by numerous reports of pet owners forced by circumstance...
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August 22nd, 2006 @ 10am
Upstage magazine reports that the Two River Theater will be the site of a rock 'n roll blood drive this Saturday from 10a to 4p. Chris Morrisy, Maybe Pete and A.R.D. will perform at the event for the Central Jersey...
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August 22nd, 2006 @ 10am
Monmouth University has leapt a dozen spots in the U.S. News & World Report magazine ranking of the best colleges and universities for 2007. The West long Branch school was listed as number 62 among northeatern U.S. institutions offering a...
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August 21st, 2006 @ 1pm
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August 21st, 2006 @ 10am
Sophie Bubis' epic 11-year battle to preserve what she believes is her right to sit on privately owned beach property—and to maintain an unimpeded ocean view from her home—has taken a toll on her finances, the Star-Ledger reports today. Friends...
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August 21st, 2006 @ 10am
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August 21st, 2006 @ 9am
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August 18th, 2006 @ 1pm
An Ocean Township handyman already in custody on child pornography charges has been indicted on 429 counts, according to the Asbury Park Press. From the report: Clement Bilski Jr., 43, of Maple Avenue was charged with 74 counts of aggravated...
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August 18th, 2006 @ 11am
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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.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...