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The three owners of the Red Bank house shown here have pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with an alleged plot to defraud the government through a kickback scheme at Fort Monmouth. A story in today's Asbury Park Press...
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August 10th, 2006 @ 2pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Eight years ago, when the Red Bank Farmers' Market opened in the Galleria parking lot, it had only two vendors. Today, there are 30, and every week more merchants ask to be let in, some hoping to hawk goods that...
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August 10th, 2006 @ 12am
Last week's image shows a coat-of-arms painted on the side of a building at 90 West River Road in Rumson. The property is owned by the Tedesco family, and the building, a turn-of-the-century (19th to 20th, that is) structure, is...
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August 10th, 2006 @ 12am
Seventy-nine percent of New Jerseyans have "absolutely no interest" in reading ex-Guv. Jim McGreevey's upcoming book about his struggles with homosexuality and his 2004 political flame-out, according to the Monmouth University Polling Institute. Five percent expressed "a lot' of interest,...
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August 9th, 2006 @ 1pm
Today's Star-Ledger has a comprehensive look at the latest crime stats in New Jersey. Users can access data town-by-town. The trend is generally positive, except for a disturbing uptick in urban homicides. From the story in the Ledger: There were...
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August 9th, 2006 @ 1pm
Larry Higgs of the Asbury Park Press has an item today about the arrests of two young women who dove off the Oceanic Bridge Sunday afternoon and wound up getting arrested by Rumson police, one for assaulting an officer, the...
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August 9th, 2006 @ 10am
A now-former city worker in Asbury Park was charged with drunken driving following an accident on Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright Saturday night. Ruben Trejo Jr. of Hazlet was driving a city-owned SUV at the time of the accident, which...
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August 9th, 2006 @ 9am
Coming off a 13-hour marathon that had him signing geek memorabilia almost until dawn at his Broad Street comic book store, filmmaker Kevin Smith entertained 2,000 fans in Marine Park last night with a mixture of endless approachability and profanity....
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August 9th, 2006 @ 12am
In a state where community college tuitions are among the nation's highest, Brookdale Community College in Lincroft is at the top of the heap, according to a story in today's Star-Ledger. Brookdale will charge $98 a credit starting next month....
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August 8th, 2006 @ 2pm
A South Jersey man's attempt to pay a 70-cent Parkway fare with a token he bought for 35 cents was shot down in court yesterday. The Press of Atlantic City has the scoop. Theodore T. Harris's argument was that the...
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August 8th, 2006 @ 10am
Filmmaker Kevin Smith signed autographs this afternoon at Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash, the comic book store he owns on Broad Street. Tomorrow night, he's scheduled to answer questions from the audience at an open-air screening of his breakthrough...
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August 7th, 2006 @ 4pm
The stall-out of the real estate market in recent months isn't only a matter of potential buyers staying out of the market. It's also a function of contract cancellations, which appear to be a significant factor in the woes of...
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August 7th, 2006 @ 9am
OK, one final post on the race for city judge in Red Bank, Tenn. Barring a demand for a recount from the Disheroon camp, that is. DUI lawyer Johnny Houston, who outpolled incumbent Judge Gary Disheroon in voting Thursday, dropped...
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August 7th, 2006 @ 9am
Somebody out there apparently didn’t think much of Red Bank's history. Back in the early spring, borough resident Dana Benjamin spotted an intriguing item for sale on e-Bay: a book of maps of Red Bank from 1914. Her husband, Brian,...
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August 4th, 2006 @ 10am
Data-miner Robert Gebeloff of the Star-Ledger has a story today on accelerating white-flight from New Jersey, a trend demographics experts attribute to job-creation elsewhere and the high cost of living and taxes in the Garden State. From the article, based...
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August 4th, 2006 @ 10am
Johnny Houston outpolled incumbent Judge Gary Disheroon in the race for city judge in Red Bank, Tenn. last night. The Daily Chattanoogan reports that Houston beat Disheroon by a vote of 845 to 695. As previously reported here at redbankgreen,...
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August 4th, 2006 @ 9am
Nicole Theresa Moore, the 17-year-old daughter of Sea Bright Police Chief William Moore, was identified yesterday as the victim of a fatal crash early Tuesday morning in Ocean Township. Authorities had withheld details of the accident, in which the girl's...
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August 4th, 2006 @ 9am
90.5TheNight.org, the Brookdale Community College radio station, is reporting a water main break on Newman Springs Road (Route 520) near the entrance to the campus. Only eastbound traffic appears to be affected. The station reports that Although at this time...
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August 3rd, 2006 @ 3pm
Filmmaker Kevin Smith will meet with fans at his Broad Street comic-book salon Monday afternoon, and singer Lisa Loeb will join him at an outdoor screening of his breakthrough film "Clerks" in Marine Park Tuesday night. Ava Gacser of Gannett...
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August 3rd, 2006 @ 11am
Red Bank has three new probationary police officers, filling vacancies created by resignations and retirements. George Travostino and John Camarca are recent graduate of the Monmouth County Police Academy. Thomas Doremus begins his training a the academy this month. The...
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August 3rd, 2006 @ 10am
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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 ...