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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
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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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
It's real hot. It may rain later. After that, it'll still be real hot. Just less so. This has been your redbankgreen weather digest...
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August 3rd, 2006 @ 9am
'To roam the two narrow aisles of Johnny’s Jazz Market for the first time is to wonder what in hell kind of phantasmagoria one has wandered into. This may be the only grocery store in the world that, simply by...
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August 3rd, 2006 @ 12am
We have no winners from last week's 'Where.' So no, it wasn't a window display from the Red Bank Antiques Center, as one reader guessed. It's a window display from Bain's Hardware in Sea Bright. A little off our usual...
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August 3rd, 2006 @ 12am
Our long-distance coverage of the dueling love notes written by kin of both candidates in the race for city judge in Red Bank, Tenn., has not gone unnoticed down in the Volunteer State. The challenger, Johnny Houston, e-mailed us (click...
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August 2nd, 2006 @ 9am
If this were another Monmouth County publication, one we won't identify by name, we'd be screeching in this space about how influential we were on politics from here to Tennessee. That's not us. We're redbankgreen, the alternative to the alternative...
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August 1st, 2006 @ 3pm
Steve Bidgood, a co-owner of the Salt Creek Grille in Rumson, is featured in a story about gastric bypass surgery in today's Asbury Park Press. Gastic bypass operations shrink the stomach to the size of a golf ball and re-route...
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August 1st, 2006 @ 12pm
One-hundred degrees hot. Humid. Like this through Thursday.
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August 1st, 2006 @ 9am
Red Bank has a hired a new chief financial officer to replace Terence Whalen, who resigned in June shortly before the disclosure of sloppy bookkeeping that will cost taxpayers. Larry Higgs of the Asbury Park Press has the story about...
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August 1st, 2006 @ 9am
Following up on Audrey Oldoerp's idea for a townwide garage sale in Red Bank, which we told you about on July 11: Today's Star-Ledger business section has a piece on how to make a garage sale work. (Yeah, it was...
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August 1st, 2006 @ 9am
Say what you will about the New York Times, but its obit writers know how to take the sting out of death. Yesterday's edition carried the delicious obituary of Rupert Pole, 87, "one of the two simultaneous — and simultaneously...
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July 31st, 2006 @ 2pm
It's customarily the biggest month of the year for real estate sales, but this June was one was one to forget, according to the latest edition of The Otteau Report, which analyzes sales trends. Contract sales of Monmouth County residential...
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July 31st, 2006 @ 10am
We told you a few days back about the letter to the editor that the mother of Johnny Houston, a candidate for city judge in Red Bank, Tenn., wrote to the editor of the local newspaper extolling her boy's many...
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July 30th, 2006 @ 11am
"Jersey really in a jam," says a headline in today's Home News Tribune out of East Brunswick. "Jersey is in a jam as drivers beat retreat from the heat," says another, in today's Newark Star-Ledger. The Home News Tribune article,...
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July 30th, 2006 @ 10am
The 52nd annual Red Bank sidewalk sale, which began yesterday, continues today and runs through tomorrow. Stay hydrated, shoppers. Temperatures will soar into the mid-90s. The National Weather Service has an excessive heat warning in effect from 2p today until...
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July 29th, 2006 @ 7am
Steve Forbert played in Riverside Gardens Park last night as part of the Songwriters in the Park series. Yeah, he did "Goin' Down to Laurel," the breakout tune from his debut 1978 album 'Alive on Arrival,' and it sounded like......
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July 29th, 2006 @ 6am
The National Weather Service has issued a severe weather alert for much of southern and central New Jersey, including southwestern Monmouth County. A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for the region until 9p.
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July 28th, 2006 @ 3pm
Roofer Joe Ruffini, who's building an environment-friendly 'green' roof atop his house on Maple Avenue, reports that he now has all the zoning approvals in hand to complete the job. He writes: I should be back to work on the...
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July 28th, 2006 @ 1pm
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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.