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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
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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'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
Rumsonite/Colts Neckian Bruce Springsteen accompanied his 14-year-old daughter, Jessica, to a horse-jumping competition in Saugerties, N.Y., recently. She did well. Even won $780. Dad had dinner three nights in a row at the same restaurant in nearby Kingston, at least...
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July 28th, 2006 @ 11am
Kudos to Michele Sahn of the Asbury Park Press for giving some attention today to the kind of story that often stays below the radar of dailies of that size. In the process, she shines some light on the difficulty...
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July 28th, 2006 @ 9am
Investigators pulled the body of a woman from the Navesink River in Rumson on Wednesday. An autopsy found no sign of trauma, and the cause of death is under investigation. The Asbury Park Press says a State Police forensic anthropologist...
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July 28th, 2006 @ 8am
Partyline
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 ...