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Fourteen stations along NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line have been targeted for safety improvements to pedestrian track crossings following an accident in Belmar earlier this month, according to the Asbury Park Press. The initial report by the Press did...
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July 27th, 2006 @ 10pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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What's next? Dissolve-on-the-tongue cabernet sauvignon strips? Celebrity chef David Burke, owner of The David Burke Fromagerie in Rumson and part owner of davidburke & donatella in New York, is hawking a line of 'flavor sprays.' The line is known as...
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July 27th, 2006 @ 9am
Pundits are calling it this generation's version of the building of the George Washington Bridge, and it moves closer to reality today. The Port Authority is expected today to authorize the first $1 billion of spending to develop and build...
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July 27th, 2006 @ 9am
There's a common thread of second chances in the story of Woodfish, a Red Bank-based band scheduled to play the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville Saturday night. Steve Kalorin, the bassist and elder statesman of the group at 38, had tasted...
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July 27th, 2006 @ 12am
Maria Ursino of Little Silver was the first to correctly identify the location of last week's conjoined metal shed and brick building as the Anderson Moving and Storage Warehouse at the corner of Bridge and Monmouth Streets. Maria grew up...
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July 27th, 2006 @ 12am
We got a late start on last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, so this is a few days old. But hey, it's the doldrums, right? Rob Walker, who writes the 'Consumed' column, has a piece titled 'Silent Green,' which makes...
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July 26th, 2006 @ 10am
Sam Ali of the Star-Ledger business section checks in today on the slowdown in real estate sales at the Shore in recent months. Just a year ago, homes in Jersey Shore communities spanning 45 miles from Sandy Hook Bay in...
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July 26th, 2006 @ 10am
New Jersey drivers above a certain age will no doubt remember that special form of torture known as the traffic circle. These were circular roadway alignments at major intersections meant to allow for continuous flows of traffic without the use...
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July 26th, 2006 @ 10am
Today's Star-Ledger says the reason for last night's rail snarls between New York and Newark was that "the trouble-prone" Portal Bridge got stuck in the open position. The 96-year-old bridge between Secaucus and Kearney swivels to allow boat traffic through....
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July 26th, 2006 @ 9am
Well into today's Asbury Park Press story about an audit of Red Bank's books is a little bombshell: a likely explanation for former chief financial officer Terence Whalen's June 12 resignation. It turns out that the books were a mess....
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July 26th, 2006 @ 9am
Filmmaker Kevin Smith's breakthrough 1994 film 'Clerks' will be screened at Marine Park on Aug. 8, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The event is free and open to the public. Smith, a borough native who owns Jay and Silent...
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July 26th, 2006 @ 8am
New Jersey Transit posted this alert three minutes ago: Due to Portal Bridge problems, service is temporarily suspended in and out of PSNY. NEC and NJC service in/out of Newark Penn is subject to 60 minute delays. Cross honoring with...
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July 25th, 2006 @ 4pm
It seems they do things a little differently in Red Bank, Tenn., a suburb of Chattanooga. For instance, they elect their judges. For another, the local newspaper is apparently glad to yield a portion of its opinion page to a...
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July 24th, 2006 @ 10am
You may recall the rusting ladder in the tree that redbankgreen featured a few weeks back in our Where Have I Seen This? contest. (Answer, in case you missed it: in the yard of a house at 236 Broad Street,...
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July 24th, 2006 @ 9am
Brookdale Public Radio (90.5 FM) in Lincroft is reporting power outages in Belford, Cliffwood Beach, North Middletown and Port Monmouth. Last week, some Bayshore residents were without power for 18 hours. E-mail this story
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July 24th, 2006 @ 8am
Today's Ledger has a piece about private islands along (or near) the Shore, including Rumson's Barley Point Island, on the Navesink. That's an aerial view above, courtesy of the Monmouth County Tax Board, with houses outlined in green. Barley Point...
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July 23rd, 2006 @ 12pm
Verizon Wireless put up a crane in the parking lot of Fair Haven's Church of the Nativity this morning to give residents an idea of what a 133-foot-tall cellphone tower would look like if sited on the church property, as...
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July 22nd, 2006 @ 1pm
Adding an odd twist to a long-running controversy, a 133-foot-tall crane is to be raised in the parking lot of the Church of the Nativity in Fair Haven tomorrow to give residents and passersby some idea of what a cellphone...
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July 21st, 2006 @ 1pm
Today's Star-Ledger has an eight-page pullout guide to Red Bank in its "Ticket" section, and a more extensive version at its website. The section doesn't aim for depth (thus we're reminded, repeatedly, that 20 years ago the town was known...
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July 21st, 2006 @ 1pm
Southbound travelers on the Parkway may one day have a panoramic view of 2,000 new condos on either side of the highway as they descend from the steep new bridge across the Raritan River. Today's Home News Tribune reports that...
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July 21st, 2006 @ 9am
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 ...