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Panicked reports of ‘men with guns’ running through Red Bank Regional High School late this morning are erroneous, Little Silver police tell redbankgreen. Major media outlets have been calling theContinue reading "POLICE SAY ‘NOTHING BIG’ HAPPENING AT RBR"
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October 16th, 2009 @ 12pm
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Y EXPANSION STALLED BY FACADE DESIGN
The YMCA took down some trees along its Maple Avenue frontage last month. There’s still no decision over an expansion plan by the Community YMCA that includes a facade thatContinue reading "Y EXPANSION STALLED BY FACADE DESIGN"
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October 16th, 2009 @ 7am
FIRE PREVENTION FAIR DRAWS A CROWD
A brilliant fall day was the setting for the Red Bank Volunteer Fire Department’s ninth annual Fire Prevention Expo and Free Barbecue held Sunday in the White Street municipal lot.Continue reading "FIRE PREVENTION FAIR DRAWS A CROWD"
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October 12th, 2009 @ 10am
SADNESS AND BITTERNESS MARK CLOSING
The church property, which includes adjoining buildings, will be put up for sale, officials say. (Click pix to enlarge) Among the remains of 45 congregants lying beneath a tree inContinue reading "SADNESS AND BITTERNESS MARK CLOSING"
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October 9th, 2009 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN CHURCH TO END 125-YEAR RUN
The River Road church’s doors will be locked by the end of the month and the property will be put up for sale. (Click photos to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPIContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN CHURCH TO END 125-YEAR RUN"
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October 8th, 2009 @ 7am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Oh, those Colmorgen Kids! Not for the first time, a bit of sleuthing went into the family’s effort to answer last week’s ‘Where.’
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October 8th, 2009 @ 6am
THE BEAT@RBR
African dance instructor Audrey Davis visited Red Bank Regional’s dance majors for a quick lesson on the history of African drums and dance Tuesday. The dance program’s theme this schoolContinue reading "THE BEAT@RBR"
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October 1st, 2009 @ 4am
IN oRBit: BEAU ON THE ASBURY BOARDS
It’s well along into autumn, when thoughts run to Halloween and pie and those mischief-filled nights leading up to Election Day. But a few miles down the coast there’s stillContinue reading "IN oRBit: BEAU ON THE ASBURY BOARDS"
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September 30th, 2009 @ 4am
IN oRBit: THE WINE, THE CHEESE, AND YOU
Have that little cellophane-wrapped toothpick at the ready, and let no one stand between you and that last plastic tumbler of merlot. Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit offers up aContinue reading "IN oRBit: THE WINE, THE CHEESE, AND YOU"
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September 29th, 2009 @ 6am
HORNING IN WITH ‘TAPS,’ JEOPARDY & QUEEN
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI All was calm and quiet on Maple Avenue in Red Bank Saturday night until about 8:15p, when visitors wielding giant rams’ horns started filing into Congregation BethContinue reading "HORNING IN WITH ‘TAPS,’ JEOPARDY & QUEEN"
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September 28th, 2009 @ 9am
RED BANK EARLY-ED PROGRAM IN SPOTLIGHT
The article appears in an education-themed edition of the magazine. The Red Bank school system‘s cutting-edge early childhood education program known as Tools of the Mind is spotlighted in theContinue reading "RED BANK EARLY-ED PROGRAM IN SPOTLIGHT"
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September 26th, 2009 @ 10am
Hovnanian Enterprises, the Red Bank-based national homebuilder, has announced the death of its founder, Kevork Hovnanian. No details were given about the cause or date of death. Hovnanian lived inContinue reading "KEVORK HOVNANIAN DIES AT 86"
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September 25th, 2009 @ 1pm
YARD SALE AT SHREWSBURY FIREHOUSE
Bargain-hunters alert: the 8th-grade class of the Shrewsbury Boro School will hold a yard sale at the Shrewsbury firehouse on Broad Street (Route 35) from 8a to noon Saturday. FamiliesContinue reading "YARD SALE AT SHREWSBURY FIREHOUSE"
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September 24th, 2009 @ 7am
SHOFAR SO FUN: ALL INVITED TO TOOT
The new rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel says the ponderous Jewish holidays could use some levity. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The Jewish holiday season just isn’t as muchContinue reading "SHOFAR SO FUN: ALL INVITED TO TOOT"
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September 23rd, 2009 @ 9am
Monmouth Boat Club in Red Bank was the host Saturday for the Woodpussy National Championship regatta, an annual event featuring a class of small sailboats known as woodpussies.  The clubContinue reading "MONMOUTH BOAT CLUB SAILOR SHINES"
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September 21st, 2009 @ 2pm
Fair Haven took on the air of a European hamlet Sunday with the first edition of the Tour de Fair Haven, a daylong series of bicycle races that attracted moreContinue reading "FIRST TOUR DE FAIR HAVEN ROLLS TO SUCCESS"
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September 21st, 2009 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN GEARS UP FOR BIKE RACE
Detour de Tour: Signs on River Road alert motorists to Saturday’s planned shutdown. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI As he was driving through Fair Haven last week, Michel BergerContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN GEARS UP FOR BIKE RACE"
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September 17th, 2009 @ 7am
A 33-year-old Red Bank Middle School social studies teacher was found dead in her Neptune City apartment this morning, and investigators are treating the matter as suspicious, the Asbury ParkContinue reading "PRESS: RBMS TEACHER’S DEATH ‘SUSPICIOUS’"
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September 14th, 2009 @ 5pm
Mother Nature could have been a touch more sympathetic. But many of the more than 100 residents who signed up to participate as sellers in the second annual Red BankContinue reading "UNDAUNTED BY A SOGGY DAY"
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September 14th, 2009 @ 5am
An after-school and weekend community center for all Red Bank kids is scheduled to open today, with staff from the Boys & Girls Club of Monmouth County managing the programContinue reading "BOYS & GIRLS CLUB DEBUTS"
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September 14th, 2009 @ 5am
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...