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Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit gets a running start on the coming weekend with a focus on two major events. One is the Count Basie Theatre's annual Benefit Concert and Gala — a swell, street-closing affair for which the...
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Former shop owner Susan Ericson's "gigantic, blowout, clean-out-the-house" yard sale has turned into a neighborhood event on her cul-de-sac. Susan Ericson used to have a store on River Road in Fair Haven called Black Eyed Susans Kitchen that sold vintage...
Thanksgiving at Lunch Break was on Branches Catering in 2008. On Monday night, the West Long Branch facility hosts some three dozen restaurants to raise funds for the Red Bank soup kitchen. This long-overdue edition of Done Good — a...
David Goldman with his son, Sean, before the boy was moved to Brazil four years ago by his mother. A Brazilian official says a federal court in that nation shouldn't give absolute custody to either party fighting over Sean Goldman,...
Plans for $8 million in new facilities at the Community YMCA on Maple Avenue in Red Bank have raised concerns about traffic safety, according to today's Asbury Park Press. The newspaper reports that the Y's expansion project would add a...
Poll worker Elizabeth Herbert waits as a Red Bank voter casts his ballots at the new third- and seventh-district polling place at the First Church of Christ, Scientist. Area school district budgets easily passed Tuesday, according to election results available...
The cheerful looking gent with the facial tattoos and the snake on his shoulder is Jon Davies, who once upon a time led a local combo by the name of The Secret Syde. The editor of Red Bank oRBit calls...
Members of the Nathan J. Williams Craftsmen Club gathered at the Celestial Lodge earlier this month. A Red Bank-based motorcycle club is planning its second annual rally to raise scholarship money. The event is scheduled for 11a to 6p Saturday,...
Today's Asbury Park Press takes a look at the four-candidate race for three Red Bank Board of Education seats and labels it a 'dogfight.' Huh? Hyperbole aside, the article frames the race among the candidates: board Vice President Ann Roseman;...
A short fireworks display was lofted from Marine Park next to the Monmouth Boat Club Thursday night. Organizers of KaBoom Fireworks, Red Bank's largest public event, are asking the public to dig deep for contributions this year. The event has...
The truck that left these tracks in the baseball infield at East Side Park also tore up a portion of the new soccer field sod. Later, the truck got stuck in Marine Park. Among some English words you don't want...
Ten families have signed up for this weekend's event on Madison Avenue, says organizer Sandy Riddle. Yes, folks, the redbankgreen Yard Sale Watch is back, bringing you word about interesting outdoor bargain-hunting opportunities as we beat the drum for the...
Superintendent Laura Morana, left, records results as school board members Janet Jones and Peter Noble draw lots. Red Bank School officials today drew lots to fill next school year's expanded pre-K program for three-year olds. The lottery was needed because...
The four candidates for seats on the Red Bank Board of Education have been invited to a Q&A sponsored by the the Greater Red Bank branch of the NAACP scheduled for Tuesday night. Incumbents Ann Roseman, Carrie Ludwikowski and Toni...
It’s Theater Week of sorts in Red Bank oRBit! It just sort of works out that way, as the coming days see the openings of no fewer than five new productions in the area — all of them worth checking...
Red Bank crossing guard Carl Colmorgen has been known to get into the spirit of the season with unusual headgear at his post at the corner of Broad Street and Harding Road. Yesterday, he wore rabbit ears supplemented by a...
As noted in a redbankgreen reader comment, the state Attorney General has backed off a plan to fine 81 percent of the state's bowling alleys $3,000 each for violating raffle regulations. From a statement issued by the AG's Consumer Affairs...
The state Consumer Affairs division took the action as part of a raffle-licensing enforcement. Memory Bowling in Shrewsbury was among 59 bowling alleys statewide cited for conducting 50/50 raffles that violate New Jersey regulations, the state Attorney General's office announced...
Tuesday's Red Bank oRBit brings you an update on the kids from Rockit! For Kids, the Red Bank-based classic rock conservatory whose students have been leaving parents, professional musicians and even Rockit commander Bruce Gallipani "blown away" with their rapidly...
Gov. Jon Corzine presents the folded flag from the casket of former Daniel J. O'Hern to O'Hern's widow, Barbara, as family and friends look on outside St. James Church on Saturday. (Click photos to enlarge) Red Bank bid farewell to...
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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 ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...