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Cindy Burnham and Jack Privetera were onsite yesterday talking about where to plant a tree. Plans are moving ahead for the opening of Whatchamacallit Park in Red Bank. That's the borough-owned lot at the foot of Maple Avenue that last...
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April 1st, 2009 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Today's Asbury Park Press reports that taxes in Rumson-Fair Haven high school district will drop overall next year as a result of a successful effort to shrink the budget. Fair Haven homeowners, however, will see an increase in their contribution...
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April 1st, 2009 @ 6am
Workers grade soil and lay sod at Red Bank's East Side Park Monday. The effort, which included the installation of several inches of clean topsoil, followed reports of soil contaminated with broken glass and other debris having been used at...
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March 31st, 2009 @ 5am
The center is to be housed at the corner of Drs. James Parker Boulevard and Bridge Avenue in a building that was once a bar and more recently served as the Count Basie Learning Center. Last week, after more than...
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March 30th, 2009 @ 10am
George Naeder outside Starbucks on March 18. A Red Bank man featured in a redbankgreen article last week about his dog's ability to attract the attention of women was arrested and charged with a sexual offense against a teenage girl,...
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March 27th, 2009 @ 1pm
About 150 parents turned out at Red Bank Regional on Thursday night for the second annual 'Surviving the Teen Years' symposium. Ptl. Peter Gibson, school resource officer, above, was joined by counselors and other law enforcement personnel to talk about...
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March 27th, 2009 @ 6am
At Rumson-Fair Haven Regional Thursday night, the student environmental club hosted 'Enviropalooza,' a confab highlighting efforts to reverse the degradation of the planet. Seniors Melanie Daly and Emily O'Connor displayed their research on horseshoe crabs, above, while juniors Brittany Wheaton...
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March 27th, 2009 @ 6am
Contractors working on the midfield at Count Basie Fields earlier this week raked out contaminated soil from the same loads used at East Side Park, borough officials confirmed. Playing fields at Red Bank's East Side Park, where soil containing shards...
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March 26th, 2009 @ 12pm
Neighbors Marc Dostie, left, and Mark Halloran show off some of the debris found in soil laid down recently at East Side Park. Evidence of glass and ceramic shards in fill dirt installed recently in Red Bank's East Side Park...
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March 24th, 2009 @ 8am
Students at the Red Bank Primary School getting into the spirit of the day at the unveiling yesterday of new playground equipment. (Click to enlarge. Photos courtesy of Jim Willis)
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March 24th, 2009 @ 7am
The action commences at 7:30p at borough hall. Red Bank's proposed spending plan for the coming fiscal year is slated for introduction at tonight's bimonthly council meeting. Also on the agenda: approval of a deal to start a community center...
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March 23rd, 2009 @ 9am
RBR Source program director Gilda Rogers and parent Karen Lloyd discuss plans for last year's 'Surviving the Teen Years' event, which will be reprised next week. By LAURA KOSS Teens can deplete medicine cabinets just a pill or two at...
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March 20th, 2009 @ 6am
The December stabbing of a woman outside the primary school during classes led to a brief lockdown of the River Street facility for security purposes. A man who authorities say repeatedly stabbed his estranged girlfriend outside the Red Bank Primary...
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March 18th, 2009 @ 6pm
RBC freshmen after a scrimmage at Count Basie Field last September. Hey, Red Bank, wanna sell your stadium? That was the gist of a letter sent recently to the borough board of education by Tim Fallon of Shrewsbury, acting in...
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March 18th, 2009 @ 2pm
Schools Superintendent Laura Morana, far right, watches a student learning demonstration last night with, from left, board members Marjorie Lowe and Rosemarie Kopka and business administrator Annie Darrow. Looks like Red Bank taxpayers will get some relief this year. Enough,...
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March 18th, 2009 @ 11am
She writes, she directs, she sings: Suzanne Sweeney leads her actors in warm-up vocal exercises before a recent rehearsal for this weekend's show. By LAURA KOSS Sitting alone in an otherwise empty auditorium, Suzanne Sweeney watches from the fourth row...
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March 18th, 2009 @ 6am
A Red Bank Regional student suffered a severe concussion and two others are in custody after an assault at the school around midday today, Little Silver police report. The victim, a 16-year-old Red Bank male, was treated and released from...
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March 17th, 2009 @ 5pm
State legislators yesterday rallied in support of Tinton Falls resident David Goldman's efforts to repatriate his 8-year-old son, Sean, from Brazil. And Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was reported to have phoned Goldman over the weekend in Brazil, where he...
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March 17th, 2009 @ 8am
Driven by rising salary and benefit costs, the school tax in Fair Haven would increase by about 2.6 cents per $100 of property valuation, according to a report in today's Asbury Park Press. A proposed $13.26 million spending plan introduced...
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March 17th, 2009 @ 7am
Students in teacher Jessica Sevillano's class last month. The program for 3- and 4-year-olds is housed at the middle school because of space considerations. The Red Bank school district will get enough money from the state next year to quadruple...
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March 13th, 2009 @ 8am
Partyline
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 ...