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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
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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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
Today's Washington Post reports that the prolonged custody battle being pursued by David Goldman of Tinton Falls has become "a delicate diplomatic problem." In fact, the Post reports, in its lead paragraph: When Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...
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March 13th, 2009 @ 6am
Tinton Falls resident David Goldman's four-year battle to win the return of his now 8-year-old son, Sean, after an international parental kidnapping moved to the spotlight in Washington yesterday. The House of Representatives voted 418-0 in favor of a resolution,...
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March 12th, 2009 @ 6am
Dr. Howard Rubenstein at the nursing station of the new ground-floor facility, which opens its doors March 17. Howard Rubenstein remembers a childhood trip to a hospital emergency room in Rahway in the 1960s. He'd broken his arm and sat...
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March 11th, 2009 @ 11am
A fine art exhibit of "Spraypaint SurrealiZm" and a concert featuring Israel's hottest reggae/klezmer/jam band? It's just another day of illuminating finds at Red Bank oRBit, redbankgreen's companion site for arts and entertainment. Today's edition takes you to McKay Imaging...
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March 11th, 2009 @ 6am
The Asbury Park Press today has a feature article about new security systems installed at the Red Bank primary and middle schools. The high-tech system uses swipe cards to control access to the buildings and video cameras that enable borough...
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March 5th, 2009 @ 1pm
David Goldman with his son, Sean, in an undated photo taken before the boy was moved to Brazil four years ago by his mother. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she is working to resolve the prolonged international custody case...
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March 4th, 2009 @ 8am
And now, a public service announcement from the video lab at the Red Bank Middle School... The video is the work of seventh-grade students of teacher Chris Ippolito, whose students have busted a couple of entertaining video raps in the...
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 8am
It's doubtful anyone had more fun in the snow than these two guys roughhousing on Monmouth Street in Red Bank Monday afternoon. OK, except for maybe the kids sledding on Tower Hill. Or maybe Euckie, the snow-crazy Bernese mountain dog...
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March 2nd, 2009 @ 5pm
Here are the announced school closings as of 10:50p Sunday: Little Silver Public Schools Middletown Township Public Schools Red Bank Catholic Red Bank Charter School Red Bank Public Schools Red Bank Regional High School Shore Regional High Shrewsbury Borough School...
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March 1st, 2009 @ 10pm
Partyline
KAYAKERS CLEAR RIVER JUNK
Partyline photo: "The Navesink Nymphs" clear floating tires from the river.
PAINT IT PURPLE?
Caption: ‘Should it be done purple?’ Perfect day. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
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MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner photographs praying mantis at church.
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)