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Pim Van Hemmen at home in Fair Haven. By JoANN PILEGGI Just past the crack of dawn several days a week, Pim Van Hemmen can be seen running at a good clip through Fair Haven. But he's running a little...
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February 13th, 2009 @ 5am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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David Goldman with his son, Sean, who was taken to Brazil on "vacation" by his late wife four years ago and never returned. David Goldman, the Tinton Falls man whose child custody battle has attracted national attention, finally got to...
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February 10th, 2009 @ 5am
Sutton Commons on Branch Avenue is one of two properties on which tax appeal settlements are up for approval by the Red Bank Council tonight. An ordinance to bar minors from entering liquor stores unless accompanied by an adult is...
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February 9th, 2009 @ 10am
Employees of McGhee Contracting, hoisted into position by a lift, hammer away at RBC's stack Saturday morning. Demolition of Red Bank Catholic's smokestack got underway Saturday, a few days earlier than expected. Tim McGhee, owner of McGhee Contracting in Oceanport,...
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February 9th, 2009 @ 8am
Jim Fitzmaurice leads an apparently coherent group of runners out of the Red Bank train station Saturday morning... Thirty years of weekly runs, and still they have no idea where the hell they're going. ...but just two blocks later, some...
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February 9th, 2009 @ 7am
The state says the middle school missed proficiency targets in language arts. Red Bank Superintendent Laura Morana says school performance data released this week by the state Department of Education obscures genuine academic progress being made at the borough's middle...
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February 6th, 2009 @ 10am
Sorry, kids — no dynamite. A long disused smokestack behind Red Bank Catholic High School is coming down next week, weather and other conditions permitting. Jay Patock, president of Patock Construction in Eatontown, says demolition of the stack, which is...
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February 6th, 2009 @ 5am
Rumson-Fair Haven girls basketball player Kate Miller bagged her 1,500th career point — a school record — and coach George Sourlis notched his 500th victory, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The dual milestones came in the Bulldogs' 58-32 Shore Conference...
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February 4th, 2009 @ 6am
Red Bank Police expected to consult with officials from the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office today about whether any charges should be brought in a case in which a middle school student brought a knife to school last month, Capt. Steve...
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February 2nd, 2009 @ 4pm
First-place finisher Michael Simone shows off his winning wheels. (Photos by JoAnn Pileggi) By JoANN PILEGGI Some were sleek and speedy. Others were boxy and a little slower. In the end, the designers, builders and racers of the annual Cub...
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February 2nd, 2009 @ 9am
Today's Star-Ledger's has a page-one story about the selections of Kevin Ryan and Virginia Bauer to top posts at Covenant House, the New York-based charity for homeless youth. Ryan, a former head of the New Jersey Department of Children and...
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February 2nd, 2009 @ 6am
Jim Roberts of Wall tries out his kite wing on the Navesink yesterday. Conditions were iffy on the Navesink River yesterday, with just a few small iceboats and skaters venturing out from Red Bank. The ice was said to be...
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January 30th, 2009 @ 6am
Cindy Burnham on the between-names property last year. Having safeguarded a borough-owned riverfront property from sale and possible development last year, Cindy Burnham went to the Red Bank Council earlier this week hoping to get quick approval for a name...
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January 29th, 2009 @ 11am
Fog piled in Wednesday afternoon after muck piled up earlier in the day on Broad Street, Red Bank. The sun returns today after yesterday's nasty snow-sleet-gunkpuddle precipitation and fog, says the National Weather Service, though the agency doesn't actually use...
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January 29th, 2009 @ 6am
Every few years, Red Bank's summer playground — the Navesink River — comes out of dormancy to play the same role for a few precious winter days or weeks. On Sunday, a day after temperatures climbed into the mid-40s, winter...
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January 26th, 2009 @ 6am
Don Abrams of Little Silver breaks down his 'icebird' after the first sail of the season on the Navesink Wednesday afternoon. A couple of ice boaters took to the Navesink River yesterday afternoon after the ice reached the requisite four...
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January 22nd, 2009 @ 6am
Pilgrim Baptist aired the final McCain-Obama debate on a large screen in the worship hall in October. A live inauguration screening and luncheon will be held in the church basement. Of the many takeaways from the election of Barack Obama...
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January 16th, 2009 @ 6am
The answer to last week's Where Have I Seen This? may turn out to be something of a head-slapper for readers who couldn't identify it, given the prominence of the building it shows. One reader ventured that our photo was...
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January 15th, 2009 @ 6am
Choristers and visitors raised their voices in song during a commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the First Presbyterian Church. By LAURA KOSS In the same church where Martin Luther King Sr. preached in 1971, a group of...
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January 12th, 2009 @ 9am
In case you missed it... The New Jersey section of the New York Times had a feature story yesterday on the Rocket, the monster ice boat (shown at right) that's been restored by members of the North Shrewsbury Ice Boat...
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January 12th, 2009 @ 7am
Partyline
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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.