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January 2nd, 2009 @ 8am
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The house at 38 West River Road, visible from the Victory Park gazebo, has been acquired by Rumson for a park expansion. Monmouth County has awarded Rumson $250,000 toward its $875,000 purchase of land adjoining Victory Park for a westward...
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December 29th, 2008 @ 5am
The site of the former Worden-Hoidal Funeral Home on East Front Street, owned by Riverview Medical Center, is not covered by the deal. After a year trying to knit together a consensus, Councilman Mike DuPont finally got a watered-down version...
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December 23rd, 2008 @ 2pm
A distinctive mural dominates the store's White Street facade. Toy and game merchant Hobbymasters has gotten a Christmas/Hannukah gift of its own this year: Forbes Traveler magazine picked it as one of the nation's 10 best toy stores. Inclusion on...
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December 23rd, 2008 @ 2pm
Bruce Springsteen returned to the Count Basie Theatre last night for an unbilled appearance at the venue he helped refurbish last year. That presumably multiplied the local-boy-makes-superstardom megawattage already on the stage in the t-shirted form of Jon Bon Jovi,...
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December 23rd, 2008 @ 6am
Students from Red Bank Regional will soon have the option of leaving their class ranking off college applications under a measure approved last night by the school's board, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: Red Bank Regional follows...
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December 18th, 2008 @ 7am
It's hitting the gut now. The spreading economic crisis is leaving tens of millions of Americans facing the prospect of hunger as they contend with diminished earnings or joblessness and worse. According to one estimate, more than 35 million Americans...
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December 15th, 2008 @ 6am
George Kolber speaks; Councilman Art Murphy listens. Throwing a possible speed bump in the path of the Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County, the owners of the recently repurposed former PS 5 on Drs. James Parker Boulevard last night...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 11am
The Two River Theater Co. brings a children's favorite, 'A Year with Frog and Toad,' to life starting this week for a run through the holiday-season. A family-oriented production with an engaging scene set on Christmas Eve, the musical comes...
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December 8th, 2008 @ 11am
A player for Holy Cross, in Rumson, goes baseline, and below, Coach Kevin Lydon instructs his players from the Knollwood School, Fair Haven, in strategy during a Saturday morning game. Lydon, who coaches both the girls' and boy's teams, led...
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December 8th, 2008 @ 7am
Scenes from the Westside Community Group's annual tree-lighting ceremony at Westside Park (the triangular park at the corner of Shrewsbury Avenue and Drs. James Parker Boulevard) in Red Bank Saturday evening. Just look at those faces, huh? And how about...
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December 6th, 2008 @ 6pm
Primary school Principal Rick Cohen and Superintendent Laura Morana at a 2007 event. The Asbury Park Press has a dramatic account today of the previously unreported role of the principal and a guidance counselor at the Red Bank Primary School...
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December 5th, 2008 @ 8am
Details about the roles of Primary School Principal Rick Cohen and guidance counselor Karl Parker in subduing a man as he stabbed his former girlfriend at the school entrance Wednesday morning emerged a day after Superintendent Laura Morana told reporters...
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December 5th, 2008 @ 8am
Red Bank Regional appears ready to join the ranks of other high schools that permit their students to apply for colleges without reporting their class ranking levels, according to today's Asbury Park Press. From the story: The board is close...
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December 4th, 2008 @ 9am
Today's Asbury Park Press describes a bloody scene as a 22-year-old Red Bank man stabbed his former girlfriend outside the Red Bank Primary School shortly before 9a Wednesday. Being held on attempted murder and weapons charges is Jorge Vargas Mancilla,...
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December 4th, 2008 @ 6am
Red Bank Schools Superintendent Laura Morana tells redbankgreen that the primary school is functioning normally this morning following a domestic dispute on the school grounds but outside the building. No staff members or children were involved in the incident, which...
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December 3rd, 2008 @ 10am
Police had the entry road to the school blocked at 9:45a. The Red Bank Primary School was in a state described by one parent as a "lockdown" at midmorning today as authorities dealt with what sources said was a domestic...
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December 3rd, 2008 @ 10am
Tad Emptage and MelissaMarie Wilhelm dazzled students with a sampling of flips, spins and slides from their aerial show Monday. The kids also got into the act. A pair of performers from a show called Circurious rolled into the gym...
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December 2nd, 2008 @ 10am
A string of mutiple births kept hospital staffers busy recently. Today's Asbury Park Press reports that Riverview Medical Center had a streak going this autumn: a spate of twin births. From the article: In an eight-week period from September to...
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December 2nd, 2008 @ 6am
Thousands of Red Bankers and visitors packed Broad Street on Friday night for the annual night-after-Thanksgiving gleefest that kicks off the holiday season hereabouts. Bagpipers led a parade into town from the train station. Holiday Express laid down its R&B-flavored...
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December 1st, 2008 @ 6am
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.