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Red Bank is seeking county and state grants with an eye toward replacing — maybe — the football field at Count Basie Park, seen here after a scrimmage last week between freshmen from RBC and Manasquan High. Hey, if Monmouth...
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September 10th, 2008 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Obama's been outraising McCain in New Jersey, thanks to events like last week's dinner at Bon Jovi's crib. A pair of events culminating with dinner at the Navesink River chateau of singer Bon Jovi last Friday generated $4.1 million for...
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September 9th, 2008 @ 6am
Democratic party swells who plan to rub elbows with presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama at the Navesink chateau of popstar Bon Jovi Friday evening will lay out $28,500 for the privilege, today's Star-Ledger reports. First, there's the $2,300 cocktail reception...
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September 4th, 2008 @ 7am
We came across this dripping faucet and sign last Saturday next to the basketball court at M.T. Thompson Park in Lincroft (not part of Monmouth County's Thompson Park just a few hundred yards west on Newman Springs Road). The faucet...
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September 4th, 2008 @ 6am
Elba Vasquez gives her 4-year-old son, Axel, a goodby kiss as he boards the bus for his first day of school as a pre-K student at the Red Bank Primary School this morning. Below, Gene and Dawn Potts of Madison...
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September 3rd, 2008 @ 9am
You never know what you'll find. From the Navesink River to Newman Springs Road, Red Bank will transform itself into a bazaar on Saturday, September 20, with its first-ever Townwide Yard Sale. Today, redbankgreen launches a webpage dedicated to the...
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August 29th, 2008 @ 10am
Of 316 public high schools in New Jersey, Rumson-Fair Haven ranks 30th in overall quality and Red Bank Regional is 64th, according to a Monmouth University analysis reported in this month's issue of New Jersey Monthly magazine. R-FH moved up...
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August 27th, 2008 @ 8am
OK, early birds. The first-ever Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale, scheduled for September 20, is coming together. And for those who plan ahead, here's some helpful starter info. There are some rules. The borough of Red Bank is asking that...
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August 22nd, 2008 @ 6am
The three sections of the tower are ready for assembly on the site leased by the borough from Christ Church United Methodist on Ridge Road. The author of the church's signs, though, has a higher level of communication in mind....
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August 21st, 2008 @ 10am
When the Chinese men’s basketball team, led by cross-cultural phenom Yao Ming, took to the Beijing court this morning (4:45a EST) for its Olympics game against Lithuania, it did so to the galloping strains of a tune co-written by a...
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August 20th, 2008 @ 8am
Red Bank oRBit — the redbankgreen sibling site that debuted August 1 as your thrice-weekly tickler on what's happening in the world of arts, entertainment, shopping and dining — is going daily. Six days a week, to be specific. Taking...
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August 18th, 2008 @ 11am
Elmer Jackson, fuzzier, lighter and still wearing his helmet, was all smiles Thursday. A 111-mile sprint took him from the outskirts of Wilmington, Delaware to Freehold, New Jersey Tuesday. Elmer Jackson just wanted to be home after pedaling his way...
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August 15th, 2008 @ 11am
Elmer Jackson and his son, Jeff (in red shirt) make their triumphal return up Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank Thursday afternoon after a cross-country bike tour that began in San Francisco June 3. The event, involving a police and fire...
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August 14th, 2008 @ 4pm
Andrew Mencinsky and a brigade of sea paddlers head down the Hudson River last year. They'll be doing the same next week. In May, 2007, a two-mile-wide tornado tore through the town of Greensburg, Kansas, destroying 95 percent of its...
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August 14th, 2008 @ 10am
Pathetic Charmingly simple yard sale signage points the way to unknown treasures. Mark those calendars, folks. The first-ever Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale is a go for Saturday, September 20, rain or shine. The borough council approved the event Monday...
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August 13th, 2008 @ 8am
Today's issue of the thrice-weekly Red Bank oRBit has, quite by chance, a water theme. First, there's our scoop from Red Bank's Broadway Diner, inexplicably overlooked by the media mob, on what GOP First Lady-contender Cindy McCain ordered when she...
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August 13th, 2008 @ 6am
Elmer and Jeff Jackson at the fog-wrapped Golden Gate Bridge as they prepared to start their ride June 3. (Photos by Tim Hathaway.) Two months and countless pedal strokes later, the No Regrets cross-country bike tour arrives in New Jersey...
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August 12th, 2008 @ 11am
Contrary to a report in Sunday's Record of Hackensack, GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain will not be dining at a private residence in Rumson tomorrow night. According to Mayor John Ekdahl, the Arizona senator's wife, Cindy McCain, is expected...
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August 11th, 2008 @ 10am
Today's edition of the thrice-weekly Red Bank oRBit features a report that Springsteen & Co. will command the halftime show at the next Super Bowl. Also in oRBit: • A look-ahead at some terrific events coming down in the next...
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August 11th, 2008 @ 8am
A rundown of crimes entered in the Red Bank police blotter from August 1 to August 8. Items are unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring on 8-3-08 at Riverside Parking Garage. Victim reported that upon returning to parked vehicle discovered the rear...
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August 11th, 2008 @ 8am
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(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.