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Some pix from Saturday's Cinco de Mayo celebration at the Red Bank Charter School. (Click to enlarge.) Email this story
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May 5th, 2008 @ 5am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Gettin' the band back together... Gone are the days when Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band would do two shows a night at what was then known as the Carlton Theatre and the Monmouth Arts Center. But word that...
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May 2nd, 2008 @ 10am
Mannequins in the window of retrowear emporium Backward Glances are ready for their closeups as the annual "Paint the Town Pink" breast cancer awareness effort nears its Sunday kickoff in downtown Red Bank. Meanwhile, Courtney Hall, below left, of Fair...
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May 2nd, 2008 @ 6am
Harriers from Red Bank Catholic hoof it through downtown Red Bank yesterday afternoon. Yesterday's cool temperatures and brilliant skies are expected to give way to on-and-off showers today through Monday, according to the National Weather Service, which serves up this...
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May 1st, 2008 @ 6am
Rowers from Navesink River Rowing encountered some light choppiness on the river yesterday afternoon. The nonprofit plans an open house May 10. Check out the NRR website for details. Email this story
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May 1st, 2008 @ 6am
Springsteen with his wife, Patti Scialfa, and the E Street Band, including Danny Federici, far left, who died last month. Bruce Springsteen fans who paid $1,000 or more per seat for his May 7 fundraiser at the Count Basie Theatre...
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May 1st, 2008 @ 6am
Grace Dilger in what remains of her bedroom. Red Bank Regional freshman Grace Dilger awoke early this morning to find her bed on fire. She'd gone to sleep with a heating pad to ease a sore back from playing lacrosse....
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April 30th, 2008 @ 12pm
A 15-year-old girl suffered second-degree burns in an early-morning fire on Rumson Place in Little Silver, the Asbury Park Press reports. The girl, whose name was not reported, incurred burns on her arms and legs that are not considered life-threatening,...
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April 30th, 2008 @ 11am
Or maybe we should call it 'rutball?' The ball would be familiar to rugby enthusiasts, while the format was touch football during a game at Riverside Gardens Park yesterday afternoon. Here, Ryan de Brigard of Fair Haven returns a kickoff...
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April 30th, 2008 @ 6am
Keith Glass NBA agent Keith Glass of Rumson has settled liigation dating back five years to his time as the coach of the Rumson-Fair Haven regional boy's basketball team, according to an Associated Press report in the Philadelphia Inquirer. According...
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April 29th, 2008 @ 3pm
Surrounded by classmates from the Red Bank Middle School and watched by a standing-room audience, fifth-grader Jorge Banavides introduces a slide show about the threats of global warming at last night's borough council meeting. Eighth-grader Samantha Riordan also made a...
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April 29th, 2008 @ 7am
Jean Mondesir of Red Bank, at right, picks up litter as part of cleanup crew working the length of Leighton Avenue during Saturday's mutifaceted day of volunteerism organized by the Pilgrim Baptist Church. "I just wish that the community would...
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April 28th, 2008 @ 6am
The parking lot in the foreground and adjacent river access are no longer under consideration for sale, Red Bank officials have confirmed. A combination of public opposition and anemic support have forced Red Bank officials to drop a proposal to...
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April 25th, 2008 @ 2pm
Red Bank police are investigating a report of an assault on a 15-year-old boy on Marion Street Monday evening. According to Chief Mark Fitzgerald, the victim, who had been rollerblading on the basketball court at East Side Park, was skating...
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April 25th, 2008 @ 10am
Rev. Terrence K. Porter of Pilgrim Baptist Church. In one of the more multifaceted volunteer efforts seen in these parts recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church is organizing a Community Work Day this Saturday that will tackle everything from street cleaning to...
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April 23rd, 2008 @ 11am
The Red Bank Board of Education last night ratified a five-year employment contract with Superintendent Laura Morana that will pay her $155,000 this year, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The pact includes annual four-percent raises. It replaces a three-year...
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April 23rd, 2008 @ 8am
redbankgreen chanced up this scrap of paper lying in the grass at Meadow Ridge Park in Rumson over the weekend. Maybe the planet was trying to tell us something? Well, many people are listening, of course. Tonight, at the Red...
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April 22nd, 2008 @ 7am
Trash hauled up from the banks of the Swimming River awaits pickup at the western end of Drs. James Parker Boulevard Saturday. "No dead bodies" were found, says Boris Kofman, of the Red Bank Environmental Commission, but a handful of...
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April 21st, 2008 @ 6am
Fireworks illuminated the Monmouth Boat Club and the Navesink River in Red Bank last night. (Click on images to enlarge) The occasion: a fundraiser for the annual KaBoom Fireworks, which needs to raise at least $175,000 to cover the cost...
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April 17th, 2008 @ 8am
Belinda Dark signs in to vote at the Evergreen Terrace Community Room yesterday afternoon. Monmouth County voters approved school budgets in 74 percent of districts in yesterday's board elections, the Asbury Park Press reports today. Out of 54 budgets, 40...
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April 16th, 2008 @ 12pm
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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 ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.