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The R-FH Euro challengers: from left, Sam Wilson, Robbie Trocchia, Margot Keale, Steven Fuschetti and Jennifer Lapp. If you think understanding the U.S. economy is a brain-buster, try overlaying its complexity with currency exchange rates, European history and social trends...
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May 12th, 2008 @ 2pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Michael Nitka, an experienced rower from Red Bank, gets ready to enter a scull during Navesink River Rowing's open house on Saturday. Next Sunday, as part of Red Bank's two-day centennial celebration, rowers from the the non-profit club will participate...
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May 12th, 2008 @ 5am
Pat Guadagno will navigate the broad channels of Bob Dylan and Mark Twain this month in separate productions at the TRTC. By TOM CHESEK Even on a drab, drizzly Monday night, there's enough of a crowd at The Downtown to...
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May 9th, 2008 @ 11am
Springsteen signs autographs before last night's show. Bruce Springsteen gave fans something to gush about last night, according to the accounts we've seen so far. His show with the full E Street Band at the Count Basie Theatre included complete,...
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May 8th, 2008 @ 7am
Bruce Springsteen meets with fans late this afternoon before tonight's show at the Basie. Franco Figari came to Red Bank from his home in Milan, Italy this week solely to see Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band take the stage...
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May 7th, 2008 @ 6pm
A New York attorney arrested in Red Bank last month in a bizarre case of alleged police impersonation has been busted again, this time for making lewd comments to a Little Silver teenager, the Asbury Park Press reports. The latest...
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May 7th, 2008 @ 12pm
Ten-year-old Nick Piescor of Middletown trades licks with the Marshall Tucker Band on stage at the Count Basie in March. By TOM CHESEK As hard-touring, highway-tested veterans of the album-rock era, The Marshall Tucker Band has logged enough mileage in...
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May 7th, 2008 @ 9am
Running the Basie more like a commercial promoter than an 'arts' organization has boosted the venue's fortunes, CEO Numa Saisselin says. With a whale of concert scheduled for tonight — at mega-whale prices — the Count Basie Theatre today is...
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May 7th, 2008 @ 9am
Students and parents gathered yesterday evening at the Markham Place School in Little Silver to leave tributes to Don Merce, the school's 58-year-old principal, who was killed in a car accident earlier in the day on Oceanport Avenue in Oceanport....
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May 7th, 2008 @ 5am
Today's Star-Ledger has a feature on Little Silver resident Barbara Sager, a yoga instructor who specializes in clients with Multiple Sclerosis and other conditions that limit their mobility. redbankgreen readers may recognize the name or the face: in March, we...
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May 6th, 2008 @ 8am
Terence Wilkins The Red Bank school board last night announced, and accepted, the resignation of the Terence Wilkins as middle school principal, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The action came a week after Wilkins was indicted on arson and insurance...
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May 6th, 2008 @ 5am
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
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
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)