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DOLPHINS RETURN TO SHREWSBURY RIVER
A pair of dolphins cross in the Shrewsbury River at sunset Sunday, as seen from McLoone’s Rum Runner in Sea Bright. The dolphins are back. A year after 16 dolphinsContinue reading "DOLPHINS RETURN TO SHREWSBURY RIVER"
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June 7th, 2009 @ 9pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
We don’t yet know who he is. But this firefighter was surely feeling the heat of today’s blaze at Memory Bowling in Shrewsbury as flames suddenly tore through the roofContinue reading "A FIREFIGHTER’S ESCAPE"
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June 5th, 2009 @ 7pm
Christine McKenna with her daughter, Kayla, and Mayor-elect Pasquale Menna on election night 2006, at left; at right, with Kayla at a sendoff for her husband the following month. Christine McKenna, the wife of former Red Bank Mayor Ed McKenna,...
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June 3rd, 2009 @ 3pm
Police on the scene at 7 Ridge Road this morning. A SWAT team was mobilized and at least one Rumson home was evacuated this morning after reports of shots being fired in a residential neighborhood of Rumson. Authorities aren't yet...
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May 22nd, 2009 @ 9am
One of two robbers showed a gun, an employee said. A Red Bank jewelry store was held up at gunpoint Monday afternoon. There's no official word on the crime yet from police, who were just leaving the scene on Shrewsbury...
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March 9th, 2009 @ 3pm
David Goldman with his son, Sean, in an undated photo taken before the boy was moved to Brazil four years ago by his mother. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she is working to resolve the prolonged international custody case...
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March 4th, 2009 @ 8am
Here are the announced school closings as of 10:50p Sunday: Little Silver Public Schools Middletown Township Public Schools Red Bank Catholic Red Bank Charter School Red Bank Public Schools Red Bank Regional High School Shore Regional High Shrewsbury Borough School...
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March 1st, 2009 @ 10pm
Here's an announcement made early Sunday afternoon by the Borough of Red Bank, issued in light of the National Weather Service forecast of a possible 5 to 9 inches of snow overnight: Garbage pickup suspended during snow emergency RED BANK—Borough...
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March 1st, 2009 @ 1pm
Borough officials have an ordinance on tonight's agenda to limit so-called 'college nights' like the one that resulted in last week's violence. Three separate incidents of violence involving patrons of Chubby's Waterside Café had Red Bank police scrambling early last...
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February 23rd, 2009 @ 11am
A sheet covers the body of a victim outside the Salvation Army building. A horrific multi-car accident on Newman Springs Road left one person dead and an unknown number of others injured Wednesday evening. Information about the person killed and...
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February 18th, 2009 @ 11pm
A neighbor tells the Press that one man was dead in the street, the other in a car. Two Red Bank men and a Fair Haven man were arrested and charged in connection with the predawn shooting that left two...
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February 11th, 2009 @ 5am
The crime scene on Locust Avenue this morning. A suspect in this morning's double homicide on Red Bank's West Side is in custody, redbankgreen has learned. The information came from a knowledgeable source. The suspect, we're told, was located using...
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February 10th, 2009 @ 2pm
An elderly patient evacuated from the building is led to a car as firefighters investigate the alarm. Smoke from a outdoor trash fire briefly routed a two-story medical office building at 200 White Road in Little Silver this morning. The...
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January 30th, 2009 @ 11am
The state Alcoholic Beverage Control division has affirmed the Red Bank Borough Council's order to shut down Best Liquors, moving the case of the troubled package goods retailer significantly closer to possible finality. Mayor Pasquale Menna released the following statement...
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January 27th, 2009 @ 12pm
The view west along Newman Springs Road as firefighters battled a truck blaze beside Spirits Unlimited, at center; below, fire still burns beside the shell of a tractor-trailer cab. [THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED SINCE ITS INITIAL POSTING AT 6:30p...
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December 21st, 2008 @ 6pm
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
Sunny Sharma has lost his appeal of Red Bank's revocation of his license to sell booze through his problem-plagued Best Liquors store on Leighton Avenue, the Asbury Park Press reports this evening. From the Press: A decision released today [by...
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October 23rd, 2008 @ 7pm
The view downriver from the Oceanic Bridge, the route the remaining dolphins would need to travel to reach the Shrewsbury River and, ultimately, Sandy Hook Bay. Federal marine experts this afternoon outlined two acoustics-based approaches to moving the remaining bottlenose...
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October 10th, 2008 @ 3pm
Firefighters and other emergency personnel from a handful of towns were on the scene of a midmorning residential fire at 105 Rumson Road in Little Silver Wednesday. As of about 10:45a, the fire, said to have started in the basement,...
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October 8th, 2008 @ 11am
Bridge Avenue in Red Bank at 5:35p. Trains were moving through the station and traffic was clearing after a brief downpour. We'll post further updates on the Little Silver propane situation and the resulting rail and traffic tie-ups here. 5:12p:...
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October 1st, 2008 @ 6pm
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VOLUNTEERS GET INTO THE WEEDS
Toting plastic trash bags, 51 volunteers conducted a walking litter cleanup on Red Bank's West Side Saturday.
“IT’S A PARTY AT WAWA!”
You wish you could vibe like Brian, who lives on the other side of Hubbard’s Bridge. He caught redbankgreen’s attention in Red B ...
POPE OKS ORATORY
RED BANK: St. Anthony of Padua obtains papal approval to establish Oratory of St. Philip Neri, a community of priests and brothers devoted t ...
RED BANK: NEW MURAL BRIGHTENS CORNER
RED BANK: Lunch Break founder Norma Todd is depicted in a mural painted this week on the front of the newly renovated social service agency.
TULIPS TOGETHER
Spring tulips taking in the sunset outside the Molly Pitcher Inn in Red Bank Monday evening.
RIVER RANGERS RETURN
River Rangers, a summer canoeing program offered by the Navesink Maritime Heritage Association, returns this summer for up to 20 participa ...
DOUBLE DYLAN IN RED BANK
Trucks for a production company filming what one worker said was a Bob Dylan biography have lined Monmouth Street the past two days with cre ...
AFTER THE RAIN
A pear tree branch brought down by a brief overnight storm left a lovely tableau on the sidewalk in front of Red Bank's Riverside Gardens Pa ...
CONE OF UNCERTAINTY
Asked by a redbankgreen reporter why these cones were on top of cars, the owner of the car in the foreground responded: “That’s ...
RAIL RIDER’S VIEW
A commuter's view of Cooper's Bridge and the Navesink River from North Jersey Coast Line train 3320 out of Red Bank Tuesday morning.
PUT ME IN COACH!
Red Bank T-Ball kicked off at East Side park on Saturday morning. The brisk weather proved to be no deterrent to the young players, ranging ...
IT’S A SIGN!
Once proudly declaring its all-but-certain arrival in Spring 2019, the project previously known as Azalea Gardens springs to life again with ...
SPRINGTIME MEMORIES OF CARL
The Easter Bunny getup and St. Patrick’s Day hat that belonged to longtime Red Bank crossing guard and neighborhood smile-creator Carl ...
RED TRUCKS AT RED ROCK
A small dishwasher fire at Red Rock Tap and Grill was put out quickly by firefighters overnight, causing minimal damage. Red Bank Fire Depar ...
CREATIVE COVER UP
The windows of Pearl Street Consignment on Monmouth Street were smashed when a driver crashed their car through them injuring an employee la ...
THEY’RE BACK!
Ospreys returned to the skies over Red Bank this week for the first time since they migrated to warmer climes in late fall. With temperature ...
SPRING IS SPRUNG
RED BANK: Spring 2024 arrives on the Greater Red Bank Green with the vernal equinox at 11:06 p.m. Tuesday.
RED BANK’S FINEST – AND NEWEST
Red Bank Police Officer Eliot Ramos was sworn in as the force’s newest patrolman Thursday, and if you’re doing a double take thinkin ...
EASTER EGG MAYHEM AT THE PARK
An errant whistle spurred an unexpectedly early start to the Spring Egg Hunt on Sunday, which had been scheduled to begin at eggsactly 11am ...
PRESEASON DOCKWORK
RED BANK: With winter winding down, marina gets ready for boating season with some dockwork on our beautiful Navesink River.

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