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Closing post offices at lunchtime is "stupid," says Red Banker Tom Salmon. It's a loaded question, but it begs to be asked: is the U.S. Postal Service deliberately courting outrage among its customers? How else to explain the newest changes...
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October 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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Riverview Medical Center bought the former Worden-Hoidal Funeral Home facility in July for $2.3 million. Coming soon to East Front Street: another empty lot. Riverview Medical Center has asked Red Bank for a permit to demolish a longtime funeral home...
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October 7th, 2008 @ 5am
Alan Placer on what used be called the roof but he now calls the "third floor" of Hobbymasters — the floor that makes money from the sun. The solar panels are all in, and by this time next week, Arlene...
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October 3rd, 2008 @ 2pm
Ahh, that first, hot cup of coffee. Not just the first of the day; the first of one's life. Bob Henry recalls losing his coffee virginity, and how that experience led, decades later, to his manning the bean counter at...
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October 2nd, 2008 @ 7am
A stray bag flutters along Monmouth Street recently. A proposed ban on plastic bags may be tabled yet again while its sponsor, Red Bank Councilman Mike DuPont, meets with objectors and other interested parties, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 10am
It seems that greater Red Bank suddenly has a thing for hemp, and it has less to do with behavior that might land you in the police blotter than eco-fashion. Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, redbankgreen's sibling site, pays...
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September 11th, 2008 @ 6am
Councilman Mike DuPont's initiative got enough votes for introduction, including one from Councilwoman Sharon Lee, though she said she disagreed with its punitive thrust and could not support adoption. A proposed ordinance that might have put Red Bank in a...
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September 10th, 2008 @ 10am
Homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises, based in Red Bank,posted its eighth consecutive quarter in the red, reporting a net loss of $202.5 million for the fiscal quarter ended July 31. The loss equated to $2.67 per share, compared with a loss $1.27...
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September 4th, 2008 @ 6am
"A disgrace," Councilman Art Murphy says of the morning-after conditions on the sidewalk alongside Ashes. Led by Councilman Art Murphy, the Red Bank Borough Council last came down with both feet on Ashes Cigar Club on Broad Street, refusing to...
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August 26th, 2008 @ 8am
Two hours of weekday counter service were eliminated. Here's a development that seems to be about as popular as junk mail. Earlier this month, the main Red Bank post office on Broad Street shaved two hours from its weekday-morning window...
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August 22nd, 2008 @ 6am
A mural in the window of the former Itri's eatery signals Guy Johnson's hope that the grill will soon sizzle again. Last we heard, the former home of Itri's luncheonette on West Front Street was being scoped out by a...
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August 20th, 2008 @ 9am
Citing "deteriorating business conditions," Gannett Co, the owner of the Asbury Park Press, eliminated 120 positions at six New Jersey newspapers yesterday. Among the affected publications are the Press, the Home News-Tribune in East Brunswick and the Daily Record in...
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August 20th, 2008 @ 6am
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
Now available: 46,000 square feet in Shrewsbury. Just ten months after the owners of Red Bank's SuperFoodtown expanded into the former Stop & Shop supermarket half a mile away on Newman Springs Road, the new store will be shut down,...
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August 5th, 2008 @ 1pm
The garage adjoins the mostly empty Red Bank Corporate Plaza on West Front Street. Fulfilling the terms of a five-year-old deal with the borough government, the owner of the Red Bank Corporate Plaza will make the parking garage at the...
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July 30th, 2008 @ 11am
The scene on Broad Street at the 2006 edition of the event. By TOM CHESEK There was that friend of ours who found a shrink-wrapped, never-played, original 1963 pressing ( released the day JFK was shot) of the Phil Spector...
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July 23rd, 2008 @ 7am
The view north from Hobbymasters' roof, which gets unimpeded exposure to the sun. In what's being billed as the largest installation of its kind in the Red Bank area, game & toy retailer Hobbymasters plans to cover the roof of...
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July 18th, 2008 @ 10am
Reconstituted as The Driving Service, the company's founders (seen outside Brannigan's in Red Bank in this 2007 photo) are Vince Falcetano, Norm Dannen, Zach McCue and Colin Keany. Readers of redbankgreen may recall our feature article of a year ago...
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July 14th, 2008 @ 12pm
A sign on the door says Chic Optique lost its lease. Records indicate the property is about to be sold. Chic Optique, the upmarket eyewear shop that raised eyebrows over its ample amount of unused floorspace when it opened less...
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July 3rd, 2008 @ 11am
Tim McLoone at a charity event in 2006. Always in motion, he's seemingly everywhere this week. By TOM CHESEK He's the man who explains, as he tickles the ivories in a cable commercial for the Rum Runner, his Sea Bright...
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July 2nd, 2008 @ 11am
Partyline
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)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(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 ...