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Yes, the traditional Holiday Express concert and illumination of downtown Red Bank combined once again to make for a great-sounding and dazzling extravaganza Friday night. But it might be said thatContinue reading "A NIGHT ILLUMINATED BY SMILES… AND HATS"
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November 28th, 2009 @ 12pm
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DOWNTOWN READY FOR ITS CLOSE-UP
Unadorned, but not for long, this year’s holiday tree awaits its big moment in the courtyard of the Dublin House restaurant on Monmouth Street earlier this week. One of theContinue reading "DOWNTOWN READY FOR ITS CLOSE-UP"
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November 26th, 2009 @ 10am
JAM THAT BALLOT BOX, FOLKS
Sixth-grader Theodore Mitchell addresses the Red Bank mayor and council as classmate and photojournalist Tyriik Murad documents the event. Stumping for votes like seasoned pols, a handful of students fromContinue reading "JAM THAT BALLOT BOX, FOLKS"
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November 24th, 2009 @ 6am
GROWTH DRIVES T. BERRY SQUARE’S BIG MOVE
T. Berry Square owner Jennifer Quinn Payne in her store’s new consignment section. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI It wasn’t long after Jennifer Quinn Payne added a consignmentContinue reading "GROWTH DRIVES T. BERRY SQUARE’S BIG MOVE"
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November 19th, 2009 @ 10am
MORANA TO CHRISTIE: LOOK BEFORE YOU CUT
Superintendent Laura Morana in her office in July. Red Bank schools Superintendent Laura Morana is urging Governor-elect Chris Christie get a up-close look at the district’s pre-kindergarten program before takingContinue reading "MORANA TO CHRISTIE: LOOK BEFORE YOU CUT"
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November 17th, 2009 @ 10am
RBMS HAS EYES ON NO.1 PRIZE
Red Bank Middle School students Sandra Paz, Teddy Mitchell and Josh Bruce talk to the media Thursday about their involvement in “eInstruction Is The Key,” a video they made forContinue reading "RBMS HAS EYES ON NO.1 PRIZE"
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November 16th, 2009 @ 7am
RIVERVIEW: PLEASE KEEP THE KIDS HOME
The temporary guidelines are aimed at curbing the spread of swine flu, Riverview officials say. Red Bank’s Riverview Medical Center has begun restricting patient visits to visitors 18 years andContinue reading "RIVERVIEW: PLEASE KEEP THE KIDS HOME"
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November 13th, 2009 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN REC HEAD THRIVES, FULL-TIME
Charlie Hoffman just finished his first year as Fair Haven’s first full-time recreation director. Borough officials think the investment has paid off in spades. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTINContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN REC HEAD THRIVES, FULL-TIME"
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November 13th, 2009 @ 7am
HEAD START PLANS MOVE TO FORMER SCHOOL
The upper floor of the former P.S. 5 has been the home of S.O.M.E. Architects for the past two years, but the ground floor has largely remained vacant. (Photo byContinue reading "HEAD START PLANS MOVE TO FORMER SCHOOL"
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November 10th, 2009 @ 9am
MASKED MAN AT MONMOUTH & MAPLE
For the Red Bank Charter School’s annual Halloween jaunt through town last Friday, phys ed and health teacher John Chestman wore a mask depicting the face of fourth-grade teacher MattContinue reading "MASKED MAN AT MONMOUTH & MAPLE"
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November 2nd, 2009 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN GOP: FOCUSED ON FINANCE
Bob Marchese and Ben Lucarelli in Lucarelli’s Red Bank office. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI This year’s Republican candidates for Fair Haven borough council haven’t gotten caught upContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN GOP: FOCUSED ON FINANCE"
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October 29th, 2009 @ 10am
POLICE: TEEN CURFEW WORKS
This year, for the first time since 1998, the Mischief Night/Halloween combo falls on a Friday and Saturday. Does that portend trouble in the form of tissued utility lines, eggedContinue reading "POLICE: TEEN CURFEW WORKS"
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October 28th, 2009 @ 8am
A svelte elephant, a dog-eating shark, a human Chia pet and a number of fairy princesses took place in the annual Red Bank Halloween Parade Sunday. redbankgreen has the pix.Continue reading "HALLOWEEN PARADE I: THE PIX"
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October 26th, 2009 @ 6am
The ghost of famed WBOO reporter Scoop Haunter showed up at the Red Bank Halloween Parade with his video camera Sunday looking for the real story. Here are his chillingContinue reading "HALLOWEEN PARADE II: THE INSIDE SCOOP"
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October 26th, 2009 @ 6am
A RUNNING START FOR BIKE/PED PROPONENTS
Jenny Rossano of Worthley Street and her map, below, with half-mile radii drawn around each of Red Bank’s five schools and suggested bike routes in red. (Click to enlarge) [SeeContinue reading "A RUNNING START FOR BIKE/PED PROPONENTS"
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October 22nd, 2009 @ 9am
Responding to chatter about last Friday’s incident at Red Bank Regional High, in which four young men entered the school in an alleged attempt to settle a score with aContinue reading "RBR TARGETS TRESPASSING ‘SPECULATION’"
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October 21st, 2009 @ 10am
IN SEARCH OF SAFETY FOR BIKERS & WALKERS
Rolling out of the East Side: the ‘Mori Place Marauders’ want to make biking and walking to school in Red Bank safer. On a typical morning during the school year,Continue reading "IN SEARCH OF SAFETY FOR BIKERS & WALKERS"
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October 19th, 2009 @ 10am
A little more than a month after his estranged wife and co-worker Jonelle Melton was found murdered in her Neptune City apartment, Red Bank Middle School teacher Michael Melton hasContinue reading "SLAIN TEACHER’S EX SPEAKS"
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October 19th, 2009 @ 7am
[Editor’s note: This is an updated version of an earlier post, incorporating information supplied at 5:30p by the Little Silver Police Deapartment] Four non-student teenagers were arrested on trespassing chargesContinue reading "FOUR IN POLICE CUSTODY FOR RBR TRESPASS"
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October 16th, 2009 @ 3pm
Panicked reports of ‘men with guns’ running through Red Bank Regional High School late this morning are erroneous, Little Silver police tell redbankgreen. Major media outlets have been calling theContinue reading "POLICE SAY ‘NOTHING BIG’ HAPPENING AT RBR"
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October 16th, 2009 @ 12pm
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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.
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 ...