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An original music video made by and starring students at the Red Bank Middle School has reached the finals of a contest promising $25,000 worth of educational technology to the winner, redbankgreen has learned. From photo/art/culture teacher Chris Ippolito: We...
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October 31st, 2008 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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The Red Bank Regional High School board of ed is closing in on a new set of rules governing student conduct following a discipline controversy that erupted last winter. Proposed revisions to what is now an athletic code of conduct,...
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October 31st, 2008 @ 10am
The Springsteens go goo-goo over an infant outside the Count Basie Theatre in May. The wonder of it is that they kept it up as long as they did. The Star-Ledger reports this afternoon that Bruce Springsteen and his wife,...
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October 28th, 2008 @ 3pm
Eighth-graders Michelle Reyes, in white, and Anisa Abella watch the RBMS video at Monday night's council meeting. This time last year, the kids at the Red Bank Middle School were jamming on a video entry for a contest that might...
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October 28th, 2008 @ 6am
Red Bank's annual Halloween Parade, pulled together as usual by the Parks & Rec department, filled Broad Street with a whole lotta cute and scary under a brilliant autumn sky Sunday afternoon. As is the custom, the event wrapped up...
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October 27th, 2008 @ 8am
Taylor Crystian, center, joins her teammates for the last huddle of the season after a game under the lights at Count Basie Field Monday night. Even though he'd caught a pass for a nice gain, one kid was near tears...
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 8am
Bill Meyer says the borough shouldn't negotiate over the former borough hall until it's investigated the sale to Kids Bridge eight years ago. Below right: a copy of a business entity status report he says raises questions about the deal....
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October 17th, 2008 @ 10am
Today's Press has a brief item on a code-red search for a missing four-year-old Rumson boy that ended an hour later when the child was found asleep in a closet in his own home. Police used an infrared camera to...
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October 15th, 2008 @ 7am
David Goldman with his son, Sean, who was taken to Brazil on "vacation" by his late wife four years ago and never returned. Today's Asbury Park Press has a lengthy piece about David Goldman of Tinton Falls, who has been...
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October 15th, 2008 @ 6am
Pressing ahead with a campaign to address alcohol and drug abuse, Red Bank Regional High will host a two-pronged program Thursday. At 7p, John Underwood, president of the American Athletic Institute, will give a presentation for parents in the school...
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October 14th, 2008 @ 10am
About 20 kids on a school bus making its way through the Society Hill development in Tinton Falls got a scare yesterday when the driver of the slow-moving vehicle passed out. The bus jumped a curb and struck a fire...
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October 2nd, 2008 @ 1pm
Fans of former New York Giants tight end Mark Bavaro huddled under a tent in the rain, clutching football jerseys, helmets and, oh yeah, his new novel during a signing event at River Road Books in Fair Haven on Saturday....
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September 29th, 2008 @ 7am
Wanted for a proposed center at this borough-owned building: a management entity. A task force formed earlier this year to suss out the potential costs of a Red Bank community center got a green light last night from the borough...
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September 23rd, 2008 @ 9am
By SUE MORGAN With the tuition tab for each of about 27 students that Sea Bright sends to the Shore Regional High School District coming in at $81,000 for the 2008-09 academic year, borough officials say they will keep pushing...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 8am
A day in the sunshine preceded an evening of awards at the I Build, U-Build We Build a Better Community Family Day at Red Bank's Count Basie Park on Saturday. Honorees included Larry Hamm, a human rights activist in Newark;...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 6am
Elba Vasquez gives her 4-year-old son, Axel, a goodby kiss as he boards the bus for his first day of school as a pre-K student at the Red Bank Primary School this morning. Below, Gene and Dawn Potts of Madison...
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September 3rd, 2008 @ 9am
Of 316 public high schools in New Jersey, Rumson-Fair Haven ranks 30th in overall quality and Red Bank Regional is 64th, according to a Monmouth University analysis reported in this month's issue of New Jersey Monthly magazine. R-FH moved up...
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August 27th, 2008 @ 8am
Elmer Jackson, fuzzier, lighter and still wearing his helmet, was all smiles Thursday. A 111-mile sprint took him from the outskirts of Wilmington, Delaware to Freehold, New Jersey Tuesday. Elmer Jackson just wanted to be home after pedaling his way...
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August 15th, 2008 @ 11am
Elmer Jackson and his son, Jeff (in red shirt) make their triumphal return up Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank Thursday afternoon after a cross-country bike tour that began in San Francisco June 3. The event, involving a police and fire...
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August 14th, 2008 @ 4pm
Elmer and Jeff Jackson at the fog-wrapped Golden Gate Bridge as they prepared to start their ride June 3. (Photos by Tim Hathaway.) Two months and countless pedal strokes later, the No Regrets cross-country bike tour arrives in New Jersey...
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August 12th, 2008 @ 11am
Partyline
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 ...