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A rundown of crimes entered in the Red Bank police blotter from August 1 to August 8. Items are unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring on 8-3-08 at Riverside Parking Garage. Victim reported that upon returning to parked vehicle discovered the rear...
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August 11th, 2008 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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File photo of a Great Start event at the Primary School in 2006. Red Bank parents of children who turn three years old on or before October 1 may be interested in a pair of information sessions on the new...
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August 4th, 2008 @ 11am
A 31-year-old Bordentown vice principal has been hired as the new principal of the Markham Place School in Little Silver, today's Press reports. Dennis Morolda, who starts in the $108,000-a-year job on Friday, succeeds Don Merce, who was killed in...
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July 30th, 2008 @ 8am
Eight to 10 social services organizations are expected to be present at a four-hour health fair scheduled for Saturday, August 9 on Red Bank's West Side. The Red Bank Family Support Center is organizing the open-air event in the parking...
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July 30th, 2008 @ 7am
The Asbury Park Press reports today that Terrence Wilkins could retain his certification as a school principal despite a guilty plea in an arson case last month. Because of his eligibility for pre-trial intervention, the former principal of the Red...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 2pm
Elmer Jackson makes it to the peak of a monster incline in Colorado late last month. (Photo courtesy of Tim Hathaway) Two weeks after the sudden departure of their one-man support crew, Elmer and Jeff Jackson's pedalthon from San Francisco...
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July 15th, 2008 @ 7am
Jet-skiers Scott Wolf and Manny Carabel, on rocks, are joined at Oyster Point by IMPACT members Grace Pedretti (in blue top); Laurie Medoro; Emily Lennon and her mom, Virginia; Marilyn Price; Danny Kalinoski and his mom, Stephanie; and Paul Panicali...
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July 14th, 2008 @ 9am
Elmer and Jeff Jackson ride through a tunnel in Red Canyon, Utah last Tuesday. (Photos by Tim Hathaway) Tim Hathaway, the journalist who was serving as driver and documentarian for the 'No Regrets' cross-country bike ride of fellow Red Bankers...
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July 1st, 2008 @ 9am
Elmer Jackson, left, and his son, Jeff, on their arrival in Utah. (Photos by Tim Hathaway) Last week saw some ups and downs for Red Bank's intrepid cross-country bikers, Elmer and Jeff Jackson. Both father and son had some serious...
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June 24th, 2008 @ 8am
A short, simple profile on video by our pal Pim Van Hemmen of Fair Haven. Pim's a staffer at the Star-Ledger, which owns TVJersey, where this piece was posted. Email this story
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June 18th, 2008 @ 1pm
A milestone passed enroute to Nevada. (Photo by Tim Hathaway) After a two-day layover forced by illness, father and son Elmer and Jeff Jackson were back in the saddle this week, topping their first mountain and crossing their first state...
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June 12th, 2008 @ 11am
A 22-year-old River Street man shot and killed himself at the Red Bank Primary School after calling police to say he was suicidal last night, authorities say. Peter Warshaw, first assistant Monmouth County prosecutor, tells the Asbury Park Press that...
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June 10th, 2008 @ 5pm
Steep elevations and heat proved to be major challenges in the first week of Elmer and Jeff Jackson's cross-country bike ride. At left, Jeff copes with fatigue. Elmer and Jeff Jackson's 'No Regrets' fundraising bike ride across America was slowed...
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June 9th, 2008 @ 8am
Elmer and Jeff Jackson at the fog-wrapped Golden Gate Bridge as they prepared to start their ride yesterday. (Photos by Tim Hathaway.) The father-and-son pair Elmer and Jeff Jackson completed the first 20 miles yesterday of what we're now told...
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June 4th, 2008 @ 1pm
Elmer Jackson poses at left with Kevin the UPS guy and the bikes that finally arrived in San Francisco Monday. In photo above, that's Jeff Jackson in foreground with, from left, Ron (no last name available), Elmer, Elmer's sister, Joyce...
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June 3rd, 2008 @ 6pm
The Red Bank Primary School was the colorful setting Friday night for the annual International Night, and this year's food-and-culturefest was another sellout, with 320 tickets sold, organizers tell redbankgreen. Click images to enlarge.
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June 2nd, 2008 @ 8am
In the show: an oil on canvas, above left, by Jasmin Jackson, 17; another oil, top right, by Anastasia Yakovlena, 11; and a pastel by Zack Longo, 16. (Click to enlarge.) Better known as the go-to source for goofball extendable...
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May 29th, 2008 @ 5am
A product of Red Bank schools herself, Pat Moss is this year's teacher of the year at the primary school. (Photos by Jim Willis) Ask Pat Moss what she enjoys about teaching, and there's no hesitation on her end. "I...
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May 27th, 2008 @ 9am
Undaunted by sprinkles and a brief downpour, students from the Red Bank Regional High School chapter of STAND held a vigil in Marine Park last night to mourn the rapes, displacements and killings of millions of Darfurians in what the...
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May 22nd, 2008 @ 7am
Students at the Red Bank Charter School wear uniforms, and not just once a century. The notion of requiring students at Red Bank's primary and middle schools is under consideration by the school board, today's Asbury Park Press reports. After...
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May 22nd, 2008 @ 6am
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 ...