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Councilman Mike DuPont takes his lumps at Monday's meeting. Is the ordinance that wouldn't die finally dead? As he has repeatedly over the past ten months or so, Councilman Mike DuPont tried getting his ban on plastic bags passed by...
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November 10th, 2008 @ 11pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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The decisive election race remains undecided, but a top Monmouth County Democrat is getting ready to take a close look at "a handful of well-paying jobs" if the party wins control of the board for the first time in 24...
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November 10th, 2008 @ 6am
Today's Asbury Park Press reports that Democrats have dispatched four volunteer lawyers to oversee the handling and counting of an estimated 3,200 provisional ballots cast Tuesday in the Monmouth County Freeholder race. There's no official count yet of the ballots,...
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November 6th, 2008 @ 6am
Voters exit the Hook & Ladder Fire House on Mechanic Street, site of the district 1 polling station, after casting their ballots Tuesday. Long an island of aqua in a red county, Red Bank went inky blue this year, throwing...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 11am
Amy Mallet of Fair Haven and John Curley of Middletown remain locked in squeaker of an election for Monmouth County Freeholder this morning. "It's quite a battle," Republican Curley tells redbankgreen. The county clerk's website has Mallet, a Democrat, leading...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 10am
Ninety-three-year-old Jacqueline O'Shea signs in to vote at Borough Hall in Sea Bright Tuesday. By SUE MORGAN A year after a disputed mayoral race that has yet to be resolved in court, Sea Bright voters dispatched two Democrats from the...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 8am
A Rumson voter signs in at the Forrestdale School polling station Tuesday afternoon. By SUE MORGAN By 8p, Democratic Borough Council candidate Michael Steinhorn expected to have picked up his campaign signs, all 25 or so of them, that he...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 7am
Out are two Republican incumbents and in come a Democrat and an independent after Little Silver voters dealt their harshest rebuke to the GOP in a decade Tuesday. Of 6,445 votes cast, the largest share, 1,681, went to attorney Daniel...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 7am
No changes planned here. Incumbent Republicans Jerome Koch and James Banahan held off a challenge from a single Democratic candidate in the race for two seats on the Fair Haven Borough Council Tuesday. Of 4,881 votes cast, Banhan attracted 1,706,...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 12am
Sen. Barack Obama has been elected president of the United States of America. redbankgreen encountered these two homemade tributes to Obama's presidential campaign in the yards of homes in Fair Haven Tuesday morning. The one on the top is from...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 11pm
John Curley at home in 2006, when home was Red Bank. Figures relased by the Monmouth County Clerk's office indicate that former Red Bank Councilman John Curley leads his nearest Democratic opponent by just 108 votes out of 250,000 cast...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 10pm
Juanita Lewis embraces her campaign manager, Christine McKenna, after her win in Tuesday's Red Bank Council election. Red Bank voters skied straight down the Democratic column in Tuesday's elections, hoping to elevate the first-ever African-American to the presidency and making...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 9pm
Election officials are expecting record turnout today, according to the Asbury Park Press. Here's what redbankgreen found in the first hour of voting activity in Red Bank this morning: 6:00a: More than a dozen voters stand in line in the...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 7am
Monmouth County is one of six counties statewide that may have to revert to paper ballots for first-time voters because of a crush of last-minute registrations, today's Star-Ledger reports. From the article: Warren, Atlantic, Bergen, Monmouth, Ocean and Salem counties...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 5am
The Independent Fire House on Mechanic Street does double duty as the district 2 polling station on election day. Will the lines be long? Will the flow of voters through the polling stations be smooth? That remains to be seen....
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 9am
Admit it: you've read the two public questions on this year's ballot over and over again, and the "interpretive statements" that purport to explain them, and you don't know what to make of them. First, you're not alone. And second,...
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 8am
Ayala Naphtali, with neighbor Andrew Crockett, had a spare Obama sign to replace the one stolen from her yard. Below, Yvonne Grayson's sign is anchored in concrete after vandals ripped it out of the ground. A rash of campaign-sign thefts...
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 5am
Inspired in seemingly equal parts by Karl Marx, Woody Guthrie and the Clash, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg has cut a singular path through the world of popular music. On Sunday, the iconoclastic guitar slinger from Barking, England brings his axe and...
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October 16th, 2008 @ 12pm
Several dozen citizens turned out at the Pilgrim Baptist Church on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank last night to watch the final presidential debate between senators Barack Obama and John McCain on a projection screen suspended above the altar. The...
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October 16th, 2008 @ 7am
You gotta be in it for your candidate to win it. It's deadline time for citizens who want a voice that counts in the Nov. 4 elections. New Jersey law requires that would-be voters register no less than 21 days...
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October 13th, 2008 @ 9am
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MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner films praying mantis at church.
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
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 ...