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VISIONS OF LATINO CULTURES, “AQUÍ Y ALLÁ”
The acclaimed documentary feature HARVEST OF EMPIRE screens at Two River Theater Sunday night as part of a three-day Vision Latin-American Film Festival at locations around Monmouth County.  By TOMContinue reading "VISIONS OF LATINO CULTURES, “AQUÍ Y ALLÁ”"
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May 16th, 2013 @ 7am
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BOYS & GIRLS CLUB, STRAPPED, SEEKS HELP
Kids in the after-school Child Care program play a game at the Red Bank unit of the Boys & Girls Club Wednesday. (Photos by Danielle Tepper. Click to enlarge) By DANIELLE TEPPERContinue reading "BOYS & GIRLS CLUB, STRAPPED, SEEKS HELP"
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September 13th, 2012 @ 7am
TWO RIVER AGAIN SHOWCASES LATINO WORKS
Director and curator Jerry Ruiz, playwright Tanya Saracho and actor-writer Carlo Albán return to Red Bank for the second annual CROSSING BORDERS festival Thursday through Sunday at Two River Theater.Continue reading "TWO RIVER AGAIN SHOWCASES LATINO WORKS"
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June 25th, 2012 @ 12pm
The recent opening of Lucki Clover, above, in a Broad Street space vacated last September, is seen as one of many indicators of a strengthening comeback.  (Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "DOWNTOWN RED BANK COMES OFF THE ROPES"
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April 10th, 2012 @ 10am
ATRIUM ADDITION HITS GROUND RUNNING
A makeover of the vacant lot in the foreground is slated to begin shortly after the start of construction of six-story structure between the two Riverside Avenue high-rises in theContinue reading "ATRIUM ADDITION HITS GROUND RUNNING"
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June 7th, 2011 @ 1pm
DIVERSITY PLEDGE MAKES ROOM FOR ATHEISM
Red Bank has adopted a diversity statement as a “tremendous strength and asset to the community.” (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The Red Bank HumanContinue reading "DIVERSITY PLEDGE MAKES ROOM FOR ATHEISM"
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June 1st, 2011 @ 10am
CBS DROPS IN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF JERSEY
Mo Rocca interviewed Rumson Mayor John Ekdahl back during shorts weather for an upcoming piece for CBS Sunday Morning. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI New Jersey, it seems, isContinue reading "CBS DROPS IN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF JERSEY"
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January 13th, 2011 @ 8am
RED BANK GOES TWEET, TWEET, TWEET
Preston Porter is the “social media chef” for Basil T’s and Undici restaurants. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Chicago may be a toddlin‘ town, but Red Bank isContinue reading "RED BANK GOES TWEET, TWEET, TWEET"
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May 7th, 2010 @ 6am
Sen. John and Cindy McCain, Jersey-bound. Trailing in three recent New Jersey polls, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is set to visit a GOP redoubt next week: Rumson, where no Democrat is said to have been...
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August 6th, 2008 @ 7am
Pringle, right, in his capacity as Red Bank's borough attorney, with Mayor Pasquale Menna at a 2007 meeting. Eating crow, Belmar Mayor Ken Pringle says he'll accept an invitation to tour Staten Island for a day to make amends for...
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July 18th, 2008 @ 6am
Ken Pringle at a 2007 Red Bank meeting. Belmar Mayor (and Red Bank Borough Attorney) Ken Pringle is in the hotseat today for what he calls a "tongue-in-cheek" newsletter and at least one visitor to his town calls the work...
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July 16th, 2008 @ 9am
Large numbers of undocumented Mexican immigrants are expected to begin lining up outside the Red Bank Charter School as early as this evening for a five-day visit by employees of the Mexican Consulate in New York beginning tomorrow. Thirteen consulate...
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July 15th, 2008 @ 12pm
Red Bank police have charged a Tinton Falls woman in a string of cases in which she's alleged to have pretended to be either a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency officer. Maria Collins, 41, of Buford Place is in...
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May 13th, 2008 @ 12pm
Last November, redbankgreen ran a feature on the paucity of Democrats in Rumson, where no member of the party is believed to have won elective office in the borough's 101-year history. Now, two examples of "the rarest of species, which...
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April 10th, 2008 @ 8am
An architectural rendering of George Coffenberg's proposed retail and residential project, with West Street in the foreground and Oakland Street at right. The Monmouth Street side would have four-story buildings. A mixed retail and residential project proposed for Monmouth and...
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February 5th, 2008 @ 9am
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church on Pearl Street. By TOM CHESEK At 1p tomorrow, one of Red Bank's best-kept cultural secrets is scheduled to step into public view, bringing with it a millenium of tradition. A procession of worshippers and...
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January 18th, 2008 @ 8am
A suspect whose escape in the Dec. 10 burglary of a Catherine Street home was said to be witnessed by neighbors has been arrested, according to police Capt. Steve McCarthy, head of the detective bureau. Milo Rainey, 28, who police...
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December 27th, 2007 @ 3pm
By TIM HATHAWAY The extra $368,000 in state funding that Red Bank schools received last year may have been a windfall, but schools Superintendent Laura Morana says there should be even more in the kitty this year. According to Morana,...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 10am
A customer tries on a bracelet at an opening-night reception at Tiffany & Co.'s Broad Street store earlier this month. The Asbury Park Press today pops in on store owners in downtown Red Bank to gauge their feelings about the...
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November 18th, 2007 @ 11am
The numbers of rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries and larcenies reported in Red Bank soared from 2005 to 2006, according to new crime data released today by the State Police. The 2006 Uniform Crime Report shows that the violent crime...
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October 16th, 2007 @ 3pm
Partyline
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 ...
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 ...