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A Red Bank Regional student suffered a severe concussion and two others are in custody after an assault at the school around midday today, Little Silver police report. The victim, a 16-year-old Red Bank male, was treated and released from...
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March 17th, 2009 @ 5pm
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Driven by rising salary and benefit costs, the school tax in Fair Haven would increase by about 2.6 cents per $100 of property valuation, according to a report in today's Asbury Park Press. A proposed $13.26 million spending plan introduced...
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March 17th, 2009 @ 7am
Students in teacher Jessica Sevillano's class last month. The program for 3- and 4-year-olds is housed at the middle school because of space considerations. The Red Bank school district will get enough money from the state next year to quadruple...
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March 13th, 2009 @ 8am
The Asbury Park Press today has a feature article about new security systems installed at the Red Bank primary and middle schools. The high-tech system uses swipe cards to control access to the buildings and video cameras that enable borough...
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March 5th, 2009 @ 1pm
And now, a public service announcement from the video lab at the Red Bank Middle School... The video is the work of seventh-grade students of teacher Chris Ippolito, whose students have busted a couple of entertaining video raps in the...
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 8am
Here are the announced school closings as of 10:50p Sunday: Little Silver Public Schools Middletown Township Public Schools Red Bank Catholic Red Bank Charter School Red Bank Public Schools Red Bank Regional High School Shore Regional High Shrewsbury Borough School...
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March 1st, 2009 @ 10pm
Girls in the limited-enrollment program for three- and four-year-olds holding hands as they run outside the Red Bank Middle School this week. Below, kids lined up for the start of playtime. (Click to enlarge) By JUDY DeHAVEN March 12 is...
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February 27th, 2009 @ 2pm
Community center proponents Peter Noble, president of the Red Bank Board of Ed, and David Prown after Monday's borough council session, which ran for almost three hours, as suggested by the clock in the background. After nearly three months of...
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February 24th, 2009 @ 9am
The spending plan funds a primary and and a middle school, and kicks in support for the Red Bank Charter School. By JUDY DeHAVEN Though the final funding amounts are not yet in from the state, Red Bank Schools Superintendent...
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February 23rd, 2009 @ 7am
Government watchdog Steve Fitzpatrick says public inattention could lead to more traffic and parking problems in Red Bank. A recommendation to let developers build 40 units where they're now limited to 16 is one of several that Red Bank residents...
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February 17th, 2009 @ 9am
How about a paper explaining that thing on His head? Download that dictionary app into your iPods, Brucies. The second installment of "Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium" is coming to Monmouth University in September. If it's anything like the...
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February 13th, 2009 @ 11am
Employees of McGhee Contracting, hoisted into position by a lift, hammer away at RBC's stack Saturday morning. Demolition of Red Bank Catholic's smokestack got underway Saturday, a few days earlier than expected. Tim McGhee, owner of McGhee Contracting in Oceanport,...
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February 9th, 2009 @ 8am
The state says the middle school missed proficiency targets in language arts. Red Bank Superintendent Laura Morana says school performance data released this week by the state Department of Education obscures genuine academic progress being made at the borough's middle...
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February 6th, 2009 @ 10am
Sorry, kids — no dynamite. A long disused smokestack behind Red Bank Catholic High School is coming down next week, weather and other conditions permitting. Jay Patock, president of Patock Construction in Eatontown, says demolition of the stack, which is...
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February 6th, 2009 @ 5am
Rumson-Fair Haven girls basketball player Kate Miller bagged her 1,500th career point — a school record — and coach George Sourlis notched his 500th victory, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The dual milestones came in the Bulldogs' 58-32 Shore Conference...
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February 4th, 2009 @ 6am
Red Bank Police expected to consult with officials from the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office today about whether any charges should be brought in a case in which a middle school student brought a knife to school last month, Capt. Steve...
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February 2nd, 2009 @ 4pm
Cindy Burnham on the between-names property last year. Having safeguarded a borough-owned riverfront property from sale and possible development last year, Cindy Burnham went to the Red Bank Council earlier this week hoping to get quick approval for a name...
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January 29th, 2009 @ 11am
June Connors (nee Evans) strikes a familiar pose at the McKay Gallery last month. The original shot is below. (Photo above courtesy Liz & Bob McKay) She's frozen eternally in a moment of school-spirit optimism, a girl in cheerleader regalia...
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January 7th, 2009 @ 8am
Be prepared for at least two meetings monthly if you'd like to serve. Got some ideas about how to improve the Red Bank school district? Ready to shed the anonymity of redbankgreen comments and put your money where your mouth...
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January 2nd, 2009 @ 8am
Students from Red Bank Regional will soon have the option of leaving their class ranking off college applications under a measure approved last night by the school's board, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: Red Bank Regional follows...
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December 18th, 2008 @ 7am
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 ...