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The Shrewsbury Borough School was one of five public school programs statewide recognized yesterday by the New Jersey School Boards Association for creative and innovative approaches to teaching. According to an NJSBA press release, the school was selected for the...
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September 6th, 2007 @ 5am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Linda Clark makes the case for a town center. The idea of creating a community center at a Red Bank-owned building on the West Side is one that "needs plenty more discussion," children's activist David Prown told a crowded Borough...
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August 14th, 2007 @ 9am
She's long been a force on her native island of Jamaica, and had a chart-topping hit there with "Oh Me Oh My" some years back. Cabaret singer Karen Smith doesn't have much of a profile in the States, but she's...
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July 28th, 2007 @ 12pm
Dr. Diana Salvador, above, says yes; Council President Sharon Lee, at right, agrees, but says citizens will have to get behind the idea first. Kids' activist David Prown's request that the Red Bank council put the brakes on a plan...
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July 24th, 2007 @ 9am
Cash it out, or turn it into a community center? To the borough of Red Bank, it's an asset beter turned into cash. To kids' activist David Prown, it's about to become a missed opportunity. On the agenda for Monday's...
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July 22nd, 2007 @ 2pm
After 31 years in Red Bank, entrepreneur, education activist and occasional singer W. David Tarver is leaving town. And he's going out in style. Tarver tells redbankgreen that he and his wife, Kishna, are packing up their house at the...
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July 17th, 2007 @ 10am
Middletown schools chief David L. Witmer should be docked six months pay instead of being fired for padding his expenses and misleading the school board, an administrative law judge ruled yesterday in a recommendation to the state Education Commissioner. According...
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July 10th, 2007 @ 6am
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June 12th, 2007 @ 10am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Back when he had water rights on the Navesink, marine engineer Rik van Hemmen would paddle a homemade canoe to work in the summer, thus combining three of his many passions — engineering, wooden boats, and...
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June 7th, 2007 @ 9am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Being a freshman is hard, says Red Bank Regional ninth-grader Jamar Berry. Coming from the cozy confines of the Red Bank Charter School, "it took me a long while to adapt," Berry says. "I'm doing good...
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May 30th, 2007 @ 6am
In "The Underpants," Steve Martin's adaptation of a 97-year-old German comedy that began previews last night at the Two River Theater, the character of the king is a looming but largely unseen presence. The story concerns a woman who, in...
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May 3rd, 2007 @ 7am
Prompted by the shootings last month at Virginia Tech that left 33 people dead, Red Bank Regional High School has become the second school district in New Jersey to implement an email and text message alert system, today's Asbury Park...
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May 3rd, 2007 @ 6am
What might have been a session with Gov. Jon Corzine turned out, because of his recent accident, to be an event with somewhat lesser star "wattage." But a town hall meeting led in Corzine's absence by state Treasurer Bradley Abelow...
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May 3rd, 2007 @ 6am
Red Bank police are investigating a report of an unidentified man trying to enter a car driven by a Red Bank Catholic senior while she was stopped downtown at a red light on Tuesday afternoon. The 18-year-old driver, who was...
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May 2nd, 2007 @ 5pm
Former Red Bank Mayor and state Superior Court Judge Benedict R. Nicosia leads a roster of nine graduates of Red Bank High School (or its successor, Red Bank Regional) into the RBR Education Foundation's Hall of Fame Friday night. Slated...
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May 1st, 2007 @ 9am
Sports fans will have noticed by now that sports coverage is not our thing here at redbankgreen. There's way too much of it for this little operation to cover, and frankly, other topics interest us far more. But every once...
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April 27th, 2007 @ 4pm
The results are finally in from last week's Red Bank Board of Education election, which were delayed by a snafu. In addition to the previously announced victor Ben Forest, an incumbent, winners were write-in winners Ann Goldman of McLaren Street...
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April 23rd, 2007 @ 6pm
RiverCenter is looking for some working men and women. Not for the usual squads of volunteers to help promote the business district, but to share some insights about jobs and the skills needed to do them with students at the...
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April 20th, 2007 @ 12am
At 9:30a Wednesday, Mayor Pasquale Menna was in his law office talking on the phone with redbankgreen about some borough business and trying to get off the line posthaste. He had an obligation to meet. Back in March, while reading...
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April 19th, 2007 @ 12am
Middletown North graduate Julia Pryde was remembered by people who knew her as a carefree individualist who loved to swim competitively and cultivated a strong interest in ecology and water quality issues, according to a story about her in today's...
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April 18th, 2007 @ 7am
Partyline
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 ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.