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It’s Theater Week of sorts in Red Bank oRBit! It just sort of works out that way, as the coming days see the openings of no fewer than five new productions in the area — all of them worth checking...
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April 13th, 2009 @ 6am
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By JUDY DeHAVEN Specials are common at the Milagro Spa, but most feature an exotic indulgence: 'aromatic sugar scrubs,' 'stonecrop body wraps' and 'facial tea tree oil waxings,' to name a few. An event scheduled for Monday, March 2, is...
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February 27th, 2009 @ 10am
Jim Roberts of Wall tries out his kite wing on the Navesink yesterday. Conditions were iffy on the Navesink River yesterday, with just a few small iceboats and skaters venturing out from Red Bank. The ice was said to be...
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January 30th, 2009 @ 6am
Not-so-stiff upper lips: R-FH Superintendent Pete Righi, far left, with teachers Tom Toohey, Darren Beatty, Zack Wilson and Tom Highton. It's crunch time at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High, where five staffers remain in a mustache-growing competition for charity. The contest...
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November 26th, 2008 @ 7am
This weekend's local entertainment offerings include two note-perfect explorations of the vast Beatles repertory. The first, scheduled for tonight at the Two River Theatre, is by a band of local musicians with a taste for off-the charts Fab Four stuff...
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November 7th, 2008 @ 10am
An original music video made by and starring students at the Red Bank Middle School has reached the finals of a contest promising $25,000 worth of educational technology to the winner, redbankgreen has learned. From photo/art/culture teacher Chris Ippolito: We...
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October 31st, 2008 @ 11am
Today's edition gives the rundown on these events happening locally tonight and tomorrow: • A funeral, of sorts, for Gram Parsons, a guy who's been dead 35 years but whose music is very much alive in a tribute show in...
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September 19th, 2008 @ 8am
Sunday's Danskin Women's Triathlon at Sandy Hook drew dozens of competitors — they were the ones with the indelible numbers on their biceps — to the streets of downtown Red Bank this weekend. Among them were these women from Bergen...
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September 15th, 2008 @ 7am
Obama's been outraising McCain in New Jersey, thanks to events like last week's dinner at Bon Jovi's crib. A pair of events culminating with dinner at the Navesink River chateau of singer Bon Jovi last Friday generated $4.1 million for...
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September 9th, 2008 @ 6am
Democratic party swells who plan to rub elbows with presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama at the Navesink chateau of popstar Bon Jovi Friday evening will lay out $28,500 for the privilege, today's Star-Ledger reports. First, there's the $2,300 cocktail reception...
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September 4th, 2008 @ 7am
Red Bank oRBit — the redbankgreen sibling site that debuted August 1 as your thrice-weekly tickler on what's happening in the world of arts, entertainment, shopping and dining — is going daily. Six days a week, to be specific. Taking...
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August 18th, 2008 @ 11am
Elmer Jackson, fuzzier, lighter and still wearing his helmet, was all smiles Thursday. A 111-mile sprint took him from the outskirts of Wilmington, Delaware to Freehold, New Jersey Tuesday. Elmer Jackson just wanted to be home after pedaling his way...
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August 15th, 2008 @ 11am
Elmer Jackson and his son, Jeff (in red shirt) make their triumphal return up Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank Thursday afternoon after a cross-country bike tour that began in San Francisco June 3. The event, involving a police and fire...
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August 14th, 2008 @ 4pm
Andrew Mencinsky and a brigade of sea paddlers head down the Hudson River last year. They'll be doing the same next week. In May, 2007, a two-mile-wide tornado tore through the town of Greensburg, Kansas, destroying 95 percent of its...
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August 14th, 2008 @ 10am
Today's issue of the thrice-weekly Red Bank oRBit has, quite by chance, a water theme. First, there's our scoop from Red Bank's Broadway Diner, inexplicably overlooked by the media mob, on what GOP First Lady-contender Cindy McCain ordered when she...
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August 13th, 2008 @ 6am
Elmer and Jeff Jackson at the fog-wrapped Golden Gate Bridge as they prepared to start their ride June 3. (Photos by Tim Hathaway.) Two months and countless pedal strokes later, the No Regrets cross-country bike tour arrives in New Jersey...
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August 12th, 2008 @ 11am
Contrary to a report in Sunday's Record of Hackensack, GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain will not be dining at a private residence in Rumson tomorrow night. According to Mayor John Ekdahl, the Arizona senator's wife, Cindy McCain, is expected...
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August 11th, 2008 @ 10am
Former Mayor Ben Nicosia was among the spotlight guests at a cocktail party Tuesday night at the Molly Pitcher Inn, where he and three other former Red Bank mayors — Dan O'Hern, Mike Arnone and Ed McKenna — were honored...
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July 23rd, 2008 @ 8am
The big-splash events — the parade, the townwide picnic, the boat parade — may be past but the Red Bank Centennial Committee still has a few items on its dance card. One is a cocktail party in honor of the...
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July 18th, 2008 @ 1pm
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
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NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
LONG LIVE LOCAL NEWS!
"Long Live Local News" flags from redbankgreen's 20th anniversary celebration in Marine Park Tuesday prove to be the perfect compliment to s ...
MUMS AND WITCHES
17 Prospect Ave (Photo by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
KAYAKERS CLEAR RIVER JUNK
Partyline photo: "The Navesink Nymphs" clear floating tires from the river.
PAINT IT PURPLE?
Caption: ‘Should it be done purple?’ Perfect day. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
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MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner photographs 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 ...
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