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The view downriver from the Oceanic Bridge, the route the remaining dolphins would need to travel to reach the Shrewsbury River and, ultimately, Sandy Hook Bay. Federal marine experts this afternoon outlined two acoustics-based approaches to moving the remaining bottlenose...
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October 10th, 2008 @ 3pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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A boater stands for a better look at dolphins near the Oceanic Bridge Wednesday afternoon. (Click to enlarge) The deaths of two dolphins in recent weeks has prompted a telephone confab among marine and federal officials to consider whether and...
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October 10th, 2008 @ 7am
Incumbent Republican Grace Cangemi, left, and running mate John Tyler Jr., right square off against Ed Zipprich and Juanita Lewis, center, at next week's candidates' forum. (Click to enlarge) Big night for the politically tuned-in next Wednesday — particularly those...
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October 9th, 2008 @ 3pm
Riverview Medical Center bought the former Worden-Hoidal Funeral Home facility in July for $2.3 million. Coming soon to East Front Street: another empty lot. Riverview Medical Center has asked Red Bank for a permit to demolish a longtime funeral home...
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October 7th, 2008 @ 5am
Expect some 'slight discoloration,' the borough says. A program of flushing out the Red Bank water system began last night and will continue through November 7, according to a notice from the borough's water utility. The activity will be limited...
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October 7th, 2008 @ 5am
Alan Placer on what used be called the roof but he now calls the "third floor" of Hobbymasters — the floor that makes money from the sun. The solar panels are all in, and by this time next week, Arlene...
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October 3rd, 2008 @ 2pm
OK, we plead guilty to a clunker of a headline. But we suspect a lot of Fair Havenites may be using that catchphrase in coming days, now that the long-debated cell tower is up and running. The fact that the...
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October 2nd, 2008 @ 5am
"It's something that affects all of us. It's not just a Wall Street bailout," says Jan Gardiner, of Locust. Today's Washington Post reports the results of a poll that finds voters deeply divided over the terms of the government's $700...
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October 1st, 2008 @ 10am
Longtime redbankgreen readers may recall our feature some 17 months ago about Tinton Falls Councilman Mike Skudera's push for better use of the web by municipal governments. First of all, he wanted those that weren't on the Internet to build...
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September 30th, 2008 @ 8am
A marine animal advocacy group has dialed up its calls for a forced removal of the visiting dolphin pod from the Navesink River following the death of a young female this week. Meanwhile, redbankgreen has gotten an unconfirmed report that...
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September 26th, 2008 @ 8am
Dolphins swimming off Fair Haven on July 9. Preliminary results of a necropsy performed on the dolphin found dead in Fair Haven yesterday morning indicate the juvenile died of of pneumonia, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The death of the...
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September 25th, 2008 @ 6am
The scene at a house on Wallace Street near McClaren Saturday morning. The big question leading up to last weekend's Red Bank Townwide Yard sale — how much trash would be left out afterward — has been answered. "There were...
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September 23rd, 2008 @ 10am
Wanted for a proposed center at this borough-owned building: a management entity. A task force formed earlier this year to suss out the potential costs of a Red Bank community center got a green light last night from the borough...
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September 23rd, 2008 @ 9am
Red Bank's Manny Carabel got this shot of President Bush debarking Marine One at Cross Farm Park in Holmdel this afternoon. During a 90-minute visit, Bush attended a closed fundraiser for two Republican Congressional candidates — neither from Monmouth County...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 5pm
Almost a year after it was first proposed, a ban on plastic bags remains hung up. It's on tonight's agenda for a public hearing and adoption vote. But a proposed ban on the distribution of plastic grocery bags, repeatedly tugged...
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September 22nd, 2008 @ 7am
A Middletown woman has a date in muncipal court next month on disorderly persons charges that she abandoned three gerbils and a hamster in the woods, the Asbury Park Press reports. If found guilty, she faces up to $8,000 in...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 11am
A stray bag flutters along Monmouth Street recently. A proposed ban on plastic bags may be tabled yet again while its sponsor, Red Bank Councilman Mike DuPont, meets with objectors and other interested parties, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 10am
Red Bank's Waverly Place, one of the borough's more badly pitted streets, gets a fresh coat of asphalt yesterday. Ditch Waverly, have at it... Email this story
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September 16th, 2008 @ 6am
Driving Mrs. Burry: John Curley and his running mate, as seen at Red Bank's Centennial Parade in May. For years, former Red Bank Councilman John Curley has railed against what he's called a "good old boys" way in which the...
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September 16th, 2008 @ 6am
This is how we roll: Fair Haven, like Rumson, prefers to go it alone, thank you. An initiative touted as having the potential to be the first-ever merger of three New Jersey police departments appears to have crashed and burned...
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September 10th, 2008 @ 2pm
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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.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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 ...