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Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit features interviews with two photographers, women whose areas of focus could hardly be farther apart. But each is making a book-signing appearance in Red Bank this Saturday that should stir fans of their subject...
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April 23rd, 2009 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Believe it or not, Ripley, the rock vixen you see pictured here is none other than Lani Ford, familiar to a few as the traffic reporter for TV's Good Day New York, here in her guise as frontwoman for the...
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April 9th, 2009 @ 8am
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa outside the Count Basie Theatre last May. Almost three years after Bruce Springsteen and wife Patti Scialfa went shopping at the Antique Center of Red Bank to help dispel rumors of a split, a West...
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April 8th, 2009 @ 1pm
Some six months ahead of schedule, a photo crew and stylists made up a house on Hudson Avenue in Red Bank for Halloween yesterday. Brenda Angelilli, design director for All You magazine, said the setup was for a photo to...
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April 8th, 2009 @ 7am
The website Red Bank officials want to replace. Looks like Red Bankers will be stuck with the borough's clunky website for a while longer. Two weeks ago, Mayor Pasquale Menna announced that the borough would be getting a new website...
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February 10th, 2009 @ 8am
HOT RED BANK SOUP IN THE SLEDGER
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‘That Hot Dog Place’ owner Gary Sable sweats another day’s soup production in his tiny Monmouth Street takeout joint. Let’s get our bias right out on the crumb-littered table: nobodyContinue reading "HOT RED BANK SOUP IN THE SLEDGER"
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January 30th, 2009 @ 10am
Ledger Live, the Star-Ledger's charmingly slapdash video newscast, was in Red Bank last night to see if there was any hint of Springsteen fever on the debut of the rocker's new album, 'Working on a Dream.' Show host Brian Donohue...
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January 27th, 2009 @ 2pm
The homepage of the soon-to-be-replaced borough website. Score one for public pushback. Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna anounced last night that he won't sign a contract that would have paid C3 Citizen Communication Center $2,000 a month to build and...
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January 27th, 2009 @ 7am
In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, editor Tom Chesek reports on how an Asbury Park restaurateur wound up going toe-to-toe with professional skinflint Suze Orman on a webcast edition of the Oprah Show recently. Jeff Haveson of Restaurant Plan...
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January 26th, 2009 @ 9am
A couple of comments from readers of redbankgreen appear in today's Star-Ledger in a piece about the dolphins in the Shrewsbury River. Context: Kelly Heyboer's 'Jersey Blogs' column, which samples opinions on matters of interest around the state. Hey, we...
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January 14th, 2009 @ 9am
The axe has fallen in an expected third round of job cuts this year at the Asbury Park Press, with unconfirmed reports that the entire Trenton bureau was fired and the department that produces art & graphics for the news...
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December 3rd, 2008 @ 8am
The U.S. economy may be smashing into a wall, but Rumson's Mickey Gooch — owner of and columnist at the Two River Times, sometime quarrelsome neighbor and Wall Street billionaire — is still doing just fine, thank you very much,...
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November 20th, 2008 @ 2pm
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
In the driver's seat: John Curley and his running mate, as seen at Red Bank's Centennial Parade in May. The Asbury Park Press editorial page has thrown its weight behind former Red Bank Councilman John Curley in his race for...
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October 24th, 2008 @ 7am
Of 316 public high schools in New Jersey, Rumson-Fair Haven ranks 30th in overall quality and Red Bank Regional is 64th, according to a Monmouth University analysis reported in this month's issue of New Jersey Monthly magazine. R-FH moved up...
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August 27th, 2008 @ 8am
Citing "deteriorating business conditions," Gannett Co, the owner of the Asbury Park Press, eliminated 120 positions at six New Jersey newspapers yesterday. Among the affected publications are the Press, the Home News-Tribune in East Brunswick and the Daily Record in...
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August 20th, 2008 @ 6am
Keith Rella, newsman in a hurry. If all goes according to his remarkably hasty plan, this time next week, Keith Rella will oversee a bunch of teenagers in newsie caps calling out "Extra, extra!" while distributing first editions of a...
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August 8th, 2008 @ 9am
New Jersey's largest daily is "losing a battle to survive," its publisher says. The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest newspaper, has to shrink its payroll by 200 jobs and retool two union contracts by October 1 or it will have to...
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July 31st, 2008 @ 2pm
Believe it, Mike, you're on the list. No Joe's proprietor Mike Tierney welcomes customers during the Sheehan Classic in June. New Jersey Monthly magazine's annual list of the state's best restaurants is out, and the Red Bank area is represented,...
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July 29th, 2008 @ 12pm
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
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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.