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Craig Widmaier of Red Bank and son Gregory tackle the job of digging out the invasive plant Japanese knotweed at Saturday's cleanup of the Maple Avenue lot. For the second year in a row, a crew of volunteers descended on...
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Aurora Donohue finds something she likes at a Paint the Town Pink sale table outside the Broadway Diner on Saturday. Paint the Town Pink got off to a slippery start Saturday, with sporadic drizzles and showers into early afternoon before...
Owner George Galanti and stylist Olga Natsis of Ariston Hair Design hang a pink heart-shaped boa in the salon's window on Broad Street Friday to mark "Paint the Town Pink" week in Red Bank. The third annual "shop, dine, pledge"...
Two days ago on redbankgreen, we gave you a "you Are there" early morning perspective on the painting of a pink line down the middle of Broad Street. The occasion, of course, was the anticipated start of the third annual...
PINK LINE FEVER
Mark Arnone of Liberty Line Striping donated his services Tuesday morning to lay down a temporary pink stripe along Broad Street in Red Bank. The paint job was part of the third annual mini-makeover of the business district known as...
Thanksgiving at Lunch Break was on Branches Catering in 2008. On Monday night, the West Long Branch facility hosts some three dozen restaurants to raise funds for the Red Bank soup kitchen. This long-overdue edition of Done Good — a...
Getting a jump on next month's Paint the Town Pink breast cancer awareness campaign is this strip of curbing between the Broadway Diner and the YMCA's Children's Cultural Center on Monmouth Street. Among the numerous other splashes of pink that...
The cheerful looking gent with the facial tattoos and the snake on his shoulder is Jon Davies, who once upon a time led a local combo by the name of The Secret Syde. The editor of Red Bank oRBit calls...
Members of the Nathan J. Williams Craftsmen Club gathered at the Celestial Lodge earlier this month. A Red Bank-based motorcycle club is planning its second annual rally to raise scholarship money. The event is scheduled for 11a to 6p Saturday,...
A short fireworks display was lofted from Marine Park next to the Monmouth Boat Club Thursday night. Organizers of KaBoom Fireworks, Red Bank's largest public event, are asking the public to dig deep for contributions this year. The event has...
Ten families have signed up for this weekend's event on Madison Avenue, says organizer Sandy Riddle. Yes, folks, the redbankgreen Yard Sale Watch is back, bringing you word about interesting outdoor bargain-hunting opportunities as we beat the drum for the...
Theater Week of Sorts continues in today's Red Bank oRBit with a look at The Housewives of Mannheim, the new show at New Jersey Rep in Long Branch, and its "real housewives" of 1944 Brooklyn. We talk to playwright (and...
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...
Daffodils in bloom a year ago on River Road in Red Bank. By LAURA KOSS Nothing welcomes spring like daffodils, those happy yellow fellas that seem to pop up everywhere this time of year. "They're the most cost-effective and pest-resistant...
Red Bank crossing guard Carl Colmorgen has been known to get into the spirit of the season with unusual headgear at his post at the corner of Broad Street and Harding Road. Yesterday, he wore rabbit ears supplemented by a...
About 150 parents turned out at Red Bank Regional on Thursday night for the second annual 'Surviving the Teen Years' symposium. Ptl. Peter Gibson, school resource officer, above, was joined by counselors and other law enforcement personnel to talk about...
RBR Source program director Gilda Rogers and parent Karen Lloyd discuss plans for last year's 'Surviving the Teen Years' event, which will be reprised next week. By LAURA KOSS Teens can deplete medicine cabinets just a pill or two at...
Some shots from around Red Bank Tuesday afternoon, where everywhere under a brilliant blue sky were flashes of green. Email this story
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit has a report on compulsively productive local artist Andrea 'Pinky' Adubato, who sustained a serious incomplete spinal cord injury while hiking in New Mexico over four months ago. Known for her distinctive pet portraits,...
A heated tent awaits the throng of full-time and part-time Irishmen for today's St. Patrick's Day celebration at the Dublin House. Below, a view of the recently completed first-floor bar. (Click to enlarge) Patrons of today's St. Patrick's Day celebration...
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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 ...
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 ...