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Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit has details of a special tribute being paid this weekend to the memory of a local resident who left us recently at the age of 87 — the businessman, college athlete and music lover...
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March 4th, 2009 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Utility lines on River Street in Red Bank looked like limp strands of neon tubing late Monday as they reflected the late afternoon sun. The view was west from Shrewsbury Avenue. Expect lots of sunshine today, but cold temperatures rising...
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March 4th, 2009 @ 6am
It's doubtful anyone had more fun in the snow than these two guys roughhousing on Monmouth Street in Red Bank Monday afternoon. OK, except for maybe the kids sledding on Tower Hill. Or maybe Euckie, the snow-crazy Bernese mountain dog...
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March 2nd, 2009 @ 5pm
Location: Max Bernstein's home in Fair Haven. Occasion: Bernstein's annual Fat Tuesday party, a come-what-may affair that this year featured a live band in the living room; a guest appearance by Elvis; tarot readings; an aerialist's performance in the chilly...
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February 25th, 2009 @ 2pm
Pim Van Hemmen at home in Fair Haven. By JoANN PILEGGI Just past the crack of dawn several days a week, Pim Van Hemmen can be seen running at a good clip through Fair Haven. But he's running a little...
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February 13th, 2009 @ 5am
Jim Fitzmaurice leads an apparently coherent group of runners out of the Red Bank train station Saturday morning... Thirty years of weekly runs, and still they have no idea where the hell they're going. ...but just two blocks later, some...
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February 9th, 2009 @ 7am
Attendees found seats wherever they could, even on the stairs of the restored former Anthony Reckless homestead, better known as the Woman's Club of Red Bank. By JoANN PILEGGI Money woes are putting the brakes on pet projects all over...
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February 3rd, 2009 @ 11am
First-place finisher Michael Simone shows off his winning wheels. (Photos by JoAnn Pileggi) By JoANN PILEGGI Some were sleek and speedy. Others were boxy and a little slower. In the end, the designers, builders and racers of the annual Cub...
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February 2nd, 2009 @ 9am
Something called the Men’s Expo and Texas Hold ‘em Tournament parks its snorting hog outside Convention Hall tomorrow, bringing the musky scent of Axe Body Spray to the seabreeze-kissed timbers of Asbury Park this non-Super weekend. Among the attractions: exhibits...
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January 23rd, 2009 @ 11am
Where in the world is the Red Bank International Film Festival? After a three-month postponement from its usual October slot on the calendar, the festival's website still reports that "the invasion has been rescheduled" to this coming weekend. But no...
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January 20th, 2009 @ 6am
Choristers and visitors raised their voices in song during a commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the First Presbyterian Church. By LAURA KOSS In the same church where Martin Luther King Sr. preached in 1971, a group of...
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January 12th, 2009 @ 9am
First place: The Ferreri residence at 53 South Street. Mayor Pasquale Menna announced the winners of Red Bank's first (in recent memory, at least) holiday home decoration contest Monday night. Only nine homeowners nominated themselves or were nominated by others,...
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December 24th, 2008 @ 7am
Concerns about an effort to drum up funds for a Fair Haven government employees' holiday party prompted Borough Administrator Mary Howell to issue a letter telling business owners there are no repercussions for declining to contribute. Because of "miscommunicated" information,...
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December 11th, 2008 @ 7am
Some of the finer sounds from downtown Red Bank this Saturday included the voices of fifth-graders from the River Plaza School in Middletown... who sang from the steps of the Children's Cultural Center on Monmouth Street... while members of the...
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December 8th, 2008 @ 7am
Scenes from the Westside Community Group's annual tree-lighting ceremony at Westside Park (the triangular park at the corner of Shrewsbury Avenue and Drs. James Parker Boulevard) in Red Bank Saturday evening. Just look at those faces, huh? And how about...
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December 6th, 2008 @ 6pm
Oh, and the parking is free all day, even if the meters aren't bagged. Economic conditions, to be sure, are not favorable, and they're markedly worse than when store owners and restaurateurs dreamed up 'Red Bank Residents' Appreciation Day' earlier...
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December 5th, 2008 @ 2pm
Tad Emptage and MelissaMarie Wilhelm dazzled students with a sampling of flips, spins and slides from their aerial show Monday. The kids also got into the act. A pair of performers from a show called Circurious rolled into the gym...
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December 2nd, 2008 @ 10am
Mary Randolph Carter is a collector who loves old objects. But not just aged items; things that wear their age proudly, like a door with paint flaking off its surfaces. It's an aesthetic born of biography: Carter grew up on...
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December 2nd, 2008 @ 7am
Thousands of Red Bankers and visitors packed Broad Street on Friday night for the annual night-after-Thanksgiving gleefest that kicks off the holiday season hereabouts. Bagpipers led a parade into town from the train station. Holiday Express laid down its R&B-flavored...
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December 1st, 2008 @ 6am
A volunteer serves salad at Lunch Break yesterday. Norma Todd's Lunch Break, the 25-year-old Red Bank soup kitchen, was transformed into a fine-dining hall yesterday, providing free Thanksgiving meals on linen tablecloths to more than 200 area residents in two...
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November 28th, 2008 @ 8am
Partyline
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 ...