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Motorists flock to the railing of the Oceanic Bridge when car traffic is stopped for boat traffic. Cars have also been stopping when they're not supposed to, county officials say. Monmouth County is warning motorists not to park on the...
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August 6th, 2008 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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An Atlantic bottlenose breaks the surface of the Navesink on the Middletown side Monday afternoon. (Click to enlarge) It's been some time since there's been anything to report on the dolphin pod that moved into local inland waters seven weeks...
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August 5th, 2008 @ 10am
A dead fish seen in the Navesink off Maple Avenue earlier this summer. Today's Press reports a trio of local fish kills, including one on the Navesink River between Maple Avenue and Riverside Gardens Park. From the report: About 50...
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July 31st, 2008 @ 7am
Sea Bright and other coastal areas could expect more scenes like this one, from tropical storm Ernesto in 2006, according to a report that also examines the economic wallop of rising seas. The economic impacts of global warming on New...
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July 25th, 2008 @ 8am
A kayaker watches a dolphin off Rumson last week. Today's Star-Ledger has an Associated Press story reporting that the folks at a marine animal advocacy group are getting anxious about a federal agency's reluctance to tease our visiting dolphins out...
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July 24th, 2008 @ 7am
Dolphins near the Oceanic Bridge late Wednesday afternoon. (Photo courtesy of Mary Fenton) We were just wrapping up our sixth visit to the dolphins since they moved into the Navesink River more than a week ago when we heard on...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 8am
In the grillwork of the now-vacant Meridian nursing home on West Front Street in Red Bank, a family of house sparrows has taken up summer residence. Last week, the little ones had mom flying off again and again to return...
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July 16th, 2008 @ 9am
Motorists took advantage of bridge-opening intervals to get out of their cars and look at the dolphins feeding in the Navesink just west of the Oceanic Bridge Sunday evening. Except for the river itself. the bridge is the only publicly...
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July 14th, 2008 @ 10am
The Highlands Bridge as seen earlier this week, looking west from the Sandy Hook overpass. Today's Star-Ledger has a dire forecast for beachgoers heading home from Sandy Hook by car this weekend: "traffic stretching as far as the eye can...
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July 11th, 2008 @ 8am
Fishing for news: TV trucks in Marine Park Wednesday afternoon. As go the dolphins, so go the TV news crews, apparently. A couple of TV trucks were spotted in Red Bank's Marine Park yesterday, following redbankgreen's reports that the Atlantic...
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July 10th, 2008 @ 6am
Contractors at work on the dock Monday afternoon. The long-awaited renovation of the Fair Haven municipal dock is finally underway. And the timing... well, it could be better. The $200,000 project, being handled by contractor Bird Construction, calls for replacement...
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July 9th, 2008 @ 9am
Dining al fresco on the west side of the Oceanic Bridge, under the admiring watch of nearby boaters, were these two members of the pod. (Click to enlarge) Maybe they got bored just shuttling back and forth in the Shrewsbury...
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July 9th, 2008 @ 6am
If they show up, don't feed 'em. So says this NOAA sign posted on the pier at Marine Park in Red Bank. rebankgreen has been following up — fruitlessly, thus far — reports that the dolphin pod that has transfixed...
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July 7th, 2008 @ 5pm
Cranes and other equipment brought in for the demolition of the Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge will be idle until Monday, in deference to the dolphins. By SUE MORGAN Thanks to those hungry bottlenose dolphins in the Shrewsbury River, work on the...
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July 2nd, 2008 @ 7am
All the dolphin gawking was the subject of a piece on last night's NBC Nightly News, hosted by Middletown-raised Brian Williams. By SUE MORGAN Save the airfare and the money you would have blown on souvenirs — if it's a...
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July 2nd, 2008 @ 6am
NOAA's ark, er, motorboat as seen from Sea Bright on Sunday morning. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says today that it is still monitoring the pod of bottlenose dolphins that's been in the Shrewsbury River for more than two...
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June 30th, 2008 @ 2pm
From boats, land, docks and bridges, everybody wants to get a gander at the dolphins, it seems. "We were just saying that mothers are probably telling their kids, 'no dolphins if you don't finish your dinner,'" one woman quipped as...
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June 30th, 2008 @ 11am
With a clear shot at the Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge — the gateway to Sandy Hook Bay — the dolphins instead chose to extend their stay in the Shrewsbury River late Sunday afternoon. Two weeks later, they're still here. The pod...
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June 30th, 2008 @ 7am
A sailboat under power gets close to the dolphins between Sea Bright and Highlands late Friday afternoon. Trailed and often surrounded by big boats, small boats and personal watercraft, a pod of dolphins moved back and forth in the upper...
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June 28th, 2008 @ 6am
Dolphins in the Shrewsbury River near the confluence of the Navesink yesterday. The Asbury Park Press reports that the dolphin pod in the Shrewsbury River is heading north. The U.S. Coast Guard and state Marine Police [are] giving them an...
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June 27th, 2008 @ 2pm
Partyline
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 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...