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March 26th, 2007 @ 3pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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To the untrained eye, the nature area at Fair Haven Fields looks as otherwordly as it ever has. A compact little wetland forest at the edge of a suburban bedroom community, "it's sort of our micro-wilderness," says neighbor Dick Fuller....
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March 23rd, 2007 @ 8am
Robert A. Herold, owner of The Fence Guys in Highlands, has asked redbankgreen to clarify the identity and employment of the suspect named in our March 16 story about the theft of borough-owned fencing on Locust Avenue in Red Bank....
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March 23rd, 2007 @ 8am
We've got our bald eagle. In Red Bank, Tenn., the news today concerns coyotes. From News Channel 9, WTVC, in Chattanooga: A problem is brewing for homeowners in Red Bank who say they've seen a number of coyotes near their...
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March 21st, 2007 @ 5am
The staff of redbankgreen was out for a late-afternoon walk on Tuesday when we were astonished to see a bald eagle flying overhead. We were just stepping onto the Cooper Bridge from the Middletown side when we saw the giant...
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March 16th, 2007 @ 1pm
[CLARIFICATION: Robert A. Herold, owner of The Fence Guys in Highlands, has asked redbankgreen to clarify the identity and employment of the suspect named in the article below. Charged in the theft was Herold's 29-year-old son, Robert F. Herold, who...
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March 16th, 2007 @ 7am
The state Board of Public Utilities is planning to review electrical utility JCP&L's response to the Feb. 14 ice storm that cut power to about 120,000 homes, in some cases for days. Many of those homes were in the Red...
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February 26th, 2007 @ 6am
Today's Asbury Park Press has a fascinating story today about a study in which fish tagged with tracking devices were released into the Navesink River as part of a study to understand their wanderings. From the article, by reporter Kirk...
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February 24th, 2007 @ 10am
Today's Star-Ledger has a story on the residual power outages from Wednesday's storm, most of which are concentrated in this corner of Monmouth County. And the Asbury Park Press reported at 7:30a that between 501 and 2,000 customers still had...
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February 16th, 2007 @ 9am
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February 15th, 2007 @ 12am
The Navesink River was bustling with ice-starved skaters, walkers and racers Saturday, raising concern that too many people may be assuming that the entire surface is solid when it isn't. "There's a lot of places that are unsafe," said racer...
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February 11th, 2007 @ 9am
Today's Asbury Park Press reports that the home of the North Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Club is close to winning state designation as an historic structure. The building is in Red Bank on the Navesink River (known as the...
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February 7th, 2007 @ 11am
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February 7th, 2007 @ 10am
Some art requires solitude and study and the quiet wait for inspiration. But when a visitor asks Medy Quiroz about how she works, she drags a clattering easel into the middle of her kitchen floor, puts up a large half-finished...
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February 2nd, 2007 @ 7am
Shellfishermen downriver in Sandy Hook Bay weren't entirely satisfied, but Red Bank and state officials say they're attacking elevated fecal coliform levels in the Navesink River with all they've got, and that it's working. The most effective tool at their...
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January 19th, 2007 @ 12am
The would-be developer of the former Doremus estate in Fair Haven wants to give the adjoining Schwenker's Pond to the borough. He may soon be advised to go jump in a lake. "The pond is a mess, frankly," says Mayor...
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January 16th, 2007 @ 9am
Officials from the state Department of Environmental Protection are scheduled to present the results of a recent study of fecal coliform in the Navesink River Wednesday night. The news isn't good. The meeting of Navesink River Municipalities Committee “is of...
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January 15th, 2007 @ 6am
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January 4th, 2007 @ 12am
Gone are the days when a plunge into the ocean at the start of a new year was the province of a few wingnuts bent on proving their iconoclastic chops to a conformist world. No more. Now, it seems, everyone's...
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January 3rd, 2007 @ 12am
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November 16th, 2006 @ 12am
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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 ...