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Today's Asbury Park Press has a feature on reverse commuters — people who come to the Shore from Manhattan to work. And all three people cited as examples happen to own stores in downtown Red Bank. Interviewed are Mike Buess...
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March 3rd, 2008 @ 8am
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Boarding the bus for Friday night's playoff game were, from left, Kerry Wilson and Katie Devin of Shrewsbury and Amanda Kohlbecker of Little Silver. How this story stayed under the media radar we have no idea. But the Red Bank...
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March 3rd, 2008 @ 7am
Two River Film Festival founder and CEO Rosellen Otrakji with Mike Buess, center, and VJ Carbone of The Bodega Shoppe at Thursday night's reception for the TRFF. (Photo courtesy of Diana Moore) Film buffs who mark their calendars each November...
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February 29th, 2008 @ 1pm
Today, redbankgreen introduces 'DONE GOOD,' an occasional feature spotlighting individuals and organizations making a positive impact on their communities through volunteer efforts. For info on submitting items for consideration, see below. TONIGHT: RBR Hosts art auction The third annual charity...
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February 29th, 2008 @ 10am
Middletown resident Kevin Freibott, a former township police officer, was sentenced to 11 years in state prison yesterday for a car crash that killed a two-year-old boy and left his mother comatose and severely brain-injured, today's Star-Ledger reports. The accident...
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February 29th, 2008 @ 7am
Centennial logo design winner Alexis Holiday is a fourth-generation Red Banker. The winner of a contest for a logo to commemorate Red Bank's first hundred years is a 14-year-old Charter School student who only recently began dabbling in Adobe Photoshop,...
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February 28th, 2008 @ 9am
Four-year old Maya Williams, center, examines a display at the one-night Black History Month exhibit last night. Maya was joined by her sister Kayla, 10, at left and Amani Cureton, also 10. About 150 people gathered Wednesday evening at the...
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February 28th, 2008 @ 6am
A 19-year-old Red Bank man is being held on $345,000 bail in connection with what police say was an armed burglary of an acquaintance's apartment on Harding Road early Tuesday morning. Prince Johnson was arrested at his West Westside Avenue...
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February 27th, 2008 @ 6am
A virtual tie at Saturday's screening committee session for potential Monmouth County Freeholder candidates means that Red Bank Councilman John Curley and Holmdel Mayor Serena DiMaso will have another month to court favor with county Republicans. Party chairman Adam Puharic...
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February 26th, 2008 @ 5am
A Monmouth County grand jury has indicted a 52-year-old Fair Haven woman in connection with what authorities say were her efforts to fraudulently obtain prescription painkillers. Janice Rogers (no street address given) was charged iwith two counts of third-degree attempting...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 4pm
The screening committee of the Monmouth County Republicans failed Saturday to select a slate to run for two county freeholder seats open in November, according to the Asbury Park Press. Red Bank Borough Councilman John Curley's still in the running...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 5am
Will John Curley's firebrand personality fly with Monmouth County Republican powerbrokers? The Red Bank councilman will find out tomorrow when he goes before the party's screening committee in a bid to be one of two nominees to run for county...
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February 22nd, 2008 @ 4pm
By TOM CHESEK For a man who quit an established recording career in order to study the fine art of making violins, David Bromberg sure knows how to work a room. A veteran sideman to Dylan, Ringo Starr and Jerry...
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February 20th, 2008 @ 9am
By TOM CHESEK The flying saucer descends to the stage of the Vegas Hilton in a swamp-gas riot of dry-ice foggers and gelled lights. Through the actual haze (and the one brought on by the showroom's three-drink minimum), the audience...
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February 19th, 2008 @ 9am
The Bistro's George Lyristis: "You can't always ask somebody else to fix the problem." Business is tough these days for many Red Bank restaurants. And it's not simply a matter of the winter blahs. The economy has soured. Would-be patrons...
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February 19th, 2008 @ 7am
Today's Sunday Star-Ledger has an extensive piece about the black activist journalist T. (Timothy) Thomas Fortune and the effort to save his longtime Red Bank home from the wrecking ball — or, as the article's author puts it, "from predatory...
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February 17th, 2008 @ 11am
A former Red Bank policeman was sentenced to 18 months probation for assaulting a man while on duty shortly after the 2006 fireworks display in town, the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office says in a press release issued late yesterday.Download 021508a.pdf...
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February 16th, 2008 @ 9am
Red Bank Councilman John Curley has thrown his name in for consideration by Republican powerbrokers as a potential candidate for Monmouth County Freeholder in November, Curley has confirmed to the the Hub. In the current edition, the weekly reports that...
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February 14th, 2008 @ 7am
The white building at far right and other property is available for a community center, says Rev. Terrence K. Porter. The push for the creation of a Red Bank community center has a new element to it: an offer of...
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February 13th, 2008 @ 11am
A retired Fair Haven policeman and former borough official has taken a plea of endangering he welfare of a child after he was alleged to have used a Borough Hall computer to view child pornography, the Asbury Park Press reports...
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February 13th, 2008 @ 7am
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NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
LONG LIVE LOCAL NEWS!
"Long Live Local News" flags from redbankgreen's 20th anniversary celebration in Marine Park Tuesday prove to be the perfect compliment to s ...
MUMS AND WITCHES
17 Prospect Ave (Photo by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
KAYAKERS CLEAR RIVER JUNK
Partyline photo: "The Navesink Nymphs" clear floating tires from the river.
PAINT IT PURPLE?
Caption: ‘Should it be done purple?’ Perfect day. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
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MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner photographs praying mantis at church.
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 ...
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