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Councilman Michael DuPont subjected the head of Parks & Rec to a cringe-inducing dressing down. Mayor Pasquale Menna pre-emptively lambasted a resident for a letter not yet published by a weekly newspaper. Art Murphy wigged out on fellow councilmember Grace...
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October 23rd, 2007 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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The somewhat-shuttered playground at Marine Park, as seen last week. Parks & Rec Director Bob Evans showed up at last night's borough council session prepared to talk about swing sets, slides and triple-shredded, debarked-woodchip play areas. Instead, he found himself...
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October 23rd, 2007 @ 12pm
Mayor Pasquale Menna last night lit into what he termed a "poison pen" letter to the editor of the Hub by Gene Goellner of Linden Place. The letter hasn't yet been published — Goellner tells us it's slated for to...
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October 23rd, 2007 @ 12pm
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October 23rd, 2007 @ 6am
In a move that puts more daylight between himself and his fellow Democrats on the issue of health benefits for elected officials, Mayor Pasquale Menna today said he would move to eliminate insurance benefits for himself "and all future mayors"...
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October 22nd, 2007 @ 4pm
The first 72 hours of 2008 will be busy ones for the critters at Fins and Feathers, a pet store at the corner of Monmouth Street and Maple Avenue. They'll be hopping, flying and skittering a couple of hundred yards...
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October 22nd, 2007 @ 8am
Prosecutors in Hudson County have offered Jersey City cop Kevin Freibott of Middletown a plea deal that would send him to prison for 11 years for his alleged role in the DWI death of a two-year-old boy in January, the...
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October 22nd, 2007 @ 7am
Today's Star-Ledger drops in for a look at the "she slurps her soup"/"she kicks puppies" rhetoric in the 12th-district state Senate contest between incumbent Ellen Karcher of Marlboro and Red Bank Republican Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck. From the article: In the...
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October 21st, 2007 @ 9am
James Gleason By LINDA G. RASTELLI A former computer teacher at the High Technology High School in Lincroft has won a $25,000 Milken National Educator award from the Milken Family Foundation, established by former junk bond trader Michael Milken and...
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October 19th, 2007 @ 6am
A Red Bank police patrolman has been indicted for aggravated assault and other alleged crimes arising from the arrest of a Middletown man following the borough's 2006 Kaboom Fireworks show, according to a report in the Asbury Park Press. An...
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October 16th, 2007 @ 12am
Chris Covert is fond of the 'goofball' approach to art, bringing a loosey-goosey attitude to choosing his subjects and often settling on celebrities who tickle his funny button. He likes stand-up comics, and will knock off a portrait of one...
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October 15th, 2007 @ 10am
A Rumson doctor was headed to federal court this afternoon after being arrested this morning on charges of presecribing excessive amounts of presecription drugs that he knew would be illegally resold or abused, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. An...
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October 11th, 2007 @ 2pm
Republicans John Tyler, upper left, and Grace Cangemi draw lots from forum moderator Amy Goldsmith to see who will speak first as Democrats Ed Zipprich, Kathy Horgan and Sharon Lee, all in foreground, look on. They came, they saw, they...
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October 11th, 2007 @ 2pm
Questions over evidence prompted a postponement of the municipal court trial of Red Bank Red Hot publisher Claudia Ansorge this morning. Ansorge, of Broad Street, faces a charge of driving while intoxicated arising from an April, 2006 accident that killed...
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October 11th, 2007 @ 11am
In one of the odder entries in the annals of local governance, the Fair Haven Borough Council met yesterday with the stated purpose of blowing off steam. And vent its members did, giving voice to everything from disappointment to indignation...
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October 10th, 2007 @ 8am
Virginia S. Bauer, a widow of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center who became a champion for families of the victims and later headed New Jersey's state lottery and commerce departments, has remarried, the New York...
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October 9th, 2007 @ 7am
A 16-year-old junior from Middletown High School North was killed when a car in which she was a passenger with four other teenagers crashed into a light stanchion near Brunswick Square Mall in East Brunswick Saturday night, today's Asbury Park...
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October 8th, 2007 @ 7am
Rev. Dwight Crist Northington of Calvary Baptist Church on Bridge Avenue is featured in today's Asbury Park Press, where he talks about the double lung transplant that saved his life earlier this year. From the article: A year ago, the...
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October 8th, 2007 @ 7am
Red Bank Police arrested a 46-year-old borough man in the early hours of Tuesday morning following a reported sexual assault of a woman on Monmouth Street, police Capt. Steve McCarthy reports today. The victim, a 24-year-old resident of Little Silver,...
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October 5th, 2007 @ 2pm
A Florida man is suing Bruce Springsteen and his wife, Patti Scialfa, for backing out of a purported agreement to buy a horse for $850,000, according to a story in today's South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Springsteen and Scialfa, who have homes...
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October 5th, 2007 @ 1pm
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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 ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
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.