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Perhaps you've found yourself stopped at the intersection of Maple Avenue and East Bergen in Red Bank wondering, 'What on earth is going on at the house opposite the Windward Deli?' That? Oh, that's just Joe Ruffini installing a green...
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June 28th, 2006 @ 11pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Ten quick questions for Marcos Machado, owner of Fernando's Shoe Repair, 74 Monmouth Street, Red Bank. What happened to Fernando? He retired and moved back to Portugal. I've had the shop since 1998. You moved here in April from 4A...
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June 22nd, 2006 @ 10pm
A curious figure was seen heading stiffly down the driveway to Jim Frechette’s woodworking shop off Shrewsbury Avenue Monday afternoon. Pale and dressed in white shirt and shorts, his ghostly form was accented by the dark trim of orthopedic restraint:...
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June 21st, 2006 @ 11pm
Freelance illustrator and painter Wendy Born Hollander reached a career breaking point about six years ago, thanks to a little yellow cartoon bird with a speech impediment that all the world just loves to love. At the time, she’d been...
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June 21st, 2006 @ 11pm
Ten quick questions for “Chef Kevin” Lynch, executive chef and manager of the cheese, dairy and bakery departments at Sickle’s Market, Little Silver. Are you a ‘foodie’? Yes. Which is more important, quality food or comfortable shoes? Tough question. You...
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June 16th, 2006 @ 8am
You know you're in for a horror of a home-remodeling story when it's got an unseen antagonist and he's referred to only as "the bad contractor." Hey, we don't even want to know the guy's name. Given what we've heard...
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June 14th, 2006 @ 11pm
Tom Labetti is a big fan of Verizon’s new FiOS service. Couldn’t be a stronger advocate for the technology. Thinks it’s so good, in fact, that it’s going to all but annihilate the competition for both high-speed Internet access and...
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June 14th, 2006 @ 11pm
Rumson resident James R. Zazzali, Associate Justice on the state Supreme Court, is Gov. Jon Corzine's choice to succeed Chief Justice Deborah Poritz upon her expected retirement in the fall, according to a story by scoop machine Josh Margolin in...
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June 10th, 2006 @ 12pm
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June 9th, 2006 @ 2pm
redbankgreen called George Sheehan Jr. a couple of Saturdays ago to find out what he was up to. First words out of his mouth: “I’m in my underwear getting ready to change into my shorts for a run.” Well, thanks...
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June 7th, 2006 @ 11pm
She was black, from Jamaica, a woman past 30 who came to the U.S. in 1980 to escape “a hard life.” He was white, a few years younger, a railroad engineer and Solidarity agitator in Poland who fled to the...
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June 7th, 2006 @ 11pm
Just as you can't have a civilization without sewage, you can't have a First Amendment without having to put up with the likes of Ann Coulter. Yesterday, the conservative sump pump appeared on the today show in a little black...
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June 7th, 2006 @ 12pm
Alternating drizzles and downpours made the Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival a damp and occasionally drenching affair for a good part of the weekend. But Saturday afternoon's rain ended just in time for Toni Lynn Washington's walloping show before...
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June 6th, 2006 @ 11am
Rev. Joseph W. Hughes was sentenced to five years in state prison yesterday for stealing $2 million from the Holy Cross Church in Rumson and living a swell life with the dough. The heavy sentence, handed down by Superior Court...
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June 3rd, 2006 @ 10am
RED BANK: redbankgreen's June 1, 2006 profile of blues-and-jazz guitarist Chuck Lambert.
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June 1st, 2006 @ 12am
Saturday night’s festival headliner is Toni Lynn Washington, a well-traveled New Orleans native whose c.v. includes a pop-chart hit in 1965; USO tours of Vietnam during the war; a long stretch away from recording and performing; and a career revival...
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June 1st, 2006 @ 12am
If those old deed books in Monmouth County's Hall of Records could talk… Official records indicate this house was built in 1901, but the date is dubious. Transactions involving the property (whether or not it had a house on it...
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June 1st, 2006 @ 12am
First, our apologies to Deborah Harry for blowing her cover—if that's what we're doing. But surely all flame-haired singers and actresses who patronize the Red Bank Post Office on Broad Street know that some day, one way or another, they're...
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June 1st, 2006 @ 12am
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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.