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Fans of women's basketball take note: a semi-pro league has established a new team that will use the Salvation Army gym in Red Bank as its home court. The Jersey Fusion is one of the latest members of the Women's...
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May 11th, 2009 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Plans for $8 million in new facilities at the Community YMCA on Maple Avenue in Red Bank have raised concerns about traffic safety, according to today's Asbury Park Press. The newspaper reports that the Y's expansion project would add a...
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April 23rd, 2009 @ 6am
The truck that left these tracks in the baseball infield at East Side Park also tore up a portion of the new soccer field sod. Later, the truck got stuck in Marine Park. Among some English words you don't want...
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April 16th, 2009 @ 3pm
As noted in a redbankgreen reader comment, the state Attorney General has backed off a plan to fine 81 percent of the state's bowling alleys $3,000 each for violating raffle regulations. From a statement issued by the AG's Consumer Affairs...
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April 9th, 2009 @ 7am
The state Consumer Affairs division took the action as part of a raffle-licensing enforcement. Memory Bowling in Shrewsbury was among 59 bowling alleys statewide cited for conducting 50/50 raffles that violate New Jersey regulations, the state Attorney General's office announced...
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April 7th, 2009 @ 8am
Workers grade soil and lay sod at Red Bank's East Side Park Monday. The effort, which included the installation of several inches of clean topsoil, followed reports of soil contaminated with broken glass and other debris having been used at...
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March 31st, 2009 @ 5am
Contractors working on the midfield at Count Basie Fields earlier this week raked out contaminated soil from the same loads used at East Side Park, borough officials confirmed. Playing fields at Red Bank's East Side Park, where soil containing shards...
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March 26th, 2009 @ 12pm
Neighbors Marc Dostie, left, and Mark Halloran show off some of the debris found in soil laid down recently at East Side Park. Evidence of glass and ceramic shards in fill dirt installed recently in Red Bank's East Side Park...
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March 24th, 2009 @ 8am
RBC freshmen after a scrimmage at Count Basie Field last September. Hey, Red Bank, wanna sell your stadium? That was the gist of a letter sent recently to the borough board of education by Tim Fallon of Shrewsbury, acting in...
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March 18th, 2009 @ 2pm
Community center proponents Peter Noble, president of the Red Bank Board of Ed, and David Prown after Monday's borough council session, which ran for almost three hours, as suggested by the clock in the background. After nearly three months of...
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February 24th, 2009 @ 9am
Employees of McGhee Contracting, hoisted into position by a lift, hammer away at RBC's stack Saturday morning. Demolition of Red Bank Catholic's smokestack got underway Saturday, a few days earlier than expected. Tim McGhee, owner of McGhee Contracting in Oceanport,...
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February 9th, 2009 @ 8am
Jim Fitzmaurice leads an apparently coherent group of runners out of the Red Bank train station Saturday morning... Thirty years of weekly runs, and still they have no idea where the hell they're going. ...but just two blocks later, some...
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February 9th, 2009 @ 7am
Sorry, kids — no dynamite. A long disused smokestack behind Red Bank Catholic High School is coming down next week, weather and other conditions permitting. Jay Patock, president of Patock Construction in Eatontown, says demolition of the stack, which is...
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February 6th, 2009 @ 5am
Rumson-Fair Haven girls basketball player Kate Miller bagged her 1,500th career point — a school record — and coach George Sourlis notched his 500th victory, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The dual milestones came in the Bulldogs' 58-32 Shore Conference...
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February 4th, 2009 @ 6am
Jim Roberts of Wall tries out his kite wing on the Navesink yesterday. Conditions were iffy on the Navesink River yesterday, with just a few small iceboats and skaters venturing out from Red Bank. The ice was said to be...
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January 30th, 2009 @ 6am
Cindy Burnham on the between-names property last year. Having safeguarded a borough-owned riverfront property from sale and possible development last year, Cindy Burnham went to the Red Bank Council earlier this week hoping to get quick approval for a name...
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January 29th, 2009 @ 11am
Fog piled in Wednesday afternoon after muck piled up earlier in the day on Broad Street, Red Bank. The sun returns today after yesterday's nasty snow-sleet-gunkpuddle precipitation and fog, says the National Weather Service, though the agency doesn't actually use...
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January 29th, 2009 @ 6am
Every few years, Red Bank's summer playground — the Navesink River — comes out of dormancy to play the same role for a few precious winter days or weeks. On Sunday, a day after temperatures climbed into the mid-40s, winter...
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January 26th, 2009 @ 6am
Don Abrams of Little Silver breaks down his 'icebird' after the first sail of the season on the Navesink Wednesday afternoon. A couple of ice boaters took to the Navesink River yesterday afternoon after the ice reached the requisite four...
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January 22nd, 2009 @ 6am
In case you missed it... The New Jersey section of the New York Times had a feature story yesterday on the Rocket, the monster ice boat (shown at right) that's been restored by members of the North Shrewsbury Ice Boat...
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January 12th, 2009 @ 7am
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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.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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 ...