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The house at 38 West River Road, visible from the Victory Park gazebo, has been acquired by Rumson for a park expansion. Monmouth County has awarded Rumson $250,000 toward its $875,000 purchase of land adjoining Victory Park for a westward...
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December 29th, 2008 @ 5am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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A player for Holy Cross, in Rumson, goes baseline, and below, Coach Kevin Lydon instructs his players from the Knollwood School, Fair Haven, in strategy during a Saturday morning game. Lydon, who coaches both the girls' and boy's teams, led...
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December 8th, 2008 @ 7am
All evidence of this year's race was gone from Broad Street by 10:35a. It's a rite of winter. The organizers of the George Sheehan Classic ask the Red Bank Council to green-light its annual five-mile race and related activities downtown....
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November 25th, 2008 @ 8am
Taylor Crystian, center, joins her teammates for the last huddle of the season after a game under the lights at Count Basie Field Monday night. Even though he'd caught a pass for a nice gain, one kid was near tears...
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 8am
Yogi said it ain't over 'til it's over, but after seven years on Monmouth Street, Julie Baron and husband Bruce are signing off at their memorabilia showcase store. By TOM CHESEK RETIREMENT SALE. EVERYTHING MUST GO. 50% OFF. The signs...
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October 16th, 2008 @ 7am
A sailor took advantage of the brilliant sunshine and light breezes for an outing on the Navesink yesterday, as seen from the Molly Pitcher Inn in Red Bank. Here's the weekend weather outlook from the National Weather Service: Today: Mostly...
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October 3rd, 2008 @ 6am
A lone rower glides his scull over the glass-smooth Navesink River at dusk Tuesday, as seen from the foot of Hance Road, Fair Haven. (Click to enlarge) Email this story
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October 1st, 2008 @ 6am
Himself, at the Count Basie Theatre in May. The NFL has confirmed that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play the halftime show at the Super Bowl on Feb. 1. The show had been rumored since a report...
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September 29th, 2008 @ 8am
Fans of former New York Giants tight end Mark Bavaro huddled under a tent in the rain, clutching football jerseys, helmets and, oh yeah, his new novel during a signing event at River Road Books in Fair Haven on Saturday....
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September 29th, 2008 @ 7am
A parade that was to have preceded tonight's football showdown between Red Bank Regional and Red Bank Catholic high schools at Count Basie Field has been called because of rain. The game is still scheduled for a 7p kickoff, but...
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September 26th, 2008 @ 12pm
Today's edition gives the rundown on these events happening locally tonight and tomorrow: • A funeral, of sorts, for Gram Parsons, a guy who's been dead 35 years but whose music is very much alive in a tribute show in...
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September 19th, 2008 @ 8am
Sunday's Danskin Women's Triathlon at Sandy Hook drew dozens of competitors — they were the ones with the indelible numbers on their biceps — to the streets of downtown Red Bank this weekend. Among them were these women from Bergen...
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September 15th, 2008 @ 7am
Just one month ago, Frank Edgerly gave up the head football coaching job at Red Bank Catholic to become an assistant coach for Rutgers University's Scarlet Knights. Last night, he was back on the sidelines of an RBC practice, having...
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September 11th, 2008 @ 6am
Red Bank is seeking county and state grants with an eye toward replacing — maybe — the football field at Count Basie Park, seen here after a scrimmage last week between freshmen from RBC and Manasquan High. Hey, if Monmouth...
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September 10th, 2008 @ 8am
We came across this dripping faucet and sign last Saturday next to the basketball court at M.T. Thompson Park in Lincroft (not part of Monmouth County's Thompson Park just a few hundred yards west on Newman Springs Road). The faucet...
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September 4th, 2008 @ 6am
When the Chinese men’s basketball team, led by cross-cultural phenom Yao Ming, took to the Beijing court this morning (4:45a EST) for its Olympics game against Lithuania, it did so to the galloping strains of a tune co-written by a...
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August 20th, 2008 @ 8am
Today's edition of the thrice-weekly Red Bank oRBit features a report that Springsteen & Co. will command the halftime show at the next Super Bowl. Also in oRBit: • A look-ahead at some terrific events coming down in the next...
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August 11th, 2008 @ 8am
Frank Edgerly, head football coach at Red Bank Catholic for the past nine years, has taken a job as director of pigskin recruiting operations for Rutgers University, where he was a standout quarterback. The university announced Edgerly's hiring yesterday. He'll...
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August 7th, 2008 @ 6am
Today's Asbury Park Press reports that two personal watercraft collided in mid-air on the Navesink River in Fair Haven Monday afternoon, injuring one of the operators. Both riders had jumped the wake of a boat when they crashed, the Press...
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August 5th, 2008 @ 6am
Red Bank resident Del Dal Par was named athletic director by the board of Red Bank Regional High, today's Asbury Park Press reports. Dal Par has been working as baseball coach at Ocean Township High for the past nine seasons,...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 7am
Partyline
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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...