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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
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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A full-page photo of Giants quarterback Eli Manning and the headline 'CHAMPS' consume the entire front page of today's Star-Ledger (print version, of course). "NOW THAT'S PERFECT!" screams the sports section lead page. And inside: reams of photos and copy...
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February 4th, 2008 @ 10am
Bailey Taft, left, and Melissa Dominach amid the bounty they've collected for Red Bank athletic programs. (Photo courtesy of Margie Dominach) By LINDA G. RASTELLI Bailey Taft and Melissa Dominach are 12-years-old who listen to Bruce Springsteen and are active...
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February 4th, 2008 @ 8am
Johnny Podres signs autographs at the Two River Theater in August. We thought some baseball-loving redbankgreen readers might like to see this photo of Johnny Podres, the great Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who died yesterday in Queensbury, N.Y. He was 75...
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January 14th, 2008 @ 8am
A pack of unidentified runners thunders down blustery West Front Street late Monday afternoon. Today's weather forecast: partly sunny, with a high near 39. Breezy, with a west wind between 20 and 26 mph, with gusts as high as 43...
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December 4th, 2007 @ 7am
Members of the Harford, Bender, Mortimer and O'Connor families gathered at the Red Bank Middle School yesterday for their annual touch football game, which only on occasion looks more like a tackle game. Email this photo
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November 23rd, 2007 @ 8am
What's the difference between racquetball and squash? For starters, says Francis Odeh, "Racquetball chases you all over the place, but in squash, you chase the ball." In racquetball, the ball is bouncier and moves faster, and you can play the...
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November 16th, 2007 @ 7am
Resident Sean Murphy, at left, makes a point at last night's Parks & Rec Committee meeting. Chastened last month by elected officials for faulty communication about the state of the borough's playgrounds, Red Bank's Parks & Rec Committee assembled last...
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November 15th, 2007 @ 8am
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
By LINDA G. RASTELLI At Long Branch’s Skateplex recently, a four-year-old boy in long shorts, t-shirt and oversized helmet stands hesitantly atop a ramp with one foot on a skateboard almost as long as he is tall. As other kids...
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October 5th, 2007 @ 8am
Miami Dolphins fanatic Robert Greene in his field of dreams on Chapin Avenue, where the kick is always good and no opponent dares show his face. Just once a year, barring an extraordinary playoff situation that adds another matchup, the...
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September 22nd, 2007 @ 3pm
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September 4th, 2007 @ 11am
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August 14th, 2007 @ 12pm
Even from the perspective of non-fans of the game, this weekend's baseball show at the Two River Theater looks genuinely fascinating. The program calls for a full and wide-ranging schedule of baseball-themed readings ('Casey at the Bat,' anyone?), movies, speeches...
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August 9th, 2007 @ 7am
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July 27th, 2007 @ 9am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI One recent morning at the tennis courts in Marine Park, the air was crisp, the clouds distant, and the sun's rays subdued. In short, the kind of morning tennis players dream about, in a setting that's...
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July 9th, 2007 @ 11am
More than 50 kids participated in a three-on-three basketball tournament held this morning at Count Basie Courts. Organizers from the Pilgrim Baptist Church and other groups say they plan to make the event an annual one. Click on the pix...
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July 7th, 2007 @ 1pm
Anybody who's ever played hoops knows how much fun a game of three-on-three can be. There are just enough players to make the game strategically challenging, but not so many that anybody gets left out of the action. This weekend,...
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July 5th, 2007 @ 11am
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June 25th, 2007 @ 10am
Preservation Red Bank, a private-sector organization that works to allow old buildings to keep getting older, will hold its annual meeting this Sunday in one of the borough's oldest — a place that all but creaks with character. The group...
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June 20th, 2007 @ 10am
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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 ...