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From the Asbury Park Press online: In Sea Bright, where high tide was expected to hit between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m., the tidal Shrewsbury River was overflowing by 8:25 a.m., and Ocean Avenue was closed, said Ed Friedman, the...
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April 16th, 2007 @ 9am
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The storm that dropped five inches of rain on parts of New Jersey yesterday led Acting Gov. Dick Codey to declare a state of emergency and advise residents this morning to stay home today if they can. Dozens of stetches...
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April 16th, 2007 @ 7am
For any motorist who's ever been stuck at the intersection of Newman Springs Road and Broad Street while not one but two trains halt traffic, a smidgen of relief is on the way. And for any pedestrian who's tried to...
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April 10th, 2007 @ 7am
Today's Asbury Park Press reports that a helicopter made an emergency landing in the yard of a riverfront Rumson home yesterday after encountering engine problems. The copter was enroute from Bridgeport, Conn., to Pottsville, Pa. Pilot Charles Priestley put it...
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April 3rd, 2007 @ 6am
Virginia S. 'Ginny' Bauer, New Jersey's Secretary of Commerce and the widow of a man killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, is Gov. Jon Corzine's choice to fill a seat on the board of...
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March 29th, 2007 @ 5pm
Yeah, it's a real mess out there. Dangerous, too. Tree branches are falling under the weight of wet ice, often taking wires with them. We saw two downed wires in Rumson that the authorities hadn't yet gotten to in the...
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February 14th, 2007 @ 12pm
Updating the item below... SeaStreak has now cancelled ALL boats to and from Highlands. From the carrier's latest email blast: Due to ice conditions SeaStreak will be making the following changes today's schedule: All service to and from Highlands will...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 1pm
... Seastreak starts c-c-c-cancelling ferry runs because of ice. Which is what they're doing t.-t-t-today. The following departures are cancelled, according to an email sent out at midmorning to subscribers: 11:45a from E. 34th Street & 12:00p from Pier 11...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 12pm
Utility-pole work on East Front Street outside Heritage Liquors and a stalled truck on West Front near the Front Street Trattoria created a one-two punch that brought today's midmorning traffic to a crawl. Email this story
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January 19th, 2007 @ 2pm
The pilot killed in the crash of a single-engine plane in Wayne on Monday night was from Atlantic Highlands. Andrew Coppolo, 55, owned an engineering firm in Orange and flew frequently on business and as a volunteer, ferrying cancer patients...
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January 17th, 2007 @ 9am
A Rumson woman and her son narrowly escaped catastrophe Thursday when the car she was driving became trapped on the North Jersey Coast Line tracks in Little Silver, according to a report in the Asbury Park Press. Both got safely...
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December 8th, 2006 @ 8am
Life can be pretty frustrating on Tower Hill Avenue near Harding Road. Cars heading west and downhill on Harding often turn onto Tower Hill virtually on two wheels, and then barrel down the narrow street of tidy homes to the...
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November 30th, 2006 @ 12am
What's with the partial pave jobs on Hudson Avenue and East Bergen Place? Almost two weeks ago, paving contractors laid down a 10-foot wide strip of steamy new asphalt along the north side of East Bergen. At the same time,...
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November 30th, 2006 @ 12am
NJ Transit is adding a new express train to New York along the North Jersey Coast line next week, according to an agency news release. The new run will leave Long Branch at 6:30a and stop in Little Silver, Red...
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October 25th, 2006 @ 10am
Sea Containers Ltd., the Bermuda-based parent of ferry operator SeaStreak America, has filed for chapter 11 protection from creditors. But the operator of the Highlands and Atlantic Highlands ferries wants it known that it is not a party to the...
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October 16th, 2006 @ 11am
The North Jersey Coast Line train service to Newark and New York, which was reported suspended due to Amtrak power problems earlier this hour, is said to be back in service but experiencing "significant" delays. Commuters are being advised to...
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October 3rd, 2006 @ 8am
Guy Johnson of the Antique Center of Red Bank steamrolled the competition and was the first to identify last week's 'Where' as the railroad trestle that crosses West Front Street near Bridge Avenue. But the most compelling reply came from...
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September 28th, 2006 @ 3am
What's the right balance between security and aesthetics when designing airports, government buildings and skyscrapers in the post-Sept. 11, 2001 era? The Chicago Tribune's architecture writer, Blair Kamin—a son of Fair Haven—takes on this and related questions in a new...
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September 11th, 2006 @ 10am
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August 30th, 2006 @ 10am
Fatalities on New Jersey's major raodways are up this year by 18 percent, reversing a general trend of increasing roadway safety, today's Bergen Record reports. The article comes less than a week after two accidents on a short stretch of...
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August 22nd, 2006 @ 11am
Partyline
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.
CARPY DIEM
From the redbankgreen Partyline: A pair of large carp cruise the shallows under Hubbard's Bridge (Senator Kyrillos Bridge) on Front Street T ...
BIBS ON FOR OPENING DAY
Partyline: Two longtime neighbors re-unite for lobsters on the Boondocks Fishery opening day.