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Today's Red Bank oRBit tackles the up-to-the-minute issue that's on everyone's minds, namely: when exactly did Monday go from mundane to action-packed? It's nowhere near summer yet, but a quick gaze at the Orb events calendar reveals a fistful of...
While last week we brought you the Poet Laureate of the United States, today's Red Bank oRBit book nook is all about guiltier pleasures: a visit with the internationally published writer of historical romance novels known as Kaitlin O’Riley. At...
Remember when you could only see a live show by Celine Dion by traveling to Vegas? Well, Red Bank has its very own "destination" act, the kind in which the fans do the touring and performers stay put. We're talking...
Entries from the Red Bank Police Department blotter for the week of February 13 to February 20, 2009. This information appears here unedited. Shoplifting occurring on 2-13-09 at Broad St. Victim reported unknown subject shoplifted two packages of a dietary...
Investigators on the scene on Locust Avenue, which remained closed between Leighton Avenue and Leighton Place at midmorning. The Monmouth County Prosecutor's office hasn't released any new information about this morning's apparent double homicide in Red Bank except to say...
Jane Simmons at Pigrim Baptist Church on Tuesday. By LAURA KOSS Like many of her contemporaries, Jane Simmons remembers the indignity of segregation. As a young woman growing up in North Carolina, "I sat in the back of the bus,"...
Michael Bonney in his store yesterday. Red Bank News, a mainstay retailer of newspapers, magazines, racing sheets and cigars in downtown Red Bank for at least five decades, is about to become yesterday's news. Owner Michael Bonney tells redbankgreen he'll...
It took a tiebreaker vote by the newly elected Wall Township mayor, a Republican, to hand the job of town attorney to Monmouth County GOP Chairman and former Sheriff Joseph Oxley last night, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The appointment...
Red Bank police say they arrested a gloved man yesterday afternoon shortly after he emerged from a Bank Street house he had broken into, according to the Asbury Park Press. The suspect, Christopher J. Melendez, 21, of Asbury Park, was...
In an effort to preserve beachfront parking and save on construction costs, Sea Bright officials are retooling plans for municipal facilities. Sea Bright officials appear to be retreating from an ambitious plan to remake the waterbound borough's public facilities and...
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Quick! Somebdoy alert Fox News! So he's got an upside-down Christmas tree in the window of his store. Don't read anything into it, says Michael Bonney of Red Bank News. "It's upside-down because it's upside down," Bonney told a puzzled...
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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 ...
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 ...