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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...
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April 20th, 2009 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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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...
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April 6th, 2009 @ 11am
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...
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February 26th, 2009 @ 7am
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...
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February 25th, 2009 @ 7am
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...
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February 10th, 2009 @ 12pm
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January 22nd, 2009 @ 6am
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,"...
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January 21st, 2009 @ 6am
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...
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January 15th, 2009 @ 7am
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...
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January 8th, 2009 @ 6am
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...
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October 8th, 2008 @ 6am
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May 13th, 2008 @ 7am
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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April 2nd, 2008 @ 9am
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January 24th, 2008 @ 10am
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November 26th, 2007 @ 3pm
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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November 26th, 2007 @ 3pm
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October 12th, 2007 @ 4pm
That's right, two chances in two days to see Red Bank's finest blues band. And you can't beat the price on either one. The Little Silver show is from 7 to 9p. The Gazebo is on Markham Place next to...
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September 21st, 2007 @ 3pm
"Frustrated" by a housing market that keeps moving in the wrong direction, Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises yesterday reported its third consecutive quarterly loss. As a result, Moody's Investors Services cut its ratings on Hovnanian debt issues, saying the homebuilder's cash...
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June 1st, 2007 @ 1am
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May 24th, 2007 @ 8am
Today, redbankgreen embarks on an exciting new venture. The Rumstones, a family of four that recently moved to our area, is allowing us to fully document their lives as they set up house and weave their way into the community....
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March 26th, 2007 @ 6am
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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 ...