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A Tinton Falls man whose efforts to reclaim his son from a Brazilian man have garnered growing international attention was back home late last week after a visit with the boy in Brasilia. It was David Goldman's first visit with...
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February 16th, 2009 @ 8am
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Following previews, 'ReEntry' is now fully underway at at Red Bank’s Two River Theater, and today's Red Bank oRBit salutes it with an admiring review. The play, by Emily Ackerman and KJ Sanchez, weighs the costs of war through the...
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January 29th, 2009 @ 9am
The new president recited the oath of office, and Red Bank tuned in. They interrupted their usual routines and silenced their lunchtime chatter to watch, their eyes drawn to television screens and the making of what all agreed was American...
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January 21st, 2009 @ 6am
Red Bank voters lined up at dawn on Nov. 4 to participate in the election that today puts Barack Obama in the White House as the 44th President of the United States of America. Among the one to two million...
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January 20th, 2009 @ 6am
One of the most powerful pieces of theater to come along in a while hits the main stage of the Two River Theater this week. Called 'ReEntry,' it's a play gleaned from hundreds of hours of interviews with returning combat...
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January 19th, 2009 @ 7am
State Senator Jennifer Beck is about to add a new line or two to her résumé. Twelfth-district state Senator Jennifer Beck has been awarded a fellowship by the Aspen Institute, where elected officials study the values and principles underlying democracy,...
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December 8th, 2008 @ 11am
Here's a charming video by Larry Higgs of the Asbury Park Press, who accompanied a fourth-grade class from the Red Bank Charter School on a trip to the newly rebuilt 7 World Trade Center recently. Dana McQuillan, who's both a...
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November 13th, 2008 @ 5am
Voters exit the Hook & Ladder Fire House on Mechanic Street, site of the district 1 polling station, after casting their ballots Tuesday. Long an island of aqua in a red county, Red Bank went inky blue this year, throwing...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 11am
Amy Mallet of Fair Haven and John Curley of Middletown remain locked in squeaker of an election for Monmouth County Freeholder this morning. "It's quite a battle," Republican Curley tells redbankgreen. The county clerk's website has Mallet, a Democrat, leading...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 10am
Ninety-three-year-old Jacqueline O'Shea signs in to vote at Borough Hall in Sea Bright Tuesday. By SUE MORGAN A year after a disputed mayoral race that has yet to be resolved in court, Sea Bright voters dispatched two Democrats from the...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 8am
A Rumson voter signs in at the Forrestdale School polling station Tuesday afternoon. By SUE MORGAN By 8p, Democratic Borough Council candidate Michael Steinhorn expected to have picked up his campaign signs, all 25 or so of them, that he...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 7am
Out are two Republican incumbents and in come a Democrat and an independent after Little Silver voters dealt their harshest rebuke to the GOP in a decade Tuesday. Of 6,445 votes cast, the largest share, 1,681, went to attorney Daniel...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 7am
No changes planned here. Incumbent Republicans Jerome Koch and James Banahan held off a challenge from a single Democratic candidate in the race for two seats on the Fair Haven Borough Council Tuesday. Of 4,881 votes cast, Banhan attracted 1,706,...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 12am
Sen. Barack Obama has been elected president of the United States of America. redbankgreen encountered these two homemade tributes to Obama's presidential campaign in the yards of homes in Fair Haven Tuesday morning. The one on the top is from...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 11pm
John Curley at home in 2006, when home was Red Bank. Figures relased by the Monmouth County Clerk's office indicate that former Red Bank Councilman John Curley leads his nearest Democratic opponent by just 108 votes out of 250,000 cast...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 10pm
Juanita Lewis embraces her campaign manager, Christine McKenna, after her win in Tuesday's Red Bank Council election. Red Bank voters skied straight down the Democratic column in Tuesday's elections, hoping to elevate the first-ever African-American to the presidency and making...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 9pm
Election officials are expecting record turnout today, according to the Asbury Park Press. Here's what redbankgreen found in the first hour of voting activity in Red Bank this morning: 6:00a: More than a dozen voters stand in line in the...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 7am
The Independent Fire House on Mechanic Street does double duty as the district 2 polling station on election day. Will the lines be long? Will the flow of voters through the polling stations be smooth? That remains to be seen....
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 9am
Ayala Naphtali, with neighbor Andrew Crockett, had a spare Obama sign to replace the one stolen from her yard. Below, Yvonne Grayson's sign is anchored in concrete after vandals ripped it out of the ground. A rash of campaign-sign thefts...
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 5am
Several dozen citizens turned out at the Pilgrim Baptist Church on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank last night to watch the final presidential debate between senators Barack Obama and John McCain on a projection screen suspended above the altar. The...
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October 16th, 2008 @ 7am
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NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
LONG LIVE LOCAL NEWS!
"Long Live Local News" flags from redbankgreen's 20th anniversary celebration in Marine Park Tuesday prove to be the perfect compliment to s ...
MUMS AND WITCHES
17 Prospect Ave (Photo by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
KAYAKERS CLEAR RIVER JUNK
Partyline photo: "The Navesink Nymphs" clear floating tires from the river.
PAINT IT PURPLE?
Caption: ‘Should it be done purple?’ Perfect day. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
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MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner photographs praying mantis at church.
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
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