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Our Comment of the Week was posted earlier today by ‘Mike.’ He weighed on on the recent relocation of the Red Bank Farmer’s Market from the parking lot of theContinue reading "FARMERS’ MAKET MOVE ‘A GREAT OUTCOME’"
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November 29th, 2010 @ 3pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Our Comment of the Week this week is nice and simple: it’s just one resident communicating to another — and the rest of us, of course — while recalling aContinue reading "A COMMENT ON LOOKING BACK IN TIME"
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November 22nd, 2010 @ 12pm
Some weeks, the pickings are better than others, and this past week saw a good number of posts that might merit the Comment of the Week spotlight. A couple ofContinue reading "BRICKS-AND-MORTAR SUPPORT FOR A TRUCK"
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November 15th, 2010 @ 11am
Kevin Donohue gets the Comment of the Week spotlight this week for posting a comment with his (apparently) real name and using the forum as a means of reaching outContinue reading "‘JOIN ME AS SOLDIER NO. 2’"
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November 8th, 2010 @ 2pm
This week’s Comment of the Week was posted last Tuesday by “Pat.” Pat’s comment was part of an exchange about a photo redbangkreeen ran from the wedding of a coupleContinue reading "‘AGREE TO DISAGREE’ ON FIRE PHOTO"
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November 1st, 2010 @ 1pm
What a pleasure it is to have so many choices for this week’s Comment of the Week. Among other places, we found posts to admire beneath our articles on theContinue reading "NOT ENOUGH ‘WHITE HERITAGE’ IN SCHOOL?"
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October 25th, 2010 @ 2pm
This week’s Comment of the Week gets the nod for giving voice to a point of view that is probably more commonly held than one might assume from reading otherContinue reading "PLEASE FEED THE METER…"
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October 18th, 2010 @ 3pm
Is sarcasm funny only if you agree with its point of view?
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October 11th, 2010 @ 3pm
Our Comment of the Week comes from beneath the story “LEHNERT LAID TO REST,” about the funeral of the late Fair Haven Councilman John Lehnert. The very publication of theContinue reading "RECALLING “A GOOD DOSE OF HUMOR”"
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October 4th, 2010 @ 6am
This week’s spotlight comment comes from a reader who identified him- or herself as “an outsider” and chimed in on the story that announced the return of collegiate rowing toContinue reading "COMMENT: IT’S ABOUT THE KIDS"
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September 27th, 2010 @ 2pm
This week’s spotlight comment comes from Jen Gallagher, posted under an article about the proposed Fair Haven ordinance that would have required property owners who are denied tree-removal permits byContinue reading "ABOUT THAT TREE ORDINANCE…"
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September 20th, 2010 @ 8am
Hopeless idealists that we are, redbankgreen today brings out of mothballs an effort to encourage civil discourse in its reader comments. Comment of the Week, which we stopped running afterContinue reading "REVIVING COMMENT OF THE WEEK"
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September 13th, 2010 @ 2pm
A day later than usual, we return to our weekly Comment of the Week and again spotlight two points of view from the Big Debate on national health insurance.
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September 1st, 2009 @ 11am
The national debate on healthcare insurance flooded redbankgreen‘s comments section last week, providing an abundance of strong candidates for this week’s spotlight. The back-and-forth was spirited and civil, and perhapsContinue reading "TWO VIEWS ON ‘OBAMACARE’"
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August 24th, 2009 @ 12pm
Once again, we’re glad to see so many good candidates for Comment of the Week in our files from last week. Thanks to everyone who posted something. The comments weContinue reading "‘NOT THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD…’"
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August 17th, 2009 @ 1pm
We had at least three spirited debates running simultaneously on redbankgreen last week. It was good to see this site being utilized in that way. The issues included the question,Continue reading "‘SHE SHARED THE GIFT OF NATURE’"
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August 10th, 2009 @ 10am
Last week’s article about a plan by Red Bank to install more 4-way stops took a detour. The discussion in the redbankgreen comments area turned to speed bumps and speedContinue reading "ON BUMPS AND HUMPS"
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August 3rd, 2009 @ 9am
Nothing. Nada. Dullsville.
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July 20th, 2009 @ 7am
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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 ...