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SNOW: ARE WE IN FOR IT OR WHAT?
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Dee Patel’s grocery store on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank cleared an early path for customers during the December 26-27 storm. (Click to enlarge) The too-white winter of 2011 isContinue reading "SNOW: ARE WE IN FOR IT OR WHAT?"
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January 11th, 2011 @ 7am
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ICE BOATING SAILS BACK TO RED BANK
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A handful of determined ice sailers prepared their vessels for an outing from the North Shrewsbury Ice Boat & Yacht Club Monday afternoon. (Click to enlarge) Ice boating is backContinue reading "ICE BOATING SAILS BACK TO RED BANK"
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January 10th, 2011 @ 3pm
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of December 31, 2010 to January 7, 2011. The information appears here unedited. Theft occurringContinue reading "BURGLAR TAKES CASH REGISTER"
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January 10th, 2011 @ 7am
The owner of a Red Bank real estate title company is heading to state prison for a dozen years for stealing $3.8 million of client funds to fund personal investments,Continue reading "TITLE COMPANY EXEC GETS 12 YEARS IN JAIL"
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January 7th, 2011 @ 3pm
LOCALS WEIGH IN ON PARKING DECK
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The White Street municipal lot will be discussed as the site for a revamped parking area. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Earlier this week, RedContinue reading "LOCALS WEIGH IN ON PARKING DECK"
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January 6th, 2011 @ 11am
DPU HEAD: SNOW WAS ‘NOT PLOWABLE’
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In an interview, Red Bank public utilities director Gary Watson and supervisor Bob Holiday discuss the challenges of the December 26-27 blizzard. Below, a jagged glacier of snow dumped byContinue reading "DPU HEAD: SNOW WAS ‘NOT PLOWABLE’"
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January 6th, 2011 @ 9am
RED BANK GETS PUT IN A TRANCE
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A self-hypnotizing exercise. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Without knowing what was going on, anyone walking into The Downtown bar Tuesday evening might have beenContinue reading "RED BANK GETS PUT IN A TRANCE"
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January 5th, 2011 @ 11am
PIG SURVIVES BUTCHERING WINDS
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A scrap was all that remained Tuesday of a banner promoting the recently concluded run of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ at the Two River Theater Company in Red Bank. The banner, strungContinue reading "PIG SURVIVES BUTCHERING WINDS"
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January 5th, 2011 @ 7am
SURF TACO SURFING INTO RED BANK
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River’s Edge Cafe is moving out, and Surf Taco is moving in to 35 Broad Street. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Jack Anderson has aContinue reading "SURF TACO SURFING INTO RED BANK"
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January 4th, 2011 @ 8am
ON DECK, MAYBE: NEW DOWNTOWN GARAGE
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Mayor Pasquale Menna says Red Bank has an “extraordinary” parking shortage that is crimping downtown businesses. (Click to enlarge) After idling for several years, the possibility that Red Bank mayContinue reading "ON DECK, MAYBE: NEW DOWNTOWN GARAGE"
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January 3rd, 2011 @ 12pm
RED BANK COUNCIL CANS PRINGLE FIRM
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Former borough attorney Ken Pringle, left, and partner Tom Hall at a Red Bank council meeting in July, 2007. Below, new attorney Dan O’Hern at Saturday’s reorganization meeting. (Click toContinue reading "RED BANK COUNCIL CANS PRINGLE FIRM"
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January 3rd, 2011 @ 9am
Former Red Bank Mayor (1963-’66) and retired Superior Court Judge Ben Nicosia swears in Sharon Lee, center, to her third three-year term as borough councilwoman as council colleague Juanita LewisContinue reading "FAMILIAR FACES AT RED BANK SWEARING-IN"
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January 3rd, 2011 @ 8am
STELLA GRANDE
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Stella, a golden retriever “from New Hampshire,” her owner notes, rests her chin on a snowbank outside the Starbucks on Broad Street in Red Bank Thursday morning. (Click to enlarge)
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December 30th, 2010 @ 12pm
SINGLE-LANE REOPENING PLANNED
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A towrig pulls a stranded car from the snow while utility crews work on the opposite side of West Front Street at 3:30p Wednesday. (Click to enlarge) A utility poleContinue reading "SINGLE-LANE REOPENING PLANNED"
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December 29th, 2010 @ 4pm
ON CONSIGNMENT: DOUBLETAKE ON BROAD
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“My business is recession-proof,” says Doubletake owner Marci Kessler. (Click to enlarge) As a handful of employees raced about earlier this month to set up for the next day’s openingContinue reading "ON CONSIGNMENT: DOUBLETAKE ON BROAD"
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December 29th, 2010 @ 10am
ON CONSIGNMENT: RE-ENTRY JOBS
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U Gallery will feature luxury goods on consignment and works by brain-injured artists. (Click to enlarge) One of the stores opening as part of a surge in new consignment shopsContinue reading "ON CONSIGNMENT: RE-ENTRY JOBS"
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December 29th, 2010 @ 9am
DETOUR EXPECTED FOR A.M. DRIVE TIME
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Westbound traffic was diverted from West Front Street onto Broad Street Tuesday evening, above, jamming up downtown Red Bank. Below, eastbound vehicles lined up on Monmouth Street. (Click to enlarge)Continue reading "DETOUR EXPECTED FOR A.M. DRIVE TIME"
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December 28th, 2010 @ 8pm
On Monday, redbankgreen brought you photos taken on a walking tour of Red Bank shortly after the end of the paralyzing blizzard that walloped parts of the northeastern United StatesContinue reading "RED BANK SPUTTERS BACK TO A START"
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December 28th, 2010 @ 1pm
PLOW STUCK ON RIVER STREET 24+ HOURS
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Privately owned vehicles stranded in the weekend snowstorm aren’t the only ones hampering the street-clearing effort in Red Bank, it turns out. redbankgreen came across this municipal truck stuck inContinue reading "PLOW STUCK ON RIVER STREET 24+ HOURS"
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December 28th, 2010 @ 11am
POLE FIX JAMS RED BANK TRAFFIC
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Vehicles backed up along Riverside Avenue earlier today. Below, utility crews working on West Front Street, a portion of which is closed to traffic. (Click to enlarge) Snow-clogged streets andContinue reading "POLE FIX JAMS RED BANK TRAFFIC"
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December 28th, 2010 @ 10am
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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 ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
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.