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UMBRELLAS DUSTED OFF AT TOWN YARD SALES

Off-and-on drizzles and downpours made for a damp day for participants in townwide yard sales in Red Bank and Fair Haven Saturday. Still, redbankgreen found plenty of plucky sellers and buyers. To enlarge the photo display, start it, then click the embiggen symbol in the lower right corner. To get back to redbankgreen, hit your [...]

WEEKEND: PINKHATSYARDSALEFOODFEST

Red Bank becomes a bargainhunter’s paradise on Saturday. On Sunday: food, acres of food. (Click to enlarge) As the headline suggests, the weekend that awaits is jammed with the potential for good times. We’ve got the fifth Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale, this one making a migration from fall to spring. We’ve got one of [...]

ANTIQUES GALLERY FACES WRECKING BALL

With dealers scattering to new locations, redbankgreen took a final spin through the Monmouth Antique Shoppes Tuesday. (Click embiggen symbol to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The building appears to sigh and lean, as though aware of its fate. Inside, nooks and corners that once teemed with the cast-offs of the decades have begun to [...]

CONFUSION OVER FAIR HAVEN TIME CAPSULES

Town officials are hoping to determine if a time capsule featured in a 1976 celebration of the nation’s 200th anniversary at Fair Haven’s Bicentennial Hall was buried or misplaced. (Click to enlarge) Closing in on a celebration of its centennial, Fair Haven is having some trouble tracking historical time capsules, the Asbury Park Press reported [...]

LIBRARY TO FETE LIFE OF SIGMUND EISNER

Local-history librarian Elizabeth McDermott, below, with a custom-branded Eisner lightbulb in the second-floor New Jersey Room of the Red Bank Public Library, once the home of industrialist Sigmund Eisner. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD On April 15, 1937, the Red Bank Public Library – for decades an itinerant but growing collection of books [...]

TRIO LOADS UP ON ANTIQUES AND FLEES

The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of February 17 to February 24, 2012. This information is unedited. Theft occurring between 2-17-12 and 2-18-12 at English Plaza parking lot.  Unknown subjects stole drivers side view mirror from parked vehicle.  Ptl. Matthew Ehrenreich. Criminal Mischief occurring on 2-18-12 [...]

IN LITTLE SILVER, A MOUNTAIN OF SADNESS

Members of Little Silver’s Loftus family, who lost their Carriage House Lane home in a December 10 fire, poke through the rubble in search of mementos after a demolition crew tore down the remains of the 120-year-old structure Thursday morning. The family was reported to have lost all their photographs and videos in the blaze. [...]

PARKER HOMESTEAD GETS HISTORIC SEAL

The Parker house stands at an entrance to what is now the Sickles Market and remnants of the original working farm on Rumson Road. (Click to enlarge) Five months after securing state Register of Historic Places status, Little Silver’s 347-year-old Parker Homestead has been added to that list’s national counterpart, the Asbury Park Press reports [...]

BON JOVI OPENS CRIB TO TV CREW, AND YOU

Bon Jovi’s mansion on the Navesink River, as seen in 2008. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD ‘Person to Person,’ a TV program of bygone days that featured live interviews with – and often, tours of the homes of –  Marilyn Monroe, John F. and Jackie Kennedy, Marlon Brando and other big names of [...]

CARDS FEATURE OLD RED BANK BUILDINGS

Line drawings of distinctive structures by Terry McCue, below, are on display at Red Bank’s borough hall. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Here’s a stocking-stuffer idea that’s as local as they come. A series of note cards by Red Bank artist Terry McCue honors the borough’s history by preserving, in pen-and-ink,  some of [...]

PARKER HOUSE WINS REGISTER ENTRY

The Parker homestead, seen here in 2007, dates back to (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The Parker House, Little Silver’s oldest surviving homestead, has won addition to the state Register of Historic Places, Mayor Bob Neff tells redbankgreen.

HOOFING IT ACROSS THE OCEANIC

While boating on the Navesink River Sunday, Mike McMahon of Little Silver spotted a caravan of six or eight coaches, each drawn by a team of four horses and carrying passengers done up in historical finery, thundering across the Oceanic Bridge from Middletown to Rumson Sunday. McMahon says panels were laid over the open steel [...]

FALL CLOSEOUT FOR RED BANK YARD SALE

Goods were moved and cash changed hands as some 120 homes participated in the fourth annual edition of the Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale on Saturday. redbankgreen was there for the final fall version of this favorite, which moves to Spring next May 7 5. Meantime, there’s the book sale today at the Red Bank [...]

RAIN DOMINATES FORECAST

Sellers and shoppers coped with on-and-off showers during the 2009 edition of the Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale. (Click to enlarge) You have to scroll pretty far down in the National Weather Service forecast to find mention of the sun today. It’s not the best outlook for would-be participants in the Red Bank Townwide Yard [...]

TOWNWIDE YARD SALE SET FOR SATURDAY

Scenes from the 2010 edition of the Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale. (Photos by Peter Lindner. (Click to enlarge) Some 116 residents are registered to participate as sellers in the fourth annual Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale, slated for Saturday. In conjunction with a used-book sale scheduled for Monday, the event is a fundraiser for [...]


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