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Michael Gilson Jr., 7, gets a kiss from his father after the Chubby's owner won zoning board approval to erect a new restaurant on the West Front Street site. A plan to replace the seen-better-days Chubby's Waterside Café on West...
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Rob Dye outside Red, with the Downtown visible over his left shoulder. By TOM CHESEK If you've spent any time at all navigating the brackish channels of the Jersey Shore bar scene, chances are excellent that you've encountered Rob Dye...
Last week's 'Where' generated an interesting variety of responses from a surprisingly small geographic area, perhaps owing to the number of Victorian homes in central Red Bank. One reader thought the photo showed a detail of "Mrs. Pearl Dwek's house"...
"Regionalization does not work for small communities. Period." That's how an op-ed piece by Sea Bright Mayor Maria Fernandes, writing in today's Asbury Park Press, begins. Her target: state-mandated formulas for apportioning costs among towns joined in regional school districts....
Five adults and 19 juveniles were taken into custody on alcohol charges during a party in a Sea Bright apartment last Friday night, the Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: Around 10 p.m. Friday, Patrolman Charles Murphy and Detective...
A Little Silver man faces a host of weapon- and motor vehicle-related charges after his arrest early Sunday in connection with two crashes involving parked vehicles. According to a press release issued today by Red Bank Police Department, an off-duty...
A 24-year-old Ocean County man suspected of strangling his 15-year-old female cousin to death is in custody after being arrested at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank Police have confirmed. Garry Zigich Jr. had been admitted to the hospital "for suicidal...
Turns out there's a doozie of a story behind that train delay redbankgreen reported earlier today. Red Bank police say a motorist who ran a red light downtown early this morning decided he'd try to lose a police officer pursuing...
Maybe Bear Stearns should have turned to Bruce Springsteen for a bailout. Tickets to Springsteen's May 7 solo fundraiser concert at the Count Basie Theatre to help the facility defray costs of rehab work will be auctioned off with a...
A Monmouth County jury earlier this week ordered an obstetrician to pay $23 million to a Freehold boy who was severely disabled at his birth at Riverview Medical Center, according to today's Asbury Park Press. The hospital is not identified...
A northbound train zips through the crossing at Broad Street and Newman Springs Road this morning. North Jersey Coast Line trains are now reported to be running an hour late because of delays caused by a car that had been...
Rumson officials last night moved closer toward replacing the town's Memorial Hall with a contract award for parking lot work, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The Borough Council also voted to bond an additional $1 million for the overall project,...
SeaStreak, the ferry line that zips commuters to Wall Street and midtown Manhattan from docks in Highlands and Atlantic Highlands, appears to have found a white knight. The four-catamaran line's parent company, Sea Containers America Inc., confirmed today that it...
The borough parking lot on White Street, as seen last September. Here's a story that will gladden the hearts of many Red Bank retailers and restaurateurs while no doubt raising hackles in other quarters. The Asbury Park Press is reporting...
The Downtown Café as seen from outside Red, its sibling establishment, in late January. It's official: nearly two years after shutting its doors for a wholesale makeover, the former Downtown Café plans to reopen this week as The Downtown. In...
The following are entries in the Red Bank police logs from March 7 through March 14. The information is supplied by the police department and is both unverified and unedited. Burglary occurring in multi dwelling at Shrewsbury Ave. on 3-7-08....
Red Bank police subdued a belligerent man on Spring Street this morning after a bizarre spree in which he confronted a passing motorist, stole her car, and crashed it head-on into another moving vehicle, they say. Joseph Henninger, 26, of...
We call them the 'bunting boys' because 'The History Boys' is taken, and one of them is among the most vigorous 80-year-olds you'll ever encounter (not to mention one of the most colorful wielders of the English language). Ed Zipprich...
Inspired by the challenges faced by a grandmother she never knew and her own mother, both of whom had Multiple Sclerosis, Barbara Sager has been walking. That is, once a year, she participates in a 10-kilometer walk for the Multiple...
The Courtyard at Monmouth project, which exists only on paper, is on the block. Little more than a week after he won approval for plan to transform a grubby corner of Red Bank into a little hunk 'o Hoboken, would-be...
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...