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Monthly Archives: May 2014

Somebody flushed a mop head down a toilet. That feat of hydraulic waste removal and others, including the flushing of a towel, led to a three-day crash of a RedContinue reading "RED BANK: FLUSHING AWAY TAX DOLLARS"
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May 15th, 2014 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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It was feeding time for bluefish and striped bass, and bunker was on the menu, when Max Berry of Pride Fishing and Tackle in Red Bank went out on theContinue reading "FEEDING FRENZY IN THE NAVESINK"
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May 15th, 2014 @ 7am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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Feeling walled in by Where Have I Seen This? Maybe that’s because last week’s photo also spotlighted a building wall. That one, a long red brick edifice, featured “ghost” signageContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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May 15th, 2014 @ 7am
PTO GIVES A SURPRISE GIFT TO RBR STAFF
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The transformed teachers’ lounge at Red Bank Regional High School was designed, managed and funded by the RBR PTO in collaboration with the school district. It was unveiled as aContinue reading "PTO GIVES A SURPRISE GIFT TO RBR STAFF"
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May 15th, 2014 @ 6am
Press release from JBJ Soul Kitchen  On Saturday, May 17, the JBJ Soul Kitchen will be hosting a World Hunger Awareness event in the front gardens of the community restaurant. FromContinue reading "JBJ SOUL KITCHEN HOSTS HUNGER DAY EVENT"
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May 15th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: TWO SAFE AFTER KITCHEN FIRE
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A fire in the second-floor apartment at 218 Mechanic Street in Red Bank drove its two tenants out into the street shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday. The blaze, which wasContinue reading "RED BANK: TWO SAFE AFTER KITCHEN FIRE"
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May 14th, 2014 @ 9pm
The Nautigals, a group of women who race at Red Bank’s Monmouth Boat Club, are looking for new blood. Here’s a video that talks about the history of women’s sailingContinue reading "RED BANK: HEY, SAILORS: NAUTIGALS WANTED"
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May 14th, 2014 @ 3pm
RED BANK: CLAIMING FIRSTIES FOR ‘THIRD’
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Michael Cumpsty directs, and Annette O’Toole stars, as the public is invited to look in on a Friday evening Open Rehearsal for THIRD, the season-closing mainstage production at Two RiverContinue reading "RED BANK: CLAIMING FIRSTIES FOR ‘THIRD’"
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May 14th, 2014 @ 12pm
SEA BRIGHT: PAINT JOB TO END WITH BLAST
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Sea Bright’s business district is getting a free paint job this week, courtesy of Benjamin Moore, and the town plans to celebrate with a party this Saturday. The free event,Continue reading "SEA BRIGHT: PAINT JOB TO END WITH BLAST"
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May 14th, 2014 @ 9am
A Red Bank-based band, Young Rising Sons, released this debut video this week to a fair amount of acclaim, including praise from blogger who says ‘High’ “has everything you wouldContinue reading "RED BANK: YOUNG RISING SONS MAKE SPLASH"
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May 14th, 2014 @ 7am
LUNCH BREAK HOSTS 3RD ANNUAL FOODSTOCK
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Press release from Lunch Break of Red Bank For years, Lunch Break has served as the first line of defense for thousands of residents of Monmouth and Ocean Counties andContinue reading "LUNCH BREAK HOSTS 3RD ANNUAL FOODSTOCK"
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May 14th, 2014 @ 6am
SEA BRIGHT GETS A HAND FROM EMIRATIS
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A dozen volunteers from the United Arab Emirates, including government worker Tuaiba Aldarmaki, above, are in Sea Bright this week working with Habitat for Humanity to build a new houseContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT GETS A HAND FROM EMIRATIS"
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May 13th, 2014 @ 2pm
FAIR HAVEN: BUFFING UP FOR BOAT SEASON
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Mike Wiehl of Fair Haven Yacht Works polishes up a beauty on a beautiful spring morning on the Navesink Tuesday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
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May 13th, 2014 @ 12pm
Recent crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. Gurdeep Singh, age 51, from Campbell Avenue in Belford, NJ, arrested on May 3, 2014 byContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN POLICE BLOTTER"
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May 13th, 2014 @ 10am
Gretchen Rell with a bird she called “Monty” in a selfie posted on her Facebook page in January. (Click to enlarge) A volunteer animal rescuer who kept hundreds of deadContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: DEAD BIRD HOARDER INDICTED"
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May 13th, 2014 @ 7am
SHREWSBURY: TWO SAFE AFTER HOUSE FIRE
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The scene at 165 Spruce Drive shortly before dawn. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) [Update: Homeowner Lori Blahut tells us there were four people in the houseContinue reading "SHREWSBURY: TWO SAFE AFTER HOUSE FIRE"
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May 13th, 2014 @ 6am
RBR SPRING DANCE SHOW IS A CELEBRATION
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Red Bank Regional senior dance majors are dressed for the concluding number of their Spring Dance Performance (as well as their high school careers), which is appropriately named Celebration.  PressContinue reading "RBR SPRING DANCE SHOW IS A CELEBRATION"
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May 13th, 2014 @ 6am
Monmouth County residents can anonymously surrender weapons as part of a countywide gun buyback program, scheduled for Friday May 16 and Saturday May 17 in Rumson. Between the hours ofContinue reading "GUN BUYBACK RETURNS TO RUMSON"
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May 13th, 2014 @ 6am
If you’re a soccer- (sorry, football) obsessed boy or girl between the ages of 8 and 14, the borough-based Red Bank Football Club invites you to take part in aContinue reading "TRAVEL SOCCER TRYOUTS FOR RED BANK FC"
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May 13th, 2014 @ 6am
This Thursday evening, May 14, the public is invited to take part in “an honest discussion about the legal, health and personal consequences of alcohol and drug abuse,” during theContinue reading "HONEST TALK ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN M’TOWN"
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May 13th, 2014 @ 6am
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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 ...