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Monthly Archives: May 2017

LITTLE SILVER: LIBRARY BOOK SALE RETURNS
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LITTLE SILVER: Friends of the Library plan their annual book sale fundraiser over two days next week. Stock up on your summer reading.
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May 12th, 2017 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RUMSON GALLERY HOSTS RBR PHOTO MAJORS
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RUMSON: The photography of six Red Bank Regional seniors is on view at Canvas Studio, beginning May 18.
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May 12th, 2017 @ 5am
RUMSON: EX-FHPD CHIEF VISITS RCDS
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RUMSON: Eight graders at Rumson Country Day School learn about respect and overcoming obstacles, from Police Academy's director Breckinridge.
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May 12th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: A FRONTIER FUNDER AT TWO RIVER
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RED BANK: Tony-level talent helps Two River Theater host an advance listen to the original musical, THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO.
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May 11th, 2017 @ 6pm
SHREWSBURY: CHRISTIE IN CLASH OVER REHAB
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SHREWSBURY: Governor Chris Christie opens new outpatient drug counseling center here by shouting down protestors as "ignorant" NIMBYs.
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May 11th, 2017 @ 1pm
RED BANK: ZONING SHORTCUT TO GET DO-OVER
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RED BANK: Council will try again to make it easier for builders to redevelop "underutilized" properties in the train station area.
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May 11th, 2017 @ 9am
RED BANK: ELECTRIC CAR SHOW SLATED
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RED BANK: The borough's Environmental Commission plans an electric car show this month to juice awareness of EVs and other alternatives to gas guzzlers.
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May 11th, 2017 @ 5am
FAIR HAVEN TEEN AIMS FOR OLYMPIC GLORY
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FAIR HAVEN: A "Dream Team" of young archers has selected a RFH junior for its Olympic training program.
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May 11th, 2017 @ 5am
SHREWSBURY: CHRISTIE TO OPEN REHAB UNIT
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SHREWSBURY: Governor Chris Christie is scheduled to cut the ribbon on a new outpatient drug addiction treatment center here Thursday.
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May 10th, 2017 @ 12pm
ON THE GREEN: AUTHORS SERVE UP MEMORIES
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ON THE GREEN: Memories of amusements past, and comfort food from a surprising source, on the local book front this Thursday.
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May 10th, 2017 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER: NEW AMBULANCE DEBUTS
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LITTLE SILVER: Borough first aiders take the wraps off a new ambulance, which came in "$50 under budget," says ex-chief.
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May 10th, 2017 @ 9am
A KEY EVENT FOR RBR PIANO PROGRAM
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LITTLE SILVER: The piano program at Red Bank Regional celebrates 25 years with a special public Piano and Harp Concert on May 24.
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May 10th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: Woman arrested after hairy police pursuit in which she crashed three times, finally taking down a utility pole.
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May 9th, 2017 @ 8pm
RED BANK: TURNING LANE ERASED
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RED BANK: Say goodbye to that weird little jog into the right lane on Broad Street at Linden Place.
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May 9th, 2017 @ 6pm
RED BANK: The median police salary in New Jersey crossed the $100,000 mark in 2016, and most of the towns on the Greater Green were in step.
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May 9th, 2017 @ 1pm
RED BANK: ‘PARIS’ IN THE SPRING
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RED BANK: Sneak a peek at PARIS CAN WAIT, screening this Thursday as a feature-length fundraiser for Monmouth Arts.
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May 9th, 2017 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER: ESSAY LAUDS “TINY” TOWN
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LITTLE SILVER: Here's the essay on growing up in the borough that earned a Red Bank Regional senior at $1,000 scholarship.
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May 9th, 2017 @ 11am
LITTLE SILVER: K9 UNIT OK’D, BUT NOT A FUND
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LITTLE SILVER: Borough will set up a K9 unit, but not a donor fund for it, following action by a divided council Monday night.
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May 9th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: HABITAT EVENT RETURNS FOR 2017
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RED BANK: The Oyster Point is the scene of a second annual Taste for Homes fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity, on May 15.
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May 9th, 2017 @ 5am
SHREWSBURY: Four weeks worth of crime and arrest reports from borough police includes two arrests of the same person.
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May 8th, 2017 @ 11am
Partyline
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 ...