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Monthly Archives: December 2024

COOPER’S BRIDGE FOG
A fog covered Cooper’s Bridge Tuesday morning.(photo by Partyline contributor Karly Swaim)  
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December 10th, 2024 @ 7am
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RED BANK: DEVELOPER SEEKS TO RAZE HOME, BUILD 14-APARTMENTS
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Developer applies to knock down two family home and build a 14-apartment complex. (click to read)
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December 10th, 2024 @ 6am
KEVIN SMITH’S “SECRET STASH” HOLIDAY
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Filmmaker Kevin Smith greets fans and offers photos with "Santa Bob" at his Red Bank comic book shop. (click for more)
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December 9th, 2024 @ 1pm
RED BANK: WEST FRONT STREET CLOSED TUESDAY
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A stretch of West Front Street in Red Bank will be closed for paving Tuesday. (click to read).
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December 9th, 2024 @ 12pm
THROWBACK: THE STORY BEHIND RED BANK’S ICEBOAT EMBLEM
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Red Bank Throwback: the story behind the borough's ice-boat emblem, designed by an 80-year-old artist in 1969. (click to read)
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December 9th, 2024 @ 8am
Sunrise View from Water Reservoir Hill
Morning has broken atop Red Bank Water Reservoir Hill. (photo by Partyline contributor Roseann Dal Pra)  
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December 9th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: MAN SHOT IN THE LEG
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A man was shot in the left thigh outside a gathering at a hall on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank. (click to read)
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December 7th, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: WEST SIDE TREE LIGHTING WARMS HEARTS
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Red Bank's West Side holiday tree lighting lights up the cold frigid night at Johnny Jazz Park.
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December 7th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANKER AMONG 7 CHARGED IN RUTGERS DRUG RING
Seven people arrested in a sting that brought down an alleged online drug market selling to Rutgers Students.(click to read)
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December 6th, 2024 @ 4pm
FEELING LOW?
This very, very, very low-riding Lincoln Continental (due in part to multiple flat tires) sits in contrast to the elevated super jacked Chevy pickup across the street on Catherine Street.Continue reading "FEELING LOW?"
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December 6th, 2024 @ 9am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Do you know where this photo was taken? Play the weekly "Where Have I Seen This?" and get the answer to last week's photo.
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December 6th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: WEST SIDE TREE LIGHTING, SANTA FIRE TRUCK VISITS ON TAP
Deadline approaches to schedule a Santa fire truck visit, the West Side tree lighting, and more. (click to read)
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December 5th, 2024 @ 2pm
CURB YOUR ROADRUNNER
The newly completed mural on the side of taco-lovers mecca International Mexican Grocery at 82 Shrewsbury Avenue features a woman with a roadrunner on a leash. A pet roadrunner! That’sContinue reading "CURB YOUR ROADRUNNER"
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December 5th, 2024 @ 1pm
SICKLES MARKET PLANS LITTLE SILVER RE-OPENING
Sickles Market owner vows to re-open this summer after a bankruptcy reorganization. (click to read)
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December 5th, 2024 @ 12pm
CURB YOUR SNOWMAN
These two forlorn characters, left on the curb of the parking lot on Wallace Street just east of Broad Street, are in for some serious misery with cold temps andContinue reading "CURB YOUR SNOWMAN"
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December 5th, 2024 @ 4am
SANTA AND SMILES LIGHT THINGS UP
Holiday Light Fun with the Holiday Express and Santa. Downtown Red Bank (photo by Partyline contributor Adam Kaplan)  
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December 4th, 2024 @ 4pm
RED BANK CHURN: “CHELSEA MARKET” OK’D, LEBANESE DELI CLOSES AND MORE
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, plans for a market in the former Sickles market space emerge, two eateries pack it in and more. (click to read)
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December 4th, 2024 @ 4pm
AT RED BANK SOCCER REUNION, CATCHING THE LEFEVER
Former players of a soccer coach named "Volunteer of the Year" reunite for a Thanksgiving week friendly. (click to read)
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December 3rd, 2024 @ 12pm
SWIMMING RIVER SUNSET
Recent sunset from Swimming River Park on W. Front St. with the shoreline of Red Bank in the background.  (photo by Partyline contributor Thomas Doremus)  
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December 2nd, 2024 @ 4pm
RED BANK RIVERCENTER NAMES NEW LEADER
Red Bank RiverCenter taps the head of Toms River's special improvement district to lead the organization. (click to read)
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December 2nd, 2024 @ 12pm
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PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
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Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
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.