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RED BANK: MEASURABLE EVIDENCE OF WINTER
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Another fast-falling snow blanketed the Red Bank area Monday morning, covering Broad Street in traffic-slowing slush, above, and putting a shoveler to work in English Plaza, at right. The forecast:Continue reading "RED BANK: MEASURABLE EVIDENCE OF WINTER"
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February 3rd, 2014 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: EFFU EYES MEADOWLANDS TOURNEY
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Stephen Dunne hauls in a touchdown pass, above, and a runner heads upfield, below, during the season-ending game for Red Bank’s Eastside Flag Football Union, played at Count Basie FieldContinue reading "RED BANK: EFFU EYES MEADOWLANDS TOURNEY"
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February 3rd, 2014 @ 7am
The accident occurred on Oak Hill Road near Princeton Street, police said. A 20-year-old Middletown woman died in a single-vehicle crash on Oak Hill Road in the township early Saturday,Continue reading "MIDDLETOWN WOMAN, 20, DIES IN CRASH"
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February 3rd, 2014 @ 6am
The Little Silver Panino, at Felicia’s & Sam’s. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) The name “Felicia’s and Sam’s” may not shout “Italian,” but restaurants on the GreenContinue reading "WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? THIS, IN LITTLE SILVER"
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January 31st, 2014 @ 12pm
Ocean Township police arrested three Red Bank residents, including a 19-year-old woman, on prostitution-related charges last week, according to a report on NJ.com, the website of the Star-Ledger. The trioContinue reading "RED BANK TRIO CHARGED WITH PROSTITUTION"
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January 31st, 2014 @ 8am
A driving one-hander from the left of the key by Red Bank Regional junior Justin Gilson put the Bucs over the Rumson-Fair Haven Bulldogs in the final second of overtimeContinue reading "BUCS BEST BULLDOGS ON OT BUZZER-BEATER"
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January 31st, 2014 @ 6am
WEAR A SNUGGIE, BUT BRING AN UMBRELLA
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After a week of frigid temperatures, a sofa left at the curb on West Street in Red Bank appears all set for the first-ever cold-weather Super Bowl Sunday. But theContinue reading "WEAR A SNUGGIE, BUT BRING AN UMBRELLA"
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January 31st, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK MAN INDICTED IN BREAK-IN SPREE
A Monmouth County grand jury indicted a Red Bank man Thursday on charges related to spate of burglaries and thefts over a three-month period last year, including two in hisContinue reading "RED BANK MAN INDICTED IN BREAK-IN SPREE"
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January 30th, 2014 @ 4pm
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of January 23 to January 30, 2014. This information is unedited. CRIMES: TheftContinue reading "RED BANK: MAN FLEES WITH LOANER iPHONE"
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January 30th, 2014 @ 11am
Crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Shrewsbury Police Department for the period of January 17 to January 23, 2014. Report of Theft in the area of BananaContinue reading "SHREWSBURY POLICE BLOTTER"
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January 30th, 2014 @ 9am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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Last week’s shot featured six Adirondack chairs covered in pillowy blobs of snow but seemingly ready for a summer sunset. Did you recognize that little vignette?
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January 30th, 2014 @ 7am
With temperatures in the teens, our beautiful Navesink River was a white wonderland for iceboaters and strollers willing to step out onto hardened water between Red Bank and Middletown Wednesday.Continue reading "ARCTIC COLD LINGERS"
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January 30th, 2014 @ 6am
Recent crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. Marvin Towler, age 50, from 23 Ryers Place in Eatontown, NJ, arrested on January 17, 2014Continue reading "MIDDLETOWN COPS BUST FIVE FOR DWI"
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January 29th, 2014 @ 1pm
MIDDLETOWN: A GRAVE SUPER BOWL ISSUE
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Vince Lombardi’s headstone at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Middletown, as seen in 2011. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) With the Super Bowl scheduled to be played in NewContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: A GRAVE SUPER BOWL ISSUE"
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January 29th, 2014 @ 8am
BITING COLD CONTINUES ON THE GREEN
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A sign of the times at the Galleria at Red Bank on Bridge Avenue Tuesday morning, above. Winter’s fierce grip continued Wednesday as residents of the Green woke to aContinue reading "BITING COLD CONTINUES ON THE GREEN"
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January 29th, 2014 @ 6am
SHREWSBURY: VEAL PLANT ‘GOOD NEIGHBOR’
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The Catelli Brothers slaughterhouse on Broad Street. By JOHN T. WARD The shutdown of the Catelli Brothers veal slaughterhouse over allegations of animal abuse “shocked” Shrewsbury officials, Mayor Donald BurdenContinue reading "SHREWSBURY: VEAL PLANT ‘GOOD NEIGHBOR’"
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January 28th, 2014 @ 10am
Warning: graphic video, which the Humane Society cites as evidence of cruelty at the Broad Street abattoir. By JOHN T. WARD The Catelli Brothers veal slaughterhouse in Shrewsbury has beenContinue reading "COMPANY ‘COOPERATING’ IN PROBE OF ANIMAL ABUSE AT SHREWSBURY SLAUGHTERHOUSE"
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January 27th, 2014 @ 9pm
RED BANK: SAYING GOODBYE TO ‘GRANDMA’
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Mary Boynton with some of her freshly awakened toddler charges last week. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Over the past 30 years, MaryContinue reading "RED BANK: SAYING GOODBYE TO ‘GRANDMA’"
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January 27th, 2014 @ 12pm
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of January 16 to January 23, 2014. This information is unedited. CRIMES: BurglaryContinue reading "RED BANK: BREAK-IN AT RECTOR PLACE HOME"
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January 27th, 2014 @ 7am
RED BANK: ICE RETURNS TO THE NAVESINK
[slideshow_deploy id=’88184′]After a three-year absence, four-inch ice retuned to our beautiful Navesink River over the weekend, enabling members of the storied North Shrewsbury Ice Boat & Yacht Club to takeContinue reading "RED BANK: ICE RETURNS TO THE NAVESINK"
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January 27th, 2014 @ 5am
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9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
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A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
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.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
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 ...