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Chicken roll with dipping sauce, at Sea Bright Pizza. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) An Italian chicken roll? What’s that? “If you go to Italy and askContinue reading "WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? THIS, IN SEA BRIGHT"
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January 24th, 2014 @ 11am
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RED BANK TO RAZE HOUSE AT BOROUGH HALL
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Red Bank officials said Wednesday that they’re soliciting bids to demolish a former home at 106 Monmouth Street, which sits at the edge of the municipal complex. Owned by theContinue reading "RED BANK TO RAZE HOUSE AT BOROUGH HALL"
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January 24th, 2014 @ 8am
RED BANK: WALGREEN’S TO REVISE PLAN
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Josephine Menna, an aunt to Mayor Pasquale Menna – who recused himself – queries Walgreen’s lawyer Marty McGann. Below, site owner Aaron Rassas confers with his team during a break. (ClickContinue reading "RED BANK: WALGREEN’S TO REVISE PLAN"
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January 24th, 2014 @ 12am
RED BANK: VOTE DELAYED ON RIVER SITES
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The Maple Cove parking lot during reconstruction in 2011. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Debate over how to classify parking lots at RedContinue reading "RED BANK: VOTE DELAYED ON RIVER SITES"
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January 23rd, 2014 @ 8am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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Tired of shoveling? Well, as of the posting of this week’s Where Have I Seen This – when the temperature outside was 7 degrees Fahrenheit – there were only 149 daysContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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January 23rd, 2014 @ 7am
En route to an NFL press conference where officials touted their readiness for “the first-ever, cold weather, mass transit Super Bowl,” Ledger Live reporter Brian Donohue’s train broke down inContinue reading "RED BANK: TRAINING IT TO THE BIG GAME?"
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January 23rd, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: ASPHALT IS ‘VICTORY’ TO PLOWMAN
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The view looking south on Leighton Avenue through the windshield of a borough salt truck early Wednesday morning, above. Below, a plow working Monmouth Street. (Photos by John T. Ward.Continue reading "RED BANK: ASPHALT IS ‘VICTORY’ TO PLOWMAN"
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January 22nd, 2014 @ 6am
RUMSON: WAITING FOR TEE TIME
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Dozens Canada geese appeared to take the driving snowstorm in stride – or rather, at ease –  on the links at the Rumson Country Club early Tuesday afternoon. (Photos byContinue reading "RUMSON: WAITING FOR TEE TIME"
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January 21st, 2014 @ 3pm
RED BANK: STORM SNARLS TRAFFIC
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Motorists who failed to get a jump on Tuesday’s fast-moving snowstorm paid the price in slow-moving traffic in the early afternoon, as on East Front Street in Red Bank, above,Continue reading "RED BANK: STORM SNARLS TRAFFIC"
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January 21st, 2014 @ 3pm
DRIVING SNOW BRINGS GREEN TO A CRAWL
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A pedestrian – or was she a bridge tender? – makes her way across the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge shortly after noon, above. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)Continue reading "DRIVING SNOW BRINGS GREEN TO A CRAWL"
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January 21st, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: PARKING, PLOWING, RECYCLING
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With a heavy snow and deep freeze in the forecast for the next 24 hours, Red Bank officials are asking borough residents to get their cars off the streets betweenContinue reading "RED BANK: PARKING, PLOWING, RECYCLING"
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January 21st, 2014 @ 10am
RED BANK: GETTING READY FOR THE STORM
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Bike while you can, Red Bank. Borough DPW trucks laid down anti-icing salt brine on streets – that’s Chestnut Street above, looking west toward the train station –  in anticipationContinue reading "RED BANK: GETTING READY FOR THE STORM"
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January 21st, 2014 @ 9am
FORECAST: LOTSA SNOW, BITTER COLD
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“Significant snowfall expected today and tonight, followed immediately by bitterly cold air,” the National Weather Service said Tuesday morning, warning of a storm that could drop up to 12 inchesContinue reading "FORECAST: LOTSA SNOW, BITTER COLD"
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January 21st, 2014 @ 6am
The house on the northwest corner of West Front Street and Rector Place in Red Bank was demolished Monday as part of the rebuilding of nearby Hubbards Bridge into theContinue reading "RED BANK: TEARDOWN AT BRIDGE SITE"
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January 20th, 2014 @ 2pm
RUMSON: OXFORD HOUSE FILES FEDERAL SUIT
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Oxford House says in a court filing that the group home at 61 South Ward Avenue is getting new residents. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHNContinue reading "RUMSON: OXFORD HOUSE FILES FEDERAL SUIT"
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January 20th, 2014 @ 9am
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream Speech, on August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. By ISABEL HALLORAN In his I Have a Dream speech,Continue reading "RED BANK: CHARTER SCHOOL CELEBRATES KING"
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January 20th, 2014 @ 8am
Recent crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. Michele Gaulette, age 35, from Pine Street in Middletown, NJ, arrested on January 7, 2014 byContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN POLICE BLOTTER"
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January 20th, 2014 @ 7am
RED BANK: SAN REMO DEBUTS IN KRAUT SPACE
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Chef/owner Giovanni Bougdour has relocated his 17-year-old San Remo restaurant from Shrewsbury to the former home of the Little Kraut in Red Bank. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click toContinue reading "RED BANK: SAN REMO DEBUTS IN KRAUT SPACE"
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January 17th, 2014 @ 11am
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? TURKEY SUB IN LINCROFT
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The turkey sub with hot peppers at joyce’s. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) Joining a stream of paint-spattered tradesmen, women in businesswear, hungry young guys from ChristianContinue reading "WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? TURKEY SUB IN LINCROFT"
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January 17th, 2014 @ 10am
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of December 18, 2013 to January 09, 2014. This information is unedited. CRIMES:Continue reading "RED BANK: DOMINO’S ALLEGES WORKER THEFTS"
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January 17th, 2014 @ 8am
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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 ...