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ROUGHING IT IN SHALLOW CENTER FIELD
Fair Haven Fields during last Friday night’s campout, organized by the borough parks and rec deparment. (Photos by Peter Lindner; click to enlarge) Several dozen Fair Havenites took part inContinue reading "ROUGHING IT IN SHALLOW CENTER FIELD"
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August 4th, 2010 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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CAKE BOSS SMITH CAKE TAKES THE CAKE
Filmmaker Kevin Smith‘s 40th-birthday Q&A show at the Count Basie Theatre Monday night drew a scale-model lookalike. One covered in icing. A few hours before the show, the auteur ofContinue reading "CAKE BOSS SMITH CAKE TAKES THE CAKE"
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August 3rd, 2010 @ 3pm
M’TOWN SWIM CLUB MAY GET OVERHAUL
Township officials are considering options for the aging Middletown Swim & Tennis Club. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Dropping revenues and increasing maintenance needs, combinedContinue reading "M’TOWN SWIM CLUB MAY GET OVERHAUL"
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August 3rd, 2010 @ 12pm
JUDITH STANLEY COLEMAN HAS DIED
Judith Stanley Coleman at the opening of the Tiffany store in Red Bank in November, 2007. (Click to enlarge) Judith Stanley Coleman, an ardent land conservationist and philanthropist from Middletown,Continue reading "JUDITH STANLEY COLEMAN HAS DIED"
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August 2nd, 2010 @ 12pm
‘FUTURE BUCS’ WRAP UP SEASON TWO
Jose Segura in goal defends against Chris LeFever at the outdoor rink of the Community YMCA Friday night. (Click to enlarge) The Future Buccaneers program wrapped up its second summerContinue reading "‘FUTURE BUCS’ WRAP UP SEASON TWO"
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August 2nd, 2010 @ 10am
SLIDING FROM ONE STYLE TO ANOTHER
Music lovers filled the pews of the Salvation Army chapel in Red Bank last Wednesday night for its 10th annual Trombone Night. Featuring trombonists from the New Jersey Symphony, MontclairContinue reading "SLIDING FROM ONE STYLE TO ANOTHER"
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August 2nd, 2010 @ 6am
A crowd that spilled over onto the Monmouth Street sidewalk packed the courtyard of the Dublin House Pub Wednesday night for the second alfresco fashion show held there in threeContinue reading "A PASSION FOR FASHION & KEEPING IT LOCAL"
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July 29th, 2010 @ 10am
BUSTIN’ IT AT THE DUB, TAKE TWO
Sinead Dunne models a swimsuit that will be featured in the show. Below, Ruthie Chaparra in a kimono-style dress. (Click to enlarge) Somehow, little old Red Bank survived its firstContinue reading "BUSTIN’ IT AT THE DUB, TAKE TWO"
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July 27th, 2010 @ 10am
Students in the two-school Red Bank school district will be required to wear similar clothing, but not uniforms, starting in October, the Asbury Park Press reports. The policy stops shortContinue reading "SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS CLOTHING RULES"
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July 23rd, 2010 @ 8am
BLUEBERRY LOVERS GET PIE-EYED
Young contestants got a faceful of purple; so did store owner Bob Sickles, in photo at bottom. (Photos by Peter Lindner; click to enlarge) It was a day of theContinue reading "BLUEBERRY LOVERS GET PIE-EYED"
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July 19th, 2010 @ 8am
RBR’S TOP TOWNIE
Headed for Pittsburgh in September: logic-loving Michael Lumish. (Click to enlarge) Continuing an annual tradition, the Red Bank Council this week threw a quick spotlight on the town’s highest-ranked studentContinue reading "RBR’S TOP TOWNIE"
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July 15th, 2010 @ 10am
SUCCESS COMES WITH STRUGGLES AT PARKER
Joseph Aochoa, of Keansburg, has been visiting the Parker Family Medical Center since its start in Red Bank 10 years ago. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTINContinue reading "SUCCESS COMES WITH STRUGGLES AT PARKER"
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July 14th, 2010 @ 1pm
MIDDLETOWN MAKES TOP 100
A Money Magazine perennial biennial: Middletown. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Middletown, NJ, unlike its myriad namesakes up and down the East Coast, can boastContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN MAKES TOP 100"
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July 13th, 2010 @ 4am
In spite of wilting heat, the eighth annual Liberty Hose fire company car show drew some 320 exhibitors and several thousand spectators to the White Street municipal lot in RedContinue reading "NOT AN EMPTY SPOT IN THE LOT"
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July 12th, 2010 @ 5am
TRUCKS WILL ROLL AT BASIE BENEFIT
Derek Trucks (left) and Susan Tedeschi bring their all-new big band to the Count Basie Theatre for a special fundraiser show Friday night. (Photo by Allison Murphy) By TOM CHESEKContinue reading "TRUCKS WILL ROLL AT BASIE BENEFIT"
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July 7th, 2010 @ 5am
It seems that KaBoomfest is becoming two events in one: a night of drunken rowdiness, largely among teenagers who hang out on Red Bank’s West Front and Broad streets duringContinue reading "KABOOM: BRILLIANCE BEFORE & AFTER DARK"
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July 4th, 2010 @ 10am
VIOLENCE MARS FIREWORKS SHOW
Two unidentified young men were part of a melee that broke out at Broad and Front streets moments before the fireworks show. (Click to enlarge) A number of fights eruptedContinue reading "VIOLENCE MARS FIREWORKS SHOW"
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July 3rd, 2010 @ 11pm
Get into the zone early, motorists, or get boxed out. (Click to enlarge) If this is Independence Day weekend, it must be time for redbankgreen‘s annual KaBoom Fireworks on theContinue reading "FIREWORKS FAQ: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW"
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July 2nd, 2010 @ 1pm
KaBoomfest, the new three-night slate of events leading up to the 51st annual Red Bank fireworks show Saturday night, kicked off Thursday night with the opening of a traveling amusementContinue reading "FIRST NIGHT OF THE FIREWORKS FAIR"
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July 2nd, 2010 @ 7am
KABOOM READIES FOR THREE-DAY SPECTACLE
A Ferris wheel and other rides were set up Tuesday in a vacant lot opposite Riverside Gardens Park. (Click to enlarge) Now taking shape on West Front Street in RedContinue reading "KABOOM READIES FOR THREE-DAY SPECTACLE"
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June 30th, 2010 @ 12pm
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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 ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...