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RESIDENTS SWEAT BUDGET DETAILS
Participants in last night’s Q&A on the Red Bank budget pick up info packets. (Click to enlarge) Red Bank officials held a marathon budget walk-through before a standing-room crowd atContinue reading "RESIDENTS SWEAT BUDGET DETAILS"
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M’TOWN SCHOOLS IN ‘INVESTIGATION’ MODE
Two of the three newly-elected board of ed members, Vincent Brand, left, and Chris Aveta, at Wednesday night’s meeting. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The Middletown Board ofContinue reading "M’TOWN SCHOOLS IN ‘INVESTIGATION’ MODE"
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Go ahead, laugh: last week’s ‘Where’ fell completely flat, generating no email responses.
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI With a voter-rejected schools budget now landing in the lap of the Middletown Township Committee for recommended cuts, Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger is calling for township teachers toContinue reading "M’TOWN MAYOR WANTS TEACHER PAY FREEZE"
GREEN TEAMERS CLEAN UP
Volunteers from the United Methodist Church participated in the annual event along East Bergen Place, above, and in the East Side parking lots, below. (Click to enlarge) Those folks youContinue reading "GREEN TEAMERS CLEAN UP"
A READY-FOR-RAIN HAT
Red Bank crossing guard Carl Colmorgen, who works the corner of Broad Street at Harding Road/Reckless Place, arrived at his post last Thursday in a spring chapeau garnished with forsythia,Continue reading "A READY-FOR-RAIN HAT"
A HANDS-ON EARTH DAY
Among the commemorations of the fortieth Earth Day Thursday was a day of cleanup, planting and distributing flowers to neighbors by students at the Red Bank Charter School, above. AnContinue reading "A HANDS-ON EARTH DAY"
SNEAKING INTO THE MOVIES, IN RED BANK
Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt in a scene from PLEASE GIVE, screening tonight at Clearview Cinemas in a sneak-preview benefit for the Monmouth County Arts Council. By TOM CHESEK ItContinue reading "SNEAKING INTO THE MOVIES, IN RED BANK"
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
There’s often something ticklish about the things our ‘Where’ respondents include with their answers. From last week’s mailbag concerning Where number 201, showing a Buddha statue:
KNOCKING OUT KNOCKING
If Red Bank passes a ‘No Knock’ ordinance, signs like this, on Broad Street, won’t be needed. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI It’s a scenario almost any homeownerContinue reading "KNOCKING OUT KNOCKING"
GROUPS PREPARE EARTH DAY EVENTS
A close-up view of planet Earth. (Click to enlarge) Here are some announcements of Earth Day activities scheduled for the next few days: Earth Day Celebration at Red Bank PrimaryContinue reading "GROUPS PREPARE EARTH DAY EVENTS"
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Answering the call of Gov. Chris Christie, Fair Haven teachers agreed to a one-year pay freeze on the same day voters hit the booths and approved theContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN TEACHERS AGREE TO PAY FREEZE"
[Update: This article replaces an earlier version, which cited contract terms that Superintendent Laura Morana says were reported incorrectly in both the Asbury Park Press and the Star-Ledger.] Gov. ChrisContinue reading "UNION TAKES FREEZE, AND GUV HAS PRAISE"
KaPOP
Wednesday night’s mini fireworks show at the Monmouth Boat Club, as seen from the Molly Pitcher Inn. (Click to enlarge) No, they weren’t testing the fireworks, as one out-of-towner speculatedContinue reading "KaPOP"
ON TUESDAY’S BALLOT: SCHOOL BUDGET BLUES
Red Bank residents at Wednesday night’s presentation on the borough school district budget, led by Superintendent Laura Morana, below. (Click to enlarge) Hoping to whip up support for a spendingContinue reading "ON TUESDAY’S BALLOT: SCHOOL BUDGET BLUES"
LONE CANDIDATE FACES THE VOTERS
Ben Forest, below, met with residents Tuesday night in a forum sponsored by the Red Bank NAACP. (Photos by Anthony Trufolo; click to enlarge.) It was board of ed candidate’sContinue reading "LONE CANDIDATE FACES THE VOTERS"
GOING FOR SECONDS… FOR A GOOD CAUSE
It isn’t gluttony if it’s for a good cause, right? So go ahead, take a refill on that chianti, heap a little more onto that dinner plate and dig intoContinue reading "GOING FOR SECONDS… FOR A GOOD CAUSE"
Y ZONE CHANGE QUASHED BY COUNCIL
Congregation Beth Shalom Secretary Sara Breslow speaks against a proposed zoning ordinance at Monday’s council meeting. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Red Bank’s borough council voted 4-1 againstContinue reading "Y ZONE CHANGE QUASHED BY COUNCIL"
It’s often difficult  for individuals to come out as gay. But for families and friends, it can be just as hard, says Dee Reger. There’s a support group for that.Continue reading "WAVING A PFLAG OF UNDERSTANDING"
CBS EXEC JOINS THE SHOW AT BASIE
Vinnie Favale, pictured at left with HEREAFTER writing partner Frankie Keane,  joins a volunteer entity that includes local politicians, business leaders, eminent professionals and at least one familiar face fromContinue reading "CBS EXEC JOINS THE SHOW AT BASIE"
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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 ...