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Middletown authorities reported a second recent attack on a child by a coyote last night, according to stories in today's Star-Ledger and Asbury Park Press. According to the Ledger, the police fired one shot at an animal spotted nearby shortly...
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Canada geese had the run of the fields at Sickles Park in Little Silver in early March. Columnist Mark Di Ionno of the Star Ledger has a piece today about the use of plywood dog cutouts to keep Canada geese...
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There's extensive coverage today of the reported attack on a toddler by a coyote in the Chapel Hill section of Middletown Friday night. So far, just what it was that tried to drag the boy off and left him with...
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We've got our bald eagle. In Red Bank, Tenn., the news today concerns coyotes. From News Channel 9, WTVC, in Chattanooga: A problem is brewing for homeowners in Red Bank who say they've seen a number of coyotes near their...
The staff of redbankgreen was out for a late-afternoon walk on Tuesday when we were astonished to see a bald eagle flying overhead. We were just stepping onto the Cooper Bridge from the Middletown side when we saw the giant...
No one correctly identified the the location of last week's 'Where,' showing a statue of a slicker-wearing fisherman. Which surprised us. We would have thought there were some avid statuary aficionados out there. In fact, we still believe that. Come...
Today's Asbury Park Press has a fascinating story today about a study in which fish tagged with tracking devices were released into the Navesink River as part of a study to understand their wanderings. From the article, by reporter Kirk...
A 49-year-old Fair Haven woman was pulled from the Navesink last night after she fell through the river's ice in an effort to retrieve a wayward dog, the Asbury Park Press reports. Officer John Waltz responded to a report at...
Today's Asbury Park Press has a breathtaking recap of how Sea Bright firefighters rescued Debra Yuhasz from the Fountains Condominiums fire early Monday morning. The 47-year-old woman was lying unconscious on the balcony of her second-floor unit when Capt. Joseph...
Sandy Claus, a bearded dragon lizard, lazes on a Middletown deck recently with Nestle, a chocolate Lab. Wikipedia's entry on bearded dragons says they're "quickly gaining popularity and may soon be more common pets than green iguanas." Who'd have thought,...
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Eric Ginsberg is at it again. The tireless impressario who brought to life the Red Bank Music Community and its songwriters' workshops and open-mic nights and StreetLife concerts is now bringing the big screen to town. Through the RBMC, Ginsberg...
Dog trainer Drayton Michaels of Urban Dawgs outside the Broad Street post office with Vegas, a 2-year-old boxer now learning the finer points of canine behavior, if not obedience to signs. E-mail this story
Kim Sambucci was sitting at her desk at Golf Greens Fore U on Shrewsbury Avenue late last Friday afternoon when she heard “an explosion, like a car crashing into the building.” But it wasn’t a car Sambucci saw when she...
The Holmdel Independent has a story about last weekend's cow-pie bingo fundraiser at a farm in Middletown, which we advanced last week. Turns out the cow, named Mary, was in no rush to drop a load. A DJ tried playing...
'Sue from Fair Haven' lassoed last week's 'Where,' which turned out to be a bucking bronc that threw a number of readers. The idyllic image of cows and other livestock in a pasture is from a mural painted on the...
Oliver, a year-and-a-half-old Great Dane, out for a walk on Sunday. Oliver belongs to Jim Todd of Little Silver. E-mail this story
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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 ...
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 ...