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While federal wildlife hold off on trying to rescue a pod of dolphins that's been in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers for the past five months, the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine has rescued a green sea turtle from...
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Monday was for the birds, including a young herring gull perched atop at bulkhead on the Shrewsbury River in Sea Bright and the mute swan swimming in the Navesink off the Rumson municipal boat landing. Email this story
The water was slate gray, but nature provided a moving swath of autumn gold along the shore of the Navesink River in front of the Salt Creek Grille in Rumson yesterday. (Click to enlarge) We may be seeing a slight...
The Asbury Park Press, quoting a marine mammal expert, says the dolphin found floating in the Shrewsbury River this morning was not from the pod that's been in the river and the nearby Navesink since early summer. And a separate...
A dead dolphin has been found in the Shrewsbury River near the Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has confirmed. From a media alert sent out by NOAA spokeswoman Teri Frady this morning: A dead dolphin was...
Driveway docking of boats would be prohibited in winter months in Fair Haven. By SUE MORGAN Peter and Patricia O’Such say that what they see as over-regulation in Fair Haven is leaving the town's residents feeling disaffected, alienated, and bullied....
A dolphin swims in the Shrewsbury River near the mouth of Navesink late Sunday afternoon. The pod of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins that took up residence in the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers this summer and autumn continues to ply those waters,...
Dolphins on the west side of the Oceanic Bridge in mid-July. (Photo courtesy of Mary Fenton) A team of experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has decided that the dolphins in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers are just...
Some of the dolphins off Rumson in July, shortly after they moved upriver from the Shrewsbury to the Navesink. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has jurisdiction over the pod of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins that has been in local...
Dolphins in the upper Shrewsbury in late June. Federal marine experts say they have an answer to slippery question: How may dolphins are there in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers? Answer: Twelve, at least 10 of which have spent most...
OK, maybe we're getting a little ahead of ourselves and won't be seeing any Shiba Inus walking on the Navesink anytime soon. Still... Attention gardeners hoping to extend the last of this year's tomato and eggplant crops: the National Weather...
NOAA officials on dolphin watch in the Shrewsbury River in late June. Federal marine authorities say they are one week closer to implementing an effort to lure or drive visiting dolphins out of the Navesink River and toward the Atlantic...
The Highlands-Sea Bright (Route 36) Bridge, as seen yesterday from the deck at Gaiter's Restaurant in Sea Bright. Pile driving and other loud work on the Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge now under reconstruction has been quieted to enhance the possibility that...
Ray Jackson points to the area in the Shrewsbury where he saw eight to ten dolphins feeding all day Monday. Pete Pawlikowski saw a couple of them Monday morning as he headed over the Oceanic Bridge to work at the...
A boat nears a dolphin in the Shrewsbury River early last summer, before the pod headed upriver along the Navesink. The Asbury Park Press is reporting that dolphins have been spotted in the Shrewsbury River in recent days, giving rise...
The view downriver from the Oceanic Bridge, the route the remaining dolphins would need to travel to reach the Shrewsbury River and, ultimately, Sandy Hook Bay. Federal marine experts this afternoon outlined two acoustics-based approaches to moving the remaining bottlenose...
A boater stands for a better look at dolphins near the Oceanic Bridge Wednesday afternoon. (Click to enlarge) The deaths of two dolphins in recent weeks has prompted a telephone confab among marine and federal officials to consider whether and...
A State Police Marine Unit boat travels east along the Navesink yesterday afternoon, shortly after receiving the report of a dead dolphin on the Middletown side. The decomposed corpse of a young dolphin was found in the Navesink River yesterday,...
A sailor took advantage of the brilliant sunshine and light breezes for an outing on the Navesink yesterday, as seen from the Molly Pitcher Inn in Red Bank. Here's the weekend weather outlook from the National Weather Service: Today: Mostly...
A lone rower glides his scull over the glass-smooth Navesink River at dusk Tuesday, as seen from the foot of Hance Road, Fair Haven. (Click to enlarge) Email 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 ...