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RED BANK CHURN: CLOTHES AND ART TRAINING
RED BANK: Retail Churn brings news of men's clothing shop, two women's boutiques and a free art school for military veterans.
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RED BANK: BRANNIGAN’S, TEAK REACH FOR SKY
RED BANK CHURN: Brannigan's and Teak are adding roof decks.
RED BANK: RAYRAP RETURNS WITH NEW PLAN
Ray Rapcavage, seen below on Hudson Avenue opposite his properties, including a house destroyed by fire in May, 2012. Above, a rendering of the proposed project, with an English gardenContinue reading "RED BANK: RAYRAP RETURNS WITH NEW PLAN"
RED BANK: PHARMACY, APARTMENTS GOING UP
RED BANK: Construction begins on new West Side pharmacy and apartments.
RED BANK: MEMBERS-ONLY CIGAR CLUB OK’D
RED BANK: Zoners approve swank private cigar club and BYOB downtown.
RED BANK: RIVERFEST RISES FOR 3-DAY STAND
RED BANK: Marine Park offers a strolling smorgasbord of tastes and sounds as Riverfest pitches its tent for a sixth annual stay.
RUMSON: What's Your Beef plans a free, open-house, food-and-drink sampling party.
RED BANK: PRIVATE CIGAR CLUB PLANNED
RED BANK: Private cigar club seeks zoning board approval for West Front Street.
SEA BRIGHT: DONOVAN’S REBUILD BEGINS
SEA BRIGHT: Construction of a permanent home for Donovan's Reef gets underway.
RED BANK: CHURN GALORE
RED BANK: Retail Churn serves up the scoops on a whole lotta churning.
SEA BRIGHT: SEASONAL PARKING FEES DEBUT
SEA BRIGHT: Summer-only paid parking goes into effect.
RED BANK: LOCAL SMOKE SET TO WAFT
Steve Raab, right, with partners Loren Raab, his wife, and Eric Keating, left, outside their new restaurant Thursday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD EnteringContinue reading "RED BANK: LOCAL SMOKE SET TO WAFT"
LINCROFT: $30K IN SCHOLARSHIPS FROM JOCEF
Students from Red Bank and Middletown are among the recipients, as the nonprofit JOCEF foundation awards scholarships to Monmouth County culinary students.
The Red Lantern restaurant won clearance to open at 132 Broad Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The dizzying transformation of downtown Red Bank intoContinue reading "RED BANK: ANOTHER RESTAURANT APPROVED"
The Curchin Group accounting firm is looking for local non-profits to help out, as beneficiaries for their annual Curchin Open indoor mini-golf fundraiser.
A BIG-TENT CELEBRATION ON SANDY HOOK
Brian Kirk sounds an early keynote to the summer season, as the Jersey Shore Partnership marks its silver anniversary, June 6 on Sandy Hook.
FAIR HAVEN: SKEPTICISM OVER BANK PLAN
An architectural rendering of the bank, proposed for the former site of a Sunoco station.  (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) By JOHN T. WARD Like a customerContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: SKEPTICISM OVER BANK PLAN"
FAIR HAVEN: BANK EYES SITE FOR DRIVE-THRU
After a four-year vacancy, the former site of a Sunoco station at River Road and Cedar Avenue in Fair Haven may be getting a new use: Investors Savings Bank hopes toContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: BANK EYES SITE FOR DRIVE-THRU"
RED BANK: FIREHOUSE-TO-STORE PLAN OK’D
The former Liberty Hose firehouse at 40 White Street in Red Bank won borough zoning board approval last week for conversion to a retail store with two apartments on theContinue reading "RED BANK: FIREHOUSE-TO-STORE PLAN OK’D"
SEA BRIGHT: RUM RUNNER RESURRECTED
The bar in a glass-walled room one patron called “the aquarium” offers panoramic views of the Shrewsbury River. Below right, restaurant principal Tim McLoone with an opening-night guest. (Photo by John T. Ward.Continue reading "SEA BRIGHT: RUM RUNNER RESURRECTED"
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(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 ...
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.