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BRINGING A LITTLE EARTH DAY RAIN INDOORS
Dozens of Red Bank residents ignored Sunday’s rain to turn out at an Earth Day fair at the Red Bank Middle School, where a rapt audience of children simulated rainfallContinue reading "BRINGING A LITTLE EARTH DAY RAIN INDOORS"
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April 23rd, 2012 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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By JOHN T. WARD Some 40 teens from Rumson and Fair Haven, and a pair of Rumson homeowners, are facing charges following a police raid on a house party SaturdayContinue reading "40 JUVENILES ARRESTED AT RUMSON PARTY"
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April 16th, 2012 @ 1pm
ON THE HUNT FOR PRETTY EGGS
You have to love an event advertised as “something that will start on time and be over in a flash,” even if the weather drives it indoors, as happened withContinue reading "ON THE HUNT FOR PRETTY EGGS"
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April 2nd, 2012 @ 8am
ON THE AGENDA: PITCHFORKS, TURF & MORE
Proponents of a Red Bank community garden try for another bite of the apple with their request to farm a portion of the public library property, above. (Click to enlarge)Continue reading "ON THE AGENDA: PITCHFORKS, TURF & MORE"
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March 28th, 2012 @ 6am
PRIMARY SCHOOL BIDS PRINCIPAL FAREWELL
The Red Bank Primary School PTO threw a sendoff dinner in the school cafeteria Monday night for principal Rick Cohen, who is leaving this week to become director of curriculumContinue reading "PRIMARY SCHOOL BIDS PRINCIPAL FAREWELL"
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March 27th, 2012 @ 7am
MORE FAUX TURF SLATED FOR BASIE FIELDS
The additional fields would be striped primarily for soccer, lacrosse and field hockey, unlike the existing football and soccer field, above. Below, a visual provided by officials of the planContinue reading "MORE FAUX TURF SLATED FOR BASIE FIELDS"
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March 21st, 2012 @ 10am
For the third consecutive year, Red Bank Middle Schoolers have exterminated the competition in a national video-production contest sponsored by a pest-control trade group. The $3,000 grand prize for theContinue reading "RBMS BAGS MORE CASH WITH ANTI-RAT RAP"
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March 21st, 2012 @ 8am
A two-classrooom expansion of Point Road School to accommodate a new all-day kindergarten program won overwhelming approval by Little Silver voters Tuesday, according to figures reported by the Asbury ParkContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER OKS ALL-DAY-KINDERGARTEN"
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March 14th, 2012 @ 4am
BIKE SHOP PLANS WEST FRONT ROLLOUT
Jonathan Erdelyi takes a break from painting the interior of the Red Bicycle Studio, his new bike shop on West Front Street. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD MoreContinue reading "BIKE SHOP PLANS WEST FRONT ROLLOUT"
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March 13th, 2012 @ 5am
Scenes from the second annual Sunday Showcase at Red Bank Regional High on Sunday, in which dozens of students danced, sang, played and spoke, accompanied by Tim McLoone and theContinue reading "SHOW TIME AT RBR"
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February 27th, 2012 @ 8am
The Red Bank Regional HS Choir made a guest appearance onstage with Foreigner at the sold-out Count Basie Theatre Wednesday night, joining lead singer Kelly Hansen and the band forContinue reading "RBR CHOIR KNOWS WHAT LOVE IS, LIVE"
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February 17th, 2012 @ 6pm
POSTERS GIVE ‘TWEENS’ THE STAR TREATMENT
Debbie Mishan, below, with the hundreds of entries from girls seeking to be featured in posters hung each month at her Fair Haven boutique, Skye Blue & BeTween. (Click toContinue reading "POSTERS GIVE ‘TWEENS’ THE STAR TREATMENT"
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February 2nd, 2012 @ 11am
Two classrooms would be added to the Point Road School to accommodate the program. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD After almost four years of study and discussion, aContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER TO VOTE ON ALL-DAY-K FUNDS"
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January 31st, 2012 @ 7am
The Red Bank Roller Vixens put on an action-packed show for a full house at the the Red Bank Middle School in a fundraiser for the eighth-grade class trip Friday night.Continue reading "BRUISING HIPS FOR A CLASS TRIP"
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January 23rd, 2012 @ 7am
TEACHER, LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE TO JAM
The original Pink Floyd video for ‘Another Brick in the Wall.’ At the institution of higher-decibel education known as the School of Rock, there’s a tradition in which students atContinue reading "TEACHER, LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE TO JAM"
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January 18th, 2012 @ 2pm
The water was calm as hundreds dove in Sunday (Photos by Peter Lindner. Click embiggen symbol in lower right corner to enlarge) Hundreds of local Catholic school supporters dashed intoContinue reading "MAKING A SPLASH FOR PAROCHIAL ED"
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January 9th, 2012 @ 7am
“YOU HOPE YOU NEVER, EVER HAVE TO…”
Little Silver police conducted lockdown and ‘active shooter’ drills at the Point Road and Markham schools Tuesday.(Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The scenario is terrifying: someone loose inContinue reading "“YOU HOPE YOU NEVER, EVER HAVE TO…”"
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January 3rd, 2012 @ 4pm
Here’s a video that tracks a couple of Red Bank kids as they explore Yestercades, the retro gaming emporium that’s been the buzz of Broad Street since even before itContinue reading "TIDINGS OF COMFORT AND JOYSTICKS"
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December 23rd, 2011 @ 11am
LITTLE SILVER FIRE VICTIMS SEEK MEMENTOS
The Loftus home, on Carriage Lane, during last Saturday’s fire. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Their lives were spared, and for that they are grateful. Their home, aContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER FIRE VICTIMS SEEK MEMENTOS"
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December 16th, 2011 @ 9am
FOURSOME LAUNCHING RUMSON ART SCHOOL
Beth Sillen, Eileen Burgess, Meg Sellig and Maricarmen Buckley hope Canvas Studio Art will fill a void that the public schools cannot. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD TheyContinue reading "FOURSOME LAUNCHING RUMSON ART SCHOOL"
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December 8th, 2011 @ 12pm
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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 ...
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 ...