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Red Bank’s KaBoomFest kicked off its 2011 fundraising season Thursday night with a tent party on the lawn of Hovnanian Enterprises’ HQ, followed by a sample pyrotechnics show on theContinue reading "POPPING OFF AT MAPLE COVE"
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April 28th, 2011 @ 9pm
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The hospital has raised $6 million of its $15 million capital campaign from two Middletown couples. (File photo. Click to enlarge) Little more than a week after disclosing it hadContinue reading "RIVERVIEW NETS ANOTHER $1M FROM DONORS"
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April 5th, 2011 @ 6am
KABOOMERS PROMISE FRESH START
A promotional video for the KaBOOM fireworks show. Below, Tim Hogan, new chairman of KaBoom’s executive committee. (Click to enlarge photo) Coming off two years of financial challenges and crowd-controlContinue reading "KABOOMERS PROMISE FRESH START"
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February 11th, 2011 @ 9am
SURF’S UP: TACO CHAIN TO OPEN NEXT MONTH
Surf Taco held open interviews for its Red Bank location Saturday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Rob Nagel had Red Bank on his wish listContinue reading "SURF’S UP: TACO CHAIN TO OPEN NEXT MONTH"
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February 7th, 2011 @ 8am
PUTTING THE SHAKE BACK INTO A CREAKY HIP
We’ve said it before: the ‘Hip City/Hippest Town in New Jersey’ designation for Red Bank has got to go. It’s so rusty it creaks. Even the folks at Red BankContinue reading "PUTTING THE SHAKE BACK INTO A CREAKY HIP"
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January 31st, 2011 @ 12pm
2011 PLEDGE: BEACHFRONT DEVELOPMENT
Brian Kelly was sworn in for another three-year term to the Sea Bright council Saturday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI When Brian Kelly was runningContinue reading "2011 PLEDGE: BEACHFRONT DEVELOPMENT"
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January 10th, 2011 @ 6am
SURF TACO SURFING INTO RED BANK
River’s Edge Cafe is moving out, and Surf Taco is moving in to 35 Broad Street. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Jack Anderson has aContinue reading "SURF TACO SURFING INTO RED BANK"
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January 4th, 2011 @ 8am
YMCA AMPING UP THE OUTREACH
The Y’s new executive director, Lisa Christian, outside her Middletown office. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI It was anything but a smooth, low-stress transition forContinue reading "YMCA AMPING UP THE OUTREACH"
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December 15th, 2010 @ 11am
redbankgreen has temporarily stopped allowing comments on its posts. This action was taken because we don’t have the resources to adequately moderate multiple threads of around-the-clock commentary which often become,Continue reading "COMMENTING FUNCTION HALTED"
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December 3rd, 2010 @ 9am
WEEKLONG DETOUR KICKS IN WEDNESDAY
West Bergen Place will be OOC for about a week in November for railroad work. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI If the neon orange sign hasn’t done it forContinue reading "WEEKLONG DETOUR KICKS IN WEDNESDAY"
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November 9th, 2010 @ 6am
A HEAPING HARVEST OF GOOD DEEDS
Clockwise from top left: Village People chief Felipe Rose, Blondie bombshell Debbie Harry, funk bassmaster TM Stevens and  actress Siobhan Fallon Hogan are the honorees at the Monmouth County ArtsContinue reading "A HEAPING HARVEST OF GOOD DEEDS"
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October 20th, 2010 @ 1pm
BLUE WATER SWIMS TO BROAD STREET OK
Blue Water Seafood won approval from the planning board to move into Red Bank Monday night. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Jimmy Vastardis says he’s always wanted to ownContinue reading "BLUE WATER SWIMS TO BROAD STREET OK"
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October 19th, 2010 @ 7am
A DO-GOODER’S GUIDE TO THE WEEKEND
Images by Shrewsbury resident and official Monmouth Park photographer Bill Denver remain on display this weekend, as the Meridian Health Steeplechase returns the great steeplechase meet tradition to the greaterContinue reading "A DO-GOODER’S GUIDE TO THE WEEKEND"
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September 24th, 2010 @ 7am
AT THE BASIE: THIS SPACE FOR ‘RENT’
Billy Piscopo rehearses “La Vie Boheme” in the Phoenix Productions staging of RENT, opening this weekend at the Count Basie Theatre. (Photos courtesy of Phoenix Productions) By TOM CHESEK It’sContinue reading "AT THE BASIE: THIS SPACE FOR ‘RENT’"
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July 14th, 2010 @ 9am
COMING TO BROAD: WOMEN’S CLOTHING SHOP
Dor L’Dor’s owner hopes to open in mid-May. (Click to enlarge) A Manhattan-based clothing store catering to women aged 16 to 36 has signed a lease in downtown Red Bank,Continue reading "COMING TO BROAD: WOMEN’S CLOTHING SHOP"
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April 15th, 2010 @ 12pm
STAPLES TO LAND IN RED BANK’S IN-BOX
The big-box retailer will lease a space less than a quarter the size of its average store at 137-139 Broad Street. Staples Inc., the big-box office supply retailer, is comingContinue reading "STAPLES TO LAND IN RED BANK’S IN-BOX"
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July 15th, 2009 @ 6am
The owner of the Atrium at Navesink Harbor, center, wants to add six stories to a planned addition, and to use the lot in the foreground for parking. Riverview Towers is at right; the addition is to go between the...
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April 27th, 2009 @ 3pm
For decades, this is what library patrons curious about the upper floors have encountered. In what were once the demurely separate bedrooms of Mr. & Mrs. Sigmund Eisner, the Red Bank Public Library last year created two new second-floor reading...
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April 3rd, 2009 @ 11am
The view north along Bridge Avenue at Chestnut Street. Soon, motorists on Bridge will have to come to a full stop, as those on Chestnut already do. A couple of updates on traffic matters here in hububby Red Bank: Capt....
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February 24th, 2009 @ 11am
Almost totally obscured by scaffolding all summer, the view from the BasieCam this morning reveals a made-over performance space as it nears completion. (Click to enlarge) Taking a major step in its against-the-clock interior renovation project, workers at the Count...
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October 6th, 2008 @ 10am
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9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(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 ...