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RED BANK: TWO NIGHTS OF PEACE ‘N MUSIC
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Woodstock-era icon Graham Nash takes to the Basie boards on Saturday…while fellow festival veterans, the not-so-sly Family Stone, headline a 70s Rock and Funk Fest on Sunday.    One weekendContinue reading "RED BANK: TWO NIGHTS OF PEACE ‘N MUSIC"
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August 21st, 2015 @ 12pm
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RED BANK: COUNCIL TAKES UP BUSINESS BIZ
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Doc Shoppe, and only Doc Shoppe, is permitted to have a table on the sidewalk out front under a trial run approved by the council. Meanwhile, a sign ordinance wasContinue reading "RED BANK: COUNCIL TAKES UP BUSINESS BIZ"
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August 20th, 2015 @ 2pm
RED BANK: RUNAWAY BRIDAL SHOP?
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Activity at the Sassy Chic bridal wear shop during a Wedding Walk in 2012. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) A Red Bank bridal wear shop has been evicted,Continue reading "RED BANK: RUNAWAY BRIDAL SHOP?"
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August 19th, 2015 @ 2pm
RED BANK: MIFFED TORTOISE MISSING
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A Red Bank family is asking for helping finding an exotic tortoise that went missing Tuesday. “It’s mating season, and the male apparently got a little too aggressive,” prompting theContinue reading "RED BANK: MIFFED TORTOISE MISSING"
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August 19th, 2015 @ 10am
FAIR HAVEN: CHIEF HANGING UP HIS HAT
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Darryl Breckenridge is winding down a career of 35 years with the police in his hometown. He’s seen below at a 2012 Veteran’s Day commemoration with World War II veteranContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: CHIEF HANGING UP HIS HAT"
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August 19th, 2015 @ 10am
RED BANK: DIFFERENT STROKES ON THE RIVER
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Nice gig if you can get it… and you can, if you come down to Marine Park on Saturday.  It’s called a “gig” boat… that is, when it’s not beingContinue reading "RED BANK: DIFFERENT STROKES ON THE RIVER"
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August 19th, 2015 @ 6am
RUMSON: BLITHEWALD RAZED
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Five months after a devastating fire, the Rumson mansion known as Blithewald was demolished Monday. The 132-year-old home, on Buena Vista Avenue, was undergoing extensive redecoration for use as a designer showcase forContinue reading "RUMSON: BLITHEWALD RAZED"
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August 18th, 2015 @ 2pm
RED BANK: TRASH PICKUP TO GO PRIVATE
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Two of the borough’s four garbage trucks will be sold, and the other two kept for leaf and snow removal, officials said. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "RED BANK: TRASH PICKUP TO GO PRIVATE"
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August 18th, 2015 @ 7am
RED BANK: A WALK OF FAME FOR LOCAL MUTTS
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All Dogs Go to Hollywood  as Red Bank RiverCenter presents the latest of its canine-friendly Dog Days events Tuesday evening. At a time of year when Hollywood separates its summerContinue reading "RED BANK: A WALK OF FAME FOR LOCAL MUTTS"
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August 17th, 2015 @ 5pm
RED BANK: PROSECUTOR ‘CLOSING IN’ ON KILLER
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A poster displayed at the middle school during a February, 2010 memorial event for murdered teacher Jonelle Melton.  (Photo by Dustin Racioppi. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The Monmouth CountyContinue reading "RED BANK: PROSECUTOR ‘CLOSING IN’ ON KILLER"
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August 17th, 2015 @ 3pm
CHURN: HOUSEWARES, TRAP DOOR AND MORE
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Kathleen Conlon bought the onetime gas station that’s now Welcome Home, her housewares shop on East Front Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD ThisContinue reading "CHURN: HOUSEWARES, TRAP DOOR AND MORE"
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August 17th, 2015 @ 1pm
RED BANK: STATION STOP FOR JAZZ, SOUL
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The O’Jays team with their chart-topping ’70s soul contemporary Gladys Knight for a Basie doubleheader on Thursday. Saxman Boney James (below) throws fusion-jazz buffs a bone on Wednesday.    AsContinue reading "RED BANK: STATION STOP FOR JAZZ, SOUL"
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August 17th, 2015 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER: PREDAWN CRASH ON BRANCH
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An unidentified motorist suffered minor injuries from crashing into a concrete driveway pillar on Branch Avenue near Silverton Avenue in Little Silver at about 3:55 a.m. Monday, Police Chief Dan ShafferyContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: PREDAWN CRASH ON BRANCH"
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August 17th, 2015 @ 11am
After another two-month break, the Red Bank zoning board’s hearing on the Element, a proposed 35-unit apartment complex at 55 West Front Street, is scheduled to resume Thursday night. The property, oppositeContinue reading "RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN BACK ON AGENDA"
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August 17th, 2015 @ 5am
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of July 23 to August 13, 2015. This information is unedited. CRIMES CriminalContinue reading "RED BANK: CRIME & ARREST REPORTS"
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August 14th, 2015 @ 10am
RED BANK: STREETSCAPE PROJECTS PLANNED
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The fence and sign bordering the onetime Steinbach’s department store parking lot on Broad Street, above, will be transformed into a landscaped seating area, shown in an aerial concept drawingContinue reading "RED BANK: STREETSCAPE PROJECTS PLANNED"
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August 14th, 2015 @ 7am
RED BANK: PAGING THE DOCS OF ROCK
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The Docs of Rock — a band of moonlighting medical professionals and educators, led by Dr. Lawrence Sykoff, Ed.D. (fifth from left) — take it back to the Downtown onContinue reading "RED BANK: PAGING THE DOCS OF ROCK"
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August 14th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: GAS LEAK CAPPED
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Responding to a gas leak reported shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday at the intersection of Rector Place and West Front Street in Red Bank, a crew from New Jersey NaturalContinue reading "RED BANK: GAS LEAK CAPPED"
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August 13th, 2015 @ 6pm
RED BANK: GOODBYES AND HELLOS
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Councilman Art Murphy, who resigned last week, seen here in 2014. Below, George and Gladys Bowden, who were honored for decades of volunteer work. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click toContinue reading "RED BANK: GOODBYES AND HELLOS"
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August 13th, 2015 @ 4pm
No borough employees will lose jobs or benefits in the switch, Mayor Pasquale Menna said. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The end ofContinue reading "RED BANK: PRIVATE TRASH PICKUP NEARS"
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August 13th, 2015 @ 10am
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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
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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!