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Beachgoers beat a retreat from Beach E at Sandy Hook following the cancellation of a weekly concert because of an approaching storm Wednesday evening. Forecasts indicate that Hurricane Arthur willContinue reading "SOGGY START TO HOLIDAY WEEKEND?"
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July 3rd, 2014 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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Last week’s Where showed the landscape along Crescent Drive in Middletown, as reflected in the gold glass windows of 10 Route 35, or what many of us known as theContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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July 3rd, 2014 @ 7am
SHREWSBURY: A MARE IN THE SURF
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The multi-dimensional works of Mare Akana are on display at the county library’s Eastern Branch, starting with a meet-the-artist reception on Thursday evening. Depending on where and when you mightContinue reading "SHREWSBURY: A MARE IN THE SURF"
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July 2nd, 2014 @ 12pm
SEA BRIGHT: DIVE RESURFACES
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Christina Di Iorio outside her Ocean Avenue bar and restaurant, which reopens Wednesday afternoon. Below, her husband, Steven Graniero. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading "SEA BRIGHT: DIVE RESURFACES"
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July 2nd, 2014 @ 9am
RED BANK: SOCCER THRILLER AT BASIE
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Red Bank-area soccer fans half-filled the Count Basie Theatre Tuesday afternoon for a free live screening of the World Cup match between the United States and Belgium, won in extraContinue reading "RED BANK: SOCCER THRILLER AT BASIE"
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July 2nd, 2014 @ 6am
SEA BRIGHT: FISH EATERY NOW OPEN
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The impressive comeback of the hurricane-damaged three-story building at 1054 Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright continues with the soft opening of last Thursday of Sea Bright Fish Company, a restaurantContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: FISH EATERY NOW OPEN"
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July 2nd, 2014 @ 5am
FAIR HAVEN: STUDY IN CHARCOAL… AND RED
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A painter sands the clapboard at 804 River Road in Fair Haven, home to Threads Needlepoint, apparently dressed to blend into his environment. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click toContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: STUDY IN CHARCOAL… AND RED"
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July 1st, 2014 @ 4pm
Recent crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. Michael Smith, age 54, from Thomas Avenue in Little Egg Harbor, NJ, arrested on June 17,Continue reading "MIDDLETOWN: CRIMES & ARRESTS"
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July 1st, 2014 @ 2pm
RED BANK: LET FREE-FILM RING
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Down in front: Shore Flicks rolls into Riverside Gardens for the first in the free summer film series, as INDEPENDENCE DAY brings the sci-fi fireworks to the banks of theContinue reading "RED BANK: LET FREE-FILM RING"
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July 1st, 2014 @ 12pm
Crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Shrewsbury Police Department for the period of June 20 to June 27, 2014. Report of Burglary and Criminal Mischief in theContinue reading "SHREWSBURY POLICE BLOTTER"
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July 1st, 2014 @ 7am
SEA BRIGHT: MURALIST AT WORK
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Near the north end of downtown Sea Bright, muralist Jim Kovic, right, is transforming a building wall along Peninsula Avenue into a giant, old-style postcard. “Every great city deserves greatContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: MURALIST AT WORK"
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July 1st, 2014 @ 6am
A beach day so nice it’ll make your head spin. Or something like that. A Vine video from the municipal beach in Sea Bright on June 27, 2014. (Video byContinue reading "CLIPPINGS: BEACH WATCH IN SEA BRIGHT"
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June 30th, 2014 @ 11am
NAVESINK: RIVERVIEW DELIVERS AN EYEFUL
[slideshow_deploy id=’91232′]The vantage points were harder to find, but a  fireworks show on the Navesink River off a Middletown dock Friday night was no less spectacular than the old KaBoomContinue reading "NAVESINK: RIVERVIEW DELIVERS AN EYEFUL"
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June 30th, 2014 @ 9am
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of June 19 to June 26, 2014. This information is unedited. CRIMES: TheftContinue reading "RED BANK: CABBY STIFFED, iPAD TAKEN"
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June 30th, 2014 @ 8am
Jon Bon Jovi and “his local side band,” the Kings of Suburbia, will perform at Red Bank’s Count Basie Theatre in a fundraiser for the Parker Family Health Center onContinue reading "RED BANK: BON JOVI TO PLAY BASIE"
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June 30th, 2014 @ 7am
[slideshow_deploy id=’91290′] Scenes from the  first-ever Red Bank Rockin’ Country Music Festival, a two-day food-and-tunes event that raised funds for the Red Bank Public Library Foundation, the Red Bank Volunteer FireContinue reading "RED BANK: COUNTRY FANS KICK UP DUST"
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June 30th, 2014 @ 6am
MIDDLETOWN: THERE’S JOY IN MUDVILLE
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Mark your calendars: it’s another opportunity to Dress for Mess, when International Mud Day is observed in style at Middletown Library this Monday. It started in Australia, just a fewContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: THERE’S JOY IN MUDVILLE"
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June 29th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: USA V. BELGIUM, FREE AT BASIE
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Red Bank-area soccer fans will be able to watch Tuesday’s World Cup knockout round match between the United States and Belgium on a much larger screen than the one atContinue reading "RED BANK: USA V. BELGIUM, FREE AT BASIE"
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June 29th, 2014 @ 11am
RED BANK: COUNTRY ROCKS RIVERFRONT
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Headliner Maggie Rose rocked Marine Park on a deliciously cool night one of the first-ever Red Bank Rockin’ Country Music Festival Saturday. The event continues from noon to 7 p.m.Continue reading "RED BANK: COUNTRY ROCKS RIVERFRONT"
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June 29th, 2014 @ 10am
NAVESINK: A STONE CHURCH ‘SUPERSTAR’
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The Stone Church Players wrap up their production of the Webber-Rice rock opera JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, with two more performances this weekend. It wasn’t all so very long ago thatContinue reading "NAVESINK: A STONE CHURCH ‘SUPERSTAR’"
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June 28th, 2014 @ 12pm
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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 ...