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GIANTS ON ICE, AS ROCKET MEETS JACK FROST
The Rocket, above in foreground, with the Jack Frost.  (Photo by John Oakley of Fantastic Signs. Click to enlarge) The New York Times has a story in Monday’s edition onContinue reading "GIANTS ON ICE, AS ROCKET MEETS JACK FROST"
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March 3rd, 2014 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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SNOWSTORM: IS THAT IT?
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A man works a snowblower on Broad Street in Red Bank Monday morning following a snowfall that started later and ended sooner than forecast, leaving just a couple of inchesContinue reading "SNOWSTORM: IS THAT IT?"
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March 3rd, 2014 @ 9am
RED BANK: WOOLY MONMOUTH CLOSING
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•Dori Cohen Kershner with a customer at Wooly Monmouth in 2011. Kershner announced the closing of her 10-year-old Red Bank knitting store over the weekend in a post on herContinue reading "RED BANK: WOOLY MONMOUTH CLOSING"
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March 3rd, 2014 @ 8am
RED BANK BRACES FOR ANOTHER BLANKETING
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DPW sprayers laid down stripes of ice-inhibiting salt brine throughout Red Bank on Saturday, including Spring Street, above. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) Red Bank has suspendedContinue reading "RED BANK BRACES FOR ANOTHER BLANKETING"
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March 2nd, 2014 @ 10am
RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN INJURED DOWNTOWN
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Emergency medical personnel from MONOC tended to a pedestrian struck as he crossed Front Street at Broad Street in Red Bank around 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Police said Joseph Connolly, ofContinue reading "RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN INJURED DOWNTOWN"
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March 2nd, 2014 @ 9am
PIEHOLE: BAGELS, BURGERS AND PERUVIAN
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Why is a bagel sandwich so cheap here? Because they make bagels. They want you to eat bagels. (Photo by John T Ward. Click to enlarge) By JIM WILLIS redbankgreen’s PieHole is allContinue reading "PIEHOLE: BAGELS, BURGERS AND PERUVIAN"
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February 28th, 2014 @ 11am
TONY, TINA, BOBBY, SANTTU-MATIAS & MORE
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Above: Champian Fulton, Bob Tuzzo and Tony Corrao take the bandstand when the Red Bank Jazz Orchestra presents “An Enchanted Evening of Song” at Two River Theater. Below, twentysomething EuropeanContinue reading "TONY, TINA, BOBBY, SANTTU-MATIAS & MORE"
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February 28th, 2014 @ 10am
Crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Shrewsbury Police Department for the period of February 22 to February 27, 2014. Arrests Mark A. Fontan, male age 46 ofContinue reading "SHREWSBURY POLICE ACTIVITY"
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February 28th, 2014 @ 7am
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of February 20 to February 27, 2014. This information is unedited. CRIMES: TheftContinue reading "RED BANK CRIME AND ARREST REPORTS"
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February 28th, 2014 @ 7am
SEA BRIGHT: DONOVAN’S TO REBUILD
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Donovan’s Reef as seen five days after Hurricane Sandy, above, and in better days, below. (Photo above by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Smashed toContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: DONOVAN’S TO REBUILD"
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February 27th, 2014 @ 1pm
RED BANK: BURNHAM REOPENS WATER VALVE
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Councilwoman Cindy Burnham, right, listens as Councilwoman Kathy Horgan reads an Environmental Commission resolution that denounced any move to privatize Red Bank’s water utility. (Photo by John T. Ward. ClickContinue reading "RED BANK: BURNHAM REOPENS WATER VALVE"
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February 27th, 2014 @ 10am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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Take a seat and ponder the location of this week’s Where Have I Seen This? Got the answer? Lean over and tell us, via email to [email protected].
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February 27th, 2014 @ 9am
RED BANK: DUPONT TO MAN TOLLBOOTH
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“I’ll take your offer. You tell me the time and place,” DuPont told a rep for the tolltakers’ union, which is fighting a move to privatize collections. (Photo by JohnContinue reading "RED BANK: DUPONT TO MAN TOLLBOOTH"
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February 27th, 2014 @ 7am
Crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Little Silver Police Department for the month of January, 2014. January 1– Markies Wells, 28, of Red Bank, NJ, was arrestedContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: THREE DWI ARRESTS REPORTED"
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February 26th, 2014 @ 1pm
SEA BRIGHT RISING TO HELP REBUILD HOMES
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Sea Bright homes being elevated last June. Officials estimate 80 percent of the town’s homes are still vacant. Below, Chris Wood, flanked by Pete Forlenza and Zack Rosenburg, addresses aContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT RISING TO HELP REBUILD HOMES"
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February 26th, 2014 @ 1pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL DIGS INTO SNOW LAW
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An unidentified man shovels snow on English Plaza in Red Bank earlier this month. (Click to enlarge) Repeatedly frustrated by an inability to clear snow-clogged streets, Red Bank officials areContinue reading "RED BANK: COUNCIL DIGS INTO SNOW LAW"
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February 26th, 2014 @ 6am
A LAND OF PURE IMAGINATION, AT TWO RIVER
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Gaby (Andrea Morales) encounters an inhabitant of PINKOLANDIA in the play of the same name by Andrea Thome at Two River Theater.  (Photo by T.C. Erickson) By TOM CHESEK JustContinue reading "A LAND OF PURE IMAGINATION, AT TWO RIVER"
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February 26th, 2014 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: LAMP POSTS SAFE FOR NOW
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A street lamp lies on the sidewalk in front of Fair Haven Borough Hall Tuesday, several weeks after police said it was downed by a Monmouth County snow plow, andContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: LAMP POSTS SAFE FOR NOW"
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February 25th, 2014 @ 2pm
CHURN: POOL CUES, THRIFT & CRAFTS EXIT
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•Tuns out Lucky Break could not survive its lengthy shutdown over BYOB issues, its owner says. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD This edition of Retail Churn reports onContinue reading "CHURN: POOL CUES, THRIFT & CRAFTS EXIT"
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February 25th, 2014 @ 8am
RUMSON: REWARD OFFERED FOR LOST DOG
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Sunny, an 11-year-old Westie, has been missing since she got out of her yard during Sandy reconstruction on South Ward Avenue in Rumson Friday night. She has no collar butContinue reading "RUMSON: REWARD OFFERED FOR LOST DOG"
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February 25th, 2014 @ 5am
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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 ...