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Walgreen’s proposes to build a 14,200-square-foot pharmacy with a drive-thru window on the former site of the Rassas auto dealership. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD With hearings onContinue reading "RED BANK: SPEED BUMP FOR WALGREEN’S?"
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August 21st, 2013 @ 8am
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A former Red Bank-based lawyer faces up to 12 years in prison following his admission Tuesday that he stole a house in Locust from the estate of his late landlordContinue reading "LAWYER ADMITS STEALING HOUSE AND MORE"
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August 20th, 2013 @ 6pm
‘Jeffrey the Giraffe’ greets passersby on Chestnut Street in Red Bank Monday evening, above, and on a recent Sunday, below. His creator, Sergio Navarro, said that Jeffrey – a clothesContinue reading "RED BANK: STICKING HIS NECK OUT FOR LAFFS"
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August 20th, 2013 @ 12pm
Video from an intersection in Roselle Park, one of six locations cited by Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon as shortchanging motorists on yellow light time, resulting in more tickets tied to cameraContinue reading "IN THE NEWS: SEA GULL’S NEST, TRAFFIC CAMS"
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August 20th, 2013 @ 7am
Animal control officer Henry Perez holds the brown bat he caught in the Red Bank home of redbankgreen owners John Ward and Trish Russoniello Monday morning. The bat went off toContinue reading "ALL IN A FURRY, SCALY, SMELLY DAY’S WORK"
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August 20th, 2013 @ 6am
Red Bank Regional student Patricia Martinez, second from right above,with her family at the Two River Theater Sunday. Below, Chilean women talk about the evening’s reading. (Photo by Sarah Klepner.Continue reading "RED BANK: PLAY SERIES UNITES COMMUNITIES"
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August 20th, 2013 @ 5am
Red Bank businesses with store and office-fronts in need of sprucing up may be eligible for façade-improvement grants of up to $1,850 under a program that Mayor Pasquale Menna isContinue reading "RED BANK: FACADE MONEY NOW AVAILABLE"
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August 19th, 2013 @ 2pm
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of August 08 to August 15, 2013. This information is unedited. Theft occurring on 8-10-13Continue reading "RED BANK: NEW BRIDGE PARTS STOLEN"
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August 19th, 2013 @ 6am
Lunch Break executive director Gwen Love and the winners of an eight-team softball tournament held Sunday at Count Basie Fields to raise funds for the Red Bank community service organizationContinue reading "RED BANK: STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE"
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August 19th, 2013 @ 5am
A Red Bank man was taken for cash and a cellphone in a daylight scam attempt that turned into a strong-arm robbery in Shrewsbury Friday morning, police said. The unidentifiedContinue reading "SHREWSBURY: MUGGING REPORTED"
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August 16th, 2013 @ 6pm
RED BANK: MEDIUM HOT THAI JUST LIKE MOM’S
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A planned expansion of Muang Thai into an adjoining flower shop will provide direct access to the outdoor seating area, below, that now requires a walk around the corner. (PhotoContinue reading "RED BANK: MEDIUM HOT THAI JUST LIKE MOM’S"
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August 16th, 2013 @ 2pm
The bank’s five branches, including the one on Broad Street in Shrewsbury, above, will be rebranded as 1st Constitution. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Little more than aContinue reading "RUMSON-FAIR HAVEN BANK TO BE ACQUIRED"
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August 16th, 2013 @ 12pm
Jeanne-Marie Van Hemmen of Fair Haven rides home  from her law office on Bodman Place in Red Bank Thursday. She rides a Dutch bike called an ‘omafiets‘, which she said translatesContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: GRANNY-GEARING, DUTCH STYLE"
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August 16th, 2013 @ 11am
Former Sea Bright restaurateur Joanne Garelli leads a food truck in a cross-country reality TV race that plays out this season on the Food Network, starting Sunday.  (Photos by JohnContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: BREAKFAST AND LUNCH, TO GO"
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August 14th, 2013 @ 11am
RED BANK: OLD-TIMERS RETURN FOR PARTY
The third annual Red Bank Community Block Party attracted over 500 present and former  residents to Drs. James Parker Boulevard  Saturday. Music, handicrafts, food, children’s rides and information booths greetedContinue reading "RED BANK: OLD-TIMERS RETURN FOR PARTY"
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August 14th, 2013 @ 9am
SENATE PRIMARY A YAWNER ON THE GREEN
Marjorie and Howard Fox after voting in Little Silver, above. Barbara Crowton, below, voted at the United Methodist Church in Red Bank. (Photo by Sarah Klepner. Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "SENATE PRIMARY A YAWNER ON THE GREEN"
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August 14th, 2013 @ 6am
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. James Koenig, age 56, from Brainard Avenue in Port Monmouth, NJ, arrested on July 28, 2013 by PatrolmanContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: CONTEMPTIBLY LONG BLOTTER"
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August 13th, 2013 @ 11am
Smoking would be banned in parks and other green spaces. (Click to enlarge) By SARAH KLEPNER Between granting an exception to the tree preservation ordinance and a discussion about puttingContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: SMOKE ‘EM IF YOU GOT ‘EM"
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August 13th, 2013 @ 7am
The fire, at a vacant building formerly used by a landscaping company, broke out in the basement, officials said. (Click to enlarge) A volunteer Little Silver firefighter suffered a minorContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: BASEMENT FIRE INJURES ONE"
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August 13th, 2013 @ 6am
RED BANK: MARKET, HOMES EYED AT FIVE-WAY
Developer Ray Rapcavage envisions a greengrocer flanked by condos and townhomes at Red Bank’s five corners. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD One of Red Bank’s long-forsaken properties mayContinue reading "RED BANK: MARKET, HOMES EYED AT FIVE-WAY"
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August 12th, 2013 @ 2pm
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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 ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.