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ON THE GREEEN: A FAB, JAZZY WEEKEND
Susan Haugenes and Chuck Lambert perform with his full band in a free concert in Little Silver Sunday evening. Dead Bank is at the Walt Street Pub Friday night. (PhotoContinue reading "ON THE GREEEN: A FAB, JAZZY WEEKEND"
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August 2nd, 2013 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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SHREWSBURY: CENTURY TWO, iPAD IN HAND
Centenarian Carlotta Niles at her Shrewsbury home. (Photo by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge) By WIL FULTON Born to a silent-film star, Carlotta Niles of Shrewsbury has no plans ofContinue reading "SHREWSBURY: CENTURY TWO, iPAD IN HAND"
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August 1st, 2013 @ 8am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Step right up, folks, and drop your guesses about the location of this week’s Where into this here mailbox, please. Last week’s photo, showing tables and chairs roughly carved fromContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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August 1st, 2013 @ 6am
RUMSON MANSION AUCTION A BUST
A jazz duet played on, even after bidders left the auction, which lasted just four minutes. Below, an aerial view from the auction website. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading "RUMSON MANSION AUCTION A BUST"
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July 31st, 2013 @ 5pm
FAIR HAVEN: TEENS LAUNCH MAG, WITH VERVE
A Verve magazine production session in Fair Haven last week. Below, instruction Jennifer Chauhan, left, with Samantha Quinn. (Photos by Colby Wilson. Click to enlarge) By COLBY WILSON What isContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: TEENS LAUNCH MAG, WITH VERVE"
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July 31st, 2013 @ 11am
Activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Shrewsbury Police Department for the period of July 20 to July 26, 2013. Report of Theft in the area of Broad Street onContinue reading "SHREWSBURY: REPORT OF STOLEN PAYCHECK"
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July 31st, 2013 @ 10am
RED BANK: MEET, GREET, GRAB A TREAT
Dozens of dogs and their human pals turned out on a pleasant summer evening Tuesday for the first edition of Red Bank’s Dog Days, and redbankgreen was there to catchContinue reading "RED BANK: MEET, GREET, GRAB A TREAT"
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July 31st, 2013 @ 7am
RED BANK: FROM ROOF TO ROOF-OF-MOUTH
Jamian LaViola grabs some herbs from the rooftop garden over the restaurant’s kitchen. (Photo by Jim Willis. Click to enlarge) By JIM WILLIS At Jamian LaViola’s eponymous Red Bank barContinue reading "RED BANK: FROM ROOF TO ROOF-OF-MOUTH"
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July 30th, 2013 @ 11am
RED BANK HITS THE PAWS BUTTON TONIGHT
Red Bank rolls out the red carpet for man’s best friend Tuesday night with the first in the series of three planned ‘Dog Days‘ festivals. Monmouth Street between Broad StreetContinue reading "RED BANK HITS THE PAWS BUTTON TONIGHT"
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July 30th, 2013 @ 7am
RED BANK: BOTTLING THE MAGIC OF HISTORY
A poster from Glenn Vogel’s collection of Red Bank memorabilia on display at the borough library. Below, Vogel inspects a bottle brought to the library  by Ron Costa, who foundContinue reading "RED BANK: BOTTLING THE MAGIC OF HISTORY"
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July 29th, 2013 @ 10am
RED BANK: SPEAKING OF OLD BOTTLES…
Red Bank resident (and redbankgreen webmaster) Kenny Katzgrau went exploring for history under his house and, with the help of his wife, Katie, fished an old bottle from a hard-toContinue reading "RED BANK: SPEAKING OF OLD BOTTLES…"
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July 29th, 2013 @ 10am
Downtown Red Bank is always a great people-watching scene, and that was the case when bargainhunters flooded the sidewalks for the 59th annual Red Bank Sidewalk Sale over the pastContinue reading "RED BANK: A TOUCHY-FEELY SIDEWALK SALE"
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July 29th, 2013 @ 8am
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of July 18 to July 25, 2013. This information is unedited. Theft reported on 7-19-13Continue reading "RED BANK: CRIME REPORTS AND ARRESTS"
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July 29th, 2013 @ 6am
RED BANK: TENDING THE TRAFFIC ISLAND
Keeping it low-key, a civic-minded member of the Red Bank zoning board who asked us not to identify her by name tends the traffic-island flowerbed at Monmouth Street and BridgeContinue reading "RED BANK: TENDING THE TRAFFIC ISLAND"
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July 29th, 2013 @ 6am
RED BANK: DON’T BE A GAGUTZ. IT’S A SQUASH!
Hey, get your mind out of the gutter. “It’s a gagutz,” or cucuzza squash, says Suzie Walsh, who brought it to the Red Bank Farmer’s Market Sunday from Dewolf’s FarmContinue reading "RED BANK: DON’T BE A GAGUTZ. IT’S A SQUASH!"
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July 28th, 2013 @ 11am
THEY GOT GAME, AND SO NOW YOU GOT GAME
Corey Wagner, left, and Patrick Finan are taking on the uncertainty of pickup games with a new web-based scheduling tool. (Click to enlarge) By MARY ANN BOURBEAU Looking to formContinue reading "THEY GOT GAME, AND SO NOW YOU GOT GAME"
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May 8th, 2012 @ 10am
MIDDLETOWN: POLICE BLOTTER
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September 7th, 2011 @ 7am
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • On August 31, 2011 Detective Daniel Sullivan arrested Christopher Perez-Santalla for Theft as a result of anContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: POLICE REPORTS"
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September 2nd, 2011 @ 5am
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI A brief standoff with a knife-wielding man on Monday ended without injury and resulted in the man’s arrest for aggravated assault and possession of a weapon forContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: POLICE BLOTTER"
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August 10th, 2011 @ 1pm
[Update: This case was ordered expunged by Judge Honora O’Brien Kilgallen on June 6, 2019.] Bookkeeper Rebecca Cirillo was sentenced to five years in state prison last Friday for rippingContinue reading "BOOKKEEPER MUST COUNT TO FIVE"
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January 17th, 2011 @ 12pm
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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.