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BUILD A BOAT, MAKE IT FLOAT
Scenes from the 2009 edition of the Wooden Boat Festival. (Click to enlarge) By DANIELLE TEPPER Since 1999, the Navesink Maritime Heritage Association has been hosting an annual Wooden BoatContinue reading "BUILD A BOAT, MAKE IT FLOAT"
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June 8th, 2012 @ 9am
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FIREFIGHTERS DEDICATE 9/11 MEMORIAL
Red Bank volunteer firefighters and officials dedicated a new 9/11 monument outside borough hall Monday. Beginning and ending in prayer, the Memorial Day ceremony included speeches from those who hadContinue reading "FIREFIGHTERS DEDICATE 9/11 MEMORIAL"
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May 29th, 2012 @ 5am
ANTIQUES GALLERY FACES WRECKING BALL
With dealers scattering to new locations, redbankgreen took a final spin through the Monmouth Antique Shoppes Tuesday. (Click embiggen symbol to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The building appears toContinue reading "ANTIQUES GALLERY FACES WRECKING BALL"
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May 2nd, 2012 @ 10am
RED BANK STATION GETS NEW SLATE ROOF
Installation of a new slate roof is underway at the station, seen above in late March. (Click to enlarge) Long-overdue repairs to the Red Bank are now “hitting the expressContinue reading "RED BANK STATION GETS NEW SLATE ROOF"
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May 1st, 2012 @ 6am
Town officials are hoping to determine if a time capsule featured in a 1976 celebration of the nation’s 200th anniversary at Fair Haven’s Bicentennial Hall was buried or misplaced. (ClickContinue reading "CONFUSION OVER FAIR HAVEN TIME CAPSULES"
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April 25th, 2012 @ 6am
UP AT McKAY’S: LEAVENS GETS LINEAR
This pencil-on-paper self portrait is among the “new and unknown” works by lifelong Red Banker Evelyn Leavens on display in a solo show that opens Friday evening at McKay ImagingContinue reading "UP AT McKAY’S: LEAVENS GETS LINEAR"
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April 24th, 2012 @ 5am
LIBRARY LOVERS AT HOME IN EISNER’S HOUSE
Guests explored the second-floor New Jersey Room, above, where uniforms produced by the Eisner factory were on display.  (Photos by Stephanie Schroepfer. Click to enlarge) By STEPHANIE SCHROEPFER Seventy-five yearsContinue reading "LIBRARY LOVERS AT HOME IN EISNER’S HOUSE"
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April 16th, 2012 @ 10am
LAST STOP FOR TOLLBOOTHS: TINTON FALLS
Decommissioned tollbooths in a yard in Tinton Falls, as photographed by the Star-Ledger’s Robert Sciarrino. (Click to enlarge) Wednesday’s Star-Ledger has a quirky story about what happens to all thoseContinue reading "LAST STOP FOR TOLLBOOTHS: TINTON FALLS"
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March 14th, 2012 @ 8am
FAIR HAVEN LAUNCHES LOOKBACK IN STYLE
Kicking off its centennial year, the Borough of Fair Haven hosted a fundraising gala at the Raven and the Peach restaurant that attracted 300 revelers Saturday night. The $20,000 raisedContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN LAUNCHES LOOKBACK IN STYLE"
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March 13th, 2012 @ 11am
FOR A RED BANK BUNKER, IT’S DOOMSDAY
“I’d almost rather be incinerated than have to live down here,” says Suellen Sims, below inspecting her new home’s fallout shelter, built beneath an earthen berm alongside Harris Park. (ClickContinue reading "FOR A RED BANK BUNKER, IT’S DOOMSDAY"
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March 9th, 2012 @ 11am
LIBRARY TO FETE LIFE OF SIGMUND EISNER
Local-history librarian Elizabeth McDermott, below, with a custom-branded Eisner lightbulb in the second-floor New Jersey Room of the Red Bank Public Library, once the home of industrialist Sigmund Eisner. (ClickContinue reading "LIBRARY TO FETE LIFE OF SIGMUND EISNER"
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March 7th, 2012 @ 11am
Fair Haven’s newly renovated Bicentennial Hall, aka Fisk Chapel, is among the historical landmarks that will play a key role in the borough’s centennial. (Photo by Stacie Fanelli. Click toContinue reading "A ONCE-IN-A-CENTURY NIGHT IN FAIR HAVEN"
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March 6th, 2012 @ 10am
The Broad Street home of the Woman’s Club of Red Bank is in line for some spruce-up funds from Freehold. (Click to enlarge) The Woman’s Club of Red Bank andContinue reading "HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANTS DOLED OUT"
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March 2nd, 2012 @ 12pm
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Does a particular location spring to mind at the sight of the above? Please send us an email if you think you know where it is.
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March 1st, 2012 @ 9am
IN LITTLE SILVER, A MOUNTAIN OF SADNESS
Members of Little Silver’s Loftus family, who lost their Carriage House Lane home in a December 10 fire, poke through the rubble in search of mementos after a demolition crewContinue reading "IN LITTLE SILVER, A MOUNTAIN OF SADNESS"
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February 23rd, 2012 @ 4pm
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Last week’s image showed the architectural top of the Doremus building, now home of Agostino Antiques, at 21 Broad Street in Red Bank, a structure with a rather hazy history,Continue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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February 23rd, 2012 @ 10am
The Parker house stands at an entrance to what is now the Sickles Market and remnants of the original working farm on Rumson Road. (Click to enlarge) Five months afterContinue reading "PARKER HOMESTEAD GETS HISTORIC SEAL"
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February 23rd, 2012 @ 6am
Today is Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, Which means it’s time for Punxsutawney Phil‘s annual sunrise photo op outside his burrow for his long-range weather forecast. According to lore, ifContinue reading "GROUNDHOG SEES ITS GRAPHIC & SHRUGS"
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February 2nd, 2012 @ 8am
A ‘JITNEY’ TO THE BIG TIME FOR TRTC
Ruben Santiago-Hudson announces JITNEY at the Two River Theater last spring, as Greg Brown and Rona Figueroa (of TRTC’s production of JACQUES BREL) look on. (Click to enlarge) By TOMContinue reading "A ‘JITNEY’ TO THE BIG TIME FOR TRTC"
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January 27th, 2012 @ 7am
MAYOR ‘FALLING OUT OF LOVE’ WITH PARK
The Charles Williams estate overlooking the Navesink has fallen into disrepair while borough officials await a resolution of title issues, says the mayor. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARDContinue reading "MAYOR ‘FALLING OUT OF LOVE’ WITH PARK"
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January 13th, 2012 @ 10am
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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 ...