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Category Archives: Home & Garden

BROTHERS TAKE TOP HOME-DECORATING SWAG
First place: 14 Catherine Street, home of Patrick Hussey & Family. (Click to enlarge) Let the maple syrup flow! The winners of Red Bank’s annual Holiday Home Decorating Contest haveContinue reading "BROTHERS TAKE TOP HOME-DECORATING SWAG"
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December 23rd, 2010 @ 2pm
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?
. This week: Putting a little Whee! in your Where. Can you ID the location? Drop us an e, please.
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December 23rd, 2010 @ 8am
ON YOUR MARKS, GET SET, PLUG IN
Two of last year’s winners: the Philips residence on Reckless Place and the Lauterwasser residence on East Westside Avenue. (Click to enlarge) OK, lovers of electric light: your season isContinue reading "ON YOUR MARKS, GET SET, PLUG IN"
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December 7th, 2010 @ 8am
STALLED REMODELING INSPIRES BLOGGER
Teicia Gaupp at Zebu Forno recently. Her house on Tower Hill Avenue, below, as it appeared for many months… (Click to enlarge) Teicia Gaupp of Red Bank has a wreckContinue reading "STALLED REMODELING INSPIRES BLOGGER"
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November 16th, 2010 @ 2pm
EMPTY STORE FOR FULL HOUSE? A FAIR TRADE
The vacant storefront at 12 Broad will spotlight products that reflect fair-trade principles this weekend. (Click to enlarge) By TOM CHESEK It’s probably been several generations since there was suchContinue reading "EMPTY STORE FOR FULL HOUSE? A FAIR TRADE"
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October 21st, 2010 @ 9am
RED GINGER FINDS A NEW HOME
Red Ginger Home is relocating from Monmouth Street to Broad Street at the end of the month. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Five years ago,Continue reading "RED GINGER FINDS A NEW HOME"
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October 7th, 2010 @ 10am
OLDEST HOME GETS ITS HISTORICAL DUE
Red Bank’s oldest house, on South Street, was finally put on the state’s list of historic places last week. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI AContinue reading "OLDEST HOME GETS ITS HISTORICAL DUE"
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October 7th, 2010 @ 7am
VACANT HOME USED IN FIREFIGHTING DRILL
Volunteer Fair Haven firefighters during a smoke exercise Monday night. Below, the head of a mannequin used in the demonstration became separated from its body. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTINContinue reading "VACANT HOME USED IN FIREFIGHTING DRILL"
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September 28th, 2010 @ 10am
Scenes from Saturday’s Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale, captured by Peter Lindner. (To enlarge the photo display, start it, then click the embiggen symbol in the lower right corner. ToContinue reading "TOWNWIDE YARD SALE: IT’S A FAMILY THING"
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September 27th, 2010 @ 8am
RED BANK BOOKED FOR TOWNWIDE YARD SALE
Volunteers from the Friends of the Red Bank Public Library gathered at a barn on South Street this week to sort through books slated for inclusion in this weekend’s three-dayContinue reading "RED BANK BOOKED FOR TOWNWIDE YARD SALE"
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September 24th, 2010 @ 8am
APPLIANCES COMMITTING SUICIDE, PERHAPS?
This edition of the Accidental Photographer happens to be about an actual accident. Or, what appears to have been an accident, though no one reported it to the police.
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September 13th, 2010 @ 11am
Registration is now open for the third annual Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale, scheduled for Saturday, September 25. Event co-sponsor redbankgreen has created a new yard sale website to serveContinue reading "YARD SALE RETURNS FOR THIRD YEAR"
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August 20th, 2010 @ 9am
FRAGILE MONARCHS HEAD SOUTH
The release gave children, including the young girl below, a chance to see the butterflies up close. (Photos by Peter Lindner. Click to enlarge) Sickles Market in Little Silver heldContinue reading "FRAGILE MONARCHS HEAD SOUTH"
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August 16th, 2010 @ 8am
RECOVERY FOR A ROOFTOP GARDEN
Patients are allowed to get their hands dirty at the rejuvenated rooftop garden at Riverview Medical Center. (Photos by Peter Lindner; click to enlarge) It sat idle for years, aContinue reading "RECOVERY FOR A ROOFTOP GARDEN"
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August 11th, 2010 @ 8am
New Jersey American Water has lifted its request that customers in Monmouth and Ocean counties restrict their H2O usage. Citing compliance with the “mandatory” restriction imposed without warning on MonmouthContinue reading "WATER SUPPLIER LIFTS RESTRICTIONS"
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July 12th, 2010 @ 12pm
RED BANK’S FIRST LADY OF LANDSCAPING
Karen Siciliano, seen at Riverside Gardens Park, is celebrating her company’s 75th year in business. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Something isn’t quite right insideContinue reading "RED BANK’S FIRST LADY OF LANDSCAPING"
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June 30th, 2010 @ 10am
To enlarge the photo display, start it, then click the embiggen symbol in the lower right corner. To get back to redbankgreen, hit your escape key. Ahhh, hot and sparklingContinue reading "SUMMER ARRIVES ON A TIDE OF SMILES"
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June 22nd, 2010 @ 5am
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Fair Haven held its first townwide yard sale on Saturday, a sunny day full of bike riders and bargain hunters flooding into the borough. redbankgreen was thereContinue reading "BARGAIN BOROUGH"
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May 17th, 2010 @ 11am
A HANDS-ON EARTH DAY
Among the commemorations of the fortieth Earth Day Thursday was a day of cleanup, planting and distributing flowers to neighbors by students at the Red Bank Charter School, above. AnContinue reading "A HANDS-ON EARTH DAY"
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April 23rd, 2010 @ 6am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Well, that was easy. Too easy, according to more than one of the many readers who wrote in to identify last week’s ‘Where?’ Except for this: two of those whoContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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February 18th, 2010 @ 9am
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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.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.