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Category Archives: Home & Garden

The Red Bank yards of, from left, Ruben Gomez, Anne Davis and J.P. Nicolaides and Ed Zipprich, were among those cited by the Navesink Garden Club. (Click to enlarge) They're called "random sightings of beauty," and the idea is to...
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November 12th, 2008 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Tim Zebo of East Bergen Place in Red Bank vacuums up leaves from his neighbor's yard Saturday. Below, he shows off the new Earth Machine composter he got for $25 from Monmouth County as part of a two-hour class on...
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November 10th, 2008 @ 6am
Jesus Navarro of Cali Painting, Long Branch, adds some white shine to a picket fence along Fair Haven Road in Fair Haven this morning. Sun, sun, sun: that's what the weatherlady is saying the weekend holds in store. We've gotten...
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October 10th, 2008 @ 10am
Maybe you call it a 'rummage sale,' or prefer 'garage sale.' Whatever. If you're planning one and would like some help getting the word out to local folks, just let redbankgreen know. We'll soon be introducing a periodic listing of...
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July 13th, 2008 @ 1pm
These four young promoters were out on the streets of downtown Red Bank today encouraging passersby to stop in at the Two Rivers Art/Antiques Show & Garden Tour now underway at the Red Bank Armory Ice Complex and various gardens...
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June 7th, 2008 @ 1pm
Back in March, redbankgreen was the first to tell you about a nascent project called the Tri-City Arts Tour, a big-tent sort of event under which the artizens of Red Bank, Asbury Park and Long Branch would join forces for...
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June 6th, 2008 @ 7am
Today's Asbury Park Press pops in at Fair Haven Hardware for a look at what keeps the 55-year-old business going in an era when Home Depot, Lowe's and and other big-box chains have all but eliminated stores its size. Owner...
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June 3rd, 2008 @ 6am
First robin's-egg-blue nest on the left: the future home of Pierre Deux. The Red Bank-area home furnishings market is about to get a touch of provincial France — and landlord Larry Garmany is about to make a sweetheart match for...
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May 30th, 2008 @ 11am
Flowers, asparagus, cheesecake, pickles and more: the Farmers Market passes the sniff test with flying colors. A longtime Red Bank institution kicks off another run through summer and into fall with Sunday's return of the Farmers Market at the Galleria....
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May 5th, 2008 @ 11am
John E. Johnson tackles a spring project in front of his home on Branch Avenue yesterday. Email this story
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May 2nd, 2008 @ 6am
Rev. Terrence K. Porter of Pilgrim Baptist Church. In one of the more multifaceted volunteer efforts seen in these parts recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church is organizing a Community Work Day this Saturday that will tackle everything from street cleaning to...
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April 23rd, 2008 @ 11am
Hey, sometimes, all it takes is a line like that to make it onto redbankgreen. And so it was on Saturday that we met Richie Brister: lifelong Fair Haven resident, onetime mayoral candidate (1992), ex-chief of the fire department and...
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April 14th, 2008 @ 9am
William Neumann, a Fair Haven furniture retailer who's faced repeated allegations of failing to deliver thousands of dollars worth of paid-for goods, has agreed to be barred from doing business in New Jersey, today's Star-Ledger reports. Last week, consumer affairs...
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April 1st, 2008 @ 5am
Yard-sale proponent Audrey Oldoerp. For a long time, South Street's Audrey Oldoerp wondered aloud why towns such as Belmar and Atlantic Highlands had annual or even semi-annual yard sales that embraced every street and home, but Red Bank didn't. Moreover,...
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January 29th, 2008 @ 7am
Partyline
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.