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LITTLE SILVER MEMORIAL PLAN ADVANCES
A proposed plan for the memorial park on a parcel of vacant Prospect Avenue land. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI An old idea to memorialize war dead and otherContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER MEMORIAL PLAN ADVANCES"
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LOCAL FOODIES TUNE INTO TUNISIA
In their endless quest for new flavor and cultures, American foodies have apparently decided that the north African country of Tunisia is the hot new thing, palettewise. Last Thursday night,Continue reading "LOCAL FOODIES TUNE INTO TUNISIA"
LITTLE SILVER STATION LOT TO GET UPGRADES
The lot is owned by NJ Transit but operated by the borough. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Fifteen years without repairs have taken a toll on the LittleContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER STATION LOT TO GET UPGRADES"
Responding to chatter about last Friday’s incident at Red Bank Regional High, in which four young men entered the school in an alleged attempt to settle a score with aContinue reading "RBR TARGETS TRESPASSING ‘SPECULATION’"
[Editor’s note: This is an updated version of an earlier post, incorporating information supplied at 5:30p by the Little Silver Police Deapartment] Four non-student teenagers were arrested on trespassing chargesContinue reading "FOUR IN POLICE CUSTODY FOR RBR TRESPASS"
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
It’s safe to say we were swamped with responses to last week’s Where Have I Seen This?, and quite pleasantly so, as many of the 33 emails we received wereContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
Little Silver’s summer recreation program closed out today with a celebration of love and peace in recognition of the fortieth anniversary of Woodstock. The event concluded with a ‘tug ofContinue reading "LOVE, PEACE & TIE DYE AT LITTLE SILVER REC"
L.S. COPS NAB SNAKE IN THE GRASS
Officer Pete Gibson, left, and Sgt. Martin Scherzinger with the yellow rat snake they caught in a yard in Little Silver earlier today. (Photo courtesy of Little Silver P.D.) PoliceContinue reading "L.S. COPS NAB SNAKE IN THE GRASS"
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
‘Know’ as in, ‘Do you know where this object is?’ If so, send us an email, please.
WEATHER ONLY A MUSHROOM COULD LOVE
It’s got to be among the leading candidates for the official symbol of this damp summer: the literally lowly mushroom. redbankgreen‘s Accidental Photographer found this one Sunday on Eastview AvenueContinue reading "WEATHER ONLY A MUSHROOM COULD LOVE"
WEST SIDE CLEANUP, TOYS FOR SEAN & MORE
An effort to spruce up the streets of Red Bank’s West Side in April 2008, above, will be reprised this Saturday. A West Side cleanup effort, a toy drive forContinue reading "WEST SIDE CLEANUP, TOYS FOR SEAN & MORE"
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Last week’s shot of a knife-edge building split our respondents.
English teacher Andrew Forrest, left, and guidance counselor Chris Desiere are stabilized after the roof of their vehicle was cut off around them. Red Bank Regional seniors got a graphic demonstration this morning of what can go wrong when people...
Students will walk their hearts out to raise money for cancer research. What: Third annual Relay For Life of the Two Rivers walkathon to benefit the American Cancer Society, with live entertainment, movies, contests and games throughout the night. Where:...
Photographers for the Asbury Park Press and the New York Post were the last holdouts Thursday afternoon outside the home of Megan McAllister. For nearly two weeks, they camped out just off Rumson Road in Little Silver, an army of...
Sure beets store-bought: Wendy Weiner in her vegetable garden. When Wendy Weiner moved to Little Silver from Hunterdon County a little more than a year ago, she hoped to plant a back yard vegetable garden. But the yard didn't get...
A Mercer County grand jury has indicted a Little Silver woman as part of a wide-ranging investigation into the alleged fraudulent sale of automobile titles through the state Motor Vehicle Commission. Fifty-year-old Maryleigh Barbusin was charged with conspiracy, official misconduct...
A Red Bank Regional student suffered a severe concussion and two others are in custody after an assault at the school around midday today, Little Silver police report. The victim, a 16-year-old Red Bank male, was treated and released from...
The dispatcher's desk at police headquarters won't be staffed nights and weekends, officials acknowledge. A late-entry proposal from Little Silver to take over police dispatching duties won approval by Fair Haven's council Monday night, the Asbury Park Press reports. From...
Bob Sickles Jr. Sickles Farm Market in Little Silver got some lovin' this weekend as one of four specialty grocers called out in an article in the New Jersey section of Sunday's New York Times. Dovetailing off the opening of...
Partyline
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 ...