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Under Little Silver's proposal, a dispatcher in Little Silver would direct patrol responses to calls from Fair Haven. Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre has published on his blog a head-to-head analysis of the competing offers from Monmouth County and Little...
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Today's Asbury Park Press has the obituary for Vincent DiMicelli, 56, who was killed in the Wednesday night crash involving three cars on Newman Springs Road, on the Red Bank-Tinton Falls border. Here's the obit: Vincent Thomas DiMicelli, of Little...
A seagull takes in the view of the choppy Navesink River (wasn't it just a sheet of ice?) at Marine Park in Red Bank. Across the region, emergency personnel are responding to burglar alarms and reports of downed limbs. At...
View Larger Map The man was at the home of a non-resident relative on Ridge Road in Rumson, according to the Press. A 49-year-old Rumson man, said to be despondent over financial difficulties, was hospitalized after heavily armed police from...
An elderly patient evacuated from the building is led to a car as firefighters investigate the alarm. Smoke from a outdoor trash fire briefly routed a two-story medical office building at 200 White Road in Little Silver this morning. The...
The animal was of the same species as these two beauties seen in the Navesink River off the Rumson boat launch in November. Today's Asbury Park Press reports that a mute swan was found decapitated in Little Silver six weeks...
The Asbury Park Press had a story over the weekend about an alleged theft that, if true, involved a pretty nervy thief. The article, which ran Saturday, reports that 29-year-old Rodney Beharry of Long Branch was arrested Friday after he...
Sorry this image doesn't enlarge, folks. But if you lean in close, you should be able to generally make out the scene it captures — and maybe even identify the location. If you know it, we'd enjoy hearing from you....
An investigation has been launched in Hunterdon County into the death of a disabled Little Silver woman who died two months after being removed from a state-licensed home for developmentally disabled adults, today's Star-Ledger reports. Twenty-six-year-old Tara Leary, who was...
Pressing ahead with a campaign to address alcohol and drug abuse, Red Bank Regional High will host a two-pronged program Thursday. At 7p, John Underwood, president of the American Athletic Institute, will give a presentation for parents in the school...
Firefighters and other emergency personnel from a handful of towns were on the scene of a midmorning residential fire at 105 Rumson Road in Little Silver Wednesday. As of about 10:45a, the fire, said to have started in the basement,...
Little Silver firefighters at the scene of last night's propane leak on Branch Avenue. Behind the Winnebago and supply tank are the tracks of the North Jersey Coast Line. The propane leak that shut down NJ Transit rail service south...
Bridge Avenue in Red Bank at 5:35p. Trains were moving through the station and traffic was clearing after a brief downpour. We'll post further updates on the Little Silver propane situation and the resulting rail and traffic tie-ups here. 5:12p:...
This is how we roll: Fair Haven, like Rumson, prefers to go it alone, thank you. An initiative touted as having the potential to be the first-ever merger of three New Jersey police departments appears to have crashed and burned...
Rumson Mayor John Ekdahl, left, and Fair Haven Councilman John Lehnert. A proposal to create a unified police department for three peninsula towns appears headed into a shallow ditch as it faces two public hearings this week. Last week, Rumson...
About 100 people turned out for Monday night's meeting on consolidating police work on the peninsula. According to a show of hands, most were officers or their relatives. You're not showing us any real savings. You're creating a new bureaucracy,...
Fair Haven Police Chief Darryl Breckenridge expressed reservations about the Patriot plan at a public hearing in Little Silver last month. An all-out merger of police forces from Fair Haven, Little Silver and Rumson could save taxpayers $1.5 million in...
Peninsula residents, here's your weekend homework assignment, and no, it can't wait until Labor Day: The final report of a consultant hired to look into the viability of merging the police departments of Fair haven, Little Silver and Rumson is...
Today's Press reports that newly installed 'no parking' signs on an out-of-the way residential street in Little Silver have disappeared — every last trace of them, including the posts they were attached to. The signs were installed just last month...
A 31-year-old Bordentown vice principal has been hired as the new principal of the Markham Place School in Little Silver, today's Press reports. Dennis Morolda, who starts in the $108,000-a-year job on Friday, succeeds Don Merce, who was killed in...
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KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
LONG LIVE LOCAL NEWS!
"Long Live Local News" flags from redbankgreen's 20th anniversary celebration in Marine Park Tuesday prove to be the perfect compliment to s ...
MUMS AND WITCHES
17 Prospect Ave (Photo by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
KAYAKERS CLEAR RIVER JUNK
Partyline photo: "The Navesink Nymphs" clear floating tires from the river.
PAINT IT PURPLE?
Caption: ‘Should it be done purple?’ Perfect day. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner photographs praying mantis at church.
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