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Maybe it was the price of gasoline, but most observers agreed this year's KaBoom crowd in downtown Red Bank wasn't quite as teeming as it's been in recent years. Still, last night's fireworks show was a blast, as befits the...
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A glimpse of the 2007 show via an alley on West Front Street. For some reason, clicking on the KaBoom fireworks website starts a song that features "let it rain" as a refrain. There wasn't some other middling Springsteen anthem-to-partying...
Set-up for viewing of tonight's Red Bank fireworks display was underway last night at Marine Park, above; at the Oyster Point Hotel, below left, and Riverside Gardens Park, center and right. Email this story
The view from Victory Park in Rumson last year. Hey, it was bound to get out anyway. For the second year in a row, Rumson will be home to a spectacular July 3 fireworks display to rival that of its...
In the zone: arrive early, or forget about it. Click map to enlarge It's New Jesey's biggest and most spectacular fireworks display, and with it comes a Jersey-scale traffic jam. Make that two traffic jams — the second one being...
Elmer and Jeff Jackson ride through a tunnel in Red Canyon, Utah last Tuesday. (Photos by Tim Hathaway) Tim Hathaway, the journalist who was serving as driver and documentarian for the 'No Regrets' cross-country bike ride of fellow Red Bankers...
Some shots from last night's Tiki Party at the Red Bank Elks Club overlooking the Navesink. Organized by Red Bank RiverCenter, the annual event raises funds to pay for the lights and decorations on display downtown at Christmastime. Email this...
Yes, Thorsten Veblen is surely rolling in his grave. But you know what? He's been spinning for years. One more taste of the Hamilton Jewelers-sponsored fleet of Ferraris event in downtown Red Bank on Sunday isn't going to significantly boost...
Here they come, parking guaranteed: some six dozen Ferraris are due to assemble on Broad Street Sunday as part of a private event hosted by Hamilton Jewelers. By TOM CHESEK It's a delicate dance, this business of securing a primo...
By TOM CHESEK Picture this: a summer event with your choice of first-come/first-served seating. No parking lot shuttle queues or "parent daycare" zones. No turnstile patdowns. No confiscated cameras, water bottles, umbrellas or Pringles packs. And best of all, no...
Scenes from the 15th running of the George Sheehan Classic in downtown Red Bank Saturday. Click thumbnails to enlarge. Race results are here. Email this story
The last pieces of the race timing equipment being dismantled at 10:15a; race director Phil Hinck, right. It may not be entirely disruption-free. There was, for example, the matter of the woman in labor attempting to reach Riverview Medical Center...
Some of the torsos seen at the finish line in 2006. For the 15th time since it was moved from Asbury Park, shortened to a five-miler and re-christened, the George Sheehan Classic is set to take over Red Bank's downtown...
Runners in the 2007 race take the first turn, at Broad Street and East Bergen Place. Below, a runner celebrates a mighty finish. Upon his passing in 1993, Dr. George Sheehan was eulogized by President Bill Clinton as "the Philosopher...
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...
For a while there Saturday, it looked like here-we-go-again time at the Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival, which has wrung itself out from late spring downpours more than once in the past. But an early afternoon rain lasted less...
Swimmers emerge from the Navesink River, heading right to finish the 1.2-mile race and left to continue on for the second lap in the 2.4-mile challenge. Dozens of competitive swimmers took to the Navesink River at Victory Park in Rumson...
The Red Bank Primary School was the colorful setting Friday night for the annual International Night, and this year's food-and-culturefest was another sellout, with 320 tickets sold, organizers tell redbankgreen. Click images to enlarge.
There's a fluidity in the photos of Stewart Halperin that's akin to the surface tension you see when water has ever-so-slightly overfilled a drinking glass: they seem about to pour forth out of their own skins. And what they threaten...
In the show: an oil on canvas, above left, by Jasmin Jackson, 17; another oil, top right, by Anastasia Yakovlena, 11; and a pastel by Zack Longo, 16. (Click to enlarge.) Better known as the go-to source for goofball extendable...
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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.
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)