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Terry Gross's National Public Radio interview show, called Fresh Air, could hardly have a more apt name. The variety of fascinating personalities that cycles through her studio at WHYY in Philadelphia is proof that there is an alternative to the...
Somewhere along the way, our lives tend to get filled up with all sorts of stuff that we've settled for. Unsatisfying jobs. Unfulfilling relationships. A million little things that crowd out who we want to be. Bill McDonald, a personal...
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Our apologies, Shrewsbury, for thinking of you only as an uber-suburb. This is not the kind of experience we're used to having within your staid environs. But it seems you do have the capacity to surprise, you cheeky bedroom community,...
A garage sale at the Red Bank Middle School on Saturday featured a table run by members of the school's class of 2007, who were raising funds for this year's class trip. Boston is a possible destination, but the final...
What a terrific idea for a fundraiser. First, gather a couple of hundred well-heeled folks in blue jeans in the greenhouse at Sickles Market in Little Silver. Hold a series of silent auctions for bottles of fine wine and gourmet...
It's on. With five weeks to go until election day, the race for mayor and two council seats in Red Bank is fully underway, with campaign literature filling mailboxes and the candidates stumping door-to-door. Can the dinner-interruptus phone calls be...
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The Holmdel Independent has a story about last weekend's cow-pie bingo fundraiser at a farm in Middletown, which we advanced last week. Turns out the cow, named Mary, was in no rush to drop a load. A DJ tried playing...
We stumbled upon a terrific event Wednesday at The Woman's Club of Red Bank. It was the kind of gathering that sharply underscores the borough's appeal as a cultural hub, one that can compete with the best of them. Reed...
Here's an event the kids won't be able to stop talking about for hours afterward: the Middletown Reformed Church is holding a cow pie bingo fundraiser this weekend. That's right, cow pies. Whichever numbered square in a 500-square-foot grid Elsie...
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Pity the poor Certified Public Accountant. Wonkishly dull, they say. Obsessed with arcana. Underdeveloped sense of humor. And whatever you do, don't mess with a CPA's workspace, because everything is exactly where it belongs. Yeah, well, the folks at the...
Remember when non-profits used to hold spaghetti-supper fundraisers? Now, of course, they're called pasta dinners, pasta being what results when you mix flour, egg, and a touch of urbanity. Lunch Break, Monmouth County's oldest soup kitchen, is rolling with the...
John Six of Mayo Auto Service on Monmouth Street lends an arm at Saturday's 'Rock 'n Roll Up Your Sleeves' blood drive at the Two River Theater. The event, which featured live music in the lobby, was held to help...
Upstage magazine reports that the Two River Theater will be the site of a rock 'n roll blood drive this Saturday from 10a to 4p. Chris Morrisy, Maybe Pete and A.R.D. will perform at the event for the Central Jersey...
The SeaStreak ferry service is raising its fares effective Sept. 1 as part of a fuel-surcharge program it implemented last November to track rises and declines in fuel prices. Under the new prices, which are reviewed for upward or downward...
Coming off a 13-hour marathon that had him signing geek memorabilia almost until dawn at his Broad Street comic book store, filmmaker Kevin Smith entertained 2,000 fans in Marine Park last night with a mixture of endless approachability and profanity....
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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)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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 ...