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Juanita Lewis at home on Shrewsbury Avenue. On Nov. 4, Red Bank voters will have four ballot choices for two seats on the borough council, now composed of four Democrats and two Republicans. Both open seats, by happenstance, are held...
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John Tyler Jr. at home on Leighton Avenue with the family dog, Goldie. On Nov. 4, Red Bank voters will have four ballot choices for two seats on the borough council, now composed of four Democrats and two Republicans. Both...
Ed Zipprich at home on River Road. On Nov. 4, Red Bank voters will have four ballot choices for two seats on the borough council, now composed of four Democrats and two Republicans. Both open seats, by happenstance, are held...
Inspired in seemingly equal parts by Karl Marx, Woody Guthrie and the Clash, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg has cut a singular path through the world of popular music. On Sunday, the iconoclastic guitar slinger from Barking, England brings his axe and...
Six months after the death of the woman who founded it, Norma Todd's Lunch Break has named a new executive director. The volunteer outfit on Drs. Parker Boulevard in Red Bank that provides a hot meal a day to anyone...
Incumbent Republican Grace Cangemi, left, and running mate John Tyler Jr., right square off against Ed Zipprich and Juanita Lewis, center, at next week's candidates' forum. (Click to enlarge) Big night for the politically tuned-in next Wednesday — particularly those...
A Red Bank man was among three Monmouth County residents indicted yesterday in an alleged attempt to defraud mortgage lenders of $4 million, the Asbury Park Press reports. Thirty-six-year-old Kevin Deickman of Red Bank — no street address given —...
A 22-year-year-old championship swimmer died early Sunday while on a visit to Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., according to Lancasteronline. The cause of his death remains a mystery, the newspaper reports. From the article: Police were called to...
Gilda Rogers in her new coffeehouse/bookstore on Shrewsbury Avenue. Gilda Rogers wants to get conversations started — real conversations, about politics, race, sexuality, whatever it is that divides people. So she's started a new bookstore called Frank Talk Art Bistro...
Alan Placer on what used be called the roof but he now calls the "third floor" of Hobbymasters — the floor that makes money from the sun. The solar panels are all in, and by this time next week, Arlene...
Ahh, that first, hot cup of coffee. Not just the first of the day; the first of one's life. Bob Henry recalls losing his coffee virginity, and how that experience led, decades later, to his manning the bean counter at...
"It's something that affects all of us. It's not just a Wall Street bailout," says Jan Gardiner, of Locust. Today's Washington Post reports the results of a poll that finds voters deeply divided over the terms of the government's $700...
Longtime redbankgreen readers may recall our feature some 17 months ago about Tinton Falls Councilman Mike Skudera's push for better use of the web by municipal governments. First of all, he wanted those that weren't on the Internet to build...
Himself, at the Count Basie Theatre in May. The NFL has confirmed that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play the halftime show at the Super Bowl on Feb. 1. The show had been rumored since a report...
Fans of former New York Giants tight end Mark Bavaro huddled under a tent in the rain, clutching football jerseys, helmets and, oh yeah, his new novel during a signing event at River Road Books in Fair Haven on Saturday....
Purposeful pastor Lenny Liebman working the crowd on Broad Street after the 2007 Red Bank fireworks. Harnessing the popularity of a longtime best-seller, four Red Bank churches are getting together next month to jointly offer sermons and discussions of 'The...
The first-floor dining room will be named for T.J. McMahon, right, seen in a Danny Sanchez photo. The Dublin House, housed in a venerable old Monmouth Street structure that's been going through major rehabilitation over the past several years, will...
A day in the sunshine preceded an evening of awards at the I Build, U-Build We Build a Better Community Family Day at Red Bank's Count Basie Park on Saturday. Honorees included Larry Hamm, a human rights activist in Newark;...
A Middletown woman has a date in muncipal court next month on disorderly persons charges that she abandoned three gerbils and a hamster in the woods, the Asbury Park Press reports. If found guilty, she faces up to $8,000 in...
Driving Mrs. Burry: John Curley and his running mate, as seen at Red Bank's Centennial Parade in May. For years, former Red Bank Councilman John Curley has railed against what he's called a "good old boys" way in which the...
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(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 ...
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.