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FROM RED BANK TO WED BANK
Ashley Steimle, right, of Toms River, registers with one of the many vendors at Red Bank’s first Wedding Walk Saturday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI If there’s oneContinue reading "FROM RED BANK TO WED BANK"
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March 22nd, 2010 @ 6am
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MIDDLETOWN FIELD DEBATE HEATS TO A BOIL
About 200 residents packed into Middletown Town Hall Monday night to hear about the township’s plans for its athletic fields. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Podium pounding. Yelling.Continue reading "MIDDLETOWN FIELD DEBATE HEATS TO A BOIL"
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March 16th, 2010 @ 8am
The jury in the attempted-murder trial of Anthony Sims could not reach a unanimous decision on charges related to the shootings of two brothers at Red Bank’s Montgomery Terrace apartmentsContinue reading "JURY DEADLOCKS ON SHOOTING CHARGES"
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March 9th, 2010 @ 9am
More than a week after the second of two blizzards walloped the Red Bank area, pedestrian access to many crosswalks remains blocked by deep piles of snow left by plows.Continue reading "SNOW-JAMMED? TELL THESE FOLKS"
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February 19th, 2010 @ 6am
A Red Bank man appears headed into the state prison system he admitted scamming out of $153,000, the New Jersey Attorney General‘s office announced yesterday. Mark Stermer, 43, pleaded guiltyContinue reading "LOCAL MEN FACE PRISON FOR PRISON SCAM"
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February 17th, 2010 @ 6am
LET’S GO TO THE BOOKMARK
Book shoppers who attended last week’s pre-sale reception at the Red Bank Public Library got an early jump on a sale that was later postponed by weather. OK, lovers ofContinue reading "LET’S GO TO THE BOOKMARK"
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February 12th, 2010 @ 10am
The trial of alleged Montgomery Terrace shooter Anthony Sims got underway in Freehold last week, and going by the coverage in the Asbury Park Press, it sounds like a trashfest:Continue reading "ACCUSATIONS FLY AT SIMS TRIAL"
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February 10th, 2010 @ 8am
TICKET BLIZZARD POSSIBLE, TOO
A borough plow works Monmouth Street at the height of Saturday’s blizzard. (Click to enlarge) With a second major winter storm in three days expected to wallop the region startingContinue reading "TICKET BLIZZARD POSSIBLE, TOO"
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February 9th, 2010 @ 11am
Following through on complaints about downtown employees hogging primo parking spaces all day, Red Bank officials last night moved to double the hourly fee for metered parking on the street.Continue reading "METER RATE TO DOUBLE AT CURB, NOT IN LOTS"
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February 9th, 2010 @ 7am
BOOK SALE POSTPONED
A young book lover takes a brownie break at last night’s Friends of the Library reception, where partygoers got first crack at books to be sold. (Click to enlarge) Today’sContinue reading "BOOK SALE POSTPONED"
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February 6th, 2010 @ 8am
BEACH ACCESS PLANS MAY IRK RESIDENTS
This bus stop may be moved and improved if the borough gets the OK to widen the entrance/exit to the municipal parking lot. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPIContinue reading "BEACH ACCESS PLANS MAY IRK RESIDENTS"
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February 4th, 2010 @ 9am
JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL LEAVING RED BANK FOR RACETRACK; RETURN IN 2011 UNCERTAIN
Deanna Bogart performs at the 2009 edition of the storied music festival. (Click to enlarge) It’s official: the Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival is leaving town, for this yearContinue reading "JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL LEAVING RED BANK FOR RACETRACK; RETURN IN 2011 UNCERTAIN"
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February 2nd, 2010 @ 10am
BOOK SALE IS FOR LOVERS
Shoppers browsing the bargain bins at the Red Bank Public Library’s “yard sale” last September. The Red Bank Public Library is looking for a few new lovers. Be it ofContinue reading "BOOK SALE IS FOR LOVERS"
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January 21st, 2010 @ 7am
BEACHGOERS PLEASED WITH SEA BRIGHT DEAL
More beaches in Sea Bright will be open to the public thanks to a lawsuit settlement reached last week. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI More than three yearsContinue reading "BEACHGOERS PLEASED WITH SEA BRIGHT DEAL"
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January 20th, 2010 @ 9am
NEW TRUCK SUCKS BETTER THAN THE OLD ONE
This pale blue beauty has seen its last days on Little Silver streets. Public Works is getting a brand new one to tend to all the gutter and basin cleaningContinue reading "NEW TRUCK SUCKS BETTER THAN THE OLD ONE"
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December 9th, 2009 @ 11am
A plan to extend enforcement of Red Bank’s parking meter laws by two hours on weekdays appears to be dead on arrival. Moving in to take its place, though, isContinue reading "STREET METER RATES COULD DOUBLE"
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December 9th, 2009 @ 6am
[EDITOR’S NOTE: See update below] A redbankgreen reporter was threatened with arrest by Fair Haven police today when he tried to photograph the wrecked fire department vehicle of former fireContinue reading "POLICE THREATEN REPORTER WITH ARREST"
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December 2nd, 2009 @ 2pm
HISTORIANS BLAST NJT FOR STATION NEGLECT
Historic Preservation Commission member Mary Gilligan addresses the council Monday night, joined by members George Bowden, left, and Ed Poplawski. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI For 15 years, Mary Gilligan says, she’sContinue reading "HISTORIANS BLAST NJT FOR STATION NEGLECT"
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November 11th, 2009 @ 10am
UNSTACKING BRICKS
Demolition of Red Bank’s defunct incinerator smokestack on West Sunset Avenue finally got underway Monday morning. A crew using a $3 million claw started tearing away at the 100-foot-tall, 70-year-oldContinue reading "UNSTACKING BRICKS"
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November 9th, 2009 @ 2pm
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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November 5th, 2009 @ 12pm
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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 ...