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Mayor Pasquale Menna, seen kayaking at left in 2010, leads a health walk on Saturday. (Click to enlarge) Lace up those sneakers and get walking for a good cause. OnContinue reading "WELLNESS OUTREACH GETS A WALKING START"
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By: REBECCA DESFOSSE With Election Day just three weeks away, the race for Red Bank borough council will heat up Wednesday night, as three candidates seeking two seats face offContinue reading "RED BANK CANDIDATES TO TAKE THEIR Qs"
Some of the 800-plus participants in Saturday’s fourth annual Boozin’ for Boobs bar crawl head out to other Red Bank watering holes after assembling at Brannigan’s on Wharf Avenue Saturday.Continue reading "RED BANK: BOUNCING FROM BAR TO BAR"
FIREFIGHTERS IGNITE FUN AND FIRE SAFETY
Delayed a week by weather, volunteer firefighters put on Red Bank’s annual Fire Prevention Fair in the White Street Parking lot Sunday to educate the community about the importance ofContinue reading "FIREFIGHTERS IGNITE FUN AND FIRE SAFETY"
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of October 5 and October 12, 2012. This information is unedited. Theft occurring in theContinue reading "RED BANK: PIT BULL PUPS STOLEN FROM PORCH"
RED BANK: TREE DOWN
A large tree fell on Monmouth Street in Red Bank Sunday morning, damaging a fence at the Crossfit Triple Threat gym at the corner of Pearl Street. Winds were lightContinue reading "RED BANK: TREE DOWN"
By JOHN T. WARD An Ocean County man who last month admitting burglarizing the Navesink mansion of Jon Bon Jovi  was sentenced to five years in state prison Friday, theContinue reading "BON JOVI BURGLAR GETS FIVE YEARS"
RED BANK COPS HALT GAS VALVE WORK
An NJNG crew packs it in after being ordered by police to stop work on a nearly completed gas regulator valve replacement on Monmouth Street Friday morning. (Click to enlarge)Continue reading "RED BANK COPS HALT GAS VALVE WORK"
LADIES HIT THE TOWN FOR GIRLS NIGHT OUT
Flutes of champagne in hand, women assembled at the GLAMbar for the second annual Girls Night Out, touted below in a banner over Broad Street. (Photo above by Rebecca Desfosse.Continue reading "LADIES HIT THE TOWN FOR GIRLS NIGHT OUT"
RED BANK: GAS VALVE BATTLE EXPANDS
A gas regulator valve outside the Ebner’s rug store on East Front Street that borough officials said was the subject of a summons. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARDContinue reading "RED BANK: GAS VALVE BATTLE EXPANDS"
RED BANK: AT ICE, LOCAL ARTISTS SPARKLE
Some of the locally made jewelry featured at Ice. (Photos by Rebecca Desfosse. Click to enlarge) By REBECCA DESFOSSE Nestled in the heart of Monmouth Street in Red Bank, IceContinue reading "RED BANK: AT ICE, LOCAL ARTISTS SPARKLE"
A WHOLE LOTTA DOING GOOD FOR OTHERS
Local folks gathered Thursday at Red Bank Family EyeCare to support their efforts for helping Haiti’s eyes. By DANIELLE TEPPER RED BANK Thursday, October 4: Red Bank Family EyeCare OpenContinue reading "A WHOLE LOTTA DOING GOOD FOR OTHERS"
WOMEN OF SONG RAISE VOICES FOR VICTIMS
Women of Song raised $1,020 for the domestic-abuse counseling service 180 Turning Lives Around over the weekend. The three-day event began Friday at the Woman’s Club of Red Bank, where poetContinue reading "WOMEN OF SONG RAISE VOICES FOR VICTIMS"
A rendering of the planned Riverwalk project, which is to replace the building at 24-30 Mechanic Street, below. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD After six years of dormancy,Continue reading "RIVERWALK PLAN REVISED AND REVIVED"
RED BANK: A DAY FUR CRITTER COMFORTS
A bunny named Fuzz gets an ecclesiastical embrace from Reverend William Noble during a blessing of the animals ceremony at Red Bank’s Trinity Episcopal Church Saturday. About a dozen dogsContinue reading "RED BANK: A DAY FUR CRITTER COMFORTS"
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of September 28 to October 5, 2012. This information is unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring onContinue reading "RED BANK: BOAT TRAILER REPORTED STOLEN"
‘KITCHEN’ EVENT SERVES UP HEALTHY CHOICES
More than 150 kids showed up at the Community YMCA in Red Bank Saturday for ‘Kids in the Kitchen,’ a health fair that featured games and activities, including hula-hooping, above,Continue reading "‘KITCHEN’ EVENT SERVES UP HEALTHY CHOICES"
RED BANK: RAIL FATALITY WAS A SUICIDE
The victim was struck by at the West Bergen Place crossing at about 9:18 p.m. Saturday, according to New Jersey Transit. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD [Update, 2:45Continue reading "RED BANK: RAIL FATALITY WAS A SUICIDE"
BIG WEEKEND FOR FIRE BUFFS
Liberty Hose Company’s first motorized fire truck debuted in the 1910s. (Click to enlarge)  By STACIE FANELLI When the Navesink Hook & Ladder Company Number 1 formed in 1872, fire hydrantsContinue reading "BIG WEEKEND FOR FIRE BUFFS"
By JOHN T. WARD Nearly a year after Moody’s went negative on Red Bank, the Wall Street debt rater has reversed course, borough officials said. The credit research firm toldContinue reading "RED BANK: MOODY’S LIFTS NEGATIVE OUTLOOK"
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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.