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TWINS GET INTO THE SWING OF SUMMER
10:21 a.m. Mark (left) and Michael (right) Montagu of New York City get a tennis lesson at Victory Park in Rumson. The twins are following in their tennis-loving father’s footsteps at theContinue reading "TWINS GET INTO THE SWING OF SUMMER"
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LIGHT AT THE END OF THE RACE
6:05 a.m. The frontrunners in Monmouth Boat Club‘s annual solstice race make a U-turn just east of the Oceanic Bridge.  Taking off just before sunrise in Red Bank, they finishedContinue reading "LIGHT AT THE END OF THE RACE"
RUMSON PARENTS TEE UP PRIEST OVER FIRING
Tearful students gather around dismissed teacher Bernadette Davis, above. Father Michael Manning taunted sign-waving protesters, below. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Long-simmering tensions at Rumson’s Holy Cross parishContinue reading "RUMSON PARENTS TEE UP PRIEST OVER FIRING"
BOAT EXPLOSION HOAX TRIGGERS PROBE
A State Police helicopter, above, and ambulances, below, arriving at Fort Hancock, ready to transport ‘victims’ of Monday’s purported boat explosion.  (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Ambulances, includingContinue reading "BOAT EXPLOSION HOAX TRIGGERS PROBE"
VOLUNTEERING: TWO RIVER CLEANUPS SLATED
Our beautiful Navesink, as seen from Marine Park in Red Bank Wednesday evening. (Photo by Danielle Tepper. Click to enlarge) By DANIELLE TEPPER This weekend, area residents will take toContinue reading "VOLUNTEERING: TWO RIVER CLEANUPS SLATED"
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Twenty-five of the 27 readers who wrote in to identify the four pastel-colored Adirondack chairs shown in last week’s photo got it right. The mistaken pair might want to takeContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
Rumson police, continuing a crackdown on illegal alcohol use by minors, arrested three young adults for possession late Sunday night, according to an announcement by Chief Richard Tobias. The crackdown,Continue reading "RUMSON NABS THREE TEENS FOR 12-PACK"
TURNING THEIR ATTENTION TO SUMMER…
Not everyone’s thinking about the beach. (Click to enlarge) Summer rolls in this weekend. “Unofficially,” as they say, though there’s no mistaking the change of gears, outerwear and mindsets thatContinue reading "TURNING THEIR ATTENTION TO SUMMER…"
OCEANIC BRIDGE SAILS TO COMPLETION
After a seven-month shutdown, the Oceanic Bridge linking Rumson and Middletown was to open for vehicle traffic sometime around noon Friday, having been opened for pedestrians and bikers at mid-morning.Continue reading "OCEANIC BRIDGE SAILS TO COMPLETION"
HALL CLAIMS WIN IN LOCAL BANK STAKES
The Fair Haven office is one of just five for the locally focused bank. (Click to enlarge) By MIKE BARON The shareholders of Rumson-Fair Haven Bank & Trust have spoken,Continue reading "HALL CLAIMS WIN IN LOCAL BANK STAKES"
THEY GOT GAME, AND SO NOW YOU GOT GAME
Corey Wagner, left, and Patrick Finan are taking on the uncertainty of pickup games with a new web-based scheduling tool. (Click to enlarge) By MARY ANN BOURBEAU Looking to formContinue reading "THEY GOT GAME, AND SO NOW YOU GOT GAME"
A carload of young adults and a motorcyclist involved in a spill were charged with alcohol-related offenses after separate incidents in Rumson this weekend, according to police.
YOUNG RUMSON BAKERS RAISE SOME DOUGH
Sophie Shea, center, and Kristina Taylor, right working their roadside bake sale with friend Willow Nicolaides on Saturday. (Click to enlarge) By STEPHANIE SCHROEPFER What began as a curbside nickel-and-dime lemonadeContinue reading "YOUNG RUMSON BAKERS RAISE SOME DOUGH"
Rumson police have charged a Newark man with stealing three luxury cars from town in a single night last September, Chief Richard Tobias tells redbankgreen. Jimmy Nunez, 31, was identifiedContinue reading "RUMSON CHARGES MAN IN THREE CAR THEFTS"
ON-TIME BRIDGE REOPENING EXPECTED
One leaf of the two-leaf bascule has remained open to allow for boat traffic to pass beneath the bridge. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD For six months, SaltContinue reading "ON-TIME BRIDGE REOPENING EXPECTED"
JUST LET ‘EM BEE
A colony of honey bees took over the limb of a tree outside the Rumson Post Office Tuesday. Building landlord Sandy Mulheren, who raises bees, said the occupation was probablyContinue reading "JUST LET ‘EM BEE"
Red Bank won’t pursue a proposal floated by Mayor Pasquale Menna to form a regional municipal court with four nearby towns, the Asbury Park Press reports Wednesday. The reason? TheContinue reading "PRESS: RED BANK DROPS LOCAL COURT IDEA"
By JOHN T. WARD Some 40 teens from Rumson and Fair Haven, and a pair of Rumson homeowners, are facing charges following a police raid on a house party SaturdayContinue reading "40 JUVENILES ARRESTED AT RUMSON PARTY"
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Recognize it? Send us an email, please. As for last week’s Where Have I Seen This….
FAIR HAVEN, RUMSON COMBINE ON SERVICES
Fair Haven Fields, opposite Rumson’s Meadowridge Park on Ridge Road, would be maintained by Rumson under the deal.  (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Three years after the wheelsContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN, RUMSON COMBINE ON SERVICES"
Partyline
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 ...