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SEA BRIGHT CHARGES INTO SKIM BOARD FEST
A competitor goes airborne in last year’s edition of the event, now in its sixth year. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Forget those end-of-summer blues this weekend. Sea Bright’s got some hotContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT CHARGES INTO SKIM BOARD FEST"
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WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
(Click to enlarge and animate) Correctly identifying last week’s image as a mural at Donovan’s Reef in Sea Bright were the Colmorgen Kids, Craig Widmaier, Trish DePonti, Sandra Talarico, MarkContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
SUMMER MAY END ON SUNNY NOTE
Sunrise over Sea Bright this morning, as seen from Chapel Beach Club. The cheeky message on the lifeguard stand is premature, at best. (Click to enlarge) Let’s hope the weatherContinue reading "SUMMER MAY END ON SUNNY NOTE"
This just in from the Asbury Park Press: the groom at a wedding reception held over the weekend at McLoone’s Rum Runner in Sea Bright was arrested during the soireeContinue reading "GROOM TAKES THE CAKE"
In a case that hinged on arcane voting rules about planning boards that do double duty as zoning boards, the state Appellate Division has rejected a Sea Bright beach club’sContinue reading "SURFRIDER EXPANSION PLAN REJECTED AGAIN"
IN oRBit: COLBERT, KIRK & YOU CAN TOO
Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit drops the details on the upcoming appearance of  Stephen Colbert here in the borough — not the TV pundit character “Stephen Colbert,” but the real StephenContinue reading "IN oRBit: COLBERT, KIRK & YOU CAN TOO"
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
This week’s ‘Where‘ is self-serve, folks. Think you can ID the location? Email us, please.
WHALE DOES ANOTHER SEA BRIGHT SWIM-BY
Children in the surf at the borough’s public beach this morning. For at least the third time in little more than a week, a whale was sighted off the beachContinue reading "WHALE DOES ANOTHER SEA BRIGHT SWIM-BY"
WHALE MAKES SEA BRIGHT CAMEO
The mammal came within 15 feet of the shore, witnesses said. (Photo courtesy of Stephen Smith) A whale made a rare appearance in the Atlantic Ocean off Sea Bright nearContinue reading "WHALE MAKES SEA BRIGHT CAMEO"
NOAA ON D-POD: TOLD YA THEY’D BE BACK
A dolphin in the Shrewsbury River between Rumson and Sea Bright Sunday evening. The appearance of an estimated six dolphins in the Shrewsbury River on Sunday — first reported byContinue reading "NOAA ON D-POD: TOLD YA THEY’D BE BACK"
DOLPHINS RETURN TO SHREWSBURY RIVER
A pair of dolphins cross in the Shrewsbury River at sunset Sunday, as seen from McLoone’s Rum Runner in Sea Bright. The dolphins are back. A year after 16 dolphinsContinue reading "DOLPHINS RETURN TO SHREWSBURY RIVER"
Here's another video take on the announcement earlier this week of the Top Ten beaches in New Jersey. This one's by Bill Day, whose work we've posted before — most recently, a look at how the economy is affecting boat...
Memorial Day weekend is nigh, which means it is time for the annual return of the palm trees to the sands at Chapel Beach Club in Sea Bright. A crew was out giving the club a tropical air under sparkling...
In the latest edition of Ledger Live, vodcaster Brian Donohue turns his lens on Sea Bright, which he nominates the "worst beach in New Jersey" because of access issues. In an off-the-news take on the announcement yesterday by the New...
Friday marks the second night of the four-night event. What: Second annual Sea Bright Firemen's Fair. Where: The former Peninsula House parking lot, 1099 Ocean Ave. When: Began Thursday and runs through Sunday. Hours are 6p to 11p Friday; 6p...
A pair of ducks enjoyed a puddle outside Merri-Makers at the Water's Edge in Sea Bright yesterday. We're in for three cloudy and possibly rainy days starting today, according to the National Weather Service. The NWS has also issued a...
A boater stands for a better look at dolphins near the Oceanic Bridge last October. (Click to enlarge) For the second time in a week, the discovery of a dead dolphin has raised concern that not all of last year's...
A dolphin in the Shrewsbury River in November. The whitened body of an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin was found near the Route 36 bridge between Highlands and Sea Bright Tuesday and will be examined by federal scientists today to determine if...
We flummoxed one mayor and deked another last week. How often do you get to say that? Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre wrote in to say that both he and his otherwise Where-savvy son, Matthew, were stumped by the image....
A dolphin in the Shrewsbury River in November. The federal agency in charge of protecting the dolphins that took up residence in the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers last June says it has no evidence that any are left in the...
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 ...