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PARKING TICKETS? NOT ON TUESDAYS
No parking meter tickets have been written all summer on a Tuesday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Since July, Sunday has been the only dayContinue reading "PARKING TICKETS? NOT ON TUESDAYS"
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September 23rd, 2010 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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ANOTHER PITCHED POLE
Another leaning pole in Red Bank. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI We’ve got another leaner. This angled utility pole was spotted on West Front Street,Continue reading "ANOTHER PITCHED POLE"
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September 16th, 2010 @ 5am
BIKERS’ BONANZA: A TRIO FOR TWO-WHEELERS
Riders assemble for the start of last year’s Tour de Fair Haven. The straightaways and sidestreets of the greater Green have been thinned — just barely — of peak-season traffic.Continue reading "BIKERS’ BONANZA: A TRIO FOR TWO-WHEELERS"
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September 15th, 2010 @ 8am
MEGO READY FOR A YEAR IN TRAFFIC
John Mego, back in action. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI It’s a school day, in the afternoon, and there’s traffic in Red Bank. For theContinue reading "MEGO READY FOR A YEAR IN TRAFFIC"
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September 13th, 2010 @ 7am
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Rain put a heavy damper on things Sunday for the Red Bank Street Festival and day two of the Skim Bash in Sea Bright.
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September 13th, 2010 @ 5am
HOW D’YA SPELL THAT?
A redbankgreen reader, who goes by the name redbankcharlie, found a spelling error on one of the traffic signs at the entrance to town. (Photo contributed by redbankcharlie; Click toContinue reading "HOW D’YA SPELL THAT?"
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September 3rd, 2010 @ 6am
POLES APART
A power company crew was on the scene at midday Thursday. (Click to enlarge) Three days after redbankgreen reported that a jury-rigged utility pole was again leaning precariously over BroadContinue reading "POLES APART"
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August 12th, 2010 @ 12pm
LEAN TWO?
Is it us, or is this thing leaning again? (Click to enlarge) A leaning utility pole that caused a brief shutdown of Broad Street traffic two months again appears toContinue reading "LEAN TWO?"
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August 9th, 2010 @ 1pm
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Officials in Sea Bright hope to quell a rumor that the borough intends to outsource its public works operations at the beginning of next year. Yet membersContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT TO DPW: YOU’RE SAFE, FOR NOW"
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August 4th, 2010 @ 2pm
ON THE HUNT FOR MOVIE RICHES
Actress Mary Kate Costa is framed in a window at Stokaboka on Monmouth Street last Friday during the shooting of a scene by Mike Altino, right, and Connor Hughes. Below,Continue reading "ON THE HUNT FOR MOVIE RICHES"
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August 3rd, 2010 @ 5am
SYCAMORE AVENUE DETOUR
A message board outside Shrewsbury’s municipal complex on Sunday. Motorists who use a busy stretch of Sycamore Avenue in Shrewsbury may encounter a detour Monday.
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August 1st, 2010 @ 8pm
PEDESTRIAN UPGRADES DUE ON FRONT STREET
Traffic-calming bumpouts on Monmouth Street. Similar configurations may be in store for Front Street. (Click to enlarge) A stretch of Front Street in Red Bank is slated for design changesContinue reading "PEDESTRIAN UPGRADES DUE ON FRONT STREET"
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July 27th, 2010 @ 8am
CABBIES OPPOSE LICENSE CHANGES
Cab drivers in Red Bank are opposed to a proposal to raise fees and increase the number of cars allowed to operate in the borough. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; clickContinue reading "CABBIES OPPOSE LICENSE CHANGES"
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July 27th, 2010 @ 6am
Remember the summer of 2009? When it rained the entire month of June? Or how about the repeated snowstorms that got dumped on us this past winter? Well, it mayContinue reading "WHILE INLAND WILTS, SEA BRIGHT SPARKLES"
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July 26th, 2010 @ 11am
FED MONEY FLOWS FOR CROSSWALK OPS
Sgt. Michael Furlong demonstrated the new “Cops in Crosswalks” program that will take place in Red Bank throughout the year. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPIContinue reading "FED MONEY FLOWS FOR CROSSWALK OPS"
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July 16th, 2010 @ 11am
CAR CRASHES INTO TREE IN FAIR HAVEN
A woman driving a charcoal gray Nissan crashed into a tree on River Road opposite Fair Haven’s around 1p Thursday. She received medical attention at the scene. No other detailsContinue reading "CAR CRASHES INTO TREE IN FAIR HAVEN"
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July 15th, 2010 @ 2pm
KA-CHING: SATURDAY TICKETING RETURNS
A parking enforcement officer writes a ticket in the White Street parking lot on Wednesday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The first ticket was writtenContinue reading "KA-CHING: SATURDAY TICKETING RETURNS"
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July 15th, 2010 @ 5am
BAND ON THE RUN
Members of The Stolen steal some time in Riverside Gardens Park, above, and on Monmouth Street, below. (Top photo by Peter Lindner; click to enlarge) While visitors to downtown RedContinue reading "BAND ON THE RUN"
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July 13th, 2010 @ 11am
KABOOM: AUTHORITIES REVIEW SECURITY
Hundreds of visitors packed a waiting area at the Red Bank station for a northbound train after the fireworks, and transit personnel directed them into double-decker railcars, below. (Click toContinue reading "KABOOM: AUTHORITIES REVIEW SECURITY"
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July 7th, 2010 @ 7am
Get into the zone early, motorists, or get boxed out. (Click to enlarge) If this is Independence Day weekend, it must be time for redbankgreen‘s annual KaBoom Fireworks on theContinue reading "FIREWORKS FAQ: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW"
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July 2nd, 2010 @ 1pm
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.