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The hiring last year of a Red Bank woman to handle public relations duties for the Monmouth County library system has created a rift among at least three members ofContinue reading "PR FLAP OVER COUNTY LIBRARY FLACK"
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CHEF OPENS CHEESE ‘CAVE’ ON MONMOUTH
Stephen Catania will open the doors to The Cheese Cave Saturday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Stephen Catania says it’s a wide world of cheesesContinue reading "CHEF OPENS CHEESE ‘CAVE’ ON MONMOUTH"
EX-BOROUGH ATTORNEY CAROTENUTO DIES
Sam Carotenuto, a lifelong Red Bank resident and lawyer who served many years as borough attorney, has died at age 90. An obituary on the Asbury Park Press website reportsContinue reading "EX-BOROUGH ATTORNEY CAROTENUTO DIES"
GUNS REPORTED DRAWN IN RUMSON BOMB THREAT
West River Road is shut between First and Third Streets as Rumson police respond to a bomb threat at a bank. Police have surrounded a Bank of America branch onContinue reading "GUNS REPORTED DRAWN IN RUMSON BOMB THREAT"
TIME FOR SOME FACEBOOK TIME
Maybe we’re just in a wintry mood, with the furnace burning through the heating budget way earlier in the season than expected. Or maybe it’s lingering remnants of the frustrationContinue reading "TIME FOR SOME FACEBOOK TIME"
WEST SIDERS SIDLE UP TO SANTA
The annual lighting of the West Side Christmas tree in a pocket park at Drs. James Parker Boulevard and Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank was marked on Saturday, as inContinue reading "WEST SIDERS SIDLE UP TO SANTA"
Several times a week enroute to and from her day job in Eatontown, artist Gerda Liebmann would stop at the northern end of the Oceanic Bridge in Middletown to takeContinue reading "RIVER WATCH: NO TWO DAYS ARE THE SAME"
GOING STEADY AT THE POLLS
Red Bank and Middletown election workers report a steady turnout today. In Middletown, turnout was a bit higher than usual, one official said. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge)
What a pleasure it is to have so many choices for this week’s Comment of the Week. Among other places, we found posts to admire beneath our articles on theContinue reading "NOT ENOUGH ‘WHITE HERITAGE’ IN SCHOOL?"
Earlier this month, redbankgreen emailed questionnaires to local candidates for public office in towns with contested elections on November 2. We began running the replies last Friday, starting with thoseContinue reading "CANDIDATE Q&As: SEA BRIGHT"
LINCROFT PAIR START A FIRE
David Kelly III gets a smooch from his new bride, Kristin Williams, following their wedding Friday evening at St. James RC Church in Red Bank. He’s a fireman in theContinue reading "LINCROFT PAIR START A FIRE"
TIME TO GET WET
Sea Bright Fire Department’s newest addition. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Since buying a new fire truck this summer, Sea Bright’s fire department has putContinue reading "TIME TO GET WET"
A Red Bank woman and an Asbury Park man were arrested following an assault of a borough man over money, Red Bank police report. The incident occurred Monday morning inContinue reading "PAIR ARRESTED IN PEPPER-SPRAY ATTACK"
[Update: This case was ordered expunged by Judge Honora O’Brien Kilgallen on June 6, 2019.] A former employee of Red Bank-based Ansorge Unlimited pleaded guilty Thursday to defrauding the advertisingContinue reading "ANSORGE BOOKKEEPER ADMITS FRAUD"
PAIR CHARGED IN SHREWSBURY BURGLARY
A Keansburg couple was arrested on charges of burglarizing a Shrewsbury home hours after speaking to the owner about a car she was selling, the Asbury Park Press reports. KevinContinue reading "PAIR CHARGED IN SHREWSBURY BURGLARY"
A LOOMING END TO HOT DOG DAYS
A photo of Frances Rooney, left, earlier this summer dishing out dogs at her Sea Bright mainstay to a family from Michigan. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "A LOOMING END TO HOT DOG DAYS"
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?"
BACK IN BLACK…AND RED AND WHITE
Starting in October, Red Bank’s public school students must wear uniforms. For now, it’s optional, but many have chosen to start the school year in according threads. (Photo by DustinContinue reading "BACK IN BLACK…AND RED AND WHITE"
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
From the trivial fact department: the proper term for these winged boys is not cherub, as commonly mistaken, but putti. Not so useless information: Last week’s Where was the WestContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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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 ...