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Category Archives: Volunteering

TRAINING FOR RAPID RESONSE TO WRECKS
Seventeen-year-old fire cadet (and R-FH senior) Tom Brenner of Fair Haven played the victim trapped in a damaged car, above, as members of the Fair Haven volunteer fire and firstContinue reading "TRAINING FOR RAPID RESONSE TO WRECKS"
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April 17th, 2012 @ 6am
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FIRE DAMAGES AUTO SHOWROOM
The Sunday morning blaze charred the facade and filled a showroom with smoke. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A fire that appeared to start in mulch caused limitedContinue reading "FIRE DAMAGES AUTO SHOWROOM"
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April 15th, 2012 @ 11am
PEDESTRIAN STRUCK ON HARDING ROAD
Emergency responders tend to an unidentified pedestrian struck by a vehicle on Harding Road, on the border of Little Silver and Fair Haven, shortly after 3 a.m. Friday. The victimContinue reading "PEDESTRIAN STRUCK ON HARDING ROAD"
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April 6th, 2012 @ 2am
LIBRARY TO FETE LIFE OF SIGMUND EISNER
Local-history librarian Elizabeth McDermott, below, with a custom-branded Eisner lightbulb in the second-floor New Jersey Room of the Red Bank Public Library, once the home of industrialist Sigmund Eisner. (ClickContinue reading "LIBRARY TO FETE LIFE OF SIGMUND EISNER"
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March 7th, 2012 @ 11am
José Melgar, a 32-year-old Red Bank man, was in Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune with a fractured skull and other injuries after he was run over by a trainContinue reading "TRAIN RUNOVER VICTIM IDENTIFIED"
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February 27th, 2012 @ 10am
The new truck would be garaged at the Navesink Hook & Ladder Company on Mechanic Street, replacing a vehicle whose ladder failed last year. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading "FIRE TRUCK PRICE COULD REACH $1 MILLION"
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February 23rd, 2012 @ 8am
RED BANK FIREWORKS CANCELLED; SECURITY COSTS, INADEQUATE PUBLIC FUNDING CITED
Scenes from the 2011 fireworks show, when police presence was ramped up following widespread brawling and drunkeness in 2010. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Red Bank’s largest publicContinue reading "RED BANK FIREWORKS CANCELLED; SECURITY COSTS, INADEQUATE PUBLIC FUNDING CITED"
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February 15th, 2012 @ 9am
SEA BRIGHT STRAYS YIELD NO KITTENS
A stray peeks out from a hideaway on the Sea Bright beach earlier this week. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A year after it was launched, a pilotContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT STRAYS YIELD NO KITTENS"
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February 3rd, 2012 @ 10am
In the mail responding to last week’s Where were responses from JT, Michael McMahon, former Rumson Fire Chief Kevin McCarthy, Kevin Anderson and Jackie.
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January 19th, 2012 @ 6am
FIRE QUICKLY DOUSED AT MOLLY PITCHER INN
Roofers doused the fire they accidentally started, officials say. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A deck fire caused by a roofing torch was quickly doused without incident atContinue reading "FIRE QUICKLY DOUSED AT MOLLY PITCHER INN"
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January 11th, 2012 @ 2pm
TRAGEDY AVERTED IN CHRISTMAS TREE FIRE
Volunteer Red Bank firefighters help two unidentified women recover treasured ornaments from a Christmas tree after it caught fire inside the home at 227 River Road around 5:15 p.m. Sunday.Continue reading "TRAGEDY AVERTED IN CHRISTMAS TREE FIRE"
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January 1st, 2012 @ 6pm
TWO CITED FOR HEROISM IN FATAL FIRE
Kristopher Parker and Robert Womble at borough hall Wednesday night. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Kristopher Parker was dropping off his grandmother at the Evergreen Terrace apartments inContinue reading "TWO CITED FOR HEROISM IN FATAL FIRE"
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December 22nd, 2011 @ 11am
FIRE DESTROYS VACANT RUMSON HOME
The house was fully engaged when police arrived around 10:25 p.m. (Photo above courtesy of Matt Daiter; below, courtesy of Sea Bright Fire Department. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading "FIRE DESTROYS VACANT RUMSON HOME"
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December 21st, 2011 @ 8am
BIKE STORE ROOF FIRE QUICKLY DOUSED
Roofers quickly put out a fire they’d accidentally started atop the Bike Haven store on River Road in Fair Haven around 10 a.m. Wednesday, police said. (Click to enlarge)
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December 14th, 2011 @ 11am
Firefighters from more than a half-dozen towns converged on Little Silver early Saturday afternoon and spent more than four hours fighting a runaway blaze that tore through a 120-year-old houseContinue reading "VIDEO: LITTLE SILVER FIRE"
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December 12th, 2011 @ 9am
FIRE FLARE-UPS KEEP VOLUNTEERS BUSY
Recurring flare-ups of a fire that destroyed a 120-year-old mansion in Little Silver Saturday afternoon had volunteer firefighters back on the scene that night and again Sunday morning. An aerialContinue reading "FIRE FLARE-UPS KEEP VOLUNTEERS BUSY"
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December 11th, 2011 @ 12pm
11.11.11
Among those who gathered at the Veterans Monument at Monmouth Street and Drummond Place at 11 a.m. Friday to commemorate Veterans Day was Red Bank resident John Gillespie, who servedContinue reading "11.11.11"
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November 11th, 2011 @ 12pm
PASTA, POULTRY & GOOD DEEDS ON THE SIDE
The most eagerly anticipated touch football event of the season takes place on November 26, when the annual Turkey Bowl raises funds for Jason’s Dream for Kids, at Thompson MiddleContinue reading "PASTA, POULTRY & GOOD DEEDS ON THE SIDE"
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November 11th, 2011 @ 8am
DOWDY FIREPLUGS GET THE EAGLE EYE
1. Scout Jack Hayes, who organized the hydrant-painting effort. 2. Ryan Jacobs, 15, left and Myles Donohue, 16, of Boy Scout Troop 67 at work on Shrewsbury Avenue. 3. TheContinue reading "DOWDY FIREPLUGS GET THE EAGLE EYE"
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November 8th, 2011 @ 9am
EARLY FEEDBACK: SOUL KITCHEN WORKS
Soul Kitchen as seen on opening day last month, hosted by Jon Bon Jovi, below. (Click to enlarge) Lots of glitz was on display last month when the JBJ SoulContinue reading "EARLY FEEDBACK: SOUL KITCHEN WORKS"
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November 7th, 2011 @ 2pm
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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 ...