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Kathy Karinja of Rumson takes a photo of the flattened gazebo at Victory Park. The bandstand at the center of the park was spared. A thunderstorm that tore through The Green Saturday afternoon pummeled the Oceanic section of Rumson while...
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Various unconfirmed emergency calls picked up over the police scanner during the storm: • A swimming pool reported in the middle of Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright • Phone line to Barnacle Bill's in Rumson pulled down (initial report said...
Authorities say the man who was killed by a lightning strike on Sandy Hook Sunday was a 38-year-old Elizabeth resident. Two others, women in their 30s whose identities have also not been disclosed, were injured by the strike. They were...
This is from the National Weather Service at 1:56p today: * AT 156 PM EDT.NATL WEATHER SVC DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED...
The Star-Ledger reports that one of three people struck by lighting on Sandy Hook around noontime today has died. The victims have not been identified, but the one who was killed is reported to be a man in his 40s....
Monmouth County and Sea Bright emergency personnel reported at 12:21p that three people were struck by lightning on Sandy Hook's Beach B. Emergency personnel from Highlands were reported at 12:45p to be enroute with two victims to Monmouth Medical Center...
Sea Bright and other coastal areas could expect more scenes like this one, from tropical storm Ernesto in 2006, according to a report that also examines the economic wallop of rising seas. The economic impacts of global warming on New...
Following up on last night's alert, New Jersey Transit has this to say about the the North Jersey Coast Line this morning: NJCL service to operate as normal today. Last evenings storm damage has been repaired and normal service has...
Moisture-laden clouds roll in over Sea Bright in this view from the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Tuesday afternoon. Isolated showers and thunderstorms are expected to continue into this evening. Wednesday's forecast, according to the National Weather Service: Sunny, with a high...
Some homes and businesses served by the Jersey Central Power & Light substation on Ridge Road in Fair Haven are again without power after enduring a more than five hours without juice yesterday. We don't know the number affected, or...
Mayor Pasquale Menna tells redbankgreen that the Red Bank First Aid Squad on Spring Street has opened its air conditioned facilities to the public while crews from JCP&L attempt to get the power back on as a result of the...
A power outage -- or outages, perhaps -- have has hit the east side of Red Bank as well as Little Silver, Fair Haven, Rumson and Sea Bright. There are no details on the specific cause or extent of the...
Yeah, we did a double-take, too. But the Associated Press, citing the National Weather Service, is reporting that a heat wave is about to roll in for the weekend and then stick around. Forecasters say temperatures could reach near 100...
The view from behind the drum kit as Big Bill Morganfield performs at the 2007 festival. By TOM CHESEK There was the year the heavens opened up and harpist Rod Piazza, faced with a potential washout of his headline set,...
Undaunted by sprinkles and a brief downpour, students from the Red Bank Regional High School chapter of STAND held a vigil in Marine Park last night to mourn the rapes, displacements and killings of millions of Darfurians in what the...
Musicians Ron Santee and Brian Schwarz of Atlantic Highlands got together to sing under threatening skies at Riverside Gardens Park yesterday afternoon. By late evening, after a cloudburst or two, the skies had cleared, as seen in the shot of...
A car gets powerwashed by an unseen employee at Nissan World of Red Bank on Newman Springs Road late yesterday afternoon. Some of us may be longing for a little spritz ourselves today. The weatherman says temps will peak near...
Harriers from Red Bank Catholic hoof it through downtown Red Bank yesterday afternoon. Yesterday's cool temperatures and brilliant skies are expected to give way to on-and-off showers today through Monday, according to the National Weather Service, which serves up this...
Framed by forsythia, a car heads north on Prospect Avenue through Friday afternoon's fog... Email this story ...and a jalopy buzzes past a bed of daffodils on River Road near Throckmorton Avenue. Today's forecast, according to the National Weather Service:...
And just like that, it's hot out, with temperatures nearing 70 degrees. These flowering trees on Broad Street don't seem to mind. Click to enlarge. It won't last long. Here's the National Weather Service forecast for the next few days:...
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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 ...