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FAIR HAVEN WEBSITE GETTING MAKEOVER
Fair Haven’s website will get some upgrades. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Fair Haven’s virtual borough hall is getting a little makeover. The changes won’t necessarily jump off theContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN WEBSITE GETTING MAKEOVER"
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RUG MAN: HE’S LEAVING, BUT ALSO STAYING
Get the message? But while the rug store is closing, its owner is putting down roots: he bought the building. By WID CONROY When a request by Nazmiyal Rug DecorContinue reading "RUG MAN: HE’S LEAVING, BUT ALSO STAYING"
JAM THAT BALLOT BOX, FOLKS
Sixth-grader Theodore Mitchell addresses the Red Bank mayor and council as classmate and photojournalist Tyriik Murad documents the event. Stumping for votes like seasoned pols, a handful of students fromContinue reading "JAM THAT BALLOT BOX, FOLKS"
RBMS HAS EYES ON NO.1 PRIZE
Red Bank Middle School students Sandra Paz, Teddy Mitchell and Josh Bruce talk to the media Thursday about their involvement in “eInstruction Is The Key,” a video they made forContinue reading "RBMS HAS EYES ON NO.1 PRIZE"
WHERE ARE ALL THE TWENTYSOMETHINGS?
That’s a question asked about Red Bank in a provocative blog post by Colleen Curry, a lifelong borough resident and newly minted Villanova alum. On her blog, Chef? Writer? RedContinue reading "WHERE ARE ALL THE TWENTYSOMETHINGS?"
Here's the latest video posting on Red Bank resident Bill Day's YouTube channel, Red Bank TV1. The subject: a fashion show put on last week by students at Red Bank Regional. The show featured both the offerings of local boutiques...
A PASSION FOR PIGSKIN, UPDATED DAILY
Kees Van Hemmen and the kitchen desktop from which he publishes his blog. Below, a post in progress. (Click to enlarge) This just in, sports fans: One of the newest entries into the burgeoning sports media scene is the product...
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...
They've done it again. For the third time in three tries, the students at Red Bank Middle School have written and performed in a video that's made it to the finals in a national or international competition. The first time,...
Ledger Live host Brian Donohue again uses his hometown Red Bank as the backdrop for his daily vidpost, this one featuring him seated outside Zebu Forno as he riffs, bloggerlike, on the friction between GOP gubernatorial contenders Chris Christie and...
Dana Ujobagy, owner of Paw Palace, plans to relocate her shop to Monmouth Street in June. One of downtown Red Bank's premier addresses is going to the dogs. Dana Ujobagy (pronounced 'you-ja-bayj'), owner of the Paw Palace luxury dog boutique...
Fair Haven residents can sign up for alerts about emergencies as well as ordinary community events, features that will also be incorporated into Red Bank's website, officials say. A North Jersey web design firm won approval Monday night to build...
Video documentarian Bill Day is back with another short, this time focusing on the impact of the recession on boaters and the vendors who depend on them in Red Bank. Among the locals interviewed are John Matteo and Chann Irwin...
RBR Source program director Gilda Rogers and parent Karen Lloyd discuss plans for last year's 'Surviving the Teen Years' event, which will be reprised next week. By LAURA KOSS Teens can deplete medicine cabinets just a pill or two at...
The website Red Bank officials want to replace. Looks like Red Bankers will be stuck with the borough's clunky website for a while longer. Two weeks ago, Mayor Pasquale Menna announced that the borough would be getting a new website...
The homepage of the soon-to-be-replaced borough website. Score one for public pushback. Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna anounced last night that he won't sign a contract that would have paid C3 Citizen Communication Center $2,000 a month to build and...
The homepage of the borough website. The Red Bank government's plan to hire web design and management firm C3 Citizen Communication Center for $2,000 a month appears to be in slow-download mode following a second round of criticism. At the...
Grace Cangemi at her final appearance as a council member last night. Republican Grace Cangemi closed out her 21-month tenure on the Red Bank Council last night with pointed attacks on Democratics for "behind the curtain" decision-making. In her final...
Here's a new video showing the work done on the interior of the Count Basie Theatre during the $8 million sprucing up of the Red Bank showcase this summer. The video consists of still photos taken every 15 seconds from...
Verizon's facility at 183 Broad Street. Citing a 1940 law, phone services giant Verizon is telling New Jersey municipalities it is not liable for taxes on utility lines and other equipment because of its shrinking share of the telecom market,...
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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 ...
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.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.