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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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SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.