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IN oRBit: RUSTED, AND NEVER SLEEPING
Here at satellite site Red Bank oRBit, we can vouch that what used to be considered the iron curtain of Labor Day has become as threadbare a concept as the fallContinue reading "IN oRBit: RUSTED, AND NEVER SLEEPING"
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A VISIT WITH RED BANK’S YARD SALE MAVEN
Lonnie Gordon admires the chandelier in her Leighton Avenue home, one of many treasures found over decades of scouring yard sales. Have you visited redbankgreen‘s dedicated web page for theContinue reading "A VISIT WITH RED BANK’S YARD SALE MAVEN"
TOWNWIDE YARD SALE REGISTRATION OPENS
Coming into view in Red Bank: block after block of tables groaning under the weight of good, used stuff. Registration is now open for the second annual Red Bank TownwideContinue reading "TOWNWIDE YARD SALE REGISTRATION OPENS"
HISTORY ON THE BLOCK, PIECE BY PIECE
The Charles Williams House, dating to the mid-19th century, will be the site of an estate sale on Saturday. Fair Haven officials expect to hold a final debate and voteContinue reading "HISTORY ON THE BLOCK, PIECE BY PIECE"
ATTENTION YARD-SALE LOVERS
Are you a yard sale junkie? Do you know someone who is? Are you planning a yard sale, or to go out on a garage-sale shopping spree? redbankgreen would loveContinue reading "ATTENTION YARD-SALE LOVERS"
YARD SALE ON JOHN STREET
Shoppers checking out the merch on Leighton Avenue during last year’s first Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale. This just in from Red Banker Jami Josephson Chace, taking us up onContinue reading "YARD SALE ON JOHN STREET"
Click to enlarge map Continuing its quest to promote local yard sales, redbankgreen today has word of one in the Fairview section of Middletown scheduled for this weekend. date: Sat, May 2nd time: 10a to 3p location: 40 Stephenville Boulevard...
Former shop owner Susan Ericson's "gigantic, blowout, clean-out-the-house" yard sale has turned into a neighborhood event on her cul-de-sac. Susan Ericson used to have a store on River Road in Fair Haven called Black Eyed Susans Kitchen that sold vintage...
Ten families have signed up for this weekend's event on Madison Avenue, says organizer Sandy Riddle. Yes, folks, the redbankgreen Yard Sale Watch is back, bringing you word about interesting outdoor bargain-hunting opportunities as we beat the drum for the...
The scene at a house on Wallace Street near McClaren Saturday morning. The big question leading up to last weekend's Red Bank Townwide Yard sale — how much trash would be left out afterward — has been answered. "There were...
The weather was largely spectacular and the excitement level high for Saturday's first-ever Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale. Sellers at some West Side locations had hoped for a bit more traffic, and the two families who set up tables in...
James Richter, long-distance bargain hunter. redbankgreen covered a fair amount of ground Saturday, but we kept hearing about a guy who'd really clocked some miles for the Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale. Word was he'd traveled 140 miles from Kingston,...
Believe the balloons: No fewer than 147 homes, plus the public library, are participating in Saturday's Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale. One "seller" is giving everything away, free. Somebody else has a toilet and sink for sale. There are Christmas...
We're getting a lot of inquiries today at redbankgreen asking when the list of participating sellers in the Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale will be available. Answer: Late Friday morning. Registrations are still coming in at the Red Bank DPW,...
Bargains, lightly used, in Atlantic Highlands Saturday. In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, your comprehensive guide to what's going on around The Green, you'll find: • a item on the nearly nude, airborne dancers in "Garden of Earthly Delights"...
You never know what you'll find. From the Navesink River to Newman Springs Road, Red Bank will transform itself into a bazaar on Saturday, September 20, with its first-ever Townwide Yard Sale. Today, redbankgreen launches a webpage dedicated to the...
OK, early birds. The first-ever Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale, scheduled for September 20, is coming together. And for those who plan ahead, here's some helpful starter info. There are some rules. The borough of Red Bank is asking that...
Pathetic Charmingly simple yard sale signage points the way to unknown treasures. Mark those calendars, folks. The first-ever Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale is a go for Saturday, September 20, rain or shine. The borough council approved the event Monday...
Every once in a while, these posts just write themselves... From redbankgreen's email in-basket this week: Hello! Last weekend, my friend posted her garage sale on your website and she said she had an awesome response because of it! I'm...
OK folks, we have just one taker so far on our recent offer to post free notices of local yard sales. But it's a start. Saturday and Sunday, from 8a to 3p, swing by 25 Hubbard Park in Red Bank,...
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
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.