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RED BANK: BARTENDER/AUTHOR GOES FOR TWO

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Red Bank bartender-turned-self-published novelist Brandon Zenner, seen here in 2014, is in the running for a contract with Kindle Scout, an Amazon program in which readers vote on which works Continue reading

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December 22nd, 2015 @ 3pm

Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"

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RED BANK: STATE BIDS FOR FORTUNE HOUSE

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The home of pioneering human rights journalist T. Thomas Fortune has been vacant for many years. Below, an undated photo of Fortune, who owned it from 1901 to 1911. (Photo above Continue reading

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September 24th, 2015 @ 7am

Sunday’s edition of the New York Times includes an article on the divergent fates of two historic New Jersey homes, one of them the Red Bank abode of early 20th-century Continue reading

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June 20th, 2015 @ 8pm

FAIR HAVEN: ASBURY LEGENDS, GOOD AND BAD

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Authors Tom Chesek and John O’Rourke at River Road Books Thursday. (Click to enlarge) A busy summer of author appearances at River Road Books in Fair Haven continues with a Continue reading

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June 9th, 2015 @ 7am

RED BANK: $100K PLEDGE FOR FORTUNE HOUSE

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A volunteer group hopes to acquire the onetime home of pioneering human rights journalist T. Thomas Fortune for use as a cultural center. Below, an undated photo of Fortune. (Photo above Continue reading

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March 13th, 2015 @ 5am

RED BANK: AUTHOR EMERGES FROM THE CELLAR

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Brandon Zenner at his basement writing table. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD For 11 sunlight-deprived years, he’s slung drinks and traded banter with Continue reading

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June 3rd, 2014 @ 8am

RFH: NOT A BAD OUTCOME FOR AN APOCALYPSE

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Katie Coyle, whose novel, ‘Vivian Versus the Apocalypse,’ (Click to enlarge) By MARY ANN KAMPFE RFHRHS Public Relations “Someday I’ll read a book by Katie Coyle” reads the inscription in Continue reading

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September 1st, 2013 @ 4pm

FAIR HAVEN MAN TURNS FEARS INTO STORIES

Drazin with young fans at the Eastern Branch of the Monmouth County Library earlier this month. (Photo by Alexis Orlacchio. Click to enlarge) By ALEXIS ORLACCHIO Justin Drazin did not Continue reading

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April 19th, 2013 @ 11am

AUTHOR OPENS SERIES WITH HARD TRUTHS

By DAN NATALE What does it take to become a published author of fiction? Will power, says Aryn Kyle, author of the national best-selling young-adult novel The God of Animals.Continue reading

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October 16th, 2012 @ 7am

RESTAURATEUR ADDS ‘AUTHOR’ TO RÉSUMÉ

Victor Rallo drains a bottle of vino into a guest’s glass at his book-signing party last Thursday night. (Photo by Stacie Fanelli. Click to enlarge) By STACIE FANELLI Victor Rallo Continue reading

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March 7th, 2012 @ 12pm

RED BANK AUTHOR DEBUTS NEW RULEBOOK

John Grandits and his new children’s book, which hits shelves next month. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI John Grandits, the accomplished children’s author and member Continue reading

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June 16th, 2011 @ 8am

IN oRBit: PEOPLE FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

Don’t look now, but some of your neighbors are up to some pretty extraordinary things and in today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit, we call on a couple of Continue reading

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June 18th, 2009 @ 10am

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(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER

A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when G&G i ...

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.