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RED BANK: HISTORIC CLOCK BACK ON BROAD
RED BANK: Eight months after it was toppled by a truck, the 120-year-old Reussille's clock is back in place on Broad Street.
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RED BANK: HISTORIC CLOCK CLOCKED
RED BANK: Historic clock that's watched over downtown for more than a century crashed to the ground after being struck by a truck Wednesday.
CHURN: DELFINI OUT, TWO SWEET SHOPS IN
Randi Garfinkel with the chocolate fountain in the newly opened Chocolate Works. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The neverending Churn of Red Bank storesContinue reading "CHURN: DELFINI OUT, TWO SWEET SHOPS IN"
CHURN: PROWN’S TO LEAVE RED BANK
Prown’s Home Improvements owner David Prown, seen at the Red Bank International Flavour Festival in April. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD  After 90 yearsContinue reading "CHURN: PROWN’S TO LEAVE RED BANK"
CHURN: SIGNS OF THE PAST… AND FUTURE
Builder Mike Rovere uncovered turn-of-the-century signs in gold leaf on either side of the facade at 18 Broad, home to a series of shoe stores dating back to 1883. (PhotoContinue reading "CHURN: SIGNS OF THE PAST… AND FUTURE"
RED BANK: YOUR PHOTOS, IN TILE AND GLASS
Pete Theodoropoulus in his new Red Bank tile-art gallery, Tesserae, where works sell for $2,500 to $25,000. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Pete Theodoropoulus is still not anContinue reading "RED BANK: YOUR PHOTOS, IN TILE AND GLASS"
RED BANK: REUSILLES CLOCK TO BE RESTARTED
After an outage of more than two years, a Red Bank landmark, the Reussilles’ (later Ballew’s) Jewelers clock on Broad Street is expected to be back in the business ofContinue reading "RED BANK: REUSILLES CLOCK TO BE RESTARTED"
A 69-year-old Staten Island man who admitted robbing a Fair Haven antiques store at gunpoint last summer has been sentenced to 114 months in prison, federal law enforcement officials saidContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: ROBBER GETS NINE YEARS"
RED BANK: MOSAIC SHOP TAKES BALLEW SPOT
Tessarae, featuring works like the 500-pound “Penthouse Views,” below, plans to open at 36 Broad Street in early July. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD After a 99-year runContinue reading "RED BANK: MOSAIC SHOP TAKES BALLEW SPOT"
Blue Stove Antiques was robbed at gunpoint last June 2, with some $200,000 in jewelry and other valuables taken. (Click to enlarge) A 69-year-old man admitted robbing Blue Stove AntiquesContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: 69-YEAR-OLD COPS TO ROBBERY"
FBI LINKS HEIST SUSPECT TO ROBBERY STRING
Blue Stove Antiques was robbed at gunpoint in early June by a man authorities have linked to armed robberies of New Jersey jewelry stores going back half a decade. (ClickContinue reading "FBI LINKS HEIST SUSPECT TO ROBBERY STRING"
BROAD STREET CLOCK RESTARTED
The Reussille’s clock was back to telling the correct time late Friday afternoon. (Click to enlarge) Red Bank’s landmark downtown clock is back to telling time, even if its ownerContinue reading "BROAD STREET CLOCK RESTARTED"
DID THEY LEAVE ANY SPARE BATTERIES?
The departure from Red Bank of Ballew Jewelers over the weekend also apparently meant the end of a long run of reliability for the gorgeous clock in front of theContinue reading "DID THEY LEAVE ANY SPARE BATTERIES?"
RIVERCENTER POLISHES APPLE’S APPLE
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI ‘Tis the season to draw up wish lists and send them off to the jolly, avuncular fellow in the plush red suit up north. Or, in RedContinue reading "RIVERCENTER POLISHES APPLE’S APPLE"
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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.