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FAIR HAVEN: KOCH RECALLED WITH HUMOR
Pallbearers with the casket of Councilman Jerome Koch, below, who died Sunday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Friends and family eulogized Fair HavenContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: KOCH RECALLED WITH HUMOR"
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FAIR HAVEN: KOCH DIES FROM INJURIES
By JOHN T. WARD Fair Haven Councilman Jerome Koch died Sunday, one day after he was was critically injured in a bicycling accident on River Road. Borough police reported Koch’sContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: KOCH DIES FROM INJURIES"
FAIR HAVEN: KOCH CRITICAL AFTER CRASH
Councilman Jerome Koch speaking during a council meeting at the Knollwood School in November, 2011. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Fair Haven CouncilmanContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: KOCH CRITICAL AFTER CRASH"
SEA BRIGHT: GUADAGNO HURT IN BIKE CRASH
Guadagno at the Dublin House in Red Bank in June. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno was hospitalized after a biking accidentContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: GUADAGNO HURT IN BIKE CRASH"
RED BANK COPS BIKE DOWNPOUR FOR CHIEF
Despite teeming rain and slick roads, dozens of cyclists, including numerous police officers, headed out on a 26-mile ride in memory of late Red Bank Police Chief Steve McCarthy ThursdayContinue reading "RED BANK COPS BIKE DOWNPOUR FOR CHIEF"
RED BANK COPS TO RIDE FOR LATE CHIEF
Police Chief Steve McCarthy in 2010. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi. Click to enlarge) Members of the Red Bank Police Benevolent Association plan a memorial bike ride this week for the lateContinue reading "RED BANK COPS TO RIDE FOR LATE CHIEF"
FAIR HAVEN SPARED IN SUIT OVER RACE DEATH
Racers during last September’s Tour de Fair Haven. Cole Porter, below, died after an accident in the first race that day. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A lawsuitContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN SPARED IN SUIT OVER RACE DEATH"
‘EVERYTHING WAS RIGHT’ IN CYCLIST’S LIFE
Megan Porter at her Shrewsbury home earlier this month. Her husband, Cole, below, on the morning of his fatal accident. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD He was goingContinue reading "‘EVERYTHING WAS RIGHT’ IN CYCLIST’S LIFE"
FAIR HAVEN: SERIOUS CRASH AT BIKE RACE
Racing action at Sunday’s Tour de Fair Haven following the first-race accident. (Click to enlarge) A rider in the first race of Sunday’s Tour de Fair Haven series of bikeContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: SERIOUS CRASH AT BIKE RACE"
Recognize this guy? He stole a bike from a porch on Harrison Avenue in Red Bank early Labor Day morning, apparently aware of – but undeterred by – the presenceContinue reading "RED BANK: BIKE THEFT CAUGHT ON VIDEO"
RED BANK: MUSICAL BROTHERS BIKE FOR KIDS
Brothers Roberto and Angelo Giambra pass through Red Bank Monday morning en route to New York City from their home in Wilmington, North Carolina. Italian natives who moved to theContinue reading "RED BANK: MUSICAL BROTHERS BIKE FOR KIDS"
RED BANK: BIKE AND CAR COLLIDE
Red Bank police with the victim’s bike following the Wednesday morning accident. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A 51-year-old bicyclist was taken to a hospital after a collisionContinue reading "RED BANK: BIKE AND CAR COLLIDE"
A SIX-WHEEL SOLUTION
Spotted heading north on Broad Street (Route 35) in Shrewsbury during Tuesday’s morning commute: a burly New Jersey Transit bus carrying a somewhat simpler machine for getting around. (Click toContinue reading "A SIX-WHEEL SOLUTION"
RED BANK: BIKE-HOOP DREAMS
Some of Red Bank’s newly decommissioned parking meters (right) could be retrofitted as lock stands for bicycles. Borough Engineer Christine Ballard tells redbankgreen that officials are awaiting word on aContinue reading "RED BANK: BIKE-HOOP DREAMS"
Nearly 400 athletes gathered in Marine Park bright and early Sunday for the Red Bank Triathlon, a swim-bike-run competition of Olympic and sprint distances that took them down a coned-offContinue reading "TRI DRAWS 400 COMPETITORS"
BIKE SHOP PLANS WEST FRONT ROLLOUT
Jonathan Erdelyi takes a break from painting the interior of the Red Bicycle Studio, his new bike shop on West Front Street. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD MoreContinue reading "BIKE SHOP PLANS WEST FRONT ROLLOUT"
PED/BIKE RAMP PLANNED FOR NEW BRIDGE
Monmouth County Engineer Joe Ettore traces the path of the planned walkway, which continues off the proposed new bridge (in yellow) and up a series of ramps along the theContinue reading "PED/BIKE RAMP PLANNED FOR NEW BRIDGE"
BICYCLIST STRUCK IN LITTLE SILVER
Emergency workers tend to Jorge Perez-Lopez, 35, of Long Branch after he was struck by a car while bicycling on White Road in Little Silver around 5:15 p.m. Sunday night.Continue reading "BICYCLIST STRUCK IN LITTLE SILVER"
Activity reports for August from the Fair Haven Police Department. Entries appear here unedited. 8/1/11 -Ptl. Hostrup arrested 3 Fair Haven juveniles for possession of CDS (marijuana) and drug paraphernaliaContinue reading "CABBIE STIFFED IN FAIR HAVEN"
A 16-year-old Little Silver boy was seriously injured late Friday morning when he was struck by a car while crossing Seven Bridges Road on a bike, police say. The unidentifiedContinue reading "TEEN BICYCLIST HIT BY CAR IN LITTLE SILVER"
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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.
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 ...