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SEA BRIGHT: STEAM AND ICE
Steam rises from the relatively warm Atlantic Ocean as a dog walker braves the wind-chilled sub-zero temperatures of North Beach in Sea Bright Tuesday morning. Just across Ocean Avenue, theContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: STEAM AND ICE"
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RED BANK: PRE-DAWN IN THE WIND AND SNOW
[slideshow_deploy id=’86739′]As is its custom during a heavy snowfall, redbankgreen went for a brisk stroll into downtown Red Bank during Friday’s storm and found a few hardy souls to shareContinue reading "RED BANK: PRE-DAWN IN THE WIND AND SNOW"
RED BANK: COLD AND WET AT THE BOAT CLUB
Our beautiful Navesink River floods the Monmouth Boat Club in Red Bank Friday morning – a not uncommon occurrence. (Reader photo. Click to enlarge)
Snowblower operators were among a team digging out at an apartment complex on Broad Street in Red Bank Friday morning. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
RED BANK: OUR FEELINGS EXACTLY
A young shoveler in a jacket capturing the mood of many others tackles the snow on Elm Place in Red Bank Friday morning. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click toContinue reading "RED BANK: OUR FEELINGS EXACTLY"
Clearing the lot at the Red Bank Foodtown at about 6 a.m. Friday. About 10 inches of snow fell overnight as temperatures dropped into the low teens. Councilman Art Murphy,Continue reading "RED BANK: SNOW BLANKETS REGION"
RED BANK AREA: AFTER THE SNOW, A RINSE
The historic blizzard that socked New England over the weekend left a modest and easily conquered five or six inches on the Green Saturday, creating a snowy playland for someContinue reading "RED BANK AREA: AFTER THE SNOW, A RINSE"
CALM HEADS SOUGHT FOR EMERGENCY TEAM
Tommy Welsh and Ernie Van Pelt with an all-weather truck Red Bank’s emergency services operation acquired for free last year from Long Branch. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARDContinue reading "CALM HEADS SOUGHT FOR EMERGENCY TEAM"
PARKING BAN MULLED AFTER $470K BLIZZARD
Red Bank officials are looking to make changes to their snow-management plans, including an on-street parking ban overnight. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI In theContinue reading "PARKING BAN MULLED AFTER $470K BLIZZARD"
SNOW: ARE WE IN FOR IT OR WHAT?
Dee Patel’s grocery store on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank cleared an early path for customers during the December 26-27 storm. (Click to enlarge) The too-white winter of 2011 isContinue reading "SNOW: ARE WE IN FOR IT OR WHAT?"
DPU HEAD: SNOW WAS ‘NOT PLOWABLE’
In an interview, Red Bank public utilities director Gary Watson and supervisor Bob Holiday discuss the challenges of the December 26-27 blizzard. Below, a jagged glacier of snow dumped byContinue reading "DPU HEAD: SNOW WAS ‘NOT PLOWABLE’"
PIG SURVIVES BUTCHERING WINDS
A scrap was all that remained Tuesday of a banner promoting the recently concluded run of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ at the Two River Theater Company in Red Bank. The banner, strungContinue reading "PIG SURVIVES BUTCHERING WINDS"
TEMPORARY ROOF FIX DONE AT SUPERMARKET
A&P in Little Silver reopened early Friday afternoon after the building’s roof partially collapsed this week. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The A&P supermarket inContinue reading "TEMPORARY ROOF FIX DONE AT SUPERMARKET"
STELLA GRANDE
Stella, a golden retriever “from New Hampshire,” her owner notes, rests her chin on a snowbank outside the Starbucks on Broad Street in Red Bank Thursday morning. (Click to enlarge)
SINGLE-LANE REOPENING PLANNED
A towrig pulls a stranded car from the snow while utility crews work on the opposite side of West Front Street at 3:30p Wednesday. (Click to enlarge) A utility poleContinue reading "SINGLE-LANE REOPENING PLANNED"
RUMSON DONE AS SEA BRIGHT DIGS OUT
A snow plow on East River Road Monday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI While other towns continue trying to dig out from massive amounts ofContinue reading "RUMSON DONE AS SEA BRIGHT DIGS OUT"
DETOUR EXPECTED FOR A.M. DRIVE TIME
Westbound traffic was diverted from West Front Street onto Broad Street Tuesday evening, above, jamming up downtown Red Bank. Below, eastbound vehicles lined up on Monmouth Street. (Click to enlarge)Continue reading "DETOUR EXPECTED FOR A.M. DRIVE TIME"
On Monday, redbankgreen brought you photos taken on a walking tour of Red Bank shortly after the end of the paralyzing blizzard that walloped parts of the northeastern United StatesContinue reading "RED BANK SPUTTERS BACK TO A START"
PLOW STUCK ON RIVER STREET 24+ HOURS
Privately owned vehicles stranded in the weekend snowstorm aren’t the only ones hampering the street-clearing effort in Red Bank, it turns out. redbankgreen came across this municipal truck stuck inContinue reading "PLOW STUCK ON RIVER STREET 24+ HOURS"
POLE FIX JAMS RED BANK TRAFFIC
Vehicles backed up along Riverside Avenue earlier today. Below, utility crews working on West Front Street, a portion of which is closed to traffic. (Click to enlarge) Snow-clogged streets andContinue reading "POLE FIX JAMS RED BANK TRAFFIC"
Partyline
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.