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KABOOMERS PROMISE FRESH START
A promotional video for the KaBOOM fireworks show. Below, Tim Hogan, new chairman of KaBoom’s executive committee. (Click to enlarge photo) Coming off two years of financial challenges and crowd-controlContinue reading "KABOOMERS PROMISE FRESH START"
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KABOOM: AUTHORITIES REVIEW SECURITY
Hundreds of visitors packed a waiting area at the Red Bank station for a northbound train after the fireworks, and transit personnel directed them into double-decker railcars, below. (Click toContinue reading "KABOOM: AUTHORITIES REVIEW SECURITY"
KABOOM POSTMORTEM: WHO GOT BUSTED
Police at White Street and English Plaza after the fireworks. (Click to enlarge) Here’s who was arrested by Red Bank police and assisting-department police on the night of the fireworksContinue reading "KABOOM POSTMORTEM: WHO GOT BUSTED"
It seems that KaBoomfest is becoming two events in one: a night of drunken rowdiness, largely among teenagers who hang out on Red Bank’s West Front and Broad streets duringContinue reading "KABOOM: BRILLIANCE BEFORE & AFTER DARK"
VIOLENCE MARS FIREWORKS SHOW
Two unidentified young men were part of a melee that broke out at Broad and Front streets moments before the fireworks show. (Click to enlarge) A number of fights eruptedContinue reading "VIOLENCE MARS FIREWORKS SHOW"
Get into the zone early, motorists, or get boxed out. (Click to enlarge) If this is Independence Day weekend, it must be time for redbankgreen‘s annual KaBoom Fireworks on theContinue reading "FIREWORKS FAQ: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW"
KaBoomfest, the new three-night slate of events leading up to the 51st annual Red Bank fireworks show Saturday night, kicked off Thursday night with the opening of a traveling amusementContinue reading "FIRST NIGHT OF THE FIREWORKS FAIR"
KABOOM READIES FOR THREE-DAY SPECTACLE
A Ferris wheel and other rides were set up Tuesday in a vacant lot opposite Riverside Gardens Park. (Click to enlarge) Now taking shape on West Front Street in RedContinue reading "KABOOM READIES FOR THREE-DAY SPECTACLE"
Part of the crowd overtook the parking lot of the 7-11 at Maple Avenue and West Front Street at last year’s KaBoom show. (Click to enlarge) In the wake ofContinue reading "MORE COPS & TRAINS SLATED FOR KABOOM"
DAM SITE REPAIR OFFICIAL: ‘WE’LL MAKE IT’
David Yegelwel, in brown pants at center, watches preparations for the installation of storm drain Wednesday. (Click to enlarge) The mishap-plagued replacement of an earthen dam on Navesink River RoadContinue reading "DAM SITE REPAIR OFFICIAL: ‘WE’LL MAKE IT’"
KABOOM: NO, WE’RE NOT GIVING IT AWAY
With less than three weeks to go, Kaboom has quite a financial gap to fill, as indicated by this sign at Riverside Gardens Park on Monday. (Click to enlarge) KaBoomContinue reading "KABOOM: NO, WE’RE NOT GIVING IT AWAY"
A worker loads a portable toilet onto a flatbed on Monmouth Street Monday morning as part of the final post-Kaboom Fireworks on the Navesink cleanup. George Lynch, a supervisor inContinue reading "OFFICIALS SAY KABOOM CLEANUP WAS SWIFT"
After spotty rains earlier in the day, the skies above Red Bank cleared in time Friday for the annual Kaboom Fireworks on the Navesink display, which once again drew tensContinue reading "AN INCANDESCENT NIGHT ON THE RIVER"
KOUNTDOWN TO KABOOM: IT’S ON
A shot from last year’s show. Red Bank Fire Marshal Stanley Sickels, who decides whether the fireworks are safe to go or not, tells redbankgreen that the Kaboom Fireworks onContinue reading "KOUNTDOWN TO KABOOM: IT’S ON"
GETTING AROUND FOR THE BIG SHOW
Food, fireworks, forgetting where you parked: it’s the biggest event of the year in Red Bank, drawing an estimated 100,000 people for one of the nation’s largest fireworks shows. First,Continue reading "GETTING AROUND FOR THE BIG SHOW"
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RED BANK: NEW MURAL BRIGHTENS CORNER
RED BANK: Lunch Break founder Norma Todd is depicted in a mural painted this week on the front of the newly renovated social service agency.
TULIPS TOGETHER
Spring tulips taking in the sunset outside the Molly Pitcher Inn in Red Bank Monday evening.
RIVER RANGERS RETURN
River Rangers, a summer canoeing program offered by the Navesink Maritime Heritage Association, returns this summer for up to 20 participa ...
DOUBLE DYLAN IN RED BANK
Trucks for a production company filming what one worker said was a Bob Dylan biography have lined Monmouth Street the past two days with cre ...
AFTER THE RAIN
A pear tree branch brought down by a brief overnight storm left a lovely tableau on the sidewalk in front of Red Bank's Riverside Gardens Pa ...
CONE OF UNCERTAINTY
Asked by a redbankgreen reporter why these cones were on top of cars, the owner of the car in the foreground responded: “That’s ...
RAIL RIDER’S VIEW
A commuter's view of Cooper's Bridge and the Navesink River from North Jersey Coast Line train 3320 out of Red Bank Tuesday morning.
PUT ME IN COACH!
Red Bank T-Ball kicked off at East Side park on Saturday morning. The brisk weather proved to be no deterrent to the young players, ranging ...
IT’S A SIGN!
Once proudly declaring its all-but-certain arrival in Spring 2019, the project previously known as Azalea Gardens springs to life again with ...
SPRINGTIME MEMORIES OF CARL
The Easter Bunny getup and St. Patrick’s Day hat that belonged to longtime Red Bank crossing guard and neighborhood smile-creator Carl ...
RED TRUCKS AT RED ROCK
A small dishwasher fire at Red Rock Tap and Grill was put out quickly by firefighters overnight, causing minimal damage. Red Bank Fire Depar ...
CREATIVE COVER UP
The windows of Pearl Street Consignment on Monmouth Street were smashed when a driver crashed their car through them injuring an employee la ...
THEY’RE BACK!
Ospreys returned to the skies over Red Bank this week for the first time since they migrated to warmer climes in late fall. With temperature ...
SPRING IS SPRUNG
RED BANK: Spring 2024 arrives on the Greater Red Bank Green with the vernal equinox at 11:06 p.m. Tuesday.
RED BANK’S FINEST – AND NEWEST
Red Bank Police Officer Eliot Ramos was sworn in as the force’s newest patrolman Thursday, and if you’re doing a double take thinkin ...
EASTER EGG MAYHEM AT THE PARK
An errant whistle spurred an unexpectedly early start to the Spring Egg Hunt on Sunday, which had been scheduled to begin at eggsactly 11am ...
PRESEASON DOCKWORK
RED BANK: With winter winding down, marina gets ready for boating season with some dockwork on our beautiful Navesink River.
CORNED BEEF AND DISCO FRIES?
It’s Friday, and smart Lent-observing Leprechauns know the pot of gold at the end of Red Bank’s rainbow is actually the deliciou ...
SURFBOARD DITCHED
It’s a violation of etiquette in surfing to ditch your board.  (it could hit another surfer and hurt them). But someone appears to ha ...
ELSIE, TAKE ME WITH YOU!
Soaked by pouring rain with the temperature hovering in the low 40’s, this sign in the window of Elsie’s Subs on Monmouth Street ...