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FAIR HAVEN: SIDEWALK PLAN GETS PUSHBACK
FAIR HAVEN: Sidewalks? We don't need or want them, say residents seeking to preserve their "bucolic" neighborhood near the Navesink.
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FAIR HAVEN: THREE RIVER PROJECTS SLATED
FAIR HAVEN: A new floating dock at the municipal boat launch and upgrades to two pocket parks on the Navesink are up for greenlighting Monday night.
FAIR HAVEN: WITCHES’ WHIMSY ON THE WATER
FAIR HAVEN: A coven of witches trade their brooms for paddleboards and kayaks in a whimsical outing on the Navesink. Check out the photos.
RED BANK: NEW LOT, HOURS ON AGENDA
RED BANK: On the council workshop agenda this week: new paid-parking hours; a new lot for Marine Park; and new downtown meters going live Thursday.
RED BANK: MARINE PARK PLAN UNVEILED
RED BANK: A new concept plan for Marine Park would eliminate clay tennis courts, relocate parking lot and add riverfront green space. Details here.
RED BANK: MARINE PARK PLAN READY TO DROP
RED BANK: An urban planning firm is scheduled to unveil a new concept plan for Marine Park at Wednesday's workshop meeting of the borough council.
RED BANK: MARINE PARK CONCEPTS UNVEILED
RED BANK: Residents click to indicate their design preferences as planner unveils Marine Park concept plans, including kayak launch.
ON THE GREEN: RAINBOWS AND SUNSHINE
ON THE GREEN: A rainy Friday kicks off another weekend of mixed weather.
ON THE GREEN: WEATHER OUTLOOK MIXED
ON THE GREEN: A rainy Friday kicks off another weekend of mixed weather.
RED BANK: KAYAKER’S DEATH INSPIRES ALERT
A new water-safety sign was installed Wednesday at Red Bank’s Maple Cove, a popular Navesink River put-in spot for kayakers and canoeists. With the help of Councilwoman Cindy Burnham, theContinue reading "RED BANK: KAYAKER’S DEATH INSPIRES ALERT"
RED BANK: KAYAKER’S MOM URGES VEST USAGE
One of the signs that Joan Civile has offered to the town as part of a campaign inspired by the death of her son, David, below. (Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "RED BANK: KAYAKER’S MOM URGES VEST USAGE"
Rumson firefighters shine floodlights on the Shrewsbury River from the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge during the November, 2010 search for kayaker David Civile. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD TheContinue reading "TWO YEARS LATER, KAYAKER’S REMAINS ID’D"
LESSON ONE: WAIT OUT THE MONSOON
Despite heavy rains for its first hour, Paddle the Paddle the Navesink Day found itself under sunny skies at Red Bank’s Maple Cove Saturday. Nearly 200 people tried kayaks and paddleContinue reading "LESSON ONE: WAIT OUT THE MONSOON"
YAKERS OVER THE MOON ABOUT PADDLING
When the moon isn’t busy waxing and waning, it plays host to the Exit 109 Yakers‘ monthly celebration of the sport of kayaking. The group, which comprises both newcomers lookingContinue reading "YAKERS OVER THE MOON ABOUT PADDLING"
PADDLIN’ WITH PASQUALE
Cindy Burnham and her newest water mate, Mayor Pasquale Menna, who spent Saturday morning kayaking on the Navesink. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Red BankContinue reading "PADDLIN’ WITH PASQUALE"
SIGNS POINT AGAIN TO ‘CONTROVERSY COVE’
Kathleen Gasienica, left, and Cindy Burham, third from left, speaking with Administrator Stanley Sickels after last night’s council meeting. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Less than a week after Mayor Pasquale MennaContinue reading "SIGNS POINT AGAIN TO ‘CONTROVERSY COVE’"
MENNA PLEDGES END TO COVE CONTROVERSY
Kayakers putting into the Navesink River at the Maple Cove Sunday evening. (Click to enlarge) An ongoing battle over a couple of benches and sign proposed for installation on publicContinue reading "MENNA PLEDGES END TO COVE CONTROVERSY"
OTHER COUNCIL NEWS
Carl Alderson chats with Gayle Horvath at borough hall Monday night. That’s Doreen Illis, left, and Cindy Burnham in the background. A contingent of kayakers and others with an interestContinue reading "OTHER COUNCIL NEWS"
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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.