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WEEKEND: BIG BAND, ‘TWO TRAINS’ & ART
Thomas Lauderdale, who appears with his band, Pink Martini, at the Count Basie tonight, discusses his music. Below, Owiso Odera and Roslyn Ruff in ‘Two Trains Running,’ at the TwoContinue reading "WEEKEND: BIG BAND, ‘TWO TRAINS’ & ART"
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February 15th, 2013 @ 9am
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WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Last week’s Where Have I Seen This? took us to the Eastern Branch of the Monmouth County Library on Broad Street in Shrewsbury. Our shot, taken at dusk, captured aContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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February 14th, 2013 @ 9am
RED BANK: LIBRARIAN FINDS HER PLACE
New library Director Virginia Papandrea hopes to draw more teenagers to the facility, she says. (Photo by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge) By WIL FULTON Meet Virginia Papandrea, the newlyContinue reading "RED BANK: LIBRARIAN FINDS HER PLACE"
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February 11th, 2013 @ 10am
WEEKEND: HEARTS, CRAFTS AND HARMONIES
Kenny Vance and the Planotones bring their supersmooth doo-wop to the Basie Saturday night. Below, quilts will be on display at the Middletown Township Public Library Saturday. (Photo by WilContinue reading "WEEKEND: HEARTS, CRAFTS AND HARMONIES"
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February 8th, 2013 @ 9am
WEEKEND: BOOK SHOPPING, RUNNING, ART…
The Friends of the Red Bank Public Library three-day book sale kicks off Friday night with a reception, hits its stride Saturday, and concludes with a fill-a-bag coda on Monday.Continue reading "WEEKEND: BOOK SHOPPING, RUNNING, ART…"
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February 1st, 2013 @ 8am
WEEKEND: FARM FRESH AND NEARLY NAKED
The Red Bank Farmer’s Market winds down its season at the Galleria, and not-quite-naked models mingle with guests at Go Naked and Check Yourself, both this Sunday. (Click to enlarge)Continue reading "WEEKEND: FARM FRESH AND NEARLY NAKED"
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November 16th, 2012 @ 10am
RED BANK HEAD LIBRARIAN OUSTED
By JOHN T. WARD After less than a year in the job, Red Bank Public Library director Mary Faith Chmiel has been forced out. Chmiel, right, tells redbankgreen she wasContinue reading "RED BANK HEAD LIBRARIAN OUSTED"
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October 22nd, 2012 @ 1pm
BIG WEEKEND FOR FIRE BUFFS
Liberty Hose Company’s first motorized fire truck debuted in the 1910s. (Click to enlarge)  By STACIE FANELLI When the Navesink Hook & Ladder Company Number 1 formed in 1872, fire hydrantsContinue reading "BIG WEEKEND FOR FIRE BUFFS"
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October 5th, 2012 @ 1pm
IN RED BANK, ‘MEDICATED’ AND UNCENSORED
A camera crew with HowardTV On Demand, Howard Stern’s uncensored cable channel, spent Tuesday in the Red Bank Public Library and on the streets of town with resident Peter McHeffey,Continue reading "IN RED BANK, ‘MEDICATED’ AND UNCENSORED"
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September 4th, 2012 @ 3pm
The foot of Prospect Avenue, where Red Bank plans to rebuild a deteriorated bulkhead, as seen last December. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Red Bank officials consider theContinue reading "‘LIVING SHORELINE’ SWAMPED BY LEGAL ISSUE"
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July 12th, 2012 @ 11am
BULKHEAD PROJECT MAY HINGE ON DEED
Environmentalists want to replace this old wooden bulkhead with a graded, natural one to help preserve wildlife. Below, Tim Dillingham of the American Littoral Society addresses Red Bank’s Environmental CommissionContinue reading "BULKHEAD PROJECT MAY HINGE ON DEED"
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July 11th, 2012 @ 10am
A T-Rex from Field Station: Dinosaurs in Secaucus visited the Red Bank Public Library Saturday morning to the delight of dozens of children and parents, who formed a mob aroundContinue reading "SCALY MONSTER ROAMS LIBRARY LAWN"
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June 11th, 2012 @ 4pm
RED BANK TO GET ALL JURASSIC-ED UP
Field Station: Dinosaur’s Tyrannosaurus Rex, seen here in its native habitat in Secaucus, is coming to Red Bank Saturday.  (Click to enlarge) By DANIELLE TEPPER The Red Bank Public LibraryContinue reading "RED BANK TO GET ALL JURASSIC-ED UP"
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June 7th, 2012 @ 5pm
RED BANK YARD SALE NOW A SPRING THING
Now in its fifth edition, the townwide event encourages the recycling of household goods, promoters say. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Red Bank’s Townwide Yard Sale returns inContinue reading "RED BANK YARD SALE NOW A SPRING THING"
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April 13th, 2012 @ 7am
RED BANK GARDEN PLAN NEEDS WATERING
A narrow borough-owned lot with a disused pumping station on it needs water access before it can be transformed into a community garden, town officials say. (Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "RED BANK GARDEN PLAN NEEDS WATERING"
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April 12th, 2012 @ 9am
PITCHFORKS OUT OVER COMMUNITY GARDEN
With organizer Cindy Burnham holding up a photo, Annie Jones argues for allowing residents to garden a 900-square-foot strip of borough property at Maple Cove. (Click to enlarge) By JOHNContinue reading "PITCHFORKS OUT OVER COMMUNITY GARDEN"
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March 29th, 2012 @ 5am
FLUTISTS ALIGHT IN LITTLE SILVER
Surrounded by hardcover murder mysteries and ‘Glee’ DVDs, The Festive Flutes, a Monmouth County-based quintet, performed a sprightly program of Vivaldi, Handel, Gershwin and others for an audience of severalContinue reading "FLUTISTS ALIGHT IN LITTLE SILVER"
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February 24th, 2012 @ 8am
‘JITNEY’ ACTORS TO VISIT RED BANK LIBRARY
Actress Roslyn Ruff, below, with fans after Saturday’s opening-night performance of August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ at the Two River Theater. Two cast members of the play, which trains a lens onContinue reading "‘JITNEY’ ACTORS TO VISIT RED BANK LIBRARY"
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February 6th, 2012 @ 9am
TODAY: WONDERFUL AS EVER, IN M’TOWN
Ward Bond and Jimmy Stewart in the American classic “It’s a Wonderful Life,” screening midday Monday in Middletown. They say that whenever someone encounters the story of George Bailey andContinue reading "TODAY: WONDERFUL AS EVER, IN M’TOWN"
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December 5th, 2011 @ 8am
LIBRARY HEAD ADDS NEW CHAPTER TO TALE
Eight-year-old Andrea John introduces herself to Mary Faith Chmiel at a meet-the-director event held at the library earlier this month. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Book-loving Red BankersContinue reading "LIBRARY HEAD ADDS NEW CHAPTER TO TALE"
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November 28th, 2011 @ 1pm
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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 ...
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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.