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RED BANK: JON STEWART SELLS SECOND HOME
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RED BANK: With a deal to sell the second of two adjacent homes overlooking the Navesink River, Jon Stewart appears to have ended his time in town.
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October 11th, 2021 @ 11am
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RED BANK: STEWART SELLS ONE MANSION
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RED BANK: Comedian Jon Stewart has a deal to sell one of his two adjoining homes overlooking the Navesink River, according to a recent filing.
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September 9th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: LIBRARY PUTS FINAL EDIT ON 2016
RED BANK: The public library, now marking 80 years in the former home of industrialist Sigmund Eisner, looks back at 2016 via YouTube video.
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January 5th, 2017 @ 10am
RUMSON: BLITHEWALD RAZED
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Five months after a devastating fire, the Rumson mansion known as Blithewald was demolished Monday. The 132-year-old home, on Buena Vista Avenue, was undergoing extensive redecoration for use as a designer showcase forContinue reading "RUMSON: BLITHEWALD RAZED"
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August 18th, 2015 @ 2pm
RUMSON: BLITHEWALD GARDEN IN PHOTOS
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The April 20 fire at the Rumson mansion known as Blithewald, which was undergoing extensive redecoration for use as a designer showcase in the monthlong VNA Stately Homes by theContinue reading "RUMSON: BLITHEWALD GARDEN IN PHOTOS"
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April 28th, 2015 @ 7am
RUMSON: FIRE RULED AN ACCIDENT
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Monday’s fire at the Rumson mansion known as Blithewald appears to have been accidental, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s office. Spokesman Charlie Webster told redbankgreen on Thursday that investigatorsContinue reading "RUMSON: FIRE RULED AN ACCIDENT"
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April 23rd, 2015 @ 2pm
Here’s a Sea Bright firefighter’s view, courtesy of a helmet-mounted camera, of Monday’s fire at the Rumson mansion known as Blithewald. A message on the Sea Bright Fire Rescue FacebookContinue reading "RUMSON: FIREFIGHTER’S VIEW OF BLAZE"
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April 22nd, 2015 @ 3pm
RUMSON: ‘TOUGH SPOTS’ MADE FIRE DAUNTING
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Blithewald as seen Tuesday morning. An area of the roof between two dormers showed heavy damaged, as seen below. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading "RUMSON: ‘TOUGH SPOTS’ MADE FIRE DAUNTING"
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April 21st, 2015 @ 10am
RUMSON: FIRE RIPS SHOWCASE MANSION
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Fire caused extensive damage Monday afternoon to a Rumson home slated as the showcase for the monthlong VNA Stately Homes by the Sea fundraiser. No one was injured in theContinue reading "RUMSON: FIRE RIPS SHOWCASE MANSION"
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April 20th, 2015 @ 4pm
RUMSON MANSION RAZED
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A century-old Rumson mansion has become the latest old structure in town to fall to the wrecking ball. Kelly Builders of Oceanport won borough planning board approval in October toContinue reading "RUMSON MANSION RAZED"
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January 13th, 2015 @ 9am
RED BANK: NEW OFFICE FEELS LIKE OLD HOME
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With landscaping and exterior detail work still in progress, John Smallwood, below, moved his financial advisory firm into 199 Broad Street last week. (Photo above by Trish Russoniello; below byContinue reading "RED BANK: NEW OFFICE FEELS LIKE OLD HOME"
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December 1st, 2014 @ 4pm
RUMSON: JUST ANOTHER TEARDOWN?
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A riverfront mansion in Rumson may put a new spin on the concept of real estate teardowns. The 12,000-square-foot house at 8 Navesink Avenue, with eight bedrooms and 12 bathrooms,Continue reading "RUMSON: JUST ANOTHER TEARDOWN?"
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September 2nd, 2014 @ 5pm
Though the seller isn’t identified, a video walk-through Wednesday by CBS News of a Rumson on the market for $17.2 million was clearly shot in hedge fund tycoon George Hall’sContinue reading "RUMSON: WHAT $17.2 MILLION GETS YOU"
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June 26th, 2014 @ 11am
RUMSON: SIDE-BY-SIDE MANSIONS FOR SALE
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George Hall’s 18,000-square-foot house, as seen from the Navesink in 2008. Below, the Gooch estate next door. (Photo above by John T. Ward; below from Monmouth MLS.Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "RUMSON: SIDE-BY-SIDE MANSIONS FOR SALE"
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April 7th, 2014 @ 2pm
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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Think: You have seen this before. But Where? When it hits you, drop us a line, please. Did you recognize the object in last week’s Where? Yeah, neither did anyoneContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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September 5th, 2013 @ 6am
RUMSON MANSION AUCTION A BUST
A jazz duet played on, even after bidders left the auction, which lasted just four minutes. Below, an aerial view from the auction website. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading "RUMSON MANSION AUCTION A BUST"
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July 31st, 2013 @ 5pm
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Here’s a Where Have I See This? – or should we call it “This See I Have Where”?  – that we hope you have fun puzzling over. It was funContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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July 18th, 2013 @ 7am
SHREWSBURY MANSION DATED TO THE 1840s
A backhoe begins demolition on the fire-ravaged house, above. Below. furniture salvaged by firefighters. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD In a matter of hours, a raging fire endedContinue reading "SHREWSBURY MANSION DATED TO THE 1840s"
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February 4th, 2013 @ 10pm
SHREWSBURY HOUSE FIRE TAKES HEAVY TOLL
A view of the fire from the home’s back yard. Below, Shrewsbury firefighters prepare to attack the blaze from above. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD More than twoContinue reading "SHREWSBURY HOUSE FIRE TAKES HEAVY TOLL"
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February 4th, 2013 @ 4pm
FIRE RIPS SHREWSBURY MANSION
Firefighters from multiple towns were on the scene of a stubborn, wind-fueled fire that broke out in a Shrewsbury mansion early Monday afternoon. There were reports of “a large amountContinue reading "FIRE RIPS SHREWSBURY MANSION"
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February 4th, 2013 @ 2pm
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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.