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YOUR GPS SAYS TURN LEFT ON ROUTE 520. DO YOU LISTEN?
Here's one of those small signs indicating our robot overlords are trying kill us all off: Google maps telling drivers to make a left from Leighton Avenue onto route 520. (Click to read)
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WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Do you know where this photo was taken? Play the weekly "Where Have I Seen This?" and get the answer to last week's photo.
RED BANK: DRIVER CRASHES INTO UTILITY POLE, ROAD CLOSED
Drivers hits telephone pole in Red Bank, dangling wires closes county highway 520. (click to read)
RED BANK: OVERNIGHT ROAD CLOSURE SLATED
RED BANK: Newman Springs Road to be closed overnight for paving.
RED BANK: WEEKLONG DETOUR FOR WATER JOB
RED BANK: Stretch of Newman Springs Road to be shut down in one direction for a week starting Monday. Avoid if you can.
RED BANK: MULTIPLE INJURIES IN CRASH
RED BANK: Multiple injuries in three-vehicle crash on Newman Springs Road Saturday.
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? A RED LIGHT SANDWICH
WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? "Culinary genius" in a sandwich from a Lincroft coffee shop.
LINCROFT: FIRST AIRING FOR EXIT 109 PLANS
C.J. Lagan, at right, studies proposed changes for exit 109 at the township library Thursday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A proposed reconfigurationContinue reading "LINCROFT: FIRST AIRING FOR EXIT 109 PLANS"
LINCROFT: $60M EXIT 109 REBUILD SLATED
The plan calls for the elimination of the problematic jughandle at Half Mile Road that eastbound motorists now have to use to access the parkway’s northbound lanes. Below, a 2013Continue reading "LINCROFT: $60M EXIT 109 REBUILD SLATED"
RED BANK: TODDLER, GREAT-GRANDMOM HIT
Emergency responders on the scene, above. Below, a State Police helicopter raises a cloud of dust at Count Basie Field while taking off for Neptune with one of the victimsContinue reading "RED BANK: TODDLER, GREAT-GRANDMOM HIT"
RED BANK: BRIDGE FIX NEARS COMPLETION
The rebuilding of twin Route 520/Newman Springs Road bridges over the Swimming River between Red Bank and Middletown, which began in April, is on schedule to wrap up next month,Continue reading "RED BANK: BRIDGE FIX NEARS COMPLETION"
By SARAH KLEPNER The likelihood of Red Bank getting a third 7-Eleven anytime soon melted like a Slurpee left on a dashboard Thursday night. After 10 months, extensive testimony andContinue reading "RED BANK: ZONERS REJECT SHELL 7-ELEVEN"
NEWMAN SPRINGS ROAD SQUEEZE BEGINS
The narrowing of twin Newman Springs Road (Route 520) bridges over the Swimming River got its first test at rush hour Tuesday morning with a long line of vehicles headingContinue reading "NEWMAN SPRINGS ROAD SQUEEZE BEGINS"
One of two spans will remain open throughout the duration of the project, but with just one lane in each direction. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A taxingContinue reading "SIX-MONTH ROUTE 520 BOTTLENECK TO BEGIN"
BOTTLENECK AHEAD AT ROUTE 520 SPANS
Motorists will face a narrowing of the twin bridges to one lane in each direction for up to eight months, officials said. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD TheContinue reading "BOTTLENECK AHEAD AT ROUTE 520 SPANS"
LITTLE SILVER TEEN BADLY HURT IN HEAD-ON
Volunteer firefighters peel open the roof of the minivan to extricate its driver. (Click to enlarge) An 18-year-old Little Silver man was helicoptered to a trauma center after the minivanContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER TEEN BADLY HURT IN HEAD-ON"
RED BANK: FIAT DEALER EYES TIGHT CORNER
A vacant lot that was last home to a car rental business could be revived as a Fiat dealership, according to plans filed with the borough. (Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "RED BANK: FIAT DEALER EYES TIGHT CORNER"
NO SERIOUS INJURIES IN TWO-CAR CRASH
It took emergency volunteers more than half an hour to extricate a 36-year-old Red Bank woman after a two-car smashup on Newman Springs Road Thursday night, but no one oneContinue reading "NO SERIOUS INJURIES IN TWO-CAR CRASH"
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Yet another busy week for Middletown police, the department reports, with seven arrests the last five days. In today’s weekly roundup from Detective Lieutenant Steve Dollinger, there’sContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN COP ARRESTS BELT-SWINGER"
DOWNED WIRES KNOCK OUT POWER
Downed utility wires in front of Westside Hose Company in Red Bank knocked out power to a block of homes on Leighton Avenue and forced the closure of the streetContinue reading "DOWNED WIRES KNOCK OUT POWER"
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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.