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WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Even our Wheregulars were nowhere to be found over the past holiday week, as we got not one response to last week’s Where Have I Seen This? Perhaps the answerContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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More police activity reports from the Middletown Township Police Department. Entries appear here are unedited. • On July 3, 2011 at approximately 10:25 pm police responded to a residence onContinue reading "M’TOWN: MAN HIT IN HEAD WITH BOTTLE"
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of June 24 to July 1, 2011. This information is unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring betweenContinue reading "CHILDREN’S VEGETABLE GARDEN BURGLARIZED"
The police activity reports below were provided by the Middletown Township Police Department and are unedited. • On June 29, 2011 at approximately 11:15 am Patrolman Keith Hirschbein was onContinue reading "BUSY WEEK FOR MIDDLETOWN COPS"
Thunderstorms and rain made the Kaboom Fireworks on the Navesink an iffy proposition all day Sunday. But by sunset, the skies had cleared for another terrific pyrotechnics display over ourContinue reading "SKIES CLEAR AND LIGHT UP OVER THE RIVER"
Shots of Rumson’s 2011 edition of the Independence Day Fireworks, as seen from Victory Park, the Oceanic Bridge and surrounding areas. As is the custom, the show, by Garden StateContinue reading "RUMSON, IN A FLASH AND RUMBLE"
The KaBoom Fireworks show will go on tonight, in spite of a weather forecast that would seem to suggest a need for waterproof picnic blankets and umbrellas at the ready.Continue reading "KABOOM ON"
FIREWORKS PREVIEW: SEA BRIGHT
Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright becomes a virtual parking lot during the town’s fireworks show. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Not to be forgotten amidContinue reading "FIREWORKS PREVIEW: SEA BRIGHT"
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Ok, who knows this one? Drop us an email if you think you do, with the words ‘Where Have I Seen This?’ in the subject line, please.
RED BANK CFO TAKES A BETTER OFFER
Frank Mason, seen here with borough Engineer Christine Ballard, will become CFO in Montclair. (Click to enlarge) The keeper of Red Bank’s checkbook is leaving the borough government to takeContinue reading "RED BANK CFO TAKES A BETTER OFFER"
Well, in this case, the authorities were called… but only after a homeowner found himself in a tussle with an alleged car burglar. Middletown police report that they arrested aContinue reading "HOMEOWNER GRABS ALLEGED CAR BURGLAR"
The police activity reports below were provided by the Middletown Township Police Department and are unedited. • On June 27, 2011 at approximately 7:30 pm Patrolman Richard Fulham was onContinue reading "M’TOWN: BEGGING FOR SMOKES… AT A GYM?"
LITTLE SILVER BRACES FOR DETOUR JAMS
Orange you glad they alerted you? (Click to enlarge) Already a nettlesome fact of life for local commuters, travel between Shrewsbury and Little Silver is about to get downright ugly.Continue reading "LITTLE SILVER BRACES FOR DETOUR JAMS"
The police activity reports below were provided by the Middletown Township Police Department and are unedited. • On June 20, 2011 at approximately 11:50 am Patrolman Thomas Meckier was onContinue reading "DRUGS AND BOOZE FILL MIDDLETOWN COP LOG"
Check out this brisk little intro to the world of Red Bank’s Cliff Galbraith, creator of Rat Bastard comic books. The video is from a series of profiles called CreateContinue reading "RED BANK ARTIST NURTURES A RAT"
A Red Bank man who worked as an organist for a Shrewsbury church faces up to five years in jail for his admission that he sexually assaulted a minor, accordingContinue reading "ORGANIST ADMITS TO CHILD-SEX CHARGE"
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of June 20 to June 24, 2011. This information is unedited. Theft reported on 6-20-11Continue reading "BLOTTER: VANDALISM AT RIVERSIDE GARDENS"
EX CHARGED AS RED BANK WOMAN’S KILLER
The estranged husband of a Red Bank woman missing since mid-May has been charged with her murder following the discovery of a body buried near the Garden State Parkway inContinue reading "EX CHARGED AS RED BANK WOMAN’S KILLER"
TRANSFORMER BLOWS IN LITTLE SILVER
A brief, strong storm that blew through the Green prompted an emergency response on White Road in Little Silver Thursday afternoon. Though fire officials were not immediately available for comment,Continue reading "TRANSFORMER BLOWS IN LITTLE SILVER"
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI A recent Red Bank Regional graduate who was accepted to Julliard‘s prestigious dance program was badly injured in an assault Sunday night, Red Bank police said. PoliceContinue reading "RBR DANCE STUDENT INJURED IN BEATING"
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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.