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WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Last week, Where Have I Seen This? ran a shot that several seagull-eyed readers recognized in an instant. A couple of of them had the location wrong, but their confusionContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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BRIEF SNAFU ON BROAD
Maybe it was the torrid heat, who knows? But things seemed to go serially wrong for a brief time in downtown Red Bank Wednesday. First, a sewer lateral gave outContinue reading "BRIEF SNAFU ON BROAD"
DIVERSITY PLEDGE MAKES ROOM FOR ATHEISM
Red Bank has adopted a diversity statement as a “tremendous strength and asset to the community.” (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The Red Bank HumanContinue reading "DIVERSITY PLEDGE MAKES ROOM FOR ATHEISM"
Recent activity involving Middletown police. This report, from the township police department, appears here unedited. • On May 26, 2011 at approximately 3:30 pm Corporal Bernie Chenoweth responded to aContinue reading "BEATING THE HEAT… IN A DOLLHOUSE?"
AUTHORITIES SEARCHING RIVER AGAIN
A helicopter, above, and a State Police boat searched the upper Navesink River near Hubbards Bridge late Tuesday morning. (Click to enlarge) For the second time in 11 days, lawContinue reading "AUTHORITIES SEARCHING RIVER AGAIN"
KARMIC CALLOUT FOR VEGAN EATERY
Good Karma Café opened in Red Bank last July. (Click to enlarge) Red Bank’s Good Karma Café got some good feedback from a restaurant reviewer in Sunday’s New York Times.
Recent activity involving Middletown police. This report, from the township police department, appears here unedited. • On May 21, 2011 at approximately 1:25 am Patrolman Richard Fulham was on patrolContinue reading "SCREAMING AT COP GETS PASSENGER CUFFS"
SPRING IS IN THE HUMID AIR
A young couple enjoy an early taste of  summer at Red Bank’s Marine Park Friday afternoon, as temperatures soared to nearly 85 degrees and humidity counts neared 60 percent. TheContinue reading "SPRING IS IN THE HUMID AIR"
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS, MAN?
Only one reader wrote in to identify last week’s Where, a photo of a sign reading “Exit to River Rd.” tacked to a tree trunk.
A LEANER, MEANER CUT OF RIBEYE
Alone in an idealized Red Bank of the mind, Tim Cronin models a new look and readies a new edition of The Ribeye Brothers for a Memorial Weekend wingding atContinue reading "A LEANER, MEANER CUT OF RIBEYE"
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of  May 6 to May 13, 2011. They were provided out of sequence; the MayContinue reading "VICTIM REPORTS GUN DISPLAYED IN ROBBERY"
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of May 13  to May 20, 2011. The information appears here unedited. Theft occurring atContinue reading "BILLBOARD & BUILDING GRAFFITI-BOMBED"
THERE’S A NEW M.D. IN THE HOUSE AT TRTC
By TOM CHESEK Following a nationwide talent search, Red Bank’s  Two River Theater Company has hired a new managing director — and you read it here Hurst. Michael Hurst, thatContinue reading "THERE’S A NEW M.D. IN THE HOUSE AT TRTC"
Recent activity from the Middletown Police Department blotter, appearing here unedited: • On May 16, 2011 Detective Daniel Sullivan charged Peter Hanvey, age 51, from West Side Avenue in JerseyContinue reading "ATTEMPTED THEFT OF DIESEL FUEL ALLEGED"
HOTEL PLAN CLEARS FIRST HURDLE
The zoning board’s decision exempts the former filling station site from an ordinance that appeared to limit its use to residences. Planner Roy DeBoer, below, testified for the developer. (ClickContinue reading "HOTEL PLAN CLEARS FIRST HURDLE"
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
The Colmorgen Kids were alone in identifying last week’s Where Have I Seen This?
DONE GOOD: WALK, RUN, PUTT, CUT ‘N STRUT
It’s Friday night lights as Relay for Life returns to RBR this weekend. (File photo. Click to enlarge) Cancer, as they say, never sleeps — and if you’re among theContinue reading "DONE GOOD: WALK, RUN, PUTT, CUT ‘N STRUT"
Dozens of multitalented athletes took to the water and roads Sunday morning for the Red Bank Triathlon, run by the Sandy Hookers Tri Club to benefit the Riverview Medical CenterContinue reading "GIVING IT A TRY, OR THREE"
BRINGING ‘BREL’ ALIVE AND KICKING TO TRTC
Jacques Brel, the one-of-a-kind songsmith whose works were adapted, translated and brought to a whole new audience with the revue JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS.Continue reading "BRINGING ‘BREL’ ALIVE AND KICKING TO TRTC"
THE BEEB TAKES RUMSON’S ECONOMIC PULSE
Jerry St-Cyr of Rumson Market Place is spotlighted in a BBC report on the state of the U.S. economy. (Click to enlarge) Britain’s BBC News turned its lens toward RumsonContinue reading "THE BEEB TAKES RUMSON’S ECONOMIC PULSE"
Partyline
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
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 ...