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SECOND TIME A CHARM FOR FREE PARKING
The Red Bank council approved a request from RiverCenter to offer free holiday parking, but not at curbside meters like these on Monmouth Street. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click toContinue reading "SECOND TIME A CHARM FOR FREE PARKING"
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Our Comment of the Week this week is nice and simple: it’s just one resident communicating to another — and the rest of us, of course — while recalling aContinue reading "A COMMENT ON LOOKING BACK IN TIME"
Red Bank nightclub Fixx was the scene for the Red Carpet Fashion show last Thursday night, hosted by downtown boutique Bella Mystique. Lensman Peter Lindner was there for redbankgreen toContinue reading "FASHION FIXX"
FORMER RBFD CHIEF CARHART PASSES AWAY
A plaque outside the Navesink Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1’s building on Mechanic Street announces the death of Calvin Carhart, who had been the oldest living past chief. (PhotoContinue reading "FORMER RBFD CHIEF CARHART PASSES AWAY"
JON STEWART GOES FOR TWO ON NAVESINK
Jon Stewart’s riverfront houses on Alston Court, left, and Fisher Place, right, represent a combined $7 million investment in Red Bank, not counting major renovations now underway on one house.Continue reading "JON STEWART GOES FOR TWO ON NAVESINK"
BALLEW JEWELERS TO END 124-YEAR RUN
The ‘lollipop’ clock outside Ballew Jewelers has been a Broad Street fixture since 1902, when the store was known as Reussille Jewelers. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Ballew Jewelers,Continue reading "BALLEW JEWELERS TO END 124-YEAR RUN"
McCARTHY ON CRIME: 2010 NOT SO GOOD
Red Bank Police Chief Steve McCarthy, commenting on Thursday’s report of a drop in crime in the borough in 2009, says next year’s report will show the opposite. “Obviously, they’reContinue reading "McCARTHY ON CRIME: 2010 NOT SO GOOD"
RBMS WILL GET SPORTS BACK, GROUP SAYS
The leader of a grassroots group formed to save sports says Red Bank Middle School will see its sports program return. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTINContinue reading "RBMS WILL GET SPORTS BACK, GROUP SAYS"
Even with a rare double homicide, Red Bank’s crime rate plummeted in 2009, according to data released today by the New Jersey State Police. The agency’s annual Uniform Crime ReportContinue reading "RED BANK’S CRIME RATE PLUNGES"
RED BANK TRIES ON A SHORT-TERM RENTAL
Syndicated Clothing moved into Red Bank on a temporary basis, but wants to make the borough a permanent home. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The idea isn’t particularly newContinue reading "RED BANK TRIES ON A SHORT-TERM RENTAL"
PROWN’S 2011 CALENDAR: A WEST SIDE STORY
David Prown poses with the January 2011 photo from his store’s calendar. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI As soon as he set out the stacksContinue reading "PROWN’S 2011 CALENDAR: A WEST SIDE STORY"
PRESS: BOROUGH & Y SETTLE A LAWSUIT
A proposed sale of the former borough hall by the Community YMCA has been tied up in litigation for nearly three years. (Click to enlarge) One of two lawsuits pittingContinue reading "PRESS: BOROUGH & Y SETTLE A LAWSUIT"
BIG GUSTS COULD CAUSE TROUBLE
Strong winds are expected to speed the autumn defoliation of trees, like these along East Bergen Place in Red Bank. (Click to enlarge) The National Weather Service has issued aContinue reading "BIG GUSTS COULD CAUSE TROUBLE"
‘DARKNESS’ PARTY “LIKE A HOMECOMING”
South Brunswick resident Jeff Beyer was first in line to buy Springsteen’s reissued Darkness on the Edge of Town record at the stroke of midnight today. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi;Continue reading "‘DARKNESS’ PARTY “LIKE A HOMECOMING”"
RETAILERS & BRIDES PRAISE WEDDING WALK
A model lured customers to shops on White Street all day Saturday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Jayne Hernandez stood inside Hamilton Jeweler’s Saturday withContinue reading "RETAILERS & BRIDES PRAISE WEDDING WALK"
MIDNIGHT MADNESS II FOR BRUCE BUFFS
The trailer for THE PROMISE. Below, the E Street Shuffle, which pays sonic homage to Springsteen as Jack’s Music hosts a midnight release event for the new Springsteen box basedContinue reading "MIDNIGHT MADNESS II FOR BRUCE BUFFS"
RED BANK APPER: DON’T LET BEDBUGS BITE
Adam Kotkin in his Red Bank office. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Adam Kotkin is freaked out. As a longtime resident of New York City,Continue reading "RED BANK APPER: DON’T LET BEDBUGS BITE"
THE BRIDES ARE BACK IN RED BANK
A jeweler at A.H. Fisher Diamonds sizes a woman for a wedding ring at Red Bank’s first Wedding Walk in March. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTINContinue reading "THE BRIDES ARE BACK IN RED BANK"
WEATHER ANOMALY SWELLS NAVESINK
At the Monmouth Boat Club, the Navesink River has risen to within inches of the lower porch deck. (Click to enlarge) An unusual weather system is causing the Navesink RiverContinue reading "WEATHER ANOMALY SWELLS NAVESINK"
ELEVENTH-HOUR REMEMBRANCE
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, Red Bank schoolchildren, elected officials and civic groups gathered at Red Bank’s war memorial on Monmouth Street toContinue reading "ELEVENTH-HOUR REMEMBRANCE"
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(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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.