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CHANCE OF SHOWERS
A woman shades herself from hot sunshine on Broad Street in Red Bank Wednesday. Her umbrella may come in handy again today for another purpose. (Click to enlarge) After aContinue reading "CHANCE OF SHOWERS"
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RECOVERY FOR A ROOFTOP GARDEN
Patients are allowed to get their hands dirty at the rejuvenated rooftop garden at Riverview Medical Center. (Photos by Peter Lindner; click to enlarge) It sat idle for years, aContinue reading "RECOVERY FOR A ROOFTOP GARDEN"
COUNCIL DELAYS CAB CHANGES
Any changes to the current taxi ordinance in Red Bank will have to wait while the borough council does more investigating. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTINContinue reading "COUNCIL DELAYS CAB CHANGES"
CHURNING UP THE NAVESINK
Traffic was heavy in Maple Cove Sunday as rowers came and went during a morning of races. Below, scullers heading out to the start line. (Click to enlarge) The NavesinkContinue reading "CHURNING UP THE NAVESINK"
LEAN TWO?
Is it us, or is this thing leaning again? (Click to enlarge) A leaning utility pole that caused a brief shutdown of Broad Street traffic two months again appears toContinue reading "LEAN TWO?"
NY TIMES DOCKS AT BOONDOCKS
The floating dock at Boondocks in 2009. (Click to enlarge) Boondocks Fishery, which revived riverside dining in Red Bank in 2009, got some short and sweet lovin’ from the NewContinue reading "NY TIMES DOCKS AT BOONDOCKS"
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of July 30 to August 6, 2010. The information appears here unedited. Theft occurring betweenContinue reading "TRIO WITH GUN, BATS SOUGHT IN MUGGING"
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Dramamine, anyone? Once you’ve gotten your sea legs, tell us where you’ve seen this, mateys. An email with the words “Where Have I Seen This?” in the subject line willContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
Employees from the Red Bank public utilities department took on a large beehive near the entrance to the borough hall parking lot on Monmouth Street one day last week, andContinue reading "THE BUZZ ON MONMOUTH STREET"
Red Bank residents took a walk through town and then gathered at borough hall for a barbecue hosted by PBA Local 39 Tuesday as part of National Night Out, anContinue reading "IN CASE OF EMERGENCY: A NIGHT OUT"
CAKE BOSS SMITH CAKE TAKES THE CAKE
Filmmaker Kevin Smith‘s 40th-birthday Q&A show at the Count Basie Theatre Monday night drew a scale-model lookalike. One covered in icing. A few hours before the show, the auteur ofContinue reading "CAKE BOSS SMITH CAKE TAKES THE CAKE"
DOWNTOWN GETTING ARTY, CRAFTY, DRAFTY
Singer/songwriter Jeffrey Gaines, seen here at the Downtown a year ago, returns to the banks of the Navesink for the club’s Wednesday night Music, Arts & Drafts series. By TOMContinue reading "DOWNTOWN GETTING ARTY, CRAFTY, DRAFTY"
NIGHT OUT: WALK, EAT & MEET THE COPS
National Night Out begins and ends at Red Bank’s borough hall, and includes a two-mile walk through town followed by a cookout. (Click to enlarge) Tonight, Red Bank is oneContinue reading "NIGHT OUT: WALK, EAT & MEET THE COPS"
ON THE HUNT FOR MOVIE RICHES
Actress Mary Kate Costa is framed in a window at Stokaboka on Monmouth Street last Friday during the shooting of a scene by Mike Altino, right, and Connor Hughes. Below,Continue reading "ON THE HUNT FOR MOVIE RICHES"
‘FUTURE BUCS’ WRAP UP SEASON TWO
Jose Segura in goal defends against Chris LeFever at the outdoor rink of the Community YMCA Friday night. (Click to enlarge) The Future Buccaneers program wrapped up its second summerContinue reading "‘FUTURE BUCS’ WRAP UP SEASON TWO"
The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the week of July 23 to July 30, 2010. The information appears here unedited. Theft occurring atContinue reading "THREE ASSAULT & ROB VICTIM AT RR STATION"
SLIDING FROM ONE STYLE TO ANOTHER
Music lovers filled the pews of the Salvation Army chapel in Red Bank last Wednesday night for its 10th annual Trombone Night. Featuring trombonists from the New Jersey Symphony, MontclairContinue reading "SLIDING FROM ONE STYLE TO ANOTHER"
“A good space with friendly energy,” the Sledger says. Today’s Star-Ledger reviews the Bistro at Red Bank, and finds that the Broad Street eatery manages to pull off an eclecticContinue reading "BISTRO GETS A BOOST"
AN ARTIST FOREVER AT HOME IN HER WORK
Evelyn Leavens with a work-in-progress landscape in her Red Bank studio. (Click to enlarge) By TOM CHESEK Parked on an easel in the sunlit second-floor studio on the east endContinue reading "AN ARTIST FOREVER AT HOME IN HER WORK"
A crowd that spilled over onto the Monmouth Street sidewalk packed the courtyard of the Dublin House Pub Wednesday night for the second alfresco fashion show held there in threeContinue reading "A PASSION FOR FASHION & KEEPING IT LOCAL"
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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.