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RED BANK: A CALENDAR ABOUT, AND FOR, KIDS
The cover of the 2014 Prown’s calendar features a shot of the attendees on the 1964 Police Athletic League bus trip.  (Click to enlarge) For five years now, two venerableContinue reading "RED BANK: A CALENDAR ABOUT, AND FOR, KIDS"
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WEATHER: THIS IS WINTER?
Clouds above and clouds below as fog lay like a blanket on our beautiful Navesink River Monday morning, as seen from the home of a redbankgreen reader from Riverside TowersContinue reading "WEATHER: THIS IS WINTER?"
RED BANK: EXOTIC SPICE STOCKING STUFFER
One of Red Bank’s newest stores is the source of today’s gift idea. (Photo by Jim Willis. Click to enlarge) PieHole knows that local foraging is the best foraging. ForContinue reading "RED BANK: EXOTIC SPICE STOCKING STUFFER"
RED BANK: A COOL COTTON KARMA CARRIER
Tote you veggies home from the Farmers’ Market in this cotton bag. (Photo by Jim Willis. Click to enlarge) PieHole knows that local foraging is the best foraging. For theContinue reading "RED BANK: A COOL COTTON KARMA CARRIER"
RED BANK: JEWELER FEELING THE VIBE
Alex and Ani, the Red Bank jewelry store with crystals embedded in its walls for positive spiritual energy, has been feeling the spirit of the season in recent days, withContinue reading "RED BANK: JEWELER FEELING THE VIBE"
There’s a whiff of the sea to go with your evening cocktail at the newly opened Tiki Bar at Driftwood in Sea Bright.  (Click to enlarge) redbankgreen’s PieHole is all about localContinue reading "PIEHOLE: A CHRISTMAS FEAST"
RED BANK: LEE BOWS OUT
Sharon Lee at her final council meeting Wednesday night, above, and below with her son, Devon Ramsay, on election night. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHNContinue reading "RED BANK: LEE BOWS OUT"
RED BANK: SHOP LOCAL EATERS GIFT GUIDE
Cheese Cave owner Steve Catania at work. (Photo by Jim Willis. Click to enlarge) PieHole knows that local foraging is the best foraging. For the food lovers on your giftContinue reading "RED BANK: SHOP LOCAL EATERS GIFT GUIDE"
PieHole knows that local foraging is the best foraging. So for the food lovers on your gift lis,t we have assembled 12 Days of PieHole’s First Annual Shop Local Holiday FoodContinue reading "RED BANK: A NOT-TOO-ECCENTRIC CAB"
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
‘Tis always the season for Where Have I Seen This?, the year-round test of your knowledge of landmarks on the sparkly place we call the Green. Do you know WhereContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
RED BANK: FIXX GETS 20-DAY SHUTDOWN
The settlement of charges calls for the West Front Street bar to meet a list of conditions involving security. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading "RED BANK: FIXX GETS 20-DAY SHUTDOWN"
RED BANK: NEW CHIEF TAKES COMMAND OF PD
Darren McConnell chats with Mary Ellen McCarthy, the widow of late Red Bank Police Chief Steve McCarthy, shortly before his swearing-in as McCarthy’s sucessor Wednesday evening. McConnnell, 44, joined theContinue reading "RED BANK: NEW CHIEF TAKES COMMAND OF PD"
RED BANK: McCONNELL TO BE NAMED CHIEF
Captain Darren McConnell is expected to be named chief of the Red Bank police department at Wednesday night’s borough council meeting, redbankgreen has learned. McConnell has been the officer inContinue reading "RED BANK: McCONNELL TO BE NAMED CHIEF"
PieHole knows that local foraging is the best foraging. For the food lovers on your gift list we have assembled 12 Days of PieHole’s First Annual Shop Local Holiday Food &Continue reading "RED BANK: SHOP LOCAL EATERS GIFT GUIDE"
RED BANK: ITALIAN MOMS TALK CHESTNUTS
Red Bank neighbors Melissa Bartolone and Christina Dostie give PieHole a lesson in buying, roasting and eating chestnuts. (Photo by Jim Willis. Click to enlarge) By JIM WILLIS It is of questionableContinue reading "RED BANK: ITALIAN MOMS TALK CHESTNUTS"
PieHole knows that local foraging is the best foraging. For the food lovers on your gift list we have assembled 12 Days of PieHole’s First Annual Shop Local Holiday Food &Continue reading "RED BANK: SHOP LOCAL EATERS GIFT GUIDE"
SNOW CARPETS THE GREEN AGAIN
Snow made for some wheel-spinning and tentative driving on the Red Bank-area Green Tuesday morning, as seen above looking east along Pinckney Road in Little Silver. (Photo by John T.Continue reading "SNOW CARPETS THE GREEN AGAIN"
RED BANK: WALGREEN’S AIRS TRAFFIC PITCH
Walgreen’s developer Marc Steinberg talks about the proposed store’s traffic flow with nearby resident Mary Todt during a break in Monday night’s planning board hearing. (Click to enlarge) By JOHNContinue reading "RED BANK: WALGREEN’S AIRS TRAFFIC PITCH"
PieHole knows that local foraging is the best foraging. For the food lovers on your gift list we have assembled 12 Days of PieHole’s First Annual Shop Local Holiday Food &Continue reading "RED BANK: SHOP LOCAL EATERS GIFT GUIDE"
RED BANK: PAY-TO-PLAY RULES IN PLAY
Elected officials would be permitted to vote on applications by their campaign contributors under a law change that’s up for a vote in Red Bank this week. And the upperContinue reading "RED BANK: PAY-TO-PLAY RULES IN PLAY"
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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 ...
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 ...