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Red Bank Regional finished the 2015 regular football season undefeated with a 31-14 win at Manchester, and Shore Sports Zone caught all the action, as well as seven other big games across MonmouthContinue reading "BUCS ARE UNDEFEATED; CASEYS RALLY"
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RUMSON: LAST LAUGHS
Tossed to the curb but apparently still having a ball, a clutch of pumpkins lay among fallen leaves on Hance Road in Rumson Thursday morning. (Photo by Trish Russoniello. Click toContinue reading "RUMSON: LAST LAUGHS"
ON THE GREEN: RIDGE ROAD CLOSURES BEGIN
Overnight closures of a stretch of Ridge Road in Fair Haven, Little Silver and Rumson got underway Wednesday night to allow for repaving work. The closures, from Bingham Avenue to westContinue reading "ON THE GREEN: RIDGE ROAD CLOSURES BEGIN"
Here’s redbankgreen’s town-by-town rundown of what offices are at stake and who’s running in Tuesday’s elections. We’ve also got some information down near the bottom on what you need to bring toContinue reading "ON THE GREEN: TOWN-BY-TOWN VOTING GUIDE"
CASEYS LOSE, DAWGS & BUCS POST WINS
With the clock ticking down, Red Bank Catholic quarterback Eddie Hahn drove the Caseys to within a few yards of a game-tying score, but came up short as Ocean TownshipContinue reading "CASEYS LOSE, DAWGS & BUCS POST WINS"
In a football game with nail-biting drama down to the last tick of the clock, Ocean Township stunned Red Bank Catholic with a 42-35 win at Count Basie Fields in RedContinue reading "OCEAN CLOCKS RBC; DAWGS & BUCS POST WINS"
One year after the field hockey team of Rumson-Fair Haven ended Shore Regional’s 15-year domination of the Shore Conference Tournament, the two teams faced off again at Holmdel Thursday night — withContinue reading "RFH GIRLS WIN SCT FIELD HOCKEY TROPHY"
RED BANK: AT HOME WITH TOAST & TARRAGON
Amy Russo Harrigan in the newly opened Toast, housed in the former Broadway Diner on Monmouth Street. Below, an ad for the original Palace Diner that appeared in the Red BankContinue reading "RED BANK: AT HOME WITH TOAST & TARRAGON"
With Samantha Beaudrault providing stellar defense of the net, the Lady Bulldogs of Rumson-Fair Haven Regional held on to win 1-0 at home over Jackson Memorial in the Shore ConferenceContinue reading "R-FH GIRLS ADVANCE TO SCT SOCCER SEMIS"
Rumson’s municipal court judge has been suspended without pay, the Asbury Park Press reported Tuesday. Judge Richard B. Thompson, a Middletown attorney who also serves a municipal judge in eight otherContinue reading "RUMSON: MUNICIPAL JUDGE BENCHED"
Here’s the trailer to “After Sandy,” a new film made over the past three years by Middetown resident Joe Minnella to document the rebuilding efforts at the Jersey shore in theContinue reading "ON THE GREEN: FILM TRACKS SANDY RECOVERY"
The Monmouth County clerk has posted ballots for the November 3 elections. For the benefit of Red Bank-area voters who swear every year to study the ballot before entering the votingContinue reading "ON THE GREEN: BALLOTS! GET YOUR BALLOTS!"
With both teams coming in at 5-0, the Red Bank Catholic at Red Bank Regional football clash stoked expectations Friday night. And the crosstown rivalry delivered the drama. In thisContinue reading "RBR HALTS RBC STREAK WITH 24-21 HOME WIN"
RED BANK: TOAST POPS UP
The widely anticipated revival of the former Broadway Diner on Monmouth Street in Red Bank as Toast restaurant was completed with a quiet opening Friday afternoon, moments after borough officialsContinue reading "RED BANK: TOAST POPS UP"
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? A SUGGESTION IN FRENCH
Perhaps lured by the aroma of baked pastries, below, customers took advantage of a crisp autumn day for lunch at the French Market this week. (Photos by Susan Ericson. Click toContinue reading "WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? A SUGGESTION IN FRENCH"
ON THE GREEN: HOW WE LOOK FROM ABOVE
A new interactive map developed by NJ.com, the website of the Star-Ledger, enables users to zoom down to nearly the street level to show where every one of New Jersey’s moreContinue reading "ON THE GREEN: HOW WE LOOK FROM ABOVE"
RUMSON: ADULT BOOKS PROMPT R-FH DEBATE
With emergency lights on because of a power outage, parent Siobhan Fallon Hogan urged parental choice in the books read by teens. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) By JOHN T. WARDContinue reading "RUMSON: ADULT BOOKS PROMPT R-FH DEBATE"
RUMSON: SINGER JAZZES UP CAREER VIA PUNK
Deborah Dutcher and Phil Kuntz, above, and the proposed album art, which offers homage to both Elvis Presley and the Clash, below.  (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHNContinue reading "RUMSON: SINGER JAZZES UP CAREER VIA PUNK"
RUMSON: RALLO TO OPEN ‘SURF BBQ’ HERE
Restaurateur Victor Rallo plans to transform the former Molly Maguire’s Gastropub into a smoked barbecue joint. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The Greater Red Bank Green, teeming withContinue reading "RUMSON: RALLO TO OPEN ‘SURF BBQ’ HERE"
RUMSON: MOLLY MAGUIRE’S CLOSING
Molly Maguire’s, above, and Kathy Maguire on her first day as owner in 2011, below. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Just three weeks shy of their fourth anniversary in theContinue reading "RUMSON: MOLLY MAGUIRE’S CLOSING"
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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 ...
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 ...