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SEA BRIGHT: LONG WINS MAYORALTY
Voting took place in the town’s community center. (Photo by Peter Lindner. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Three-term Democratic councilwoman Dina Long won the race to succeed MariaContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: LONG WINS MAYORALTY"
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SEA BRIGHT CANDIDATES SPEAK, MOST OF ‘EM
Below are the responses to questionnaires sent to the three mayoral and four council candidates (for two available seats) on the November 8 ballot in Sea Bright. Candidates were askedContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT CANDIDATES SPEAK, MOST OF ‘EM"
By JOHN T. WARD All three Sea Bright firefighters involved in a firehouse scuffle 13 months ago could be suspended from the squad for two months under action initiated byContinue reading "FIREMEN FACE SUSPENSIONS OVER SCUFFLE"
A Sea Bright firefighter was injured in a fire Monday night at the home he shared with his father, Councilman Read Murphy. Brett Murphy was burned on both hands followingContinue reading "FIREFIGHTER INJURED IN BLAZE AT HOME"
FIRE DAMAGES SEA BRIGHT HOME
A fire at 588 Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright Monday was brought under control within 45 minutes of the 7:15 p.m. alarm, according to the Asbury Park Press. Plywood coveredContinue reading "FIRE DAMAGES SEA BRIGHT HOME"
MAYORAL CANDIDATE OWES BACK TAXES
File photo of former mayor and current mayoral candidate Jo-Ann Kalaka Adams. Below, a notice of tax sale in Tuesday’s Asbury Park Press. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARDContinue reading "MAYORAL CANDIDATE OWES BACK TAXES"
Megan Heath Gilhool of Long Branch has been using her brushes to transform the bus stop on Ocean Avenue in downtown Sea Bright into a colorful and cozy cottage interior.Continue reading "STOPPING AT HOME"
SEA BRIGHT CATERING HALL CHANGES HANDS
The Quay in Sea Bright has a new owner. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD What’s up with the Quay in Sea Bright? The the long-vacant catering hall andContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT CATERING HALL CHANGES HANDS"
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Last week’s Where Have I Seen This? showed a sign that looked like a cross between a Snellen eye chart and the Daily Jumble.
JUDGE WON’T BAR FIREFIGHTER BROTHERS
A municipal court judge found that Justin Hughes, above, provoked the assault by Peter and Steven Lang, below, by saying that Steven Lang should have died in Iraq. (Click toContinue reading "JUDGE WON’T BAR FIREFIGHTER BROTHERS"
SkimBash, the “premiere pro/am skimboarding contest on the Jersey shore,” took to the small waves in Sea Bright Saturday and Sunday. Photographer Peter Lindner was there for redbankgreen to catchContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: FOMENTING FUN"
A frame from a video of the firehouse tussle that landed three Sea Bright volunteers in court on misdemeanor charges. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Sea Bright’s fireContinue reading "TWO SEA BRIGHT FIREFIGHTERS GET BACKUP"
SENTENCINGS DELAYED IN FIREHOUSE TUSSLE
One of two videos of a firehouse fight involving three Sea Bright firemen last October. The second video is below. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The lawyer forContinue reading "SENTENCINGS DELAYED IN FIREHOUSE TUSSLE"
Braced for the worst, and recalling the devastation caused by the northeaster of 1992, the borough of Sea Bright evacuated all residents in advance of the arrival of Hurricane IreneContinue reading "A ‘LITTLE KISS,’ THEN GOODNIGHT, IRENE"
DOWNGRADED STORM LEAVES LIGHT DAMAGE
A pickup truck drives around a downed tree limb on Navesink River Road in Middletown Sunday morning. Below, Michael and Arnold Natali kayaking behind their home on Queens Drive South,Continue reading "DOWNGRADED STORM LEAVES LIGHT DAMAGE"
Under an order to evacuate by 4 p.m. Saturday, residents and businesses owners boarded up properties, turning Sea Bright into a ghost town as Hurricane Irene approached. Photos by PeterContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: BATTENED DOWN FOR STORM"
With Hurricane Irene lumbering up the East Coast packing destructive winds of 100 miles per hour, officials in Sea Bright ordered residents and visitors off the sandbar peninsula Friday.
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
A double challenge this week: what does our photo show, and where was it snapped? Send answers via email, please.
O’HERN, AZZOLINA GET NAME HONORS
The Red Bank train station and the Route 36 Highlands-Sea Bright bridge, below, have new names. (Click to enlarge) Two prominent pieces of public infrastructure – one, some 140 yearsContinue reading "O’HERN, AZZOLINA GET NAME HONORS"
With sunshine and summery, mid-80s temperatures forecast for Friday and Saturday, redbankgreen brings you this enticement to hit the sand by photographer Stacie Fanelli.
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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 ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.