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SPRING ARRIVES. HALLELUJAH.
WE MADE IT! The winter of 2014, with its seemingly endless snowfalls, ends Thursday with the vernal equinox at 12:57 p.m. Thursday, according to the Old Farmers Almanac. The NationalContinue reading "SPRING ARRIVES. HALLELUJAH."
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RED BANK LOADS UP ON POTHOLE FIXER
A Red Bank DPW worker fills potholes at East Front Street and Washington Street with cold patch last week. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD It’s white-knuckle driving seasonContinue reading "RED BANK LOADS UP ON POTHOLE FIXER"
RED BANK: IS THE NIGHTMARE OVER?
Val DeFazio clears snow from the awning of Buona Sera Ristorante on Monmouth Street in Red Bank Tuesday afternoon, when temperatures rose into the low 40s. For the first timeContinue reading "RED BANK: IS THE NIGHTMARE OVER?"
WEAR A SNUGGIE, BUT BRING AN UMBRELLA
After a week of frigid temperatures, a sofa left at the curb on West Street in Red Bank appears all set for the first-ever cold-weather Super Bowl Sunday. But theContinue reading "WEAR A SNUGGIE, BUT BRING AN UMBRELLA"
FORECAST: LOTSA SNOW, BITTER COLD
“Significant snowfall expected today and tonight, followed immediately by bitterly cold air,” the National Weather Service said Tuesday morning, warning of a storm that could drop up to 12 inchesContinue reading "FORECAST: LOTSA SNOW, BITTER COLD"
FAIR HAVEN: GREY ON GREY ON THE NAVESINK
Hey, it may be cold, damp and foggy, but it’s still and always our beautiful Navesink River, right? A somewhat icy-slushy version was seen from the Fair Haven town dockContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: GREY ON GREY ON THE NAVESINK"
IT’S COLD OUT
Actually, colder than the screen grab at right indicated. According to the Weather Channel, the wind-chill factor took it down to 16 degrees below zero shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday,Continue reading "IT’S COLD OUT"
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?"
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"
WEATHER TOYS WITH FORECASTERS
Main roads on the Green were clear at midday Tuesday, as seen here looking east along Harding Road from Tower Hill in Red Bank. Forecasters, meanwhile, seemed in a scrambleContinue reading "WEATHER TOYS WITH FORECASTERS"
HOW MUCH SNOW?
How much snow should we expect to fall on the Red Bank area Tuesday? Ask four weatherbots, get four answers. The National Weather Service forecasts 1 to 3 inches. TheContinue reading "HOW MUCH SNOW?"
RED BANK: A DAMPER ON THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT
Thick fog settled on the Green Thursday morning, enshrouding the Christmas tree at Riverside Gardens Park in Red Bank. The Weather Channel forecasts the haze will lift by late-morning, replacedContinue reading "RED BANK: A DAMPER ON THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT"
RED BANK: TOO WARM FOR SNOW?
This weather app below – and other sources – suggested that it was too warm for snow. And yet, the first flurries of the 2013-’14 season were falling in Red BankContinue reading "RED BANK: TOO WARM FOR SNOW?"
AUTUMN 2013: CRISP AND COLORFUL CHANGE
An explosion of autumn color along our beautiful Navesink River, seen above from Red Bank on Saturday afternoon, and the end of daylight saving time Sunday offered unmistakable evidence ofContinue reading "AUTUMN 2013: CRISP AND COLORFUL CHANGE"
The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for all 21 New Jersey counties Monday morning. The alert is in effect until 5 p.m., the agency said. From the NWS:
RED BANK: COOL JAZZ FOR A COOL FEW
Turnout was light  for a show by the Nick Clemons Band – seen above from the concesssion stand – for the season-ending Jazz in the Park show at Red Bank’sContinue reading "RED BANK: COOL JAZZ FOR A COOL FEW"
RED BANK: GOOD MORNING, GREEN…
Sunrise on our beautiful Navesink River Thursday, as seen from the Navesink River Rowing Club on Maple Avenue. Expect a lovely day today, says the Weather Channel: partly sunny, tempsContinue reading "RED BANK: GOOD MORNING, GREEN…"
SEA BRIGHT: ENDLESS SUMMER?
The unofficial end of summer may have passed, but Bain’s Hardware on Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright seems to have ignored the memo. Anyway, locals know that there’s still plentyContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: ENDLESS SUMMER?"
The National Weather Service forecasts the Red Bank-area temperature will peak at about 94 degrees Thursday afternoon. Wunderground, our new favorite weather service, forecasts a high of 97 degrees aroundContinue reading "SUMMER 2013: WILL IT HIT THREE DIGITS?"
SUMMER 2013: HOTHOUSE FLOWERS OUTDOORS
Red Bank Antiques Center owner Guy Johnson waters plants outside his West Front Street store Wednesday as a heat wave continued its siege. Temperatures are expected to peak Thursday atContinue reading "SUMMER 2013: HOTHOUSE FLOWERS OUTDOORS"
Partyline
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.
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 ...