(Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Igor Kapelnikov has struck gold in downtown Red Bank again. The Manalapan commercial real estate broker who last year notched a whopping 114-percent gain on his two-year investment in 14-16 Broad, home to Bistro at Red Bank, has flipped another building two blocks away for a sum far heftier than what he paid.

A white tailed deer explores the new sod at the Red Bank Middle School, where the grounds have recently been remade as part of a $3.6 million makeover. Partyline is an experimental way to let readers text message news stories to redbankgreen to get posted — for all of the things that are fun, unusual, or important but might otherwise get missed. Click here to learn more and join the party.

It’s time (yes, finally) for another episode of the redbankgreen podcast. This time, we’re sitting down for an amazing conversation with “Stormin'” Norman Seldin, 77-year-old longtime musician, producer, songwriter, arranger, promoter, manager, music director and record label owner. His stories are Red Bank gold and his life encapsulates so many themes of life in and around Red Bank over the last seven decades. There’s tales of old Red Bank, the Asbury Park 1960’s music scene, racist nightclub owners, mobbed up Jersey shore bars and decades of sweet, sweet music. Give a listen and you won’t be disappointed.

(Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Do you know where in Red Bank the above photo showing the words “Greedy Pig” written in concrete was taken?. Send your answer (or best guess) to [email protected] by noon, Thursday, October 10. We’ll reveal the location the next day.

Photos from last year’s porchfest. (Photos by John T. Ward) Let’s be honest here, folks. Not every town can pull of what Red Bank is going to pull off this weekend. We’re talking about Porchfest, the now-annual community event in which musicians turn front porches into stages and flood the streets with music. Almost 100 acts will appear at two dozen locations playing everything from rock to jazz to folk and classical.

Mr. D (Dennis Daniels) keeps the music coming at the ribbon cutting for the newly expanded Parker Family Health Center Tuesday afternoon. Always on the ball, when he saw redbankgreen at the event, he queued up Count Basie’s “Red Bank Boogie” because he had seen our recent video celebrating Basie’s birthday featuring Red Bankers dancing (and, yes, not dancing) to the song. It may now be the official redbankgreen walk up song. Either that or Negasonic Teenage Warhead by Monster Magnet. Hmm. (photo by Brian Donohue)

One of many purple ribbons that appeared on light poles in downtown Red Bank Wednesday with the morning sun shining on St. James church in the background. The ribbons are part of the Domestic Violence Awareness Month events planned by the organization 180 Turning Lives Around in partnership with the Borough of Red Bank. From the organization’s social media post about its “Paint the Town Purple” events: “We have events and activities throughout the month to bring awareness and visibility to our mission of empowering survivors and families affected by domestic violence and sexual assault to find the courage and strength to turn their lives around.” (photo by Brian Donohue)

The last Tuesday morning “open play” pickleball session of the season at the East Side Park courts. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) A clock to remind people when it’s time to stop pickling. Better enforcement of court time limits to avoid “awkward social interactions.” And measures to keep people who live out of town from using a bogus address to sign up to use the courts.

(Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Suzy Dyer looked pretty distracted. She had a few seconds before she had to take the mic as a large crowd of staff, volunteers, donors and dignitaries swirled around her in the doorway of the Parker Health Center on one of the biggest days in the history of the 24-year-old clinic. Dyer is the center’s executive director and it was no time to ask her questions.

With near continuous rain Saturday and Sunday, Broadwalk’s last weekend of the season was a washout. Broad Street will re-open to traffic between Front and White Streets Tuesday morning, wrapping up another season of Red Bank’s downtown pedestrian plaza. (Photo by Brian Donohue Click to enlarge.) Broadwalk was...

Chief Darren McConnell (right) next to former Mayor Pasquale Manna. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Red Bank Police Chief Darren McConnell has agreed to resign his post and forfeit four months of sick/vacation pay to settle misconduct allegations against him, officials said. McConnell has been suspended with pay...

Vandals, graffiti scrawlers and other miscreants, look out. Parks, parking lots and other public spaces could be watched over by a new system of security cameras by the end of the year after the Red Bank Borough Council approved the purchased Thursday night. Mayor Billy Portman presented a proclamation for...

Watch out, it looks like the skeletons are coming out on River Rd! (photo courtesy of Partyline contributor Nicole Taetsch) Partyline is an experimental way to let readers text message news stories to redbankgreen to get posted — for all of the things that are fun, unusual, or important but might otherwise get missed. Click here to learn more and join the party.

(Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) It’s time for a longtime favorite feature of redbankgreen readers: the weekly “Where Have I Seen This?”. Send your answer (or best guess) to [email protected] by noon, Thursday, October 3. We’ll reveal the location the next day. Subscribers to...

Edith Blake rides the lift onto the Red Bank Senior Center bus Thursday Morning, where Pokeno is on the schedule every Thursday. Blake is 106 years old. Read about here life and times and watch a recent video of her here. (photo by Brian Donohue)

Lakehouse Music Academy founder Jon Leidersdorff inside the first floor studio of the academy’s new facility at 51 Monmouth Street. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) By BRIAN DONOHUE. From the bars on the window of what was once the town jail to the framed black and white...

(Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Last week, Dave Wyndorf was living his life of an average Red Bank dude. A guy who likes to start his day with a ton of coffee, maybe read his beloved comic books and just “sit on my porch and feed the squirrels.”

There was more than beer samplings, sausage and oompah music to celebrate Red Bank’s Oktoberfest on Saturday. Event organizer Red Bank RiverCenter presented a $10,000 donation to the Red Bank Family YMCA to support water safety education for borough third graders and announced June 15 as the date for the 2025 Red Bank Classic 5K charity run and walk. The charitable gift was made possible through proceeds from this year’s 5K, which drew nearly 1,500 runners and walkers. (Partyline photo courtesy of Andrea Plaza)

Cameras would be installed at Johnny Jazz Park and several other parks under the proposed resolution. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Red Bank’s Borough Council takes up the question this week of whether to spend $410,000 to install security cameras at various public locations around town, including most of the town’s parks.

Shedhead vintage during the store’s next to last day open in Red Bank. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) A vintage/consignment store finds a dirth of funky, eclectic customers in Red Bank and moves to Asbury Park to find them. Also, a rug shop owner whose family has run the biz for 79 years puts a “for sale” sign up in the window. All that and more in the latest edition of redbankgreen‘s Retail Churn.