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October 8th, 2007 @ 11am
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Middletown Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger makes the case for environmental conservation last Thursday night. By LINDA G. RASTELLI Some political opponents have characterized him as an "environmental wacko," says Middletown Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger. He's initiated a free "Dock & Roll" shuttle...
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October 8th, 2007 @ 10am
A 16-year-old junior from Middletown High School North was killed when a car in which she was a passenger with four other teenagers crashed into a light stanchion near Brunswick Square Mall in East Brunswick Saturday night, today's Asbury Park...
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October 8th, 2007 @ 7am
Rev. Dwight Crist Northington of Calvary Baptist Church on Bridge Avenue is featured in today's Asbury Park Press, where he talks about the double lung transplant that saved his life earlier this year. From the article: A year ago, the...
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October 8th, 2007 @ 7am
Red Bank Police arrested a 46-year-old borough man in the early hours of Tuesday morning following a reported sexual assault of a woman on Monmouth Street, police Capt. Steve McCarthy reports today. The victim, a 24-year-old resident of Little Silver,...
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October 5th, 2007 @ 2pm
A Florida man is suing Bruce Springsteen and his wife, Patti Scialfa, for backing out of a purported agreement to buy a horse for $850,000, according to a story in today's South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Springsteen and Scialfa, who have homes...
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October 5th, 2007 @ 1pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI At Long Branch’s Skateplex recently, a four-year-old boy in long shorts, t-shirt and oversized helmet stands hesitantly atop a ramp with one foot on a skateboard almost as long as he is tall. As other kids...
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October 5th, 2007 @ 8am
Today's Asbury Park Press reports that the SeaStreak ferry service from Atlantic Highlands and Highlands to Manhattan may be jeopardized by the sale of the service's four vessels to the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago. From the report, by...
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October 5th, 2007 @ 8am
The latest point of conflict in the 12th-district Senate race between incumbent Democrat Ellen Karcher and Republican Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck involves Christmas trees. Karcher says she grows them on her Marlboro farm, and sells a a half-dozen a year, plus...
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October 5th, 2007 @ 7am
For lovers of offbeat films, it's one of the best things about living in or near Red Bank. For student filmmakers, it's a rare opportunity to get their work up on the big screen in front of an audience of...
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October 4th, 2007 @ 3pm
A couple of wild stabs came in on last week's image, but none hit the mark. Alex Turoczi thought it might be part of the awning at the Two River Theater, and the Colmorgens — uncharacteristically flailing — entered a...
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October 4th, 2007 @ 9am
The Democrats in the 12th-district Assembly race have asked state Attorney General Anne Milgram to investigate the deal that gave one of their opponents the exclusive right to negotiate the Fair Haven cell tower deal with a church and four...
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October 4th, 2007 @ 9am
Fair Haven Council President Thomas J. Gilmour, whose day job is director of commerce for Asbury Park, has been suspended without pay by the city for 20 days, the Asbury Park Press reports. The suspension was imposed for failure to...
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October 4th, 2007 @ 8am
Today's Asbury Park Press has a feature story on the newly begun Chinese language program at the Red Bank Middle School. In just a couple of weeks, the kids have begun learning short phrases and songs in Mandarin, writes Press...
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October 4th, 2007 @ 6am
The state judiciary may have no room for judges over the age of 70, but a pair of Newark law firms have found desk space for former Supreme Court Chief Justice James Zazzali, the Star-Ledger reports today. Three months after...
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October 4th, 2007 @ 6am
For a guy who just turned 80, George Bowden has a lot of energy. Some of it gets steered into his passion for trying to preserve old buildings in Red Bank as chairman of the borough's Historical Preservation Commission. Some...
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October 3rd, 2007 @ 12pm
It's official: westbound vehicles on Harding Road are now barred from making left turns onto Tower Hill Avenue. Here's a press release issued Tuesday by Red Bank Police Lt. Darren McConnell of the traffic safety bureau: Traffic Pattern Change Motorists...
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October 3rd, 2007 @ 11am
PoliticsNJ has coverage today of yesterday's debate between 12th-district Senator Ellen Karcher, a Democrat, and her GOP challenger, Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck, at the Monmouth Reform Temple in Tinton Falls. Writer Max Pizarro has this scene-setter: The place was standing room...
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October 3rd, 2007 @ 7am
Workers mark up the asphalt for a painted "island" at the corner of Tower Hill Avenue and Harding Road this morning. A long-awaited plan to bar left turns onto Tower Hill Avenue from westbound Harding will become effective as soon...
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October 2nd, 2007 @ 10am
Incumbent 12th-district Assemblyman Mike Panter of Shrewsbury and his running mate, Amy Mallet of Fair Haven, are questioning how Republican challenger Declan O'Scanlon got the contract to negotiate the recently concluded Fair Haven cell tower deal, today's Asbury Park Press...
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October 2nd, 2007 @ 8am
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(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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.