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State Supreme Court Chief Justice James Zazzali, who's been agitating lately for better pay for judges, appears to have made a persuasive case to Gov. Jon Corzine. The Star-Ledger reports today that Corzine's budget proposal, disclosed this week, "includes money...
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February 24th, 2007 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Today's Asbury Park Press has a fascinating story today about a study in which fish tagged with tracking devices were released into the Navesink River as part of a study to understand their wanderings. From the article, by reporter Kirk...
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February 24th, 2007 @ 10am
The Asbury Park Press has a story today on campaign spending in last year's council and mayoral races in Red Bank showing that the Democrats — who won all three open seats — outspent the Republicans by more than four...
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February 24th, 2007 @ 9am
Those dead spots you keeping hitting in Fair Haven when talking on your cell phone? They're no closer to being filled, thanks to a decision by the state Department of Environmental Protection that the borough may not use Green-Acres funded...
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February 23rd, 2007 @ 5pm
Forget Lindsay Lohan and fence-plowing and occasionally topless amateur hour contestants. There is hope for the next generation. With the help of a social studies teacher, two Rumson-Fair Haven High School seniors, Nikki Schneider and Kellie Donovan, organized Wednesday night's...
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February 22nd, 2007 @ 11pm
The Hub reports today that the total value of Red Bank properties under the latest reassessment was $2.2 billion, up from $968 million at the time of the previous revaluation, which was in 2000. By our math, that's an average...
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February 22nd, 2007 @ 6am
One thing Erin Visalli wanted to accomplish — and who among our readers doesn't identify with this? — was to win a 'Where.' Ever since her neighbor, multiple 'Where' champ Jenn Woods, turned her onto redbankgreen, Erin's wanted a piece...
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February 21st, 2007 @ 11pm
Sad news: the Asbury Park Press is reporting that Debra Yuhasz, the Sea Bright woman badly injured in a fire that destroyed much of the Fountains condo complex on Feb. 5, has died. She was 47 years old and had...
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February 21st, 2007 @ 11am
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February 21st, 2007 @ 9am
It's long been kind of an orphan among international issues, crying out for a solution. But the genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan continues. Indeed, there was this last week, from a New York Times story on efforts...
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February 19th, 2007 @ 6pm
After four years of waiting, ice boaters, skaters and riverwalkers have been enjoying great conditions on the frozen Navesink River lately. The glory continues today, with forecasted wind-chill temperatures of -5 degrees before a warming trend moves in tomorrow, according...
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February 19th, 2007 @ 10am
Today's Star-Ledger has a story on the residual power outages from Wednesday's storm, most of which are concentrated in this corner of Monmouth County. And the Asbury Park Press reported at 7:30a that between 501 and 2,000 customers still had...
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February 16th, 2007 @ 9am
Plenty of homes and businesses in our area remain without electrical power this frozen morning. Here's a 9a update from the Asbury Park Press: Thousands of Monmouth County residents are still without power this morning, and some area roads remain...
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February 15th, 2007 @ 9am
Whether they were its customers or not, book lovers of a certain bent had to have been disheartened to learn recently about the planned closing of Princeton’s Micawber Books, a 26-year-old store situated on historic Nassau Street opposite the immensely...
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February 15th, 2007 @ 7am
No readers identified last week’s ‘Where,’ so the pot grows to $130 million. Oh, beg your pardon — that’s not us. That’s the MegaMillions lottery game. All this ice seems to have given us a case of brain freeze. The...
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February 15th, 2007 @ 12am
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February 15th, 2007 @ 12am
Yeah, it's a real mess out there. Dangerous, too. Tree branches are falling under the weight of wet ice, often taking wires with them. We saw two downed wires in Rumson that the authorities hadn't yet gotten to in the...
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February 14th, 2007 @ 12pm
Red Bank is now the owner of a former industrial property on the West Side that officials say is destined to house some 30 low- and moderate-income families—and won't cost the town a dime. The borough closed Monday on its...
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February 14th, 2007 @ 7am
Red Bank officials last night officially added dozens of West Side businesses to the roster of the 16-year-old Special Improvement District, an entity widely credited with having sparked a renaissance of the once-ailing downtown. The expansion of the district, which...
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February 13th, 2007 @ 8am
The Navesink River was bustling with ice-starved skaters, walkers and racers Saturday, raising concern that too many people may be assuming that the entire surface is solid when it isn't. "There's a lot of places that are unsafe," said racer...
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February 11th, 2007 @ 9am
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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 ...