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An architect and member of the Fair Haven Zoning Board was indicted earlier this week on federal charges of shaking down a contractor for $100,000 in connection with his work in Bayonne. Today's Jersey Journal has the details on the...
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October 13th, 2006 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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October 12th, 2006 @ 10am
They were on their very best behavior. No candidate cast aspersions at another's character or profession. No citizen got sucked into a verbal brawl with an elected official or council wannabe. In fact, no one said much of anything at...
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October 12th, 2006 @ 1am
We had two readers venture that last week's image of a brick wall with a spectral silhouette of a house inlaid in it was from the Red Bank Middle School. Sorry, no. And otherwise, the guess box was devoid of...
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October 12th, 2006 @ 1am
Former Middletown Committeeman Raymond O'Grady, who purportedly told undercover FBI investigators that he could "smell a cop...a mile away," was sentenced to 43 years in federal prison today for his role in the wide-ranging corruption probe called Operation Bid Rig....
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October 11th, 2006 @ 4pm
It is, quite simply, a movie lover's dream: hour after hour of new indie films offered up on three screens in a thriving cultural hub. And it unspools this weekend, the cornucopia of cinematic riches known as the Red Bank...
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October 11th, 2006 @ 11am
The Asbury Park Press has an article today on the Red Bank Borough Council's formation this week of a committee on education and technology, and how Councilman John Curley's vote on the matter may have backfired against him. Curley's was...
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October 11th, 2006 @ 10am
Another Red Bank Council meeting, another ugly blow-up. And last night's was a Richter-scale doozie. As usual, the main event was Mayor Ed McKenna v. Councilman John Curley, but two other council members and a borough resident got into the...
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October 10th, 2006 @ 12pm
A Democratic state legislator is calling for a criminal investigation into whether Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck improperly lobbied the state Lottery Commission on behalf of a contractor at a time that she was employed by a firm doing public relations work...
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October 10th, 2006 @ 11am
Joe Torrence's hobby involves moving at something less than turtle speed with his head down and a large pair of headphones covering his ears. It's relaxing and therapeutic, especially given his occupation, says Torrence, a Middletown resident who drives a...
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October 9th, 2006 @ 11am
The Star-Ledger's Steve Chambers takes a look today at a 26-year-old state law that limits local budget increases in Massachusetts to 2.5 percent, an idea that's getting some consideration here in New Jersey. No surprise, it turns out not to...
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October 9th, 2006 @ 11am
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October 6th, 2006 @ 11am
[UPDATE, 12:57 am, Oct. 6, 2006: After the following story was posted, Kara Homes filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, claiming assets of $350.2 million and liabilities of $296.8 million.] Kara Homes, builder of big-ticket houses on the former site...
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October 5th, 2006 @ 4pm
The West Side property that's the site of Best Liquors has been home to retail businesses for 90 years. For a good part of that history, it was a grocery, but since 1965, it's been a liquor retailer, says store...
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October 5th, 2006 @ 1am
High fives to Peg Riley of Shrewsbury, who was the first to identify last week's 'Where.' It's a sculpture at the Guild of Creative Art on Broad Street (Route 35) in Shrewsbury, opposite The Grove, and a full view is...
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October 5th, 2006 @ 1am
Sealfons, the largest store in the Grove, is moving out by the end of the year because of rising rents, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. The 25,000-square-foot space will be divided between Brooks Bros., which already has a store...
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October 4th, 2006 @ 5pm
First Montauk Securities, based on Newman Springs Road in Lincroft, has been hit with a $475,000 fine, and the firm's top two officials have resigned, as part of a settlement of fraud charges brought by the New Jersey Bureau of...
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October 4th, 2006 @ 5pm
Beg pardon, but circumstances dictate that we give ourselves a bit of a plug here. Readers with a burning curiosity about this four-month-old thing called redbankgreen might want to tune into Asbury Radio this Thursday night, when host Maureen Nevin...
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October 4th, 2006 @ 7am
Here's a tool that the folks who packed Red Bank Borough Hall over taxes last week will want to spend some time with. Actually, anyone who pays property taxes ought to take a look at it. Data maven Robert Gebeloff...
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October 3rd, 2006 @ 11am
The North Jersey Coast Line train service to Newark and New York, which was reported suspended due to Amtrak power problems earlier this hour, is said to be back in service but experiencing "significant" delays. Commuters are being advised to...
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October 3rd, 2006 @ 8am
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 ...