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With no state aid coming from Trenton this year, the Rumson school district will eliminate 16 jobs and still ask voters to approve a 4-percent increase in taxes this month,Continue reading "REPORT: RUMSON SCHOOLS TO CUT 16 JOBS"
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April 8th, 2010 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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You’ve got a former scholar-athlete, a top environmental lawyer, a local councilwoman and a scientist — just a few Red Bank Regional grads to be feted at an alumni dinnerContinue reading "RBR ALUM LOVE"
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April 6th, 2010 @ 9am
Red Bank Councilman Mike DuPont says it may be time to end tax-exemptions for most non-profits. In the latest round of verbal sparring between Red Bank officials and the town’sContinue reading "DuPONT: TAX NON-PROFITS"
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April 5th, 2010 @ 2pm
BOARD PASSES BUDGET, TAX INCREASE
Board members Ann Roseman and Ben Forest at Tuesday night’s session. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The Red Bank Board of Education unanimously passed a $19 million budgetContinue reading "BOARD PASSES BUDGET, TAX INCREASE"
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March 31st, 2010 @ 7am
CHALK ONE UP TO ASKING NICELY, IN PUBLIC
Lisa Tegen came into work at Java Stop two weeks ago to find this message on the chalkboard. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI It isn’t quite as audaciousContinue reading "CHALK ONE UP TO ASKING NICELY, IN PUBLIC"
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March 30th, 2010 @ 10am
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI He may be the town’s top dog, but to the dozen or so kids who showed up Saturday to (belatedly) celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday at the RedContinue reading "IT’S A MAYORAL THING"
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March 29th, 2010 @ 10am
Red Bank isn’t done showing its support for Haiti just yet. More than two months after the earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nation, locals are again rallying to provide relief.Continue reading "RED BANK STILL HELPING HAITI"
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March 26th, 2010 @ 12pm
SATURDAY IS DRESS-UP DAY AT LIBRARY
Checklist for this weekend’s visit to the library: some fiction, perhaps in the pages of Wolf Hall. Some real-life stuff with unreal characters, a la The Politician. A DVD orContinue reading "SATURDAY IS DRESS-UP DAY AT LIBRARY"
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March 25th, 2010 @ 8am
Plans for the installation of artificial turf playing fields at two Middletown locations have been killed because of fiscal concerns, today’s Asbury Park Press reports. Citing cuts in state aid,Continue reading "MIDDLETOWN DROPS BALLFIELD PLANS"
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March 24th, 2010 @ 5am
MORE YMCA DISCUSSION? Y NOT?
William Poku of Bank Street addresses the council. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI What would a municipal meeting in Red Bank be these days without at least aContinue reading "MORE YMCA DISCUSSION? Y NOT?"
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March 23rd, 2010 @ 8am
While dedicated funding will pay for an expansion of the pre-K program, nearly all of the remaining state aid would be passed through to the Red Bank Charter School, MoranaContinue reading "MORANA: “WE’RE NOT GETTING ANYTHING”"
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March 19th, 2010 @ 7am
PAIN, AND AN INCREASE, IN SCHOOLS BUDGET
The Red Bank Board of Education begrudgingly approved a preliminary budget Tuesday night that increases the tax levy. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The Red Bank Board ofContinue reading "PAIN, AND AN INCREASE, IN SCHOOLS BUDGET"
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March 17th, 2010 @ 6am
MIDDLETOWN FIELD DEBATE HEATS TO A BOIL
About 200 residents packed into Middletown Town Hall Monday night to hear about the township’s plans for its athletic fields. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Podium pounding. Yelling.Continue reading "MIDDLETOWN FIELD DEBATE HEATS TO A BOIL"
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March 16th, 2010 @ 8am
SECOND BOARD REJECTS Y EXPANSION PLAN
Mayor Pasquale Menna listens as Marvin Goldin of Temple Beth Shalom asks the planning board to reject the YMCA zoning request. (Click to enlarge) Six weeks after a proposal toContinue reading "SECOND BOARD REJECTS Y EXPANSION PLAN"
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March 16th, 2010 @ 6am
COCKROACH VIDEO NETS MIDDLE SCHOOL $3K
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI In the nationwide rat race — or, to be taxonomically precise, the rodent, termite, mosquito and cockroach race —  Red Bank Middle School students stand alone. OnContinue reading "COCKROACH VIDEO NETS MIDDLE SCHOOL $3K"
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March 12th, 2010 @ 9am
NEW LIBRARIAN JUST A ‘GROWN-UP KID’
Yes, that’s the new children’s librarian, Samantha Quintas, who added yoga classes to the program. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Samantha Quintas has a tattoo on her rightContinue reading "NEW LIBRARIAN JUST A ‘GROWN-UP KID’"
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March 11th, 2010 @ 12pm
Mannequins at Backward Glances done up for the 2008 edition of Pink Bank. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI A request by Riverview Medical Center for free parking in downtown Red Bank forContinue reading "COUNCIL NIXES PINK BANK FREE PARKING"
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March 9th, 2010 @ 11am
SEWER RATES STING; PARKING PERMITS A GO
Mayor Maria Fernandes at Tuesday night’s Borough Council meeting. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Sea Bright and Two Rivers Water Reclamation Authority officials met recently to discuss theContinue reading "SEWER RATES STING; PARKING PERMITS A GO"
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March 3rd, 2010 @ 7am
RED BANK USING SOLE MUSIC TO HELP HAITI
Donation bins like this one can be found at all Red Bank schools in a campaign to collect shoes for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi)Continue reading "RED BANK USING SOLE MUSIC TO HELP HAITI"
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March 2nd, 2010 @ 6am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Need a little break from all the white stuff these days? This week’s Where Have I Seen This? asks you to identify this warm and cozy vignette. Send us anContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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February 25th, 2010 @ 9am
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...