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Category Archives: Children & Teens

Kevin Ryan, right, with Gov. Jon Corzine in 2006. Fair Haven resident Kevin Ryan, credited with having turned around one of New Jersey's most trouble-plagued public agencies — the former Division of Youth and Family Services — is leaving the...
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January 24th, 2008 @ 2pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Each year, the Buccaneer Booster Club at Red Bank Regional High School gives out thousands of dollars in scholarships to graduating seniors and grants to teachers. The organization, which functions as the school's parent-teacher organization, also raises money for academic...
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January 24th, 2008 @ 10am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Sea Bright taxpayers paid $75,000 for each of the 24 students who attended Shore Regional High School last year. The school's cost to educate them was only $13,000. In running for mayor last year, Maria Fernandes...
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January 17th, 2008 @ 7am
The shuttered playground at Marine Park. The Marine Park playground will get all new equipment and fencing under a plan greenlighted last night by the Red Bank Borough Council. Installation of the new gear will start in March, Parks &...
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January 15th, 2008 @ 10am
Sea Bright's proposed oceanfront skatepark caught some air earlier this month, when Monmouth County came through with a $153,000 open space grant. Now, says Mayor-elect Maria Fernandes, comes the trick of raising the remaining $214,000 in estimated costs and clearing...
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December 28th, 2007 @ 8am
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December 20th, 2007 @ 7am
For the second time in three months, a woman has given birth in her car near Exit 109 of the Parkway. Timothy Van Orden Jr. was delivered by emergency medical personnel shortly after 1p on Dec. 12 on Newman Springs...
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December 19th, 2007 @ 11am
A homeless juvenile arrested in late October for burglarizing several address on East Bergen Place turns out not to be a minor after all, Red Bank Police say they have learned. Ismael Rojas-Vela turns out to be 19 years old,...
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December 13th, 2007 @ 10am
Data released by the state Department of Education indicates that Red Bank schools would see an 18-percent jump in state aid under the widely anticipated new funding formula unveiled today by Gov. Jon Corzine. That translates into $369,000 more than...
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December 12th, 2007 @ 3pm
Red Bank Regional High School will get a $30,000 bump in state aid under the new funding formula announced by Gov. Jon Corzine today. At about two percent, the increase is the minimum amount that the Corzine administration is doling...
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December 12th, 2007 @ 3pm
Today's Star-Ledger has a look at the volunteer work of Red Bank's Ronnie Micciulla, who heads up a program that aims to get Christmas gifts to the children of U.S. military personnel serving overseas, but mostly in Iraq and Afghanistan....
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December 11th, 2007 @ 7am
There's a bit more detail about the allegedly drunk substitute teacher from Middletown this morning. From an Associated Press story in today's Star-Ledger: School officials said fourth-grade students at Pine Brook Elementary School [in Manalapan] knew something was wrong when...
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December 7th, 2007 @ 8am
Sometimes, there's nothing we can add to a story, partly because we're speechless. This is from the Asbury Park Press this afternoon: FREEHOLD — A Middletown woman working as a substitute teacher in a Manalapan elementary school was arested Wednesday...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 2pm
The former Count Basie Learning Center, a site that proponents favor as the future home of a community center. Outrage over social conditions that some citizens linked to last month's double shootings at the Montgomery Terrace public-housing project pushed the...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 7am
By TIM HATHAWAY The extra $368,000 in state funding that Red Bank schools received last year may have been a windfall, but schools Superintendent Laura Morana says there should be even more in the kitty this year. According to Morana,...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 10am
Gov. Jon Corzine wants to dramatically expand preschool programs statewide, today's Star-Ledger reports. The plan, the Ledger says, includes a proposal to require — and ultimately pay for — full-day preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds in at least 100 low-...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 7am
Several dozen families turned out for a sunset holiday tree lighting at the pocket park at the corner of Shrewsbury Avenue and Drs. James Parker Boulevard on Saturday. Click to enlarge individual shots. Email this story
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December 3rd, 2007 @ 6am
Friday night's Holiday Express concert and tree-lighting event on Broad and Monmouth streets featured bagpipers, hot chocolate and a wandering Mrs. Claus amid the throngs of people bundled up against temperatures in the mid-30s. Click to enlarge individual shots. Email...
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November 26th, 2007 @ 6am
Aurora Gonzalez By TIM HATHAWAY As a young girl in Monterey, Mexico, Aurora Gonzalez used to give all the money she had to the poor on the streets, even though she came from a family that was also needy. "My...
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November 26th, 2007 @ 6am
Members of the Harford, Bender, Mortimer and O'Connor families gathered at the Red Bank Middle School yesterday for their annual touch football game, which only on occasion looks more like a tackle game. Email this photo
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November 23rd, 2007 @ 8am
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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 ...