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NJ Transit's board of commissioners today approved a budget that calls for train- and bus-fare increases averaging 9.6 percent, the Asbury Park Press reports this morning from Newark. The move was depicted as a necessary measure to help close a...
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April 18th, 2007 @ 11am
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This morning's dailies are today mulling over why the storm that caused so much havoc elsewhere in New Jersey went so easy on the Shore. Citing the state Department of Environmental Protection, today's Asbury Park Press reports that the storm...
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April 17th, 2007 @ 6am
The National Weather Service has a wind advisory calling for gusts of 45 to 50 mph until 6p. From the posting: THE COMBINATION OF THE VERY WET GROUND...DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS YESTERDAY WILL MAKE SHALLOW ROOTED TREES SUSCEPTIBLE TO...
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April 16th, 2007 @ 1pm
Continuing fallout from the storm: SeaStreak has canceled some of its ferry runs between Highlands/Atlantic Highlands and Manhattan. Meanwhile, the Asbury Park Press is reporting that Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright has been reopened to traffic. A 12:22p posting on...
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April 16th, 2007 @ 1pm
Plans for a possible evacuation of Sea Bright have been called off because expected flooding did not occur, the Star-Ledger is reporting. From the report: Asst. Sea Bright Fire Chief Jay Rock said more serious flooding was averted because lower-than-expected...
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April 16th, 2007 @ 11am
The storm that dropped five inches of rain on parts of New Jersey yesterday led Acting Gov. Dick Codey to declare a state of emergency and advise residents this morning to stay home today if they can. Dozens of stetches...
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April 16th, 2007 @ 7am
Updating the item below... SeaStreak has now cancelled ALL boats to and from Highlands. From the carrier's latest email blast: Due to ice conditions SeaStreak will be making the following changes today's schedule: All service to and from Highlands will...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 1pm
... Seastreak starts c-c-c-cancelling ferry runs because of ice. Which is what they're doing t.-t-t-today. The following departures are cancelled, according to an email sent out at midmorning to subscribers: 11:45a from E. 34th Street & 12:00p from Pier 11...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 12pm
Today's Asbury Park Press has a story about what may prove to be the first test of the Democratic majority's professed willingness to "work with" Councilman John Curley: parking fines. Curley, one of two Republicans on the six-member council, wants...
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January 17th, 2007 @ 10am
NJ Transit is adding a new express train to New York along the North Jersey Coast line next week, according to an agency news release. The new run will leave Long Branch at 6:30a and stop in Little Silver, Red...
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October 25th, 2006 @ 10am
Sea Containers Ltd., the Bermuda-based parent of ferry operator SeaStreak America, has filed for chapter 11 protection from creditors. But the operator of the Highlands and Atlantic Highlands ferries wants it known that it is not a party to the...
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October 16th, 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
Fatalities on New Jersey's major raodways are up this year by 18 percent, reversing a general trend of increasing roadway safety, today's Bergen Record reports. The article comes less than a week after two accidents on a short stretch of...
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August 22nd, 2006 @ 11am
The SeaStreak ferry service is raising its fares effective Sept. 1 as part of a fuel-surcharge program it implemented last November to track rises and declines in fuel prices. Under the new prices, which are reviewed for upward or downward...
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August 17th, 2006 @ 12am
Here's the latest from NJ Transit, moved at 4:51p: NJ TRANSIT has resumed service between New York and Newark following earlier police activity... Passengers may expect residual delays, and potentially some train cancellations for approximately 30 minutes as we work...
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August 15th, 2006 @ 4pm
NJ Transit is reporting that service has been suspended between New York and Secaucus due to police activity. Here's the text of the alert, issued at 4:13p: Due to police activity east of Secaucus Junction Station, NJ TRANSIT rail service...
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August 15th, 2006 @ 4pm
A South Jersey man's attempt to pay a 70-cent Parkway fare with a token he bought for 35 cents was shot down in court yesterday. The Press of Atlantic City has the scoop. Theodore T. Harris's argument was that the...
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August 8th, 2006 @ 10am
90.5TheNight.org, the Brookdale Community College radio station, is reporting a water main break on Newman Springs Road (Route 520) near the entrance to the campus. Only eastbound traffic appears to be affected. The station reports that Although at this time...
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August 3rd, 2006 @ 3pm
"Jersey really in a jam," says a headline in today's Home News Tribune out of East Brunswick. "Jersey is in a jam as drivers beat retreat from the heat," says another, in today's Newark Star-Ledger. The Home News Tribune article,...
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July 30th, 2006 @ 10am
Fourteen stations along NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line have been targeted for safety improvements to pedestrian track crossings following an accident in Belmar earlier this month, according to the Asbury Park Press. The initial report by the Press did...
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July 27th, 2006 @ 10pm
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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 ...