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M’TOWN TEACHERS REJECT FREEZE REQUEST
Middletown Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger discusses the “jousting” between the town and district teachers’ union at Monday night’s committee workshop. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI At the eleventh hour,Continue reading "M’TOWN TEACHERS REJECT FREEZE REQUEST ...
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May 4th, 2010 @ 4am
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PARKS & REC HEAD READY TO FILL BIG SHOES
Red Bank Little Leaguers pose with their new parks and rec director Memone Paden Crystian. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The Memone Paden Crystian era has begun inContinue reading "PARKS & REC HEAD READY TO FILL BIG SHOES"
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April 30th, 2010 @ 9am
M’TOWN SCHOOLS IN ‘INVESTIGATION’ MODE
Two of the three newly-elected board of ed members, Vincent Brand, left, and Chris Aveta, at Wednesday night’s meeting. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The Middletown Board ofContinue reading "M’TOWN SCHOOLS IN ‘INVESTIGATION’ MODE"
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April 29th, 2010 @ 9am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Go ahead, laugh: last week’s ‘Where’ fell completely flat, generating no email responses.
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April 29th, 2010 @ 6am
Ralph Gatta at Riverview Medical Center yesterday, and a note to his customers, below. Ralph Gatta, a butcher and grocer known as ‘Johnny Jazz’ to generations of Red Bank’s WestContinue reading "‘JOHNNY JAZZ’ ENDS FIVE-DECADE SOLO"
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April 28th, 2010 @ 9am
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI With a voter-rejected schools budget now landing in the lap of the Middletown Township Committee for recommended cuts, Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger is calling for township teachers toContinue reading "M’TOWN MAYOR WANTS TEACHER PAY FREEZE"
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April 27th, 2010 @ 8am
BOWDON PUSHES THE BUTTON WITH ‘CARTEL’
Veteran broadcaster and first-time filmmaker Bob Bowdon comes to Red Bank Tuesday night for a special pre-release screening of THE CARTEL, his highly charged “blogumentary” on the state of publicContinue reading "BOWDON PUSHES THE BUTTON WITH ‘CARTEL’"
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April 26th, 2010 @ 6am
A HANDS-ON EARTH DAY
Among the commemorations of the fortieth Earth Day Thursday was a day of cleanup, planting and distributing flowers to neighbors by students at the Red Bank Charter School, above. AnContinue reading "A HANDS-ON EARTH DAY"
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April 23rd, 2010 @ 6am
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Answering the call of Gov. Chris Christie, Fair Haven teachers agreed to a one-year pay freeze on the same day voters hit the booths and approved theContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN TEACHERS AGREE TO PAY FREEZE"
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April 21st, 2010 @ 9am
[Update: This article replaces an earlier version, which cited contract terms that Superintendent Laura Morana says were reported incorrectly in both the Asbury Park Press and the Star-Ledger.] Gov. ChrisContinue reading "UNION TAKES FREEZE, AND GUV HAS PRAISE"
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April 19th, 2010 @ 6am
ON TUESDAY’S BALLOT: SCHOOL BUDGET BLUES
Red Bank residents at Wednesday night’s presentation on the borough school district budget, led by Superintendent Laura Morana, below. (Click to enlarge) Hoping to whip up support for a spendingContinue reading "ON TUESDAY’S BALLOT: SCHOOL BUDGET BLUES"
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April 15th, 2010 @ 5am
LONE CANDIDATE FACES THE VOTERS
Ben Forest, below, met with residents Tuesday night in a forum sponsored by the Red Bank NAACP. (Photos by Anthony Trufolo; click to enlarge.) It was board of ed candidate’sContinue reading "LONE CANDIDATE FACES THE VOTERS"
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April 14th, 2010 @ 11am
ART IN BLOOM, UP AT McKAY’s
Brookdale Community College faculty member Dan Schroll (upper right) is the subject of the solo art show DOCUMENTS • FLOWERS, opening Friday at McKay Imaging Gallery. By TOM CHESEK It’sContinue reading "ART IN BLOOM, UP AT McKAY’s"
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April 14th, 2010 @ 5am
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
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
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
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
SCHOOL BOARD SAYS ‘NO’ TO PAY INCREASES
Red Bank Middle School music teacher Holcombe Hurd addressed the school board Tuesday in response to its decision not to approve union pay raises for 132 teachers. (Photo by DustinContinue reading "SCHOOL BOARD SAYS ‘NO’ TO PAY INCREASES"
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March 24th, 2010 @ 6am
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
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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 ...