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Category Archives: Education

Dr. Diana Salvador, above, says yes; Council President Sharon Lee, at right, agrees, but says citizens will have to get behind the idea first. Kids' activist David Prown's request that the Red Bank council put the brakes on a plan...
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July 24th, 2007 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Cash it out, or turn it into a community center? To the borough of Red Bank, it's an asset beter turned into cash. To kids' activist David Prown, it's about to become a missed opportunity. On the agenda for Monday's...
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July 22nd, 2007 @ 2pm
After 31 years in Red Bank, entrepreneur, education activist and occasional singer W. David Tarver is leaving town. And he's going out in style. Tarver tells redbankgreen that he and his wife, Kishna, are packing up their house at the...
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July 17th, 2007 @ 10am
Middletown schools chief David L. Witmer should be docked six months pay instead of being fired for padding his expenses and misleading the school board, an administrative law judge ruled yesterday in a recommendation to the state Education Commissioner. According...
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July 10th, 2007 @ 6am
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June 12th, 2007 @ 10am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Back when he had water rights on the Navesink, marine engineer Rik van Hemmen would paddle a homemade canoe to work in the summer, thus combining three of his many passions — engineering, wooden boats, and...
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June 7th, 2007 @ 9am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Being a freshman is hard, says Red Bank Regional ninth-grader Jamar Berry. Coming from the cozy confines of the Red Bank Charter School, "it took me a long while to adapt," Berry says. "I'm doing good...
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May 30th, 2007 @ 6am
In "The Underpants," Steve Martin's adaptation of a 97-year-old German comedy that began previews last night at the Two River Theater, the character of the king is a looming but largely unseen presence. The story concerns a woman who, in...
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May 3rd, 2007 @ 7am
Prompted by the shootings last month at Virginia Tech that left 33 people dead, Red Bank Regional High School has become the second school district in New Jersey to implement an email and text message alert system, today's Asbury Park...
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May 3rd, 2007 @ 6am
What might have been a session with Gov. Jon Corzine turned out, because of his recent accident, to be an event with somewhat lesser star "wattage." But a town hall meeting led in Corzine's absence by state Treasurer Bradley Abelow...
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May 3rd, 2007 @ 6am
Red Bank police are investigating a report of an unidentified man trying to enter a car driven by a Red Bank Catholic senior while she was stopped downtown at a red light on Tuesday afternoon. The 18-year-old driver, who was...
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May 2nd, 2007 @ 5pm
Former Red Bank Mayor and state Superior Court Judge Benedict R. Nicosia leads a roster of nine graduates of Red Bank High School (or its successor, Red Bank Regional) into the RBR Education Foundation's Hall of Fame Friday night. Slated...
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May 1st, 2007 @ 9am
Sports fans will have noticed by now that sports coverage is not our thing here at redbankgreen. There's way too much of it for this little operation to cover, and frankly, other topics interest us far more. But every once...
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April 27th, 2007 @ 4pm
The results are finally in from last week's Red Bank Board of Education election, which were delayed by a snafu. In addition to the previously announced victor Ben Forest, an incumbent, winners were write-in winners Ann Goldman of McLaren Street...
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April 23rd, 2007 @ 6pm
RiverCenter is looking for some working men and women. Not for the usual squads of volunteers to help promote the business district, but to share some insights about jobs and the skills needed to do them with students at the...
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April 20th, 2007 @ 12am
At 9:30a Wednesday, Mayor Pasquale Menna was in his law office talking on the phone with redbankgreen about some borough business and trying to get off the line posthaste. He had an obligation to meet. Back in March, while reading...
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April 19th, 2007 @ 12am
Middletown North graduate Julia Pryde was remembered by people who knew her as a carefree individualist who loved to swim competitively and cultivated a strong interest in ecology and water quality issues, according to a story about her in today's...
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April 18th, 2007 @ 7am
Spending plans from the school board overseeing Red Bank's K-8 programs and the regional high school were approved by voters yesterday, according to today's Asbury Park Press. The newspaper reports that the Red Bank Board of Ed's $11.34 million budget...
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April 18th, 2007 @ 6am
The Asbury Park Press and the Star-Ledger are reporting that a Middletown North High School graduate was among the 32 people shot and killed by a gunman in yesterday's carnage at Virginia Tech. The student was identified by Mayor Gerard...
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April 17th, 2007 @ 3pm
Ben Forest has an excellent chance of keeping his seat on the Red Bank Board of Education in tomorrow's election: he's the only candidate on the ballot. Unfortunately for the board, there are three open seats; two other members have...
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April 16th, 2007 @ 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 ...