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SEA BRIGHT’S CRACKIN’ DOWN ON CATS
Felines like the one shown here, near the popular cat club of the Shrewsbury River, are to be rounded up, fixed and tagged in an effort to control the catContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT’S CRACKIN’ DOWN ON CATS"
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May 5th, 2010 @ 6am
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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
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
BANK SAYS STORES WOULD DOOM PROJECT
Robert Cogan, architect for the Courtyards At Monmouth proposal, gives his segment of the three-hour testimony to the zoning board Thursday night. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI RepresentativesContinue reading "BANK SAYS STORES WOULD DOOM PROJECT"
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April 30th, 2010 @ 7am
RESIDENTS SWEAT BUDGET DETAILS
Participants in last night’s Q&A on the Red Bank budget pick up info packets. (Click to enlarge) Red Bank officials held a marathon budget walk-through before a standing-room crowd atContinue reading "RESIDENTS SWEAT BUDGET DETAILS"
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April 29th, 2010 @ 10am
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
BANK AIMS TO UP ITS RETURN ON MONMOUTH
A subsidiary of Amboy Bank is seeking approval for an all-residential project at the corner of Monmouth and West streets, below. (Click to enlarge) On the agenda for a specialContinue reading "BANK AIMS TO UP ITS RETURN ON MONMOUTH"
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April 29th, 2010 @ 6am
TAX HIKE, FURLOUGHS IN RED BANK BUDGET
Borough Administrator Stanley Sickels gave an overview of Red Bank’s budget Monday night. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI In an effort to shrink its budget, Red Bank won’tContinue reading "TAX HIKE, FURLOUGHS IN RED BANK BUDGET"
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April 27th, 2010 @ 8am
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
A woman left comatose after a former Middletown police officer crashed his car into hers while he was drunk has died, according to the Jersey Journal. Forty-year-old Ruth Zelaya diedContinue reading "SECOND VICTIM OF DRUNK COP DIES"
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April 27th, 2010 @ 5am
SIZING UP THE BEACH
A pair of divers from Richard Stockton College’s Coastal Research Center on the beach in Sea Bright earlier today after taking survey readings in the nearshore waters of the AtlanticContinue reading "SIZING UP THE BEACH"
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April 23rd, 2010 @ 1pm
CHRISTIE: NO TO LNG & DRILLING PROJECTS
Governor Chris Christie at Surfrider Beach Club in Sea Bright Thursday, flanked by his daughter Brigit, former Gov. Tom Kean and DEP Commissioner Bob Martin. (Photo by Tim Larsen; clickContinue reading "CHRISTIE: NO TO LNG & DRILLING PROJECTS"
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April 23rd, 2010 @ 5am
FAIR HAVEN WEBSITE GETTING MAKEOVER
Fair Haven’s website will get some upgrades. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Fair Haven’s virtual borough hall is getting a little makeover. The changes won’t necessarily jump off theContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN WEBSITE GETTING MAKEOVER"
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April 22nd, 2010 @ 11am
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI You can add about 200 homeowners to the list of those perturbed by Red Bank’s recent water rate increase. And they don’t even live in town. FairContinue reading "FAIR HAVENITES MIFFED OVER RB H20 RATES"
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April 22nd, 2010 @ 7am
KNOCKING OUT KNOCKING
If Red Bank passes a ‘No Knock’ ordinance, signs like this, on Broad Street, won’t be needed. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI It’s a scenario almost any homeownerContinue reading "KNOCKING OUT KNOCKING"
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April 21st, 2010 @ 12pm
Hovnanian’s headquarters, at the foot of Maple Avenue in Red Bank. (Click to enlarge) Red Bank-based homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises has agreed to pay $1 million for violations of federal CleanContinue reading "HOV HIT WITH $1 MILLION IN FINES"
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April 21st, 2010 @ 8am
Among the suggestions: share vehicles among departments. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI On Monday, Red Bank’s borough council plans to roll out its 2010-11 budget. Two days later, theContinue reading "SENKELESKI READY FOR SUMMIT OF SORTS"
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April 20th, 2010 @ 7am
[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
LONGTIME LEGISLATOR JOE AZZOLINA, 84
Joe Azzolina at Red Bank’s centennial picnic in May, 2008. (Click to enlarge) Middletown’s Joe Azzolina, a supermarket executive who who served in Trenton as both a state Senator andContinue reading "LONGTIME LEGISLATOR JOE AZZOLINA, 84"
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April 16th, 2010 @ 6am
The path to a second term appears unobstructed for Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Mayors Pasquale Menna and Mike Halfacre, of Red Bank and Fair Haven, respectively,Continue reading "WHO’S RUNNING, AND WHO ISN’T"
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April 14th, 2010 @ 8am
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PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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.