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Today's Washington Post reports that the prolonged custody battle being pursued by David Goldman of Tinton Falls has become "a delicate diplomatic problem." In fact, the Post reports, in its lead paragraph: When Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...
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March 13th, 2009 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Gov. Jon Corzine during his budget address to the Legislature on Tuesday. (Photo by Tim Larsen) Is there a New Jerseyan anywhere who savors the words "state budget?" In these economic times, the phrase is apt to turn even the...
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March 12th, 2009 @ 10am
Tinton Falls resident David Goldman's four-year battle to win the return of his now 8-year-old son, Sean, after an international parental kidnapping moved to the spotlight in Washington yesterday. The House of Representatives voted 418-0 in favor of a resolution,...
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March 12th, 2009 @ 6am
Hovnanian's head office, as seen from the foot of Maple Avenue. Red Bank-headquartered Hovnanian Enterprises, one of the nation's largest homebuilding companies, saw its losses accelerate in the most recent quarter. The company posted a net loss of $178.4. million...
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March 11th, 2009 @ 6am
The borough-based Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey may feel the pinch. For the second time in recent months, the Red Bank Council has contracted services to Monmouth County in an effort to cut costs. The governing body last night...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 9am
The dispatcher's desk at police headquarters won't be staffed nights and weekends, officials acknowledge. A late-entry proposal from Little Silver to take over police dispatching duties won approval by Fair Haven's council Monday night, the Asbury Park Press reports. From...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 6am
With the disclosure, Menna delivered on a pledge he made January 1, 2008. Without fanfare, Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna last night released two lists he'd promised to disclose fourteen months ago: the names residential landlords with the worst records...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 6am
The law is aimed at heading off conditions that last year led to the imposition of $36,000 in fines on the owners of 179-181 Shrewsbury Avenue. More than a year after Mayor Pasquale Menna pledged to shame landlords by publishing...
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March 9th, 2009 @ 8am
Fair Haven's first-ever trip to the Wall Street debt markets yesterday resulted in a bond sale at a better-than-expected interest rate, borough officials tell the Asbury Park Press. From the Press: The 10-year bonds sold for an interest rate of...
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March 6th, 2009 @ 8am
Two Howell men have been arrested in connection with a fracas last month outside Chubby's Waterside Café that left a Middletown man with a stab wound to one leg, Red Bank police are reporting this afternoon. Eighteen-year-old Travis LaFalce was...
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March 5th, 2009 @ 2pm
Under Little Silver's proposal, a dispatcher in Little Silver would direct patrol responses to calls from Fair Haven. Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre has published on his blog a head-to-head analysis of the competing offers from Monmouth County and Little...
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March 5th, 2009 @ 8am
Work on a $1.54 million state Department of Transportation project to improve traffic flow and safety conditions at a key Red Bank intersection is now scheduled to begin March 16, a week later than previously announced. The job, which is...
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March 4th, 2009 @ 3pm
David Goldman with his son, Sean, in an undated photo taken before the boy was moved to Brazil four years ago by his mother. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she is working to resolve the prolonged international custody case...
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March 4th, 2009 @ 8am
Then-Mayor Ed McKenna in December, 2006. Former Red Bank Mayor Ed McKenna's car struck a pedestrian crossing East Front Street outside Riverview Medical Center last night, Red Bank Police report. According to Capt. Steve McCarthy, 49-year-old borough resident and hospital...
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 3pm
No surprise here, but just to make it official: The Borough of Fair Haven will suspend trash collection scheduled for Monday, March 2nd due to severe weather conditions. Trash will be collected from zones 1 and 2 on Thursday, March...
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March 2nd, 2009 @ 6am
Here's an announcement made early Sunday afternoon by the Borough of Red Bank, issued in light of the National Weather Service forecast of a possible 5 to 9 inches of snow overnight: Garbage pickup suspended during snow emergency RED BANK—Borough...
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March 1st, 2009 @ 1pm
It wasn't hard to find visitors pumping coins into meters in Red Bank's White Street lot at lunchtime last Saturday. Above, Nicole Collman of Manalapan, left, with Rebecca Route of Jamesburg. With some fanfare, Mayor Pasquale Menna announced at last...
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February 27th, 2009 @ 8am
Somehow, for the entirety of its 96-year existence, Fair Haven — a town with more than its share of Wall Street workers among its 6,000 or so residents — has managed to get by without having to go to the...
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February 26th, 2009 @ 10am
Borough Attorney Ken Pringle, left, and partner Tom Hall at a Red Bank council meeting in July, 2007. Because of questions raised by government watchdog Steve Fitzpatrick, the Red Bank Council has taken Pringle, Quinn & Anzana, its contracted law...
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February 26th, 2009 @ 8am
The shelves of Sunny Sharma's business, once stocked with hard liquor, now carry shaving cream and snacks. Milk and eggs have replaced beer as the products featured on the door. Sunny Sharma says he can't catch a break. It's not...
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February 25th, 2009 @ 8am
Partyline
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
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.