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Grace Cangemi at her final appearance as a council member last night. Republican Grace Cangemi closed out her 21-month tenure on the Red Bank Council last night with pointed attacks on Democratics for "behind the curtain" decision-making. In her final...
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December 23rd, 2008 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Sea Bright's town hall will have to make room for a court operation now housed in a trailer out back. By SUE MORGAN Less than two weeks before a deadline, Sea Bright officials are sending to a Superior Court judge...
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December 19th, 2008 @ 6am
A dolphin exhibited a feeding behavior dubbed "mouth open" in the Shrewsbury on Tuesday. (NOAA photo) Marine scientists remain convinced that the 12 Atlantic bottlenose dolphins still in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers six months after their arrival are neither...
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December 18th, 2008 @ 7am
Dolphins in the upper Shrewsbury in late June, shortly after their arrival. Amid concern that a pod of dolphins may be imperiled by by falling temperatures in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers, federal marine officials have scheduled a conference call...
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December 17th, 2008 @ 6am
A view of the Navesink from Bank Street. Thanks largely to a YouTube video recorded by a Bank Street resident, a condo plan approved recently by the Red Bank zoning board will have to provide clearly marked public access to...
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December 12th, 2008 @ 6am
Concerns about an effort to drum up funds for a Fair Haven government employees' holiday party prompted Borough Administrator Mary Howell to issue a letter telling business owners there are no repercussions for declining to contribute. Because of "miscommunicated" information,...
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December 11th, 2008 @ 7am
Volunteer firefighters and first aid squad members stood by at the Liberty Hose firehouse on White Street during the widespread power outage Tuesday evening. (Click to enlarge) Burglar and fire alarms went off all over town, prompting the police chief...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 10pm
George Kolber speaks; Councilman Art Murphy listens. Throwing a possible speed bump in the path of the Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County, the owners of the recently repurposed former PS 5 on Drs. James Parker Boulevard last night...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 11am
Dolphins in the Shrewsbury River on Saturday, as seen from the Highlands side. (Photo courtesy of Robin Dowd) The Associated Press reports that federal wildlife experts will confer this week about what to do if the remaining dolphins plying the...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 10am
In a show of hands, cab drivers signal their opposition to a proposed increase in the number of taxi licenses. A proposed ordinance that would have boosted the number of taxi licenses in Red Bank to 55, from 45, was...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 7am
Fair Haven is advising residents at the western end of the borough that water pressure to their homes may drop this morning as Red Bank, which supplies water to those users, tests two new hydrants on Cambridge Avenue. The testing,...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 6am
State Senator Jennifer Beck is about to add a new line or two to her résumé. Twelfth-district state Senator Jennifer Beck has been awarded a fellowship by the Aspen Institute, where elected officials study the values and principles underlying democracy,...
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December 8th, 2008 @ 11am
Primary school Principal Rick Cohen and Superintendent Laura Morana at a 2007 event. The Asbury Park Press has a dramatic account today of the previously unreported role of the principal and a guidance counselor at the Red Bank Primary School...
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December 5th, 2008 @ 8am
Employees of Siciliano Landscape prepare the Maple Avenue lot for grass seed Wednesday. Just nine months ago, a quarter-acre parcel of Red Bank-owned land on the Navesink River appeared headed toward the auction block to provide cash for tax relief....
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December 5th, 2008 @ 7am
Officials in Fair Haven are weighing whether to route all emergency calls from the borough to the Monmouth County Sheriff's office as a cost-saving measure, the Asbury Park Press reports today. Under the proposal, all police, fire and first aid...
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December 4th, 2008 @ 10am
Residents shot the idea full of holes. This week, the council killed it. Two weeks after an outpouring of criticism of a possible purchase of a building to house borough government operations, the Sea Bright council has dropped the idea,...
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December 4th, 2008 @ 9am
Bank Street's Brian Donohue videotaped a recent encounter with a Chapin Avenue condo owner over public access to the Navesink River and posted it on YouTube. On the agenda for tonight's Red Bank zoning board meeting are the terms and...
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December 4th, 2008 @ 6am
Owner PRC Group is seeking permission to convert the 91 rental units at Grandville Towers to condos. Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna tells today's Asbury Park Press that senior-citizen tenants of Grandville Towers won't be forced to move if the...
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December 1st, 2008 @ 10am
Long-awaited increases in the cost of traveling the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike went into effect at 12:01a today. From the Asbury Park Press, regarding Parkway tolls: At most booths the price will rise from their current...
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December 1st, 2008 @ 5am
An investigation has been launched in Hunterdon County into the death of a disabled Little Silver woman who died two months after being removed from a state-licensed home for developmentally disabled adults, today's Star-Ledger reports. Twenty-six-year-old Tara Leary, who was...
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November 26th, 2008 @ 6am
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.