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Councilman Mike DuPont takes his lumps at Monday's meeting. Is the ordinance that wouldn't die finally dead? As he has repeatedly over the past ten months or so, Councilman Mike DuPont tried getting his ban on plastic bags passed by...
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November 10th, 2008 @ 11pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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An empty storefront on West Front Street. Spurred by surging unemployment and dwindling consumer sales, Red Bank officials are organizing an an economic "summit" of sorts for business owners and residents to brainstorm ideas to help the borough buck the...
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November 10th, 2008 @ 2pm
A stray bag flutters along Monmouth Street in September. Six weeks after it was tabled amid concerns about its financial impacts on stores, a proposed ban on plastic shopping bags is back before the Red Bank Council tonight. The law,...
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November 10th, 2008 @ 11am
A dolphin swims in the Shrewsbury River near the mouth of Navesink late Sunday afternoon. The pod of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins that took up residence in the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers this summer and autumn continues to ply those waters,...
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November 10th, 2008 @ 10am
Tim Zebo of East Bergen Place in Red Bank vacuums up leaves from his neighbor's yard Saturday. Below, he shows off the new Earth Machine composter he got for $25 from Monmouth County as part of a two-hour class on...
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November 10th, 2008 @ 6am
The decisive election race remains undecided, but a top Monmouth County Democrat is getting ready to take a close look at "a handful of well-paying jobs" if the party wins control of the board for the first time in 24...
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November 10th, 2008 @ 6am
Vacant houses on, Drs. Parker Boulevard (left) and opposite sides of Bank Street (center and right) would be razed and replaced with 11 townhouse condos. (Click images to enlarge) A hearing to set the terms under which the RW @...
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November 7th, 2008 @ 7am
An architect's rendering of the proposed RW @ River's Edge condos. A proposed 12-unit West Side condo project that was the flashpoint in a legal challenge to Red Bank's efforts to provide affordable housing is up for final approval by...
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November 6th, 2008 @ 7am
Today's Asbury Park Press reports that Democrats have dispatched four volunteer lawyers to oversee the handling and counting of an estimated 3,200 provisional ballots cast Tuesday in the Monmouth County Freeholder race. There's no official count yet of the ballots,...
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November 6th, 2008 @ 6am
Voters exit the Hook & Ladder Fire House on Mechanic Street, site of the district 1 polling station, after casting their ballots Tuesday. Long an island of aqua in a red county, Red Bank went inky blue this year, throwing...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 11am
Amy Mallet of Fair Haven and John Curley of Middletown remain locked in squeaker of an election for Monmouth County Freeholder this morning. "It's quite a battle," Republican Curley tells redbankgreen. The county clerk's website has Mallet, a Democrat, leading...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 10am
Ninety-three-year-old Jacqueline O'Shea signs in to vote at Borough Hall in Sea Bright Tuesday. By SUE MORGAN A year after a disputed mayoral race that has yet to be resolved in court, Sea Bright voters dispatched two Democrats from the...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 8am
A Rumson voter signs in at the Forrestdale School polling station Tuesday afternoon. By SUE MORGAN By 8p, Democratic Borough Council candidate Michael Steinhorn expected to have picked up his campaign signs, all 25 or so of them, that he...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 7am
Out are two Republican incumbents and in come a Democrat and an independent after Little Silver voters dealt their harshest rebuke to the GOP in a decade Tuesday. Of 6,445 votes cast, the largest share, 1,681, went to attorney Daniel...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 7am
No changes planned here. Incumbent Republicans Jerome Koch and James Banahan held off a challenge from a single Democratic candidate in the race for two seats on the Fair Haven Borough Council Tuesday. Of 4,881 votes cast, Banhan attracted 1,706,...
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November 5th, 2008 @ 12am
Sen. Barack Obama has been elected president of the United States of America. redbankgreen encountered these two homemade tributes to Obama's presidential campaign in the yards of homes in Fair Haven Tuesday morning. The one on the top is from...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 11pm
John Curley at home in 2006, when home was Red Bank. Figures relased by the Monmouth County Clerk's office indicate that former Red Bank Councilman John Curley leads his nearest Democratic opponent by just 108 votes out of 250,000 cast...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 10pm
Juanita Lewis embraces her campaign manager, Christine McKenna, after her win in Tuesday's Red Bank Council election. Red Bank voters skied straight down the Democratic column in Tuesday's elections, hoping to elevate the first-ever African-American to the presidency and making...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 9pm
Election officials are expecting record turnout today, according to the Asbury Park Press. Here's what redbankgreen found in the first hour of voting activity in Red Bank this morning: 6:00a: More than a dozen voters stand in line in the...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 7am
Lest we forget, Red Bank is still in its centennial year, and reminders of that milestone continue to pop up now and again. The latest is the above video, shot and produced by four students, aged 14 to 17, who...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 5am
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(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.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.