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Monmouth County is one of six counties statewide that may have to revert to paper ballots for first-time voters because of a crush of last-minute registrations, today's Star-Ledger reports. From the article: Warren, Atlantic, Bergen, Monmouth, Ocean and Salem counties...
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November 4th, 2008 @ 5am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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The Independent Fire House on Mechanic Street does double duty as the district 2 polling station on election day. Will the lines be long? Will the flow of voters through the polling stations be smooth? That remains to be seen....
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 9am
Admit it: you've read the two public questions on this year's ballot over and over again, and the "interpretive statements" that purport to explain them, and you don't know what to make of them. First, you're not alone. And second,...
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 8am
The state Council on Affordable Housing has temporarily barred Red Bank from granting any new multifamily housing approvals until a dispute over the borough's fair share of below-market housing can be addressed, today's Asbury Park Press reports. No such projects...
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October 30th, 2008 @ 9am
In a reprise of one of his nastiest fights as a member of the Red Bank Council, John Curley says that "scumbags" and "vermin" associated with former Mayor Ed McKenna are trying to undermine his candidacy for Monmouth County Freeholder...
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October 28th, 2008 @ 3pm
Here's a recap of Monday night's Red Bank Borough Council meeting. (Follow along with the agenda, if you like.) • Mayor Pasquale Menna accepted a $162,975 dividend payment to the borough from the Central Jersey Health Insurance Fund, the shared-services...
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October 28th, 2008 @ 9am
Dolphins on the west side of the Oceanic Bridge in mid-July. (Photo courtesy of Mary Fenton) A team of experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has decided that the dolphins in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers are just...
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October 24th, 2008 @ 2pm
Some of the dolphins off Rumson in July, shortly after they moved upriver from the Shrewsbury to the Navesink. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has jurisdiction over the pod of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins that has been in local...
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October 24th, 2008 @ 11am
In the driver's seat: John Curley and his running mate, as seen at Red Bank's Centennial Parade in May. The Asbury Park Press editorial page has thrown its weight behind former Red Bank Councilman John Curley in his race for...
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October 24th, 2008 @ 7am
Sunny Sharma has lost his appeal of Red Bank's revocation of his license to sell booze through his problem-plagued Best Liquors store on Leighton Avenue, the Asbury Park Press reports this evening. From the Press: A decision released today [by...
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October 23rd, 2008 @ 7pm
Grace Cangemi at home on Rector Place. On Nov. 4, Red Bank voters will have four ballot choices for two seats on the borough council, now composed of four Democrats and two Republicans. Both open seats, by happenstance, are held...
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October 23rd, 2008 @ 9am
Dolphins in the upper Shrewsbury in late June. Federal marine experts say they have an answer to slippery question: How may dolphins are there in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers? Answer: Twelve, at least 10 of which have spent most...
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 1pm
Juanita Lewis at home on Shrewsbury Avenue. On Nov. 4, Red Bank voters will have four ballot choices for two seats on the borough council, now composed of four Democrats and two Republicans. Both open seats, by happenstance, are held...
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 11am
John Tyler Jr. at home on Leighton Avenue with the family dog, Goldie. On Nov. 4, Red Bank voters will have four ballot choices for two seats on the borough council, now composed of four Democrats and two Republicans. Both...
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October 21st, 2008 @ 10am
Ed Zipprich at home on River Road. On Nov. 4, Red Bank voters will have four ballot choices for two seats on the borough council, now composed of four Democrats and two Republicans. Both open seats, by happenstance, are held...
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October 20th, 2008 @ 9am
Bill Meyer says the borough shouldn't negotiate over the former borough hall until it's investigated the sale to Kids Bridge eight years ago. Below right: a copy of a business entity status report he says raises questions about the deal....
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October 17th, 2008 @ 10am
The treeful of orange leaves underscores the message of this truck parked at the foot of Hudson Avenue on East Bergen Place in Red Bank. Email this item
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October 17th, 2008 @ 6am
The scene at the River Street Commons auditorium last night. The candidates rarely differed on policy or outlook, and when they did, not by much. The only raised voices were those of audience members calling for the candidates to speak...
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October 16th, 2008 @ 11am
Several dozen citizens turned out at the Pilgrim Baptist Church on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank last night to watch the final presidential debate between senators Barack Obama and John McCain on a projection screen suspended above the altar. The...
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October 16th, 2008 @ 7am
Ray Jackson points to the area in the Shrewsbury where he saw eight to ten dolphins feeding all day Monday. Pete Pawlikowski saw a couple of them Monday morning as he headed over the Oceanic Bridge to work at the...
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October 15th, 2008 @ 8am
Partyline
(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.