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The borough council ordered up an appraisal on the disused borough parking lot at the foot of Maple Avenue last month, with an eye toward a possible sale. Pushback on Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna's plan to sell a disused...
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April 3rd, 2008 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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By TOM CHESEK Long before there was a Two River Theater or even anything resembling a nightlife in downtown Red Bank, there was Phoenix Productions, an intrepid little troupe of weekend warriors who sought only to put on a show...
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April 2nd, 2008 @ 12pm
Donnie Thorne of Eatontown shows off a catch at Mohawk Pond in this 2006 file photo. Fisherpersons, get ready to cast your lines. Trout season begins Saturday. And next Wednesday, the state Division of Fish & Wildlife is scheduled to...
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April 2nd, 2008 @ 10am
Detail of the wall and ceiling in the restored New Jersey room at the Red Bank Public Library. Two and a half months after wrapping up a major renovation job, the Red Bank Public Library is preparing for a grand...
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April 2nd, 2008 @ 9am
RiverCenter's office is at 20 Broad Street. Last week, Red Bank RiverCenter executive director Nancy Adams presented the business-promotion organization's budget to the borough council. The spending plan, totalling $624,052, is 3.3 percent larger than the 2007 version. (Alas, RiverCenter...
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March 31st, 2008 @ 10am
Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon. Six months ago, Declan O'Scanlon was a contender for state Assembly fighting political accusations of cronyism for his work on the Fair Haven cell tower deal. You might think that the last thing O'Scanlon would want to...
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March 28th, 2008 @ 6am
Red Bank Councilman John Curley has captured the second and final spot on the Monmouth County Republican ticket in this year's freeholder election, GOP committeeman Art Gallagher reports on his More Monmouth Musings blog. Curley topped Holmdel Mayor Serena DiMaso,...
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March 27th, 2008 @ 6am
A private contractor took down rotting swamp maples on Maple Avenue earlier this month. The Shade Tree Commission hopes to replace the trees this year. These are lean budgetary times, but the rejuvenated Red Bank Shade Tree Committee is pushing...
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March 26th, 2008 @ 11am
One way or another, John Curley's campaign shoes will get a workout this year. Today's the day Red Bank Councilman John Curley finds out if he'll be running on the GOP ticket for Monmouth County Freeholder. The Republicans will hold...
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March 26th, 2008 @ 7am
Looking north on Hudson Avenue this morning at 7:55a. After a brief war of the curb, Hudson Avenue homeowners and tenants last night became the latest on the East Side to win resident permits to park their cars. The victory...
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March 25th, 2008 @ 9am
Michael Gilson Jr., 7, gets a kiss from his father after the Chubby's owner won zoning board approval to erect a new restaurant on the West Front Street site. A plan to replace the seen-better-days Chubby's Waterside Café on West...
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March 21st, 2008 @ 6am
"Regionalization does not work for small communities. Period." That's how an op-ed piece by Sea Bright Mayor Maria Fernandes, writing in today's Asbury Park Press, begins. Her target: state-mandated formulas for apportioning costs among towns joined in regional school districts....
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March 20th, 2008 @ 7am
Rumson officials last night moved closer toward replacing the town's Memorial Hall with a contract award for parking lot work, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The Borough Council also voted to bond an additional $1 million for the overall project,...
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March 19th, 2008 @ 6am
The borough parking lot on White Street, as seen last September. Here's a story that will gladden the hearts of many Red Bank retailers and restaurateurs while no doubt raising hackles in other quarters. The Asbury Park Press is reporting...
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March 18th, 2008 @ 8am
We call them the 'bunting boys' because 'The History Boys' is taken, and one of them is among the most vigorous 80-year-olds you'll ever encounter (not to mention one of the most colorful wielders of the English language). Ed Zipprich...
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March 14th, 2008 @ 8am
The Courtyard at Monmouth project, which exists only on paper, is on the block. Little more than a week after he won approval for plan to transform a grubby corner of Red Bank into a little hunk 'o Hoboken, would-be...
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March 13th, 2008 @ 10am
Two views of the disused borough parking lot at the foot of Maple Avenue that may come up for sale this year. Click to enlarge images. Hoping to trim a proposed budget that would otherwise sock property owners with a...
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March 12th, 2008 @ 12pm
Melissa Dominach and Bailey Taft with Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna, left, and Councilman John Curley. Last month, redbankgreen featured Bailey Taft and Melissa Dominach, seventh-graders from the Knollwood School in Fair Haven who had launched a non-profit enterprise to...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 11am
Red Bank officials last night introduced a proposed 2008-'09 budget that would increase the local portion of the typical homeowner's property taxes by $311.20 per year. The figure is just a starting point for several weeks of refining and public...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 10am
Now's a good time to fix that drip... The impact of three years of infrastructure emergencies will be reflected in the next round of water bills to Red Bank users. The borough council last night approved a 10-percent increase in...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 9am
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.