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A former political opponent of soon-to-be-ex Sea Bright Mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka-Adams has asked the Monmouth County Prosecutor to investigate the role the mayor may have played in a recent borough court matter that resulted in a local noise ordinance being...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 12pm
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Red Bank officials are hoping to boost fees for the licensing of dogs and cats. A proposed ordinance amendment slotted for introduction at tonight's council meeting would increase the dog license fee to $10.80 per year, from $6.80. A $1.20...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 10am
By TIM HATHAWAY The extra $368,000 in state funding that Red Bank schools received last year may have been a windfall, but schools Superintendent Laura Morana says there should be even more in the kitty this year. According to Morana,...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 10am
Federal immigration-law enforcers nearly doubled the number of arrests of illegal aliens in New Jersey during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, today's Star-Ledger reports. A total of 2,079 illegal aliens were taken into custody by four teams of...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 7am
Buona Sera's plan to expand into the space now used by Fins and Feathers was approved by the Planning Board earlier this week. It doesn't have a single parking space to offer its customers, but Buona Sera Ristorante has gotten...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 7am
Red Bank Police Chief Mark Fitzgerald checks out a new metal detector at Borough Hall Tuesday. The $3,500 device will be used to scan visitors to Municipal Court, but not attendees to other borough functions such as council and planning...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 6am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI On month after the polls closed, Maria Fernandes is still Sea Bright's mayor-elect. A recount of the results this morning yielded no change in outcome, an official at the Monmouth County Clerk's office tells redbankgreen. The...
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December 4th, 2007 @ 12pm
State Senator-elect Jennifer Beck on election night last month. Spending on this year's legislative races blew past the old record set in 2003 by 21 percent, today's Star-Ledger reports, with one in four races costing more than $1 million. And...
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December 4th, 2007 @ 7am
Borough Attorney Ken Pringle, left, and partner Tom Hall at a Red Bank council meeting in July. Borough Attorney Ken Pringle tells redbankgreen that faulty memory led to a situation in which his firm faced off against Verizon New Jersey...
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December 3rd, 2007 @ 1pm
The Verizon building at 183 Broad Street. The politically connected law firm representing Red Bank's mayor and council is stepping away from a tax court case involving Verizon Inc. because the firm's lobbying arm represents the telecom giant in Trenton,...
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December 3rd, 2007 @ 10am
The lines are a little wobbly, but temporary, says Borough Administrator Mary Howell. By LINDA G. RASTELLI In a cost-cutting move that Mayor Mike Halfacre says he's been suggesting for a year, Richard Gardella will become the borough’s engineer and...
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November 29th, 2007 @ 2pm
Two Montgomery Terrace residents confer with Human Relations Commmittee member Henry Tindall, center, and Red Bank Police Lt. Mike Clay after last night's HRC meeting. Montgomery Terrace residents last night called for more attentive policing, leaseholder ID cards and other...
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November 29th, 2007 @ 9am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI In the last month, Fair Haven’s council, led by Mayor Mike Halfacre, has cut the town's anticipated debt by $3 million by selling the former Masonic Temple and slicing its borrowing for 2007 by $2 million....
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November 29th, 2007 @ 7am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI The tiny, water-bound borough of Sea Bright has a spanking new Stormwater Management Plan, one more likely to mitigate flood damage than to prevent flooding, says Council President and presumptive mayor-elect Maria Fernandes. The plan's real...
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November 28th, 2007 @ 10am
File photo of the Verizon building at 183 Broad Street. A measure that would have settled a tax appeal by Verizon Inc. on its Broad Street switching station was tabled by the borough council last night after a debate that...
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November 27th, 2007 @ 8am
Sea Bright Mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka Adams will get a recount of the ballots in the election that appeared to have resulted in her being ousted by just three votes, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The news surprised presumptive mayor-elect Maria...
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November 27th, 2007 @ 6am
Aurora Gonzalez By TIM HATHAWAY As a young girl in Monterey, Mexico, Aurora Gonzalez used to give all the money she had to the poor on the streets, even though she came from a family that was also needy. "My...
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November 26th, 2007 @ 6am
Henry Bloom, with Gunning Island in the background. Rumson resident Henry H. Bloom bought a big chunk of Gunning Island in 1988, mainly because he was afraid that somebody would put houses on it and wreck his idyllic view of...
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November 21st, 2007 @ 9am
New Jersey Natural Gas is asking state utilities regulators to approve a 7.5-percent increase in distribution charges, which would boost the average customer's monthly bill by $11.35 a month, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. It's the first time the...
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November 20th, 2007 @ 3pm
Borough residents want the speed limit north of the downtown lowered to 35 mph. Here, at the south end, it's 30 mph as you head north into the business district. By LINDA G. RASTELLI Sea Bright residents want to take...
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November 20th, 2007 @ 2pm
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.