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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
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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
Bucking Gov. Jon Corzine, Monmouth County is giving its 3,500 employees a day off Friday, the Asbury Park Press reports. Corzine, of course, has moved to end a decades-log tradition of giving state workers a paid day off on the...
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November 20th, 2007 @ 8am
Government officials and conservationists are expected to gather at Surfside Marina in Sea Bright later this morning for a press conference to announce that Rumson has purchased the 20 acres of Gunning Island that it didn't already own, for $2.05...
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November 20th, 2007 @ 7am
The books are out of storage, free of dust and are being returned to their shelves. Now, all that remains is a short punchlist of renovation items, plus the logistics of getting the phones re-installed and the return of books...
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November 19th, 2007 @ 11am
Resident Sean Murphy, at left, makes a point at last night's Parks & Rec Committee meeting. Chastened last month by elected officials for faulty communication about the state of the borough's playgrounds, Red Bank's Parks & Rec Committee assembled last...
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November 15th, 2007 @ 8am
Graffiti that Red Bank police say refers to the Sureno 13 gang is visible in several locations, including this railroad gate on Drs. James Parker Boulevard. By TIM HATHAWAY Is gang activity a problem in the Red Bank area? "Right...
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November 14th, 2007 @ 10am
Partyline
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.
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 ...