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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
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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
A 3-3 council split over the $47,000 cost of water utility equipment led Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna to cast a rare tiebreaker vote last night. With that, the council approved a change order that will allow for the installation...
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November 13th, 2007 @ 9am
A beer-keg registration ordinance adopted by Red Bank in May is on tap for revocation tonight, following a little-publicized rejection of the law by the state Alcoholic Beverage Control. The borough's ordinance was similar to ones passed in Belmar, Freehold,...
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November 12th, 2007 @ 10am
A count of provisional ballots in the Sea Bright election has given the mayoralty to Democratic Council President Maria Fernandes by a mere three votes, redbankgreen has learned. The final tally was 274 votes for Fernandes to 271 for one-term...
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November 9th, 2007 @ 5pm
State Senator-elect Jennifer Beck is now in the spotlight statewide, pundits say. 'Ridiculously outspent' and yet victorious in Tuesday's election, state Senator-elect Jennifer Beck of Red Bank is now — wait for it — a GOP pol to watch for...
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November 8th, 2007 @ 8am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Sea Bright’s mayoral race remained too close to call early today, and officials don’t expect to know who won before Friday. The latest vote count has Democratic challenger Maria Fernandes up five votes on incumbent Republican...
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November 7th, 2007 @ 12pm
Red Bank Democrats appear to have held their 4-2 council majority with narrow wins Tuesday by Council President Sharon Lee, who bagged a second term, and Zoning Board member Kathleen Horgan. But Democratic newcomer Ed Zipprich apparently didn't have enough...
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November 7th, 2007 @ 3am
Red Bank Republican Jennifer Beck trounced incumbent state Senator Ellen Karcher at the polls yesterday, despite having been outspent more than fivefold in a campaign widely noted for its bitterness. In bootstrapping herself to the Senate, Beck helped secure Assembly...
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November 7th, 2007 @ 2am
Democrat Maria Fernandes appears to have bested incumbent Mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka-Adams by just two votes, according to unofficial results. The tally: 250 to 248. In the two-seat council race, Republicans Peggy Bills and Brian Kelly beat back a challenge by...
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November 6th, 2007 @ 11pm
Unofficial tallies in the Red Bank Council race indicate that incumbent Sharon Lee and Democratic running mate Kathleen Horgan are winners. Grace Cangemi appears to have won the one-year spot over Ed Zipprich by 59 votes. But the borough Democrats...
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November 6th, 2007 @ 10pm
Sold, for $955,000, to the only bidder. By LINDA G. RASTELLI In a quick, uncontested auction last night, the Borough of Fair Haven sold the former Masonic Temple on River Road — but not to the local retailer who had...
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November 6th, 2007 @ 3pm
Council candidate Grace Cangemi arrives at the 8th district polling station (the Senior Citizens' Center, on Shrewsbury Avenue), presumably to "re-elect" herself. Joe Parrillo of Madison Avenue emerges from a voting booth at the district 4 station, at the United...
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November 6th, 2007 @ 11am
Complaining that the new street paving through the historic business district resulted in unacceptably shallow gutters, Fair Haven officials last night said they would order the contractor to redo the job, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: The...
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November 6th, 2007 @ 6am
Councilman Michael DuPont contends that this flier, distributed by Republican Councilman John Curley to Red Bank residents last week, is a smear on his wife. [Click on flier to enlarge] In a letter to the editor published in the current...
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November 5th, 2007 @ 7am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Along Rumson Road in the borough of Rumson, at least five campaign signs for Democratic hopefuls for state office can be seen. And the county Democratic Party is gearing up to run two candidates for Rumson...
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November 2nd, 2007 @ 7am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Yes, there's a mention of a bar in the concept plan for what a made-over Fair Haven business district might look like. But that's as racy as it gets. Borough residents are emphatic that they're "very...
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November 1st, 2007 @ 2pm
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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.