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It's not often that firebrand Republican Councilman John Curley makes much headway against the tide of the Democratic majority. But for a fleeting moment last night, Curley seemed to have raised concerns that just might bring the Dems around to...
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September 25th, 2007 @ 4pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Red Bank RiverCenter's new executive director is Nancy Adams, a downtown revitalization consultant from Maplewood, who replaces longtime agency head Tricia Rumola. RiverCenter announced the hire in a press release issued this afternoon. redbankgreen hasn't yet heard back from Adams...
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September 25th, 2007 @ 2pm
The 12th-District Senate race between incumbent Democrat Ellen Karcher and Republican Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck, already framed by both sides as a contest over which candidate is the most committed to ethics reforms in Trenton, got personal yesterday. Karcher accused Beck,...
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September 25th, 2007 @ 10am
Is Red Bank about to start buzzing with funny-looking little electric cars? Could be, if early adapters follow the leads of two trendsetters. One is a furniture store known for impeccable taste in modern design. The other, as unlikely as...
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September 24th, 2007 @ 10am
Dale Connor, the tax court clerk in Fair Haven, is getting a new office. Not a bigger one. A second one, right next to the workspace she already uses. And she'll be required by the state's highest court to split...
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September 21st, 2007 @ 7am
The Republican candidates for 12th-district office yesterday laid out a three-point plan to curtail state spending, which they say is driving residents out of New Jersey, according to a report in today's Asbury Park Press. Led state Assemblywoman and state...
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September 18th, 2007 @ 8am
Somehow, an agenda for the Metuchen Borough Council meeting scheduled for tonight wound up on the Borough of Red Bank website. The Red Bank council is not scheduled to meet tonight. Borough Clerk Carol Vivona says the updating of the...
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September 17th, 2007 @ 12pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Fair Haven's search for a solution to its dropped-calls cellular woes ended earlier this week with deals that brought in more cash than borough officials had expected. Now, Mayor Mike Halfacre hopes to use to the...
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September 12th, 2007 @ 9am
It is perhaps the single most contentious issue in Red Bank: whether the downtown needs a parking garage. Merchants, in general, say yes. They complain that a shortage of street and lot parking is choking their businesses and undermining broader...
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September 11th, 2007 @ 12pm
The Route 36 bridge as seen from the entrance to Sandy Hook. In official terms, a proposed new bridge to replace the one that links Sea Bright with Highlands is a 'go.' The New Jersey Department of Transportation says it...
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September 7th, 2007 @ 7am
Tinton Falls Council President Mike Skudera says he's starting to get some momentum behind his effort to nudge, push or drag municipal governments into the Internet age. redbankgreen readers may recall our April feature story on a groundbreaking study Skudera...
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September 6th, 2007 @ 5pm
An early-morning fire today at the Red Bank Public Library was quickly extinguished and left no adverse effects on the extensive $1.2 million remodeling job now nearing completion, borough officials say. Fire Marshal Stanley Sickels tells redbankgreen that the fire...
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September 5th, 2007 @ 4pm
Add-ons to the heating and cooling system at the new Tinton Falls municipal complex (seen here last April) will further boost the project's cost, which is already well over budget. Through gritted teeth, apparently, the Tinton Falls Borough Council last...
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September 5th, 2007 @ 8am
A concept plan shows a boardwalk running from the former Peninsula House site down to Donovan's Reef. By LINDA G. RASTELLI The Sea Bright borough council hopes to make the town a magnet on the Jersey shore "second to none,"...
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August 31st, 2007 @ 8am
A westbound car, at left, heads into oncoming traffic in the new roundabout outside Brookdale Community College this morning. By LINDA G. RASTELLI Just moments after Monmouth County and Middletown officials packed up their press conference to tout a "safer"...
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August 30th, 2007 @ 3pm
Twelfth-district state Assemblywoman and Red Bank resident Jennifer Beck has asked Attorney General Anne Milgram to speed up the scheduled hearing on whether the borough can shut down Best Liquors over a series of sales infractions. "March of 2008 is...
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August 30th, 2007 @ 2pm
What to do about the cramped Borough Hall is among tonight's topics in Sea Bright. By LINDA G. RASTELLI If you want to read Sea Bright's Smart Growth report, a copy of the document will set you back $40 at...
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August 30th, 2007 @ 7am
A late-afternoon view of the former incinerator ash dump at the western end of Sunset Avenue. They came, they saw, they conjured. On a half-hour tour of the former municipal ash dump last night, members of the Red Bank Environmental...
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August 29th, 2007 @ 8am
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August 28th, 2007 @ 12pm
Red Bank's effort to shut down Best Liquors on Leighton Avenue won't go before an administrative law judge until March 5, nine months after the Borough Council voted to yank the store's license. Borough Attorney Tom Hall got word of...
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August 28th, 2007 @ 10am
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.