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A year after Democrats predicted Red Bank taxes would go down in 2007, the Borough Council last night finalized this year's budget. Taxes went up. As the Borough Council majority sees it, though, the local bite was made as painless...
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August 28th, 2007 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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By LINDA G. RASTELLI Fourteen months ago, the Municipal Land Use Center, a federally-funded, anti-sprawl think tank based at the College of New Jersey in Ewing, chose eight central New Jersey towns to share in $300,000 to come up with...
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August 27th, 2007 @ 11am
Red Bank Police will man a DWI spot-check on Newman Springs Road beginning at 11p tonight, the department says in a press release. The sobriety checkpoint will stay up until 3a. Extra patrols will also be on the lookout for...
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August 24th, 2007 @ 8am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Just two weeks after a controversial go-ahead for Sea Bright officials to try to buy Donovan's Reef, negotiations have come to a halt. Mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka-Adams tells redbankgreen today that the sellers have rejected the borough's...
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August 23rd, 2007 @ 3pm
Most weekdays during the school year, parking gets pretty tight along East Bergen Place between Broad and South streets. The return of autumn means that Broad Street Post Office employees who find refuge for their cars at the Red Bank...
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August 22nd, 2007 @ 12pm
A $700,000 project to spruce up pedestrian crossings and reconfigure traffic-signal timing at Broad Street, Maple Avenue and Newman Springs Road is to start Monday, the state Department of Transportation says in a press release. From a story in today's...
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August 18th, 2007 @ 10am
A $40,950 grant awarded by the state last week will pay for a study to explore the feasibility of merging police departments in Fair Haven, Rumson and Little Silver, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The analysis will be conducted by...
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August 16th, 2007 @ 6am
David Larotonda checks out a GEM electric car on Madison Avenue earlier this year. Yes, the borough vehicles will have doors. After a short-circuited bid last spring, the Borough of Red Bank is back on the fast track to energy...
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August 15th, 2007 @ 6am
Today's Asbury Park Press reports that the cell tower planned for Fair Haven won't be a giant faux tree or, as reporter Larry Higgs puts it, won't resemble a common bathroom cleaning implement. Borough Planning Board members only had two...
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August 15th, 2007 @ 6am
Tricia Rumola, a borough native who rose from college intern to executive director of Red Bank RiverCenter and helped solidify its national reputation in the realm of downtown revitalizations, is leaving the organization at the end of the month. Rumola...
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August 14th, 2007 @ 1pm
Tax bills reflecting the yet-to-be finalized 2007 municipal rate are landing in Red Bank mailboxes, and the annual rite of collective frustration they bring was amplified at last night's council session by the impact of this year's property revaluations. Things...
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August 14th, 2007 @ 11am
A comment attributed to the late Monmouth County Freeholder Harry Larrison Jr. while he was under investigation for public corruption has raised some eyebrows at Red Bank Borough Hall. The remark appeared in an Asbury Park Press story Sunday, a...
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August 14th, 2007 @ 10am
Linda Clark makes the case for a town center. The idea of creating a community center at a Red Bank-owned building on the West Side is one that "needs plenty more discussion," children's activist David Prown told a crowded Borough...
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August 14th, 2007 @ 9am
The big money stayed home. Once again, Red Bank's efforts to auction off a borough-owned building at the corner of Drs. Parker Boulevard and Bridge Avenue have failed. At a scheduled auction this afternoon, nobody bid. The same thing happened...
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August 10th, 2007 @ 3pm
After threatening to take Red Bank zoners to court over an adverse ruling last month, the owner of the troubled filling station property at the corner of Monmouth and West streets has instead decided to revise his proposal for stores,...
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August 9th, 2007 @ 1pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Buying Donovan's Reef for Sea Bright borough's use is either (choose one) a "great investment" in the town's future or a "nutty" waste of taxpayer’s money. Battle lines were drawn in firm but civil tones last...
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August 8th, 2007 @ 1pm
Fair Haven embarks on round two of its public brainstorming effort over how best to utilize its public spaces along River Road tomorrow night. A workshop, to be led by Cynthia Nitikin, vice president of the nonprofit New York-based consultants...
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August 7th, 2007 @ 8am
Squeezed for parking, the Borough of Sea Bright tonight will mull the question of whether to try to buy Donovan's Reef. The beach bar's owners are said to be asking $4.5 million for the oceanfront property, which is across East...
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August 7th, 2007 @ 7am
The prospective buyers of the historic T. Thomas Fortune house property want to develop the site into affordable housing, according to a press release from the borough Historic Preservation Commission. The names of the would-be buyers have yet to be...
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August 6th, 2007 @ 7am
In a move that embattled Best Liquors owner Sunny Sharma and many of his customers see as a blatant attempt to harass him out of business, the borough of Red Bank painted the curbs at Leighton Avenue and Catherine Street...
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August 1st, 2007 @ 3pm
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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.