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[CLARIFICATION: Robert A. Herold, owner of The Fence Guys in Highlands, has asked redbankgreen to clarify the identity and employment of the suspect named in the article below. Charged in the theft was Herold's 29-year-old son, Robert F. Herold, who...
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March 16th, 2007 @ 7am
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Gov. Jon Corzine yesterday told a gathering a Brookdale Community College that he supported a plan to transform Fort Monmouth into a private-sector technology center after the military communications facility is shut down in 2011, the Asbury Park Press reports...
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March 15th, 2007 @ 7am
The owner of the average Red Bank home would pay $40.50 a year more in school taxes under a Board of Ed spending plan being readied for introduction tonight, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The budget is slated for a...
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March 15th, 2007 @ 6am
The line of succession, it seems, does run pretty much straight to Grace Cangemi. After losing a close race for the governing body in November, Cangemi will be nominated tomorrow to complete the council term of Kaye Ernst, who quit...
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March 14th, 2007 @ 12pm
The Hub has breaking news today on the settlement by Red Bank of its role in a sexual harrasment lawsuit brought by a female employee who claimed to have been stalked and inappropriately touched by former Parking Director Neil Burnip....
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March 14th, 2007 @ 11am
Gov. Jon Corzine is scheduled to appear at the Lincroft campus of Brookdale Community College tomorrow morning to "outline his vision" for the redevelopment of Fort Monmouth and to answer questions from the public, the Asbury Park Press reports today....
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March 13th, 2007 @ 10am
The local property tax for the average Red Bank home would increase by $58 later this year under the proposed 2007-'08 budget formally introduced last night. That's down from the $97 average increase anticipated by a draft of the budget...
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March 13th, 2007 @ 7am
That public forum on government responsiveness we told you about immediately below this post? We've solved the mystery about the date: it's tomorrow, March 13. The start time is in fact 7p, and the location is still the firehouse in...
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March 12th, 2007 @ 4pm
Assemblyman Mike Panter thinks local government isn't as responsive as it should be. So he's holding a public forum for area residents to tee up the topic. Want more details? Well, you won't find them on Panter's blog, which hasn't...
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March 12th, 2007 @ 3pm
Red Bank Borough's somewhat underutilized official website (we're being diplomatic here) is about to make the great leap into the 21st century. The Asbury Park Press reports that the site will go live with new features tomorrow. Among the first...
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March 8th, 2007 @ 10am
A partial reopening of the Red Bank Public Library — initially planned for December and then postponed until this month — probably won't happen at all, library officials say now. The upshot: library users will have to wait until May...
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March 7th, 2007 @ 2pm
New Jersey's citizens have the right to videotape public meetings, the state Supreme Court has ruled in a unanimous opinion written by Rumson resident and Chief Justice James Zazzali. The Star-Ledger has news of the ruling, which came this morning...
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March 7th, 2007 @ 2pm
It's only a draft document, one that even councilman and finance committee chairman Michael DuPont said he had not seen beforehand. But a preliminary Red Bank budget unveiled at a first-ever presentation of its kind Monday night calls for a...
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March 7th, 2007 @ 12am
The owner of a Fair Haven furniture store was arrested Monday for failing to deliver on $290,000 worth of online orders from 83 customers across the U.S., according to a report by the Asbury Park Press. It's not the first...
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March 5th, 2007 @ 10pm
Middletown has no standing to challenge, in court, the state's approval of an affordable-housing-obligation swap involving Red Bank and Manalapan, a state Appeals Court has ruled, according to an article posted today on the Asbury Park Press website. The decision...
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March 1st, 2007 @ 11am
The state-leading 18.6-percent increase in aid to Red Bank schools disclosed Monday put the Board of Education in a pleasant position a day later: having to rework a preliminary budget to accomodate an additional $2.36 million $367,871 in funding for...
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February 28th, 2007 @ 8am
The $10.1 million renovation of the Eastern Branch of the Monmouth County Library is now expected to be completed in June, four years after work began and two years later than originally expected, according to a story in today's Asbury...
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February 28th, 2007 @ 6am
Gov. Jon Corzine's proposed budget includes a more than 18-percent increase in state aid to Red Bank schools. From today's Star-Ledger: Details of Corzine's state budget proposal released yesterday show the first significant, across-the-board increases for schools since 2000, with...
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February 27th, 2007 @ 7am
Local Republicans Monday night disclosed the names of three possible replacements for Kaye Ernst, who quit her council seat earlier this month after little more than a year in office. But by the time Councilman John Curley identified the three...
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February 27th, 2007 @ 12am
Remember last September's mini tax rebellion, the one led by residents of South Street ticked off about their property tax bills? Well, the Southies and anyone else with gimlet eye for government fat and waste will get a chance to...
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February 27th, 2007 @ 12am
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 ...