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Tinton Falls officials are considering an ordinance that would require hotels and motels to make photo IDs mandatory for guest check-in — something, presumably, that most such establishments already require of at least one guest per room. But it would...
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February 4th, 2007 @ 12pm
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The top two people at the Red Bank Parks & Recreation Department, whose names were curiously absent from the borough council reappointments list on Jan. 1, have gotten the seal of approval to remain in their positions. Director Bob Evans...
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January 31st, 2007 @ 8am
After just a year in Trenton, Red Bank's Jennifer Beck has announced she'll try to leap from the Assembly to the state Senate in November. According to a story in the Asbury Park Press, Beck said she'll run for the...
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January 30th, 2007 @ 6am
Red Bank resident Jack Westlake, former president of the Monmouth County Board of Taxation, was sentenced to three months in federal prison and seven months home confinement Thursday for tax evasion. Westlake, 76, of Ambassador Drive in the Elk Ridge...
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January 26th, 2007 @ 8am
Kaye Ernst wants Grace Cangemi to succeed her on the Borough Council. But will Mayor Pasquale Menna and his Democratic majority risk giving the tailwind of incumbency to a Republican who came within a couple of dozen votes of winning...
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January 24th, 2007 @ 7am
In a move that stunned her council colleagues, Kaye Ernst Monday night announced that she's resigning and moving to Pennsylvania after little more than a year on the Borough Council. One of two Republicans on the six-member governing body, Ernst...
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January 23rd, 2007 @ 4pm
The owner of a now-defunct auto body shop on Pearl Street in Red Bank was the ringleader of an alleged insurance scam that led to federal indictments yesterday of 11 people in three states, authorities contend. John Cotona, 38, of...
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January 20th, 2007 @ 11am
Shellfishermen downriver in Sandy Hook Bay weren't entirely satisfied, but Red Bank and state officials say they're attacking elevated fecal coliform levels in the Navesink River with all they've got, and that it's working. The most effective tool at their...
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January 19th, 2007 @ 12am
The Red Bank trio who last year admitted defrauding Fort Monmouth out of close to $1 million through a no-show-jobs scam have been sentenced to federal prison, the Asbury Park Press reports. The tally: 46 months for Michael Rzeplinski, a...
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January 18th, 2007 @ 6pm
Today's Asbury Park Press has a story about what may prove to be the first test of the Democratic majority's professed willingness to "work with" Councilman John Curley: parking fines. Curley, one of two Republicans on the six-member council, wants...
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January 17th, 2007 @ 10am
OK, so he'll probably have a suit on underneath. Still, it isn't every day that a Supreme Court justice doffs his gown and spills about the job for an audience. Rumson's James Zazzali, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme...
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January 17th, 2007 @ 7am
The would-be developer of the former Doremus estate in Fair Haven wants to give the adjoining Schwenker's Pond to the borough. He may soon be advised to go jump in a lake. "The pond is a mess, frankly," says Mayor...
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January 16th, 2007 @ 9am
Officials from the state Department of Environmental Protection are scheduled to present the results of a recent study of fecal coliform in the Navesink River Wednesday night. The news isn't good. The meeting of Navesink River Municipalities Committee “is of...
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January 15th, 2007 @ 6am
Some apparent misperceptions about a house fire in Fair Haven last summer have, ironically, jump-started efforts to correct a problem that's existed for decades: inadequate water pressure in the western part of the borough and in easternmost Red Bank. And...
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January 12th, 2007 @ 8am
Best Liquors owner Sunny Sharma and an employee of his Leighton Avenue store have each pleaded guilty to one count of selling alcohol to a minor, according to Police Chief Mark Fitzgerald. But Sharma's legals woes are far from over....
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January 11th, 2007 @ 1am
A presentation on code enforcement matters drew a pretty sparse and rather muted crowd Wednesday night. But redbankgreen was distracted, we admit, by who showed up and sat together at the table nearest Borough Administrator Stanley Sickels as he spoke...
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January 11th, 2007 @ 1am
Something's brewing at the Red Bank Parks and Recreation Department, which has Borough Hall watchers abuzz with speculation. But no one in a position to say what, exactly, is up will say much, citing rules covering government-employee rights. Hmm. Here's...
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January 9th, 2007 @ 5pm
Mayor Pasquale Menna officiated his first marriage ceremony Monday night shortly before the bimonthly Borough Council meeting, marrying Amilcar Chavez and Cira Carcaño of Red Bank. Weddings before council sessions aren't uncommon. But Menna did the honors in Spanish—the first...
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January 9th, 2007 @ 12am
Red Bankers have heard a lot about code enforcement in recent months. There appears to be a consensus that a lack of vigor in holding absentee landlords accountable for housing violations is at the root of rental-house overcrowding, particularly but...
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January 8th, 2007 @ 11pm
We thought we'd get something fun started last month when we asked you, dear reader, for your thoughts as to Ed McKenna's post-mayoral career. Now we feel like the party host who's just brought out the vacation photos. To get...
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January 8th, 2007 @ 3pm
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MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
LONG LIVE LOCAL NEWS!
"Long Live Local News" flags from redbankgreen's 20th anniversary celebration in Marine Park Tuesday prove to be the perfect compliment to s ...
MUMS AND WITCHES
17 Prospect Ave (Photo by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
KAYAKERS CLEAR RIVER JUNK
Partyline photo: "The Navesink Nymphs" clear floating tires from the river.
PAINT IT PURPLE?
Caption: ‘Should it be done purple?’ Perfect day. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
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