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The Asbury Park Press has an article today on the Red Bank Borough Council's formation this week of a committee on education and technology, and how Councilman John Curley's vote on the matter may have backfired against him. Curley's was...
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October 11th, 2006 @ 10am
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Another Red Bank Council meeting, another ugly blow-up. And last night's was a Richter-scale doozie. As usual, the main event was Mayor Ed McKenna v. Councilman John Curley, but two other council members and a borough resident got into the...
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October 10th, 2006 @ 12pm
A Democratic state legislator is calling for a criminal investigation into whether Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck improperly lobbied the state Lottery Commission on behalf of a contractor at a time that she was employed by a firm doing public relations work...
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October 10th, 2006 @ 11am
The Star-Ledger's Steve Chambers takes a look today at a 26-year-old state law that limits local budget increases in Massachusetts to 2.5 percent, an idea that's getting some consideration here in New Jersey. No surprise, it turns out not to...
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October 9th, 2006 @ 11am
The West Side property that's the site of Best Liquors has been home to retail businesses for 90 years. For a good part of that history, it was a grocery, but since 1965, it's been a liquor retailer, says store...
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October 5th, 2006 @ 1am
First Montauk Securities, based on Newman Springs Road in Lincroft, has been hit with a $475,000 fine, and the firm's top two officials have resigned, as part of a settlement of fraud charges brought by the New Jersey Bureau of...
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October 4th, 2006 @ 5pm
Here's a tool that the folks who packed Red Bank Borough Hall over taxes last week will want to spend some time with. Actually, anyone who pays property taxes ought to take a look at it. Data maven Robert Gebeloff...
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October 3rd, 2006 @ 11am
It's on. With five weeks to go until election day, the race for mayor and two council seats in Red Bank is fully underway, with campaign literature filling mailboxes and the candidates stumping door-to-door. Can the dinner-interruptus phone calls be...
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October 3rd, 2006 @ 8am
"I'm pretty far to the left," Al Strasburger told us with a note of caution over the phone the other day, before we met him at his Oakland Street home for an interview. Looking back, we now see what a...
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September 28th, 2006 @ 3am
The Southies got the crowd they wanted—and the startled attention of Red Bank's governing body—as an overflow throng descended on the Borough Council Monday night to demand a halt to rising property taxes. Responding to a recent leafletting campaign launched...
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September 26th, 2006 @ 2am
The state of New Jersey has apparently had it with Sea Bright beach club owners—and the borough, too—over the question of just who owns the beach. Using a pair of court rulings as leverage, acting Attorney General Anne Milgram today...
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September 22nd, 2006 @ 6pm
At this point, it's a far cry from Proposition 13, the landmark 1970s effort that resulted in constitutional limits on property-tax increases in California. And it's barely a whisper compared to the noise made by the toilet-paper flaunting brigades who...
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September 21st, 2006 @ 9pm
As predicted by the Star-Ledger's Josh Margolin in June, Rumson resident James R. Zazzali, Associate Justice on the state Supreme Court, is Gov. Jon Corzine's choice to succeed Chief Justice Deborah Poritz upon her expected retirement next month, according to...
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September 21st, 2006 @ 10am
Only a few months ago, the Red Bank Charter School appeared to be on the brink of financial disaster. Now it's on a hot streak of fiscal good fortune, one that continued yesterday. Last month, the state Department of Education...
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September 20th, 2006 @ 11pm
Jack Westlake, the Monouth Couty Board of Taxation president who last week pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion charges, will quit his part-time county post, the Asbury Park Press reports, citing Westlake's lawyer. Westlake, whom the Press says is a...
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September 20th, 2006 @ 8am
News that the state had slashed a fine on the Red Bank Charter School from $1 million to $55,000 arrived just in time for the school's annual picnic, which made the event at Eastside Park rather more jubilant than it...
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September 1st, 2006 @ 9am
Councilman and mayoral wannabe John P. Curley was booted from his post overseeing the borough's finance department last night, according to Larry Higgs in today's Asbury Park Press. Mayor Ed McKenna initiated the ouster, repeating his claim that lax oversight...
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August 29th, 2006 @ 10am
A Trenton lawmaker is proposing a ban on foie gras, the cracker-meat that comes from, well, read for yourself, from the story in the Atlantic City Press: "To produce the delicacy, poultry farmers force-feed ducks or geese through metal tubes...
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August 28th, 2006 @ 4pm
The acrimony between departing Mayor Ed McKenna and mayoral candidate John Curley spilled over into the business of the Monmouth County Freeholders last night. Today's Asbury Park Press reports that Curley and other Republicans were, um, displeased with the Freeholders'...
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August 25th, 2006 @ 11am
Red Bank Middle School and Red Bank Regional High School were among the 643 schools statewide that failed to make “adequate yearly progress” under the federal No Child Left Behind law, the state Department of Education disclosed today. The results...
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August 22nd, 2006 @ 3pm
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.