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Jesus Navarro of Cali Painting, Long Branch, adds some white shine to a picket fence along Fair Haven Road in Fair Haven this morning. Sun, sun, sun: that's what the weatherlady is saying the weekend holds in store. We've gotten...
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Bushels of clams await transport from a dock in Sea Bright earlier this summer. A lawsuit filed in federal court last month by local clammers names Red Bank as one of several "culprits" responsible for pollution that has cut their...
A slate of 3.5-percent pay raises for non-unionized borough employees approved last night will be the last across-the-board increase, Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna pledged last night. He said he had instructed Borough Administrator Stanley Sickels to implement and complete...
On tonight's Red Bank borough council agenda are measures to eliminate at least two salaried positions and boost the pay of all non-unionized employees by 3.5 percent. One job, the now-vacant position of deputy chief, would be eliminated as part...
Citing "deteriorating business conditions," Gannett Co, the owner of the Asbury Park Press, eliminated 120 positions at six New Jersey newspapers yesterday. Among the affected publications are the Press, the Home News-Tribune in East Brunswick and the Daily Record in...
Hatless at the moment, Rich Gardella wears several at his Allen Street office. By SUE MORGAN He's been on the job little more than seven months, but Rich Gardella, 35-year-old, spike-haired Fair Haven employee, is saving the modest-sized bedroom community...
Large numbers of undocumented Mexican immigrants are expected to begin lining up outside the Red Bank Charter School as early as this evening for a five-day visit by employees of the Mexican Consulate in New York beginning tomorrow. Thirteen consulate...
The Asbury Park Press is among four Gannett Co. newspapers in New Jersey that laid off a total of 55 employees yesterday, the Press itself reports. The axe fell after half of 166 workers offered early retirement three weeks ago...
The Red Bank Board of Education last night ratified a five-year employment contract with Superintendent Laura Morana that will pay her $155,000 this year, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The pact includes annual four-percent raises. It replaces a three-year...
Simon Rainey in the window of Little Willow, the store his conception inspired. Kristin Cooper Rainey is passionate about reusable diapers. One might reasonably ask: 'Why?' After all, they have what you might call an image problem, starting with the...
Already caught in a tightening squeeze on parking, employees at the Red Bank post office may now be facing a crackdown on the time they take from their posts to feed meters and move their cars, redbankgreen has learned. A...
For those recent high school and college grads wondering how to catch one last low-pressure summer, or those underemployed everybody-elses pining for a summer gig with lots of fresh air, this just in from deputy borough clerk Pam Borghi: Red...
Two River Theater founder Bob Rechnitz apparently can't believe what he's hearing as zoning board members detail their objections to his proposal. Bob Rechnitz thought he had a can't-miss idea. Buy a single-family house on the West Side of Red...
Today's Asbury Park Press has a feature on reverse commuters — people who come to the Shore from Manhattan to work. And all three people cited as examples happen to own stores in downtown Red Bank. Interviewed are Mike Buess...
More than 100 area residents turned out last night at Mahala F. Atchison Elementary School in Tinton Falls last night for a discussion on Gov. Jon Corzine's effort to balance the state budge using steep toll-road fare increases, today's Asbury...
State Senator Jennifer Beck and Mayor Pasquale Menna after Red Bank's government reorganization meeting last week. Her last two jobs, as a lobbyist and executive at a health insurance company, were used as cudgels against her by her opponent in...
Bucking Gov. Jon Corzine, Monmouth County is giving its 3,500 employees a day off Friday, the Asbury Park Press reports. Corzine, of course, has moved to end a decades-log tradition of giving state workers a paid day off on the...
By LINDA G. RASTELLI The building's roof is somewhat swaybacked, and the slatted wood walls are fringed near the ground by the ravages of water. But it serves its purpose. Likewise for the elderly pair who own this place. Essie...
Having developed an opposable thumb, which gave him enormous competitive advantages over other creatures, early man found that he might like to use it to make something to keep his precious digits from snapping off in the cold. Thus, gloves,...
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...
Partyline
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.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.