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RED BANK: DUPONT TO MAN TOLLBOOTH
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“I’ll take your offer. You tell me the time and place,” DuPont told a rep for the tolltakers’ union, which is fighting a move to privatize collections. (Photo by JohnContinue reading "RED BANK: DUPONT TO MAN TOLLBOOTH"
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February 27th, 2014 @ 7am
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SEA BRIGHT RISING TO HELP REBUILD HOMES
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Sea Bright homes being elevated last June. Officials estimate 80 percent of the town’s homes are still vacant. Below, Chris Wood, flanked by Pete Forlenza and Zack Rosenburg, addresses aContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT RISING TO HELP REBUILD HOMES"
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February 26th, 2014 @ 1pm
LOCAL DRY CLEANER FINDS WETTER IS BETTER
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Laura Dorf with Lucy, one of two dogs who spend their days at her environmentally safe laundry business, and below with presser Dana Holmes. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading "LOCAL DRY CLEANER FINDS WETTER IS BETTER"
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October 30th, 2013 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MAN AT WORK
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Piero Vescio, general maintenance man at the Galleria at Red Bank for 23 years, repairs wooden a structure on the property in beautiful late-summer weather Monday. (Photo by Sarah Klepner.Continue reading "RED BANK: MAN AT WORK"
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September 9th, 2013 @ 2pm
RED BANK ZONERS NIX TRAINING OFFICE
Shore House consultant Pauline Nicholls, board president Susan Sandlass and attorney Phillip San Filippo at the zoning board hearing. (Photo by Sarah Klepner. Click to enlarge) By SARAH KLEPNER Red BankContinue reading "RED BANK ZONERS NIX TRAINING OFFICE"
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April 19th, 2013 @ 9am
RBR TEACHERS, BOARD RESUME TALKS
Teachers and board members returned to the bargaining table Thursday night. (Click to enlarge) By SARAH KLEPNER More than two years into a drawn-out negotiation process, including almost a year-and-a-halfContinue reading "RBR TEACHERS, BOARD RESUME TALKS"
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March 22nd, 2013 @ 7am
The owner of Red Bank’s Shell gasoline station has agreed to pay current and former employees of 72 New Jersey filling stations $3 million in overtime back wages, the federalContinue reading "STATION OWNER TO PAY $3M IN WAGE CLAIMS"
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March 8th, 2013 @ 11am
SEA BRIGHT: OPERATION SHEETROCK TRIMMED
The rebuilding of a public access stairway over the sea wall is among the projects in the scaled-back volunteer outreach, says coordinator Frank Lawrence, below. (Photo below by Wil Fulton.Continue reading "SEA BRIGHT: OPERATION SHEETROCK TRIMMED"
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February 26th, 2013 @ 8am
RED BANK: SCAFFOLD TO THE HEAVENS
A workman adjusts the protective netting on a scaffold surrounding the steeple of Saint James Church on Broad Street in Red Bank Wednesday. He and his colleagues from Arthur VincentContinue reading "RED BANK: SCAFFOLD TO THE HEAVENS"
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February 15th, 2013 @ 12pm
RED BANK SEALS BLUE COLLAR PACT
The contract applies to public utilities workers, seen here clearing snow on Broad Street last Saturday, as well as some clerical staffers at borough hall. (Click to enlarge) By JOEContinue reading "RED BANK SEALS BLUE COLLAR PACT"
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February 14th, 2013 @ 10am
RUMSON: REAL MAN CLIMBS FAKE TREE
Way up there, in a cell tower disguised as a ginormous tree, an unidentified utility worker made repairs Monday to telecom equipment damaged during Hurricane Sandy. The tower adjoins Rumson’sContinue reading "RUMSON: REAL MAN CLIMBS FAKE TREE"
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January 15th, 2013 @ 8am
SEA BRIGHT REOPENS TO OUTSIDERS
As seen in two views along Ocean Avenue Wednesday morning, passenger vehicles must share the road with earth movers, backhoes and dumptrucks. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD AfterContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT REOPENS TO OUTSIDERS"
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November 14th, 2012 @ 12pm
DIGGING FOR ICE CREAM?
11:04 a.m. A crew hired by the borough digs out the worn curb on Peters Place in Red Bank. (Photos by Stacie Fanelli. Click to enlarge) The borough has beenContinue reading "DIGGING FOR ICE CREAM?"
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June 20th, 2012 @ 1pm
PRELIMINARY: AVERAGE RED BANK TAX UP $94
The spending plan includes debt service on the estimated $1 million cost of a replacing 25-year-old Ladder 91, above.  (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Still a work inContinue reading "PRELIMINARY: AVERAGE RED BANK TAX UP $94"
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March 15th, 2012 @ 5am
LIBRARY TO FETE LIFE OF SIGMUND EISNER
Local-history librarian Elizabeth McDermott, below, with a custom-branded Eisner lightbulb in the second-floor New Jersey Room of the Red Bank Public Library, once the home of industrialist Sigmund Eisner. (ClickContinue reading "LIBRARY TO FETE LIFE OF SIGMUND EISNER"
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March 7th, 2012 @ 11am
Rumson’s council approved a 2012 budget that calls for a $3 increase to the local property tax for the owner of a home assessed at the borough-average $1 million, theContinue reading "PRESS: AVERAGE RUMSON TAX BILL UP $3"
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March 7th, 2012 @ 7am
POLICE ADD THREE, PROMOTE THREE OTHERS
Getting promotions were, from top left, Wendy Samis, Juan Sardo and Robert Clayton. Newly hired were, from left, Jhonatan Quispe, Stanley Balmer and Garrett Falco Jr. (Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "POLICE ADD THREE, PROMOTE THREE OTHERS"
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November 23rd, 2011 @ 9am
BRIDGE OPERATIONS PRIVATIZED
The control room of the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge will be staffed by employees of a private firm beginning next year following action Thursday by the Monmouth County Freeholders. (Click toContinue reading "BRIDGE OPERATIONS PRIVATIZED"
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November 11th, 2011 @ 9am
PICKETS TARGET ATRIUM CONTACTOR
For the fifth time in recent weeks, members of Carpenters Local 254 in Edison picketed a Pennsylvania-based concrete contractor on the Atrium at Navesink Harbor addition job in Red BankContinue reading "PICKETS TARGET ATRIUM CONTACTOR"
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October 28th, 2011 @ 12pm
ATRIUM PROJECT DRAWS PICKET
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June 24th, 2011 @ 7pm
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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 ...
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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.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.