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FINAL BUDGET HANGS ON CWA FURLOUGHS
Council President Art Murphy conferred with Attorney Tom Hall during Tuesday night’s special meeting on the budget. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The Red BankContinue reading "FINAL BUDGET HANGS ON CWA FURLOUGHS"
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June 2nd, 2010 @ 5am
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UNION FURLOUGHS, SATURDAY PARKING OK’D
Kevin Tauro, who represents borough employees, gives the Red Bank council an earful Monday night. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) [Editor’s note: This article was updated at 12:50pContinue reading "UNION FURLOUGHS, SATURDAY PARKING OK’D"
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May 25th, 2010 @ 9am
M’TOWN TEACHERS REJECT FREEZE REQUEST
Middletown Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger discusses the “jousting” between the town and district teachers’ union at Monday night’s committee workshop. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI At the eleventh hour,Continue reading "M’TOWN TEACHERS REJECT FREEZE REQUEST ...
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May 4th, 2010 @ 4am
RESIDENTS SWEAT BUDGET DETAILS
Participants in last night’s Q&A on the Red Bank budget pick up info packets. (Click to enlarge) Red Bank officials held a marathon budget walk-through before a standing-room crowd atContinue reading "RESIDENTS SWEAT BUDGET DETAILS"
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April 29th, 2010 @ 10am
TAX HIKE, FURLOUGHS IN RED BANK BUDGET
Borough Administrator Stanley Sickels gave an overview of Red Bank’s budget Monday night. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI In an effort to shrink its budget, Red Bank won’tContinue reading "TAX HIKE, FURLOUGHS IN RED BANK BUDGET"
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April 27th, 2010 @ 8am
GROUP SEEKS FAIR TRADE CERT IN RED BANK
Bags like this one, and Fair Trade products, may become more prevalent in Red Bank. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Red Bank has held several appellations in itsContinue reading "GROUP SEEKS FAIR TRADE CERT IN RED BANK"
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March 25th, 2010 @ 11am
LONGEVITY PAY STAYS… FOR NOW
Borough employees turned out Monday night to voice their concerns over the council’s proposal to freeze longevity pay. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Just when it appeared thatContinue reading "LONGEVITY PAY STAYS… FOR NOW"
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February 23rd, 2010 @ 7am
MURPHY: BRING THE CONTRACT — AND A PEN
Murphy stewing at the August 24 council session. Red Bank’s council is expected to introduce a proposed labor contract with the Police Benevolent Association at tonight’s meeting. It had better,Continue reading "MURPHY: BRING THE CONTRACT — AND A PEN"
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September 8th, 2009 @ 8am
CONTRACT UPS WAGES, IMPOSES FURLOUGHS
Council members Michael DuPont, Ed Zipprich and Juanita Lewis heard details of the contract in a closed-door session Monday night before approving it in open session. Red Bank officials lastContinue reading "CONTRACT UPS WAGES, IMPOSES FURLOUGHS"
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June 23rd, 2009 @ 6am
Red Bank's municipal budget for the coming fiscal year sailed to approval Monday night despite the misgivings of several residents. Kim Senkeleski of John Street questioned increases in salary and health insurance costs. Harrison Avenue's Jim Willis bemoaned the "increasing...
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April 29th, 2009 @ 9am
Red Bank employees who work in borough hall at 90 Monmouth Street will have to start packing their workweeks into four days starting in June as part of an effort to cut utility costs. The move, approved by the borough...
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April 15th, 2009 @ 7am
It was all blue skies Monday for technician working on a tower 160 Newman Springs Road in Red Bank, home to Colorest Art Supplies and Enterprise Rent-a-Car. Not today, though. Expect a day of rain Tuesday and possibly Wednesday, says...
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April 14th, 2009 @ 6am
Sebastian Sokolowski of Laborers Local 78 stood outside Red Bank Corporate Plaza with a large, inflatable rodent on West Front Street for the second day Tuesday. The union is protesting the hiring of a non-union asbestos abatement contractor on a...
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April 8th, 2009 @ 6am
Councilman Mike DuPont says the finance committee that he heads is still looking for places to cut. Higher pension costs and an expected increase in tax delinquencies are the main drivers behind a potential increase in Red Bank's local tax...
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March 24th, 2009 @ 7am
Antonio Godinho, an official with the Residential Carpenters Local 119 in Edison, hands out fliers in front of Clearview Cinemas on White Street Saturday objecting to what he says is the hiring of out-of-state carpenters by Clearview on a project...
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February 23rd, 2009 @ 6am
Mayor Pasquale Menna. In the face of an historic economic downturn, Red Bank is trimming pay for its planning and zoning board attorneys, looking at a five-percent, across-all-departments budget cut and trying to hold the line in contract talks with...
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January 2nd, 2009 @ 10am
'Where Have I Seen This?' returns this week after taking a Christmas holiday — it's first break since we launched redbankgreen on June 1, 2006. So where does 'Where' go on vacation? We'll never tell. It's a secret. Let's just...
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January 1st, 2009 @ 6am
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...
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September 10th, 2008 @ 7am
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...
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September 9th, 2008 @ 11am
New Jersey's largest daily is "losing a battle to survive," its publisher says. The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest newspaper, has to shrink its payroll by 200 jobs and retool two union contracts by October 1 or it will have to...
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July 31st, 2008 @ 2pm
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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 ...
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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.