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CORZINE TAPS LOCAL BACKERS
Yeah, this one has to be among the blurriest photos redbankgreen has ever published. But it’s the best shot we got as Gov. Jon Corzine headed back to his awaitingContinue reading "CORZINE TAPS LOCAL BACKERS"
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July 1st, 2009 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Christine McKenna with her daughter, Kayla, and Mayor-elect Pasquale Menna on election night 2006, at left; at right, with Kayla at a sendoff for her husband the following month. Christine McKenna, the wife of former Red Bank Mayor Ed McKenna,...
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June 3rd, 2009 @ 3pm
Mayor-elect Mike Skudera, right, with Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna at the KaBoom Fireworks fundraiser last month. Four years after winning a spot on the borough council, 32-year-old Mike Skudera was elected mayor of Tinton Falls yesterday in an upset...
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May 13th, 2009 @ 8am
Ledger Live host Brian Donohue again uses his hometown Red Bank as the backdrop for his daily vidpost, this one featuring him seated outside Zebu Forno as he riffs, bloggerlike, on the friction between GOP gubernatorial contenders Chris Christie and...
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May 7th, 2009 @ 12pm
The three elected officials have their legislative office at 32 Monmouth Street in Red Bank. The three 12th-district state legislators plan to hold their first-ever "tele-town hall" Tuesday night. The one-hour conference call, starting at 7:20p, is being touted by...
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April 27th, 2009 @ 6am
The squad's house on Spring Street. Below, a voting district map. (Click to enlarge) Voters from two Red Bank districts will be directed to a new polling station starting with next week's school board elections following a decision by the...
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April 15th, 2009 @ 7am
Mike Halfacre at No Joe's Café in Red Bank in 2007. Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre today declared his intention to run for Congress. Or did he? In an email sent today to family, friends and supporters, Halfacre says "I...
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April 14th, 2009 @ 5pm
Halfacre, a triathlete, takes a breather in Red Bank after a bike ride last summer. Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre appears to be tuning up for a run against 12th-district Congressman Rush Holt. He's created a political action committee known...
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April 10th, 2009 @ 10am
John Curley in his former domain, Red Bank. Former Red Bank council member John Curley is gearing up for a second run for a seat on the Monmouth County Freeholder board, a post he narrowly fell short of after a...
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March 16th, 2009 @ 2pm
Gov. Jon Corzine during his budget address to the Legislature on Tuesday. (Photo by Tim Larsen) Is there a New Jerseyan anywhere who savors the words "state budget?" In these economic times, the phrase is apt to turn even the...
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March 12th, 2009 @ 10am
By SUE MORGAN With none of the intra-party divisiveness seen last month in Wall Township over a similar vote, Sea Bright officials approved Monmouth County Republican Chairman and former Sheriff Joseph Oxley (left) as borough attorney Tuesday. On a snow-driven...
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February 5th, 2009 @ 7am
Getting ready to suit up? Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre is distancing himself from a report that he's mulling a run for Congress... while at the same time admitting that he's sorta kinda thinking about it. Wally Edge, the pseudonym...
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February 2nd, 2009 @ 3pm
Ben Lucarelli in his office above Broad Street in Red Bank. By Sue Morgan Ben Lucarelli is one of those people who volunteers for seemingly everything. He's coached kids' soccer, lacrosse and hockey in Fair Haven, his hometown of 17...
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January 29th, 2009 @ 9am
Big Bill Morganfield performs at the 2007 Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival. Which is hipper, jazz or blues? Or is it the festival itself that's 'hip?' Parking shortages. Exorbitant parking fines. Red tape at borough hall. Greedy landlords. Among...
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January 27th, 2009 @ 10am
Red Bank voters lined up at dawn on Nov. 4 to participate in the election that today puts Barack Obama in the White House as the 44th President of the United States of America. Among the one to two million...
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January 20th, 2009 @ 6am
Pilgrim Baptist aired the final McCain-Obama debate on a large screen in the worship hall in October. A live inauguration screening and luncheon will be held in the church basement. Of the many takeaways from the election of Barack Obama...
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January 16th, 2009 @ 6am
By SUE MORGAN Members of the newly-installed Republican majority in Sea Bright are hoping to land Joseph Oxley, their party's Monmouth County chairman, as borough attorney, redbankgreen has learned. If they succeed next month, it would mark the second such...
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January 5th, 2009 @ 6am
Grace Cangemi at her final appearance as a council member last night. Republican Grace Cangemi closed out her 21-month tenure on the Red Bank Council last night with pointed attacks on Democratics for "behind the curtain" decision-making. In her final...
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December 23rd, 2008 @ 7am
State Senator Jennifer Beck is about to add a new line or two to her résumé. Twelfth-district state Senator Jennifer Beck has been awarded a fellowship by the Aspen Institute, where elected officials study the values and principles underlying democracy,...
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December 8th, 2008 @ 11am
Two weeks after the election, Amy Mallet of Fair Haven has won a seat on the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders, tipping the majority in favor of Democrats for the first time in a generation, the Asbury Park Press...
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November 20th, 2008 @ 10am
Partyline
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.
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 ...