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The R-FH Euro challengers: from left, Sam Wilson, Robbie Trocchia, Margot Keale, Steven Fuschetti and Jennifer Lapp. If you think understanding the U.S. economy is a brain-buster, try overlaying its complexity with currency exchange rates, European history and social trends...
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May 12th, 2008 @ 2pm
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Springsteen signs autographs before last night's show. Bruce Springsteen gave fans something to gush about last night, according to the accounts we've seen so far. His show with the full E Street Band at the Count Basie Theatre included complete,...
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May 8th, 2008 @ 7am
A month after fellow Democrats showed him the door in Matawan, some residents of are wondering why Pasquale Menna lost his gig as borough attorney there, according to a report in this week's Independent weekly. Menna, who is of course...
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May 1st, 2008 @ 6am
As suddenly as he was back in, he's out again. Former state Senator John Bennett III, who stunned GOP party locals two weeks ago when he threw his name in as a candidate for local committeeman from Red Bank, has...
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April 24th, 2008 @ 6am
The Highlands Bridge and overpass to Sandy Hook as they appeared in mid-February, shortly after the arrival of construction equipment. By SUE MORGAN The stroke of a state official's pen has Sea Bright officials on edge about who or what...
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April 17th, 2008 @ 8am
Councilman and freeholder-wannabe John Curley. Several times during the bimonthly Red Bank council meeting on Monday, Mayor Pasquale Menna wryly referred to Councilman John Curley — his Republican opponent in the 2006 mayoral race — as "the future Monmouth County...
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April 17th, 2008 @ 6am
Obama supporter Bruce Springsteen. Throwing another log on the should-entertainers-endorse fire today is Rumsonite/Colts Necker Bruce Springsteen, who's getting behind Sen. Barrack Obama's presidential bid. In a statement posted today on his website, Springsteen says Obama "speaks to the America...
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April 16th, 2008 @ 2pm
Red Bank residents will get a chance to delve into the whys and wherefores of the borough's proposed 2008-'09 budget next week. Reprising an effort introduced a year ago to improve transparency, borough-government department heads will offer up details of...
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April 14th, 2008 @ 9am
Last November, redbankgreen ran a feature on the paucity of Democrats in Rumson, where no member of the party is believed to have won elective office in the borough's 101-year history. Now, two examples of "the rarest of species, which...
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April 10th, 2008 @ 8am
After a couple of years of lying low at the local level, it appears that former state Senator John O. Bennett III wants a piece of the political action in Red Bank. The Asbury Park Press reports today that Bennett...
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April 8th, 2008 @ 12pm
Grace Cangemi will try to make it two out of three in November, when she runs for a full-term council spot. The Asbury Park Press says that Republicans Grace Cangemi and John Tyler will reprise their council candidacies from last...
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April 7th, 2008 @ 4pm
Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon. Six months ago, Declan O'Scanlon was a contender for state Assembly fighting political accusations of cronyism for his work on the Fair Haven cell tower deal. You might think that the last thing O'Scanlon would want to...
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March 28th, 2008 @ 6am
Red Bank Councilman John Curley has captured the second and final spot on the Monmouth County Republican ticket in this year's freeholder election, GOP committeeman Art Gallagher reports on his More Monmouth Musings blog. Curley topped Holmdel Mayor Serena DiMaso,...
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March 27th, 2008 @ 6am
One way or another, John Curley's campaign shoes will get a workout this year. Today's the day Red Bank Councilman John Curley finds out if he'll be running on the GOP ticket for Monmouth County Freeholder. The Republicans will hold...
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March 26th, 2008 @ 7am
"Regionalization does not work for small communities. Period." That's how an op-ed piece by Sea Bright Mayor Maria Fernandes, writing in today's Asbury Park Press, begins. Her target: state-mandated formulas for apportioning costs among towns joined in regional school districts....
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March 20th, 2008 @ 7am
The borough parking lot on White Street, as seen last September. Here's a story that will gladden the hearts of many Red Bank retailers and restaurateurs while no doubt raising hackles in other quarters. The Asbury Park Press is reporting...
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March 18th, 2008 @ 8am
Today's Asbury Park Press provides a district-by-district rundown of candidacies for school boards in Monmouth County. The elections are scheduled for April 15. Declarations by candidates were due yesterday at 4p. Here's what the Press reported regarding filers in our...
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February 26th, 2008 @ 6am
A virtual tie at Saturday's screening committee session for potential Monmouth County Freeholder candidates means that Red Bank Councilman John Curley and Holmdel Mayor Serena DiMaso will have another month to court favor with county Republicans. Party chairman Adam Puharic...
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February 26th, 2008 @ 5am
The screening committee of the Monmouth County Republicans failed Saturday to select a slate to run for two county freeholder seats open in November, according to the Asbury Park Press. Red Bank Borough Councilman John Curley's still in the running...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 5am
Will John Curley's firebrand personality fly with Monmouth County Republican powerbrokers? The Red Bank councilman will find out tomorrow when he goes before the party's screening committee in a bid to be one of two nominees to run for county...
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February 22nd, 2008 @ 4pm
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 ...