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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...
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February 22nd, 2008 @ 6am
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Red Bank Councilman John Curley has thrown his name in for consideration by Republican powerbrokers as a potential candidate for Monmouth County Freeholder in November, Curley has confirmed to the the Hub. In the current edition, the weekly reports that...
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February 14th, 2008 @ 7am
The white building at far right and other property is available for a community center, says Rev. Terrence K. Porter. The push for the creation of a Red Bank community center has a new element to it: an offer of...
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February 13th, 2008 @ 11am
Torn between Huckabee and Romney? Don't know whether to go Hillary or the Big O? We can't help you there. But for questions about the nuts and bolts of voting in today's Republican and Democratic presidential primaries, there's lots of...
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February 5th, 2008 @ 6am
Today's Asbury Park Press has a feature on Leighton Avenue resident John Tyler, who ran for Borough Council last year but came up short at the polls. It begins: Whether it's a defective utility pole or problems with a local...
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February 1st, 2008 @ 6am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI In a fiscal climate where good news about taxes seems as rare as a celebrity who hasn't been in rehab, Fair Haven has done the seemingly impossible: lowering its municipal taxes. The rate in the next...
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January 29th, 2008 @ 12pm
Every so often, sleepy old Fair Haven stirs itself to controversy. It happened this week when resident Art Kamin, longtime editor of the now-vanished Red Bank Register and a past president of the New Jersey Press Association, aimed a broadside...
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January 25th, 2008 @ 7am
Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre As noted above, here's Mayor Mike Halfacre's response, solicited by redbankgreen, to Art Kamin's op-ed piece, which ran this week in the Asbury Park Press. It is unfortunate that Mr. Kamin, despite his background in...
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January 25th, 2008 @ 7am
Yesterday's Asbury Park Press reported that longtime Re Bank volunteer fireman and council member John T. 'Jack' Illmensee died at age 72 Friday. His obituary reports that he was a member of Liberty Hose Co., the Red Bank Rescue team,...
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January 21st, 2008 @ 5am
State Senator Jennifer Beck will set up a 12th-district legislative office at 32 Monmouth Street, the former Red Bank Borough Hall building (or, one of them, that is) that now houses surfwear retailer Stokaboka at street level, today's Asbury Park...
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January 16th, 2008 @ 10am
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...
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January 8th, 2008 @ 9am
Calvary Baptist Church on Bridge Avenue last night hosted a music-filled service last night to commemorate the ministry of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. whose birthdate, Jan. 15, is celebrated next week. Sponsored by the Greater Red Bank Ministers Association,...
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January 7th, 2008 @ 6am
Jo-An Kalaka-Adams was all smiles as she posed today with Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno. By LINDA G. RASTELLI Stepping into the spotlight for the first time since her apparent failure to win a second term as mayor in November,...
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January 5th, 2008 @ 4pm
Councilwomen Sharon Lee, Grace Cangemi and Kathy Horgan share a laugh after Tuesday's goverment reorganization in Red Bank. By LINDA G. RASTELLI For the first time in its century of existence, the Red Bank Borough Council has three women as...
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January 2nd, 2008 @ 7am
All the same professionals hired by Red Bank last year will likely be reappointed when the borough government reorganizes tomorrow, says Mayor Pasquale Menna. But four of them currently participating in the state Public Employee Retirement System through the borough...
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December 31st, 2007 @ 10am
Mayor Pasquale Menna may live to regret his pledge to axe borough health benefits for himself and future mayors. Last night, in what appeared to be an off-the-cuff retort, Menna said he would run the George Sheehan Classic, a somewhat...
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December 20th, 2007 @ 6am
Councilman R.J Bifani The best part, hands down, he says, is what was accomplished in the realm of housing on the West Side. At his last meeting as a member of the Red Bank Borough Council last night, R.J. Bifani...
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December 20th, 2007 @ 6am
For the eight years he's been publishing the Asbury Park-based triCity News, Dan Jacobson has been angling for a dinner invite from Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna. As readers of redbankgreen know, Menna is a foodie who has his own...
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December 14th, 2007 @ 11am
Sen. Hillary Clinton has widened her lead in New Jersey over Sen. Barrack Obama, and Rudy Giuliani — though he's slipped a bit — still leads Sen. John McCain by a wide margin, according to a newly released Quinnipiac University...
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December 13th, 2007 @ 9am
Today's New York Post features a Q&A with Rumsonian Mickey Gooch, who among other things is a Wall Street billionaire, head New Jersey fundraiser for GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani and co-owner, with his wife Diane, of the Red Bank-based...
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December 10th, 2007 @ 9am
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 ...