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Tricia Rumola, a borough native who rose from college intern to executive director of Red Bank RiverCenter and helped solidify its national reputation in the realm of downtown revitalizations, is leaving the organization at the end of the month. Rumola...
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August 14th, 2007 @ 1pm
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A federal watchdog agency will look into the circumstances under which a Rumson developer obtained rights to convert former military housing at Fort Hancock into commercial space on Sandy Hook without showing he has the money to do the job,...
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July 31st, 2007 @ 6am
Cash it out, or turn it into a community center? To the borough of Red Bank, it's an asset beter turned into cash. To kids' activist David Prown, it's about to become a missed opportunity. On the agenda for Monday's...
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July 22nd, 2007 @ 2pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Six weeks after the primary election but well before the real start of this year’s race for Red Bank council, the Republicans have changed their slate. Leighton Avenue resident John Tyler has replaced Mary Ellen Bannon...
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July 19th, 2007 @ 7am
The race is on. The first press release (that we know of, at least) in this year's race for Red Bank council has Democrat Ed Zipprich landing the endorsement of Democracy for America, a Burlington, Vt.-based political action committee founded...
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July 16th, 2007 @ 7am
Virginia Bauer, who rallied Congresss to enact tax breaks for families of Sept. 11, 2001 victims after her husband died in the attack, is leaving her post as state Commerce secretary to take a job with the real estate firm...
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July 12th, 2007 @ 7am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI OK, let's get right to it: How could she not have known? "I didn't have time to listen to rumors," Dina Matos McGreevey told redbankgreen last night, shortly before she took the floor at a posh...
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July 1st, 2007 @ 2pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI After years of grousing by Fair Haven residents about a dead zone of cellphone service, and more than a year of contention over how to resolve it, the borough may at last have hit on a...
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June 28th, 2007 @ 9am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Red Bank's legal offensive against the controversial Best Liquors store on Leighton Avenue is the economic equivalent of a 'death penalty' case, its lawyer argued Thursday night at the conclusion of a three-hour hearing. The session...
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June 14th, 2007 @ 11pm
The mud is flying again in the Jim McGreevey v. Dina Matos McGreevey marital spat, with the ex-Mrs. McG claiming in a lawsuit that the former governor's accusation that she's a homophobe have hurt sales of her newly released tell-all...
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June 12th, 2007 @ 3pm
With just a week to go in his short tenure as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, James Zazzali of Rumson is continuing to lobby for higher judge's salaries, telling an audience in Paramus yesterday that judiciary pay...
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June 8th, 2007 @ 7am
Usually, when a chief financial officer is in the news, you're talking crisis. Think Enron. Think WorldCom. Think Borough of Red Bank last August. That's when things kind of blew up at Borough Hall, with the disclosure that freshly-resigned CFO...
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May 30th, 2007 @ 12pm
Considering its dire implications, the news earlier this month that a Red Bank house had been had been designated one of New Jersey's 10 most endangered historic sites was oddly encouraging to a near-octagenarian with a weatherbeaten voice and fu...
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May 25th, 2007 @ 6am
A two-man state ethics panel headed by former Red Bank Mayor and Associate Supreme Court Justice Daniel O'Hern has ruled that Gov. Jon Corzine's relationship with ex-girlfriend and labor leader Carla Katz should not have barred him from participating in...
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May 8th, 2007 @ 1pm
For the second time in seven years, Fair Haven Councilman Chris Walrath is stepping down, again citing work and family obligations as distractions from his public duty. "This will be my last council meeting," Walrath announced at the end of...
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May 8th, 2007 @ 6am
Overriding the preference of the borough's finance chief, the Tinton Falls Borough Council last night shot down a budget proposed by Mayor Peter Maclearie in favor of one with no increase in the property tax rate, today's Asbury Park Press...
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May 2nd, 2007 @ 6am
The six candidates vying for three council seats in next week's election in Tinton Falls assembled last night for what turned out to be a "congenial" debate, according to today's Asbury Park Press. Among the points of agreement: the new...
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May 1st, 2007 @ 7am
The results are finally in from last week's Red Bank Board of Education election, which were delayed by a snafu. In addition to the previously announced victor Ben Forest, an incumbent, winners were write-in winners Ann Goldman of McLaren Street...
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April 23rd, 2007 @ 6pm
At 9:30a Wednesday, Mayor Pasquale Menna was in his law office talking on the phone with redbankgreen about some borough business and trying to get off the line posthaste. He had an obligation to meet. Back in March, while reading...
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April 19th, 2007 @ 12am
New Jersey's 12th legislative district, which includes of much of Monmouth County and a small portion of Mercer County (map), won't be part of a pilot program to test an expermental approach to financing "clean elections" in November. A special...
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April 17th, 2007 @ 7am
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SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.