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Red Bank Democrats swept the board in Tuesday's election, led by mayoral candidate and Latin buff Pasquale Menna, who outpolled fellow councilmember John Curley by 101 votes in unofficial tallying to become the first immigrant Italian to win the borough's...
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November 8th, 2006 @ 12am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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After a dry run in the June primaries, Monmouth County plans to use touch-screen electronic voting machines for the first time in a general election on Tuesday. The change in technology means that returns will be made available via the...
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November 6th, 2006 @ 3pm
Pat Menna is showing off the first floor of his home, a spacious Dutch Colonial he shares with his five-year-old white Labrador retriever, Bella. It’s on a corner lot in one of Red Bank’s more upmarket neighborhoods, and in contrast...
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November 5th, 2006 @ 2am
Somehow, the décor seems out of character for the sole occupant of this 673-square-foot condo at Red Bank Manor, a shady cluster of two-story red-brick buildings off Spring Street. For starters, it’s painted beige, a neutral color. And with its...
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November 5th, 2006 @ 2am
The final installment of our three-part Q&A with the mayoral candidates has the scholarly Pasquale Menna invoking the Ostrogoths and the combative John Curley backing away from use of the term "flunkies." Oh, and we also find out why they...
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November 2nd, 2006 @ 12am
How close is next week's mayoral election in Red Bank looking? Well, there are no polls that we know of. So redbankgreen devised its own measure. We call it the Electometer, a count of yard signs touting the candidates: Council...
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October 30th, 2006 @ 3pm
In the second of three excerpts from our interviews with Pasquale Menna and John Curley, the mayoral candidates size each other up. And, as always, the shadow of Mayor Ed McKenna looms. redbankgreen will have one more excerpt on Nov....
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October 26th, 2006 @ 1am
Democratic mayoral candidate Pasquale Menna has acknowledged that mailed campaign literature used to attack his opponent, John Curley, contained made-up newspaper excerpts, according to today's Asbury Park Press. "It was an error on the campaign's part. We didn't do it...
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October 19th, 2006 @ 1pm
Is Red Bank riding a surge of prosperity, poised to begin spreading its commercial and cultural riches beyond the downtown to the West Side? Or has development run amok, altering the town’s small-town character for the worse, and sticking residents...
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October 18th, 2006 @ 11pm
"JOHN CURLEY... ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL," declares a recent campaign mailer sent out by Red Bank Democrats in one of the first attack ads of this year's mayoral race. Bearing an image of a pillow on a steering wheel, the...
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October 17th, 2006 @ 9am
They were on their very best behavior. No candidate cast aspersions at another's character or profession. No citizen got sucked into a verbal brawl with an elected official or council wannabe. In fact, no one said much of anything at...
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October 12th, 2006 @ 1am
Former Middletown Committeeman Raymond O'Grady, who purportedly told undercover FBI investigators that he could "smell a cop...a mile away," was sentenced to 43 years in federal prison today for his role in the wide-ranging corruption probe called Operation Bid Rig....
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October 11th, 2006 @ 4pm
The Asbury Park Press has an article today on the Red Bank Borough Council's formation this week of a committee on education and technology, and how Councilman John Curley's vote on the matter may have backfired against him. Curley's was...
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October 11th, 2006 @ 10am
Another Red Bank Council meeting, another ugly blow-up. And last night's was a Richter-scale doozie. As usual, the main event was Mayor Ed McKenna v. Councilman John Curley, but two other council members and a borough resident got into the...
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October 10th, 2006 @ 12pm
It's on. With five weeks to go until election day, the race for mayor and two council seats in Red Bank is fully underway, with campaign literature filling mailboxes and the candidates stumping door-to-door. Can the dinner-interruptus phone calls be...
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October 3rd, 2006 @ 8am
"I'm pretty far to the left," Al Strasburger told us with a note of caution over the phone the other day, before we met him at his Oakland Street home for an interview. Looking back, we now see what a...
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September 28th, 2006 @ 3am
Councilman and mayoral wannabe John P. Curley was booted from his post overseeing the borough's finance department last night, according to Larry Higgs in today's Asbury Park Press. Mayor Ed McKenna initiated the ouster, repeating his claim that lax oversight...
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August 29th, 2006 @ 10am
The acrimony between departing Mayor Ed McKenna and mayoral candidate John Curley spilled over into the business of the Monmouth County Freeholders last night. Today's Asbury Park Press reports that Curley and other Republicans were, um, displeased with the Freeholders'...
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August 25th, 2006 @ 11am
The buck for the latest increase in Red Bank property taxes stops at the far right end of the Borough Council dais, where John P. Curley sits, according to Mayor Ed McKenna. McKenna blamed Curley for the 4-cents-per-$100-assessment increase approved...
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August 18th, 2006 @ 10am
Today's Asbury Park Press samples some of the familiar complaints about parking in downtown Red Bank, an issue in which the challenge of finding a space near one's destination or staying one coin ahead of the meter reader counts as...
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August 14th, 2006 @ 11am
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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.