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BRIDGES HEAD IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS
Vehicles arriving onto the Sea Bright peninsula via the partially completed Route 36 bridge from Highlands over the weekend. (Photos by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Call it a taleContinue reading "BRIDGES HEAD IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS"
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November 2nd, 2009 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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A RUNNING START FOR BIKE/PED PROPONENTS
Jenny Rossano of Worthley Street and her map, below, with half-mile radii drawn around each of Red Bank’s five schools and suggested bike routes in red. (Click to enlarge) [SeeContinue reading "A RUNNING START FOR BIKE/PED PROPONENTS"
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October 22nd, 2009 @ 9am
COUNCIL CANDIDATE: SENKELESKI
[audio:https://redbankgreen.s3.amazonaws.com/redbankgreen/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/senkeleski.mp3] Today, redbankgreen brings you the fourth and final installment in a series of unedited audio interviews with each of the four candidates for two seats on the Red BankContinue reading "COUNCIL CANDID ...
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October 22nd, 2009 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER STATION LOT TO GET UPGRADES
The lot is owned by NJ Transit but operated by the borough. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Fifteen years without repairs have taken a toll on the LittleContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER STATION LOT TO GET UPGRADES"
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October 22nd, 2009 @ 5am
COUNCIL CANDIDATE: MURPHY
[audio:https://redbankgreen.s3.amazonaws.com/redbankgreen/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/murphy.mp3] Today, redbankgreen brings you the third in a series of unedited audio interviews with each of the four candidates for two seats on the Red Bank Council up forContinue reading "COUNCIL CANDIDATE: MURPHY"
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October 21st, 2009 @ 7am
COUNTY BANS TRUCKS ON OCEANIC BRIDGE
The Oceanic Bridge looking south toward Rumson, as seen last July. Below, a structural element shows signs of deterioration. (Click to enlarge) Monmouth County has effectively banned trucks from theContinue reading "COUNTY BANS TRUCKS ON OCEANIC BRIDGE"
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October 21st, 2009 @ 6am
COUNCIL CANDIDATE: LOMBARDI
[audio:https://redbankgreen.s3.amazonaws.com/redbankgreen/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lombardi.mp3] Today, redbankgreen brings you the second in a series of unedited audio interviews with each of the four candidates for two seats on the Red Bank Council up forContinue reading "COUNCIL CANDIDATE: LOMB ...
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October 20th, 2009 @ 6am
IN SEARCH OF SAFETY FOR BIKERS & WALKERS
Rolling out of the East Side: the ‘Mori Place Marauders’ want to make biking and walking to school in Red Bank safer. On a typical morning during the school year,Continue reading "IN SEARCH OF SAFETY FOR BIKERS & WALKERS"
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October 19th, 2009 @ 10am
[audio:https://redbankgreen.s3.amazonaws.com/redbankgreen/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/dupont.mp3] Today, redbankgreen kicks off a series of unedited audio interviews with each of the four candidates for two seats on the Red Bank Council up for grabs in theContinue reading "COUNCIL CANDIDATE: DuPONT"
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October 19th, 2009 @ 9am
SIGNS POINT AGAIN TO ‘CONTROVERSY COVE’
Kathleen Gasienica, left, and Cindy Burham, third from left, speaking with Administrator Stanley Sickels after last night’s council meeting. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Less than a week after Mayor Pasquale MennaContinue reading "SIGNS POINT AGAIN TO ‘CONTROVERSY COVE’"
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October 13th, 2009 @ 7am
MENNA PLEDGES END TO COVE CONTROVERSY
Kayakers putting into the Navesink River at the Maple Cove Sunday evening. (Click to enlarge) An ongoing battle over a couple of benches and sign proposed for installation on publicContinue reading "MENNA PLEDGES END TO COVE CONTROVERSY"
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October 7th, 2009 @ 6am
COMING SOON TO A SINK NEAR YOU
Yep, it’s brown alright. This photo was taken at 9:20a today at a home in Red Bank. Residents who haven’t been affected yet probably will be sometime in the nextContinue reading "COMING SOON TO A SINK NEAR YOU"
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October 6th, 2009 @ 9am
MILLING MAPLE
Months after the project was supposed to be completed, the new traffic lights still aren’t operational at the traffic-bolloxing intersection of Maple Avenue, Water Street and White Street in RedContinue reading "MILLING MAPLE"
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October 2nd, 2009 @ 8am
PARK AT INCINERATOR SITE YEARS AWAY
Mayor Pasquale Menna with engineer Christine Ballard of T&M Associates at the incinerator site last Friday. (Click to enlarge) The work of finally pulverizing Red Bank’s 70-plus-year-old incinerator smokestack toContinue reading "PARK AT INCINERATOR SITE YEARS AWAY"
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September 30th, 2009 @ 8am
RENAMING HONORS O’HERN’S ACHIEVEMENTS
Family members and other admirers of the late mayor and state Supreme Court justice gathered for an evening ceremony Sunday. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI It would have been easy for DanielContinue reading "RENAMING HONORS O’HERN’S ACHIEVEMENTS"
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September 28th, 2009 @ 7am
BOROUGH HALL TO UNDERGO ENERGY AUDIT
The borough acquired and renovated the onetime auto showroom and office building in 1997. (Click to enlarge) The home of Red Bank’s government is about to get a going-over byContinue reading "BOROUGH HALL TO UNDERGO ENERGY AUDIT"
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September 23rd, 2009 @ 2pm
Plans for the demolition of Red Bank’s idle incinerator stack are moving ahead, with work expected to begin as early as Monday,  borough engineer Christine Ballard tells redbankgreen. In aContinue reading "STACK MAY COME DOWN MONDAY"
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September 22nd, 2009 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN DISCONNECTS DISPATCH PLAN
Police and fire dispatch duties will be shifted to the Monmouth County Sheriff’s office, borough officials said. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Abandoning a plan hatched in controversy, Fair Haven won’t beContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN DISCONNECTS DISPATCH PLAN"
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September 15th, 2009 @ 12am
Here’s Star-Ledger video reporter Andre Malok’s takeaway from Tuesday night’s town hall meeting of federal healthcare reform, held at the Red Bank Middle School. An Asbury Park Press video isContinue reading "SLEDGER TOWN HALL VIDEO"
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August 26th, 2009 @ 9am
HOSTILE CROWD SHOUTS DOWN PALLONE
With the auditorium inside already packed, a crowd of more than 1,000 people snaked around the front yard of the Red Bank Middle School awaiting its turn inside. Three consecutiveContinue reading "HOSTILE CROWD SHOUTS DOWN PALLONE"
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August 26th, 2009 @ 7am
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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 ...