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Mayor Pasquale Menna. In the face of an historic economic downturn, Red Bank is trimming pay for its planning and zoning board attorneys, looking at a five-percent, across-all-departments budget cut and trying to hold the line in contract talks with...
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The Route 520 bridge as seen from the Chapel Beach Club on Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright. By SUE MORGAN It's not too much holiday sugar that has Sea Bright and Rumson officials and residents hopped up about a proposed...
The house at 38 West River Road, visible from the Victory Park gazebo, has been acquired by Rumson for a park expansion. Monmouth County has awarded Rumson $250,000 toward its $875,000 purchase of land adjoining Victory Park for a westward...
Sea Bright's town hall will have to make room for a court operation now housed in a trailer out back. By SUE MORGAN Less than two weeks before a deadline, Sea Bright officials are sending to a Superior Court judge...
A view of the Navesink from Bank Street. Thanks largely to a YouTube video recorded by a Bank Street resident, a condo plan approved recently by the Red Bank zoning board will have to provide clearly marked public access to...
George Kolber speaks; Councilman Art Murphy listens. Throwing a possible speed bump in the path of the Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County, the owners of the recently repurposed former PS 5 on Drs. James Parker Boulevard last night...
Employees of Siciliano Landscape prepare the Maple Avenue lot for grass seed Wednesday. Just nine months ago, a quarter-acre parcel of Red Bank-owned land on the Navesink River appeared headed toward the auction block to provide cash for tax relief....
Long-awaited increases in the cost of traveling the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike went into effect at 12:01a today. From the Asbury Park Press, regarding Parkway tolls: At most booths the price will rise from their current...
Cindy Burnham confers with engineer Christine Ballard of T&M Associates about the Maple Street riverfront lot after Monday night's council meeting. A scaled-down version of a proposed plastic bag recycling law was tabled, and plans for a community center moved...
Volunteers cleared the lot of debris in June. (Click to enlarge) The last remaining point of direct public access to the Navesink River in Red Bank has been preserved, capping an effort launched earlier this year by a Fair Haven...
The borough is under the gun to upgrade its court operations, and looking at this building as part of the fix. By SUE MORGAN Sea Bright officials were left with narrowed options this week after finding little support for a...
Here's a charming video by Larry Higgs of the Asbury Park Press, who accompanied a fourth-grade class from the Red Bank Charter School on a trip to the newly rebuilt 7 World Trade Center recently. Dana McQuillan, who's both a...
Driveway docking of boats would be prohibited in winter months in Fair Haven. By SUE MORGAN Peter and Patricia O’Such say that what they see as over-regulation in Fair Haven is leaving the town's residents feeling disaffected, alienated, and bullied....
Going mobile, data-wise. Here are highlights from Monday night's bimonthly meeting of the Red Bank Council: • Mayor Pasquale Menna announced a settlement between the borough and the Fair Share Housing Center of Cherry Hill over how many affordable housing...
Forty-four days to go until Christmas and the decorations are already up at Riverside Gardens Park in Red Bank. Email this story
Here's a recap of Monday night's Red Bank Borough Council meeting. (Follow along with the agenda, if you like.) • Mayor Pasquale Menna accepted a $162,975 dividend payment to the borough from the Central Jersey Health Insurance Fund, the shared-services...
Closing post offices at lunchtime is "stupid," says Red Banker Tom Salmon. It's a loaded question, but it begs to be asked: is the U.S. Postal Service deliberately courting outrage among its customers? How else to explain the newest changes...
Mark Mahon of Lincroft soaks up some rays while laying down some twang at Riverside Gardens Park in Red Bank yesterday. We've got a fine fall day on tap today, according to the National Weather Service, with mostly sunny skies...
Deer seen last week in Thompson Park, Lincroft. Email this story
Red Bank's Waverly Place, one of the borough's more badly pitted streets, gets a fresh coat of asphalt yesterday. Ditch Waverly, have at it... Email this story
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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 ...