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The former Anderson storage building, seen in a file photo, where Mertrovation has approvals to build 23 condos and two stores. A pair of large-scale, long-stalled development projects near the Red Bank train station cleared legal hurdles yesterday when a...
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July 22nd, 2008 @ 9am
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The Parker house, on Rumson Road, dates to 1667 and is the borough's oldest home. Little Silver officials took steps last week in their effort to preserve the 341-year-old Parker house, home of the borough's founding family. The Asbury Park...
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July 21st, 2008 @ 7am
Future home of borough hall? By SUE MORGAN Maybe some day Tapestry International, a creator of original programming for the likes of MTV and Animal Planet, will make a documentary about Sea Bright's long search for a new, state-of-the-art town...
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July 18th, 2008 @ 7am
Whoa, flashback: John Easdale of Dramarama headlines the bill at the annual Dunesday event this Saturday at Donovan's Reef. By TOM CHESEK Less than a year ago, the mood around Donovan's Reef had a touch of doomsday about it. The...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 11am
In the grillwork of the now-vacant Meridian nursing home on West Front Street in Red Bank, a family of house sparrows has taken up summer residence. Last week, the little ones had mom flying off again and again to return...
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July 16th, 2008 @ 9am
Councilman John Curley embraces Mayor Pasquale Menna after tonight's council session. With four months left to his term, firebrand Republican John Curley announced his resignation from the Red Bank Council tonight, creating the possibility that a party-chosen successor could get...
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July 14th, 2008 @ 8pm
A sign on the door says Chic Optique lost its lease. Records indicate the property is about to be sold. Chic Optique, the upmarket eyewear shop that raised eyebrows over its ample amount of unused floorspace when it opened less...
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July 3rd, 2008 @ 11am
The building has been at its location since the 1920s, says preservationist George Bowden. A link to Red Bank's past may soon fall to the bulldozer. Sourlis International, owner of the Galleria, is looking into demolishing an old red barn...
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July 1st, 2008 @ 11am
Eight-year-old Maddy Ward writes her name on the wall of the theater this morning as a four-month renovation got underway. The scaffolding was up and an access hole had already been cut in the lobby wall as the Count Basie...
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June 30th, 2008 @ 10am
Volunteers working to clear the lot of debris at low tide earlier this month. Hoping to head off bureaucratic problems later on, Red Bank officials have tabled a measure to preserve a borough owned lot fronting on the Navesink River...
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June 24th, 2008 @ 10am
Volunteers cleared a path to the river on the borough-owned parcel earlier this month. Three months ago, Red Bank officials were mulling the possible sale of a small piece of riverfront property to help offset a budget shortfall. Last night,...
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June 10th, 2008 @ 9am
The company's headquarters overlooking the Navesink River. Red Bank-based national homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises saw its second-quarter losses increase elevenfold from last year as land valuations and revenues plunged again amid what Dow Jones calls "the worst housing downturn since the...
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June 4th, 2008 @ 7am
A Red Bank-owned lot at the foot of Maple Avenue got a sprucing up by about dozen volunteers who cleared a path between a small parking lot and the water's edge Sunday. Out came chunks of broken concrete, an old...
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June 2nd, 2008 @ 10am
First robin's-egg-blue nest on the left: the future home of Pierre Deux. The Red Bank-area home furnishings market is about to get a touch of provincial France — and landlord Larry Garmany is about to make a sweetheart match for...
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May 30th, 2008 @ 11am
An architect's rendering of the proposed condos. The would-be developer of 12 proposed townhouses at the western ends of Drs. James Parker Boulevard and Bank Street told he planning board last week that he's simply following the Red Bank master...
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May 19th, 2008 @ 7am
The plunge in Shore-area real estate values that's been underway for almost two years is showing signs of abating, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: Home prices in the area that includes Monmouth and Ocean counties were essentially...
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May 14th, 2008 @ 7am
The Red Bank borough council is expected tonight to vote on a proposed lawsuit settlement that would have the town paying the Bluffs Condominium Association $4,500 a year to offset the costs of private snow plowing and trash pickup. According...
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May 12th, 2008 @ 8am
Michael Nitka, an experienced rower from Red Bank, gets ready to enter a scull during Navesink River Rowing's open house on Saturday. Next Sunday, as part of Red Bank's two-day centennial celebration, rowers from the the non-profit club will participate...
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May 12th, 2008 @ 5am
Like the Democratic primary, this thing seems to go on and on. Well, maybe this will end it... or maybe not. A state Appeals Court today ruled in favor of former Heisman trophy winner (and Citigroup bigwig) Pete Dawkins and...
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May 9th, 2008 @ 1pm
Residents of the proposed Washington Street historic district watched a laptop slide show featuring the 106 homes that would be included. Proponents of a new historic district that would embrace Red Bank's Washington Street neighborhood appeared to overcome the mild...
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May 7th, 2008 @ 7am
Partyline
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.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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 ...