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State Senator Jennifer Beck will set up a 12th-district legislative office at 32 Monmouth Street, the former Red Bank Borough Hall building (or, one of them, that is) that now houses surfwear retailer Stokaboka at street level, today's Asbury Park...
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January 16th, 2008 @ 10am
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The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in favor of Middletown Township yesterday in a tangled dispute over a plot of land on Shadow Lake. Upshot: the town will have undisputed ownership of a 1.08-acre lakefront property, and the guy who's...
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January 16th, 2008 @ 7am
Sold, for more than the seller ever dreamed: 25 Broad Street. Stuart Paer's request to the Red Bank Planning Board on Monday night went through like lightning. He was asking for a change of use for the second-floor space in...
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January 9th, 2008 @ 11am
An architectural rendering of the proposed retail and residential project, with West Street in the foreground and Oakland Street at right. The Monmouth Street side would have four-story buildings. It still hasn't outrun the dark cloud that's haunted it for...
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January 8th, 2008 @ 6am
File photo of Hovnanian's Red Bank HQ, as seen from the foot of Maple Avenue. Amid a widespread credit shutdown, Hovnanian Enterprises said its fourth-quarter net loss quadrupled over year-ago results. The Red Bank-based homebuilding company yesterday reported a net...
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December 19th, 2007 @ 7am
An ebb tide of property values and glut of 'for sale' signs has Middletown officials thinking this might not be he best time for a revaluation, today's Asbury Park Press reports. Township officials have hired a taxation law expert to...
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December 10th, 2007 @ 6am
Architect Tony Busch Jr. discusses the proposed design for a building to replace Chubby's, shown superimposed at left on a photo of West Front Street buildings. (Click to enlarge) Had their business been treated as a brand-new one, the owners...
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December 7th, 2007 @ 9am
Takin' it to 'The Bank?' An owner of Chubby's hopes so. Chubby's Waterside Cafe, a timeworn nightclub that claims the only cabaret license in Red Bank, wants to go upscale, and skyward, too. Co-owner Michael Gilson of Little Silver hopes...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 11am
Buona Sera's plan to expand into the space now used by Fins and Feathers was approved by the Planning Board earlier this week. It doesn't have a single parking space to offer its customers, but Buona Sera Ristorante has gotten...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 7am
Borough Attorney Ken Pringle, left, and partner Tom Hall at a Red Bank council meeting in July. Borough Attorney Ken Pringle tells redbankgreen that faulty memory led to a situation in which his firm faced off against Verizon New Jersey...
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December 3rd, 2007 @ 1pm
The Verizon building at 183 Broad Street. The politically connected law firm representing Red Bank's mayor and council is stepping away from a tax court case involving Verizon Inc. because the firm's lobbying arm represents the telecom giant in Trenton,...
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December 3rd, 2007 @ 10am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI The tiny, water-bound borough of Sea Bright has a spanking new Stormwater Management Plan, one more likely to mitigate flood damage than to prevent flooding, says Council President and presumptive mayor-elect Maria Fernandes. The plan's real...
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November 28th, 2007 @ 10am
File photo of the Verizon building at 183 Broad Street. A measure that would have settled a tax appeal by Verizon Inc. on its Broad Street switching station was tabled by the borough council last night after a debate that...
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November 27th, 2007 @ 8am
Henry Bloom, with Gunning Island in the background. Rumson resident Henry H. Bloom bought a big chunk of Gunning Island in 1988, mainly because he was afraid that somebody would put houses on it and wreck his idyllic view of...
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November 21st, 2007 @ 9am
Government officials and conservationists are expected to gather at Surfside Marina in Sea Bright later this morning for a press conference to announce that Rumson has purchased the 20 acres of Gunning Island that it didn't already own, for $2.05...
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November 20th, 2007 @ 7am
A customer tries on a bracelet at an opening-night reception at Tiffany & Co.'s Broad Street store earlier this month. The Asbury Park Press today pops in on store owners in downtown Red Bank to gauge their feelings about the...
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November 18th, 2007 @ 11am
If any one person outside of Tiffany & Co. is responsible for the jeweler's decision to open a gleaming outpost in downtown Red Bank today, it's Larry Garmany, who has a habit of making high-risk business moves that tend to...
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November 9th, 2007 @ 9am
A Broad Street building with one of downtown Red Bank's most distinctive facades has been sold and is about to undergo a makeover, redbankgreen has learned. The property, at number 7 Broad, near the intersection with Front Street, sold last...
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November 8th, 2007 @ 2pm
Love it or loathe it, Tiffany & Co. arrives in Red Bank tomorrow with the opening of a 6,000-square-foot emporium of luxury that caps the downtown's 17-year sprint from economic backwater to one of the most admired in all of...
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November 8th, 2007 @ 12pm
Hovnanian's Red Bank HQ, as seen from the foot of Maple Avenue in sunnier days. Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises, one of America's largest publicly traded homebuilders, got walloped again in its latest fiscal quarter. Continuing a slide that company official...
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November 6th, 2007 @ 3pm
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SNEAKERS OVER BROAD
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sneakers hanging from the overhead wires on Broad Street.
PIANO TRASHED
Left out to take at 83 River Street. Property owner is a touring musician. Studio and home. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris H ...
FALL COLORS IN RED BANK
redbankgreen's Partyline captures peaking fall foliage on a Red Bank street corner.
FALL AT THE COURTS OF RED BANK
On the Partyline: stunning foliage at Red Bank's "medieval office park."
WALK FOR DEMOCRACY
The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center led a "Walk for Democracy" Sunday from Riverside Gardens Park to the cultral center on Drs. James Park ...
Go big or go home
On the redbankgreen Partyline: Gourd display at Lighthouse on its penultimate night of the season.
MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
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