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A group of undisclosed buyers has made an offer for the historic T. Thomas Fortune house on Drs. Parker Boulevard, the Asbury Park Press reports today. A contract has yet to be signed by the sellers, the paper reports. But...
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August 1st, 2007 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Four years after the topic came to the fore, borough officials still don't know exactly what they want to do with the old incinerator site at the end of Sunset Avenue. But the site has gotten a clean bill of...
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August 1st, 2007 @ 7am
Looks like the long search for a cellular phone tower in Fair Haven is near its end. The Asbury Park Press reports today that the borough has signed a deal to lease a plot of land from the United Methodist...
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August 1st, 2007 @ 7am
A federal watchdog agency will look into the circumstances under which a Rumson developer obtained rights to convert former military housing at Fort Hancock into commercial space on Sandy Hook without showing he has the money to do the job,...
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July 31st, 2007 @ 6am
After a series of discussions over the past couple of years about how to improve access to and the usability of the Swimming River and Navesink River shorelines, the Red Bank Waterfront Plan is finally ready. Have at it, folks....
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July 26th, 2007 @ 8am
One of the crappiest — and, apparently, most star-crossed — corners of Red Bank seems destined to stay that way for the foreseeable future. Last week, the new owner of property at the southeast intersection of Monmouth and West streets,...
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July 26th, 2007 @ 6am
Dr. Diana Salvador, above, says yes; Council President Sharon Lee, at right, agrees, but says citizens will have to get behind the idea first. Kids' activist David Prown's request that the Red Bank council put the brakes on a plan...
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July 24th, 2007 @ 9am
Cash it out, or turn it into a community center? To the borough of Red Bank, it's an asset beter turned into cash. To kids' activist David Prown, it's about to become a missed opportunity. On the agenda for Monday's...
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July 22nd, 2007 @ 2pm
Zuhdi Karagjozi, the Rumson man who founded Kara Homes, claims in court papers that the bankrupt homebuilder's chief restructuring officer and "his henchmen" are poised to cheat him, according to a story on the Asbury Park Press website. From the...
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July 19th, 2007 @ 12pm
A rumor that billionaire investor Warren Buffett was buying shares of Hovnanian Enterprises lifted the Red Bank-based homebuilder's shares 12 percent last Friday. But so far today, the shares, while up, aren't going nuts. According to BigCharts, the shares were...
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July 16th, 2007 @ 10am
Virginia Bauer, who rallied Congresss to enact tax breaks for families of Sept. 11, 2001 victims after her husband died in the attack, is leaving her post as state Commerce secretary to take a job with the real estate firm...
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July 12th, 2007 @ 7am
The already bizarre border war between two prominent Rumson families took another unusual turn earlier this week when the judge in the case ruled that "members of the public" will benefit if Citigroup Vice Chairman Pete Dawkins and his wife,...
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July 5th, 2007 @ 7am
A Tiffany clock sold for $6,000, and a pair of Tiffany lamps went for another six grand. A 1964 Chevy Impala SS went for $16,000. But that Navesink River-front mansion we told you about last week — the one that...
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July 2nd, 2007 @ 12pm
Today's Asbury Park Press has a story about dual efforts by Red Bank officials to address quality of life concerns: the noise ordinance aimed at bars and restaurants, and the hiring of a new bilingual code inspector to deal with...
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July 2nd, 2007 @ 6am
Here's an event that may appeal to bargain vultures as well as to those members of the hoi polloi aching for an up-close glimpse of how the other half lives. In fact, it might appeal especially to someone who's ready...
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June 28th, 2007 @ 3pm
Rumson resident Zuhdi Karagjozi, founder of Kara Homes, has been bounced from the company as part of a reorganization plan, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The name of the company has also been de-Kara-ed. It will now be called...
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June 28th, 2007 @ 1pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI After years of grousing by Fair Haven residents about a dead zone of cellphone service, and more than a year of contention over how to resolve it, the borough may at last have hit on a...
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June 28th, 2007 @ 9am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Although everyone who spoke at a Fair Haven public hearing on a proposed tree-protection ordinance said they supported the idea of one, the one on the table Monday night was divisive. A self-proclaimed "tree guy" who...
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June 13th, 2007 @ 5am
The median price of all new single-family homes built in Monmouth County last year was $810,000, more than 3.5 times the national median of $230,000, according to a new report from the county Planning Board. Typical size: 3,875 square feet,...
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June 8th, 2007 @ 6am
It's a wrap as Debra Johnson arranges final details after closing Victory Market for the final time last Friday. A Red Bank meat business with World War II roots closed its doors Friday after the owners could not agree with...
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June 4th, 2007 @ 2pm
Partyline
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.
CARPY DIEM
From the redbankgreen Partyline: A pair of large carp cruise the shallows under Hubbard's Bridge (Senator Kyrillos Bridge) on Front Street T ...
BIBS ON FOR OPENING DAY
Partyline: Two longtime neighbors re-unite for lobsters on the Boondocks Fishery opening day.