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Red Bank officials appear to be building a case that the Community YMCA may sell its Children's Cultural Center on Monmouth Street only to another educational or cultural non-profit. Otherwise, Mayor Pasquale Menna tells today's Asbury Park Press, the property...
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February 21st, 2008 @ 8am
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The proposed 2008-2009 budget for Red Bank's primary and middle schools hasn't been set, but Superintendent Laura Morana hints the spending plan will be little changed from last year's, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the article, by reporter Larry...
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February 20th, 2008 @ 7am
The Bistro's George Lyristis: "You can't always ask somebody else to fix the problem." Business is tough these days for many Red Bank restaurants. And it's not simply a matter of the winter blahs. The economy has soured. Would-be patrons...
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February 19th, 2008 @ 7am
A revaluation of property in Middletown that Monmouth County wanted effective this year won't be, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: County officials are now probing why Middletown did not comply with an order from the Monmouth County...
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February 14th, 2008 @ 8am
Red Bank Councilman John Curley has thrown his name in for consideration by Republican powerbrokers as a potential candidate for Monmouth County Freeholder in November, Curley has confirmed to the the Hub. In the current edition, the weekly reports that...
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February 14th, 2008 @ 7am
The white building at far right and other property is available for a community center, says Rev. Terrence K. Porter. The push for the creation of a Red Bank community center has a new element to it: an offer of...
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February 13th, 2008 @ 11am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI In a fiscal climate where good news about taxes seems as rare as a celebrity who hasn't been in rehab, Fair Haven has done the seemingly impossible: lowering its municipal taxes. The rate in the next...
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January 29th, 2008 @ 12pm
Red Bank and a dozen other Monmouth County towns that don't participate in the county library system — and whose residents don't have borrowing priveleges in it — won't get stuck paying some of its costs, today's Asbury Park Press...
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January 29th, 2008 @ 9am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Sea Bright taxpayers paid $75,000 for each of the 24 students who attended Shore Regional High School last year. The school's cost to educate them was only $13,000. In running for mayor last year, Maria Fernandes...
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January 17th, 2008 @ 7am
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
All the same professionals hired by Red Bank last year will likely be reappointed when the borough government reorganizes tomorrow, says Mayor Pasquale Menna. But four of them currently participating in the state Public Employee Retirement System through the borough...
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December 31st, 2007 @ 10am
Sea Bright's proposed oceanfront skatepark caught some air earlier this month, when Monmouth County came through with a $153,000 open space grant. Now, says Mayor-elect Maria Fernandes, comes the trick of raising the remaining $214,000 in estimated costs and clearing...
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December 28th, 2007 @ 8am
Data released by the state Department of Education indicates that Red Bank schools would see an 18-percent jump in state aid under the widely anticipated new funding formula unveiled today by Gov. Jon Corzine. That translates into $369,000 more than...
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December 12th, 2007 @ 3pm
Red Bank Regional High School will get a $30,000 bump in state aid under the new funding formula announced by Gov. Jon Corzine today. At about two percent, the increase is the minimum amount that the Corzine administration is doling...
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December 12th, 2007 @ 3pm
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
Mayor Pasquale Menna and Police Chief Mark Fitzgerald continue to stick to the information blackout imposed on them by by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office last week in the wake of the shootings at the Montgomery Terrace public housing units...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 8am
The former Count Basie Learning Center, a site that proponents favor as the future home of a community center. Outrage over social conditions that some citizens linked to last month's double shootings at the Montgomery Terrace public-housing project pushed the...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 7am
By TIM HATHAWAY The extra $368,000 in state funding that Red Bank schools received last year may have been a windfall, but schools Superintendent Laura Morana says there should be even more in the kitty this year. According to Morana,...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 10am
Gov. Jon Corzine wants to dramatically expand preschool programs statewide, today's Star-Ledger reports. The plan, the Ledger says, includes a proposal to require — and ultimately pay for — full-day preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds in at least 100 low-...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 7am
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SNEAKERS OVER BROAD
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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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