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Category Archives: Taxes

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
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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By LINDA G. RASTELLI In the last month, Fair Haven’s council, led by Mayor Mike Halfacre, has cut the town's anticipated debt by $3 million by selling the former Masonic Temple and slicing its borrowing for 2007 by $2 million....
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November 29th, 2007 @ 7am
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
William Neumann, the Fair Haven wicker-furniture dealer who was arrested in March for defrauding 83 customers out of $290,000, has been indicted, the Asbury Park Press reports. The indictment, handed up by a Monmouth County grand jury on Monday, reduced...
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October 31st, 2007 @ 2pm
It appears that Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck of Red Bank, in attacking 12th-district Senate opponent Ellen Karcher over Karcher's use of a state farmland assessment program, has put herself at odds with one of her own backers: Judith Stanley Coleman. Today's...
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October 28th, 2007 @ 7am
Fairways that doglegged around cubicles. Water hazards jammed up against the copier. Sand traps among the tax court analyses. The Curchin Open, a miniature golf tourney put on by he accounting firm Curchin Group, had its second edition in the...
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October 24th, 2007 @ 6am
In a move that puts more daylight between himself and his fellow Democrats on the issue of health benefits for elected officials, Mayor Pasquale Menna today said he would move to eliminate insurance benefits for himself "and all future mayors"...
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October 22nd, 2007 @ 4pm
Is it the end of the line for the last beachfront bar in New Jersey? By LINDA G. RASTELLI The owners of Donovan’s Reef in Sea Bright have signed a contract to sell the oceanfront nightclub for $5 million, redbankgreen...
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October 15th, 2007 @ 2pm
Republicans John Tyler, upper left, and Grace Cangemi draw lots from forum moderator Amy Goldsmith to see who will speak first as Democrats Ed Zipprich, Kathy Horgan and Sharon Lee, all in foreground, look on. They came, they saw, they...
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October 11th, 2007 @ 2pm
Children's activist David Prown prepares to distribute copies of the committee's findings to the Red Bank Borough Council last night. An ad-hoc committee that wants to see an empty borough-owned building on the West Side used as a community center...
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October 9th, 2007 @ 8am
Virginia S. Bauer, a widow of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center who became a champion for families of the victims and later headed New Jersey's state lottery and commerce departments, has remarried, the New York...
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October 9th, 2007 @ 7am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI At Long Branch’s Skateplex recently, a four-year-old boy in long shorts, t-shirt and oversized helmet stands hesitantly atop a ramp with one foot on a skateboard almost as long as he is tall. As other kids...
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October 5th, 2007 @ 8am
The latest point of conflict in the 12th-district Senate race between incumbent Democrat Ellen Karcher and Republican Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck involves Christmas trees. Karcher says she grows them on her Marlboro farm, and sells a a half-dozen a year, plus...
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October 5th, 2007 @ 7am
Red Bank RiverCenter's new executive director is Nancy Adams, a downtown revitalization consultant from Maplewood, who replaces longtime agency head Tricia Rumola. RiverCenter announced the hire in a press release issued this afternoon. redbankgreen hasn't yet heard back from Adams...
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September 25th, 2007 @ 2pm
The Republican candidates for 12th-district office yesterday laid out a three-point plan to curtail state spending, which they say is driving residents out of New Jersey, according to a report in today's Asbury Park Press. Led state Assemblywoman and state...
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September 18th, 2007 @ 8am
It is perhaps the single most contentious issue in Red Bank: whether the downtown needs a parking garage. Merchants, in general, say yes. They complain that a shortage of street and lot parking is choking their businesses and undermining broader...
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September 11th, 2007 @ 12pm
What to do about the cramped Borough Hall is among tonight's topics in Sea Bright. By LINDA G. RASTELLI If you want to read Sea Bright's Smart Growth report, a copy of the document will set you back $40 at...
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August 30th, 2007 @ 7am
A year after Democrats predicted Red Bank taxes would go down in 2007, the Borough Council last night finalized this year's budget. Taxes went up. As the Borough Council majority sees it, though, the local bite was made as painless...
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August 28th, 2007 @ 8am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Just two weeks after a controversial go-ahead for Sea Bright officials to try to buy Donovan's Reef, negotiations have come to a halt. Mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka-Adams tells redbankgreen today that the sellers have rejected the borough's...
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August 23rd, 2007 @ 3pm
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 ...