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A $40,950 grant awarded by the state last week will pay for a study to explore the feasibility of merging police departments in Fair Haven, Rumson and Little Silver, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The analysis will be conducted by...
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August 16th, 2007 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Tax bills reflecting the yet-to-be finalized 2007 municipal rate are landing in Red Bank mailboxes, and the annual rite of collective frustration they bring was amplified at last night's council session by the impact of this year's property revaluations. Things...
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August 14th, 2007 @ 11am
The big money stayed home. Once again, Red Bank's efforts to auction off a borough-owned building at the corner of Drs. Parker Boulevard and Bridge Avenue have failed. At a scheduled auction this afternoon, nobody bid. The same thing happened...
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August 10th, 2007 @ 3pm
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Buying Donovan's Reef for Sea Bright borough's use is either (choose one) a "great investment" in the town's future or a "nutty" waste of taxpayer’s money. Battle lines were drawn in firm but civil tones last...
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August 8th, 2007 @ 1pm
Squeezed for parking, the Borough of Sea Bright tonight will mull the question of whether to try to buy Donovan's Reef. The beach bar's owners are said to be asking $4.5 million for the oceanfront property, which is across East...
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August 7th, 2007 @ 7am
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
Both the Count Basie Theatre and the Two River Theater Company were major beneficiaries of whopping state funding increases as part of an effort to "create parity" among arts organizations, according to today's Star-Ledger. The Basie's fiscal year 2008 grant...
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July 25th, 2007 @ 6am
The good news, we suppose, is that you don't have to get on a toll road to get there. Assemblywoman and state Senate candidate Jennifer Beck of Red Bank will co-host a town hall meeting tonight in Freehold Township to...
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July 23rd, 2007 @ 2pm
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
The race is on. The first press release (that we know of, at least) in this year's race for Red Bank council has Democrat Ed Zipprich landing the endorsement of Democracy for America, a Burlington, Vt.-based political action committee founded...
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July 16th, 2007 @ 7am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Amid the scraps of one retailer's failed dream, an astonishing leap of trust took place took place on Monmouth Street Thursday, and a new business venture appears to have been born. Two women bidding for the...
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June 22nd, 2007 @ 8am
This week's Holmdel Independent has a delicious story about the owner of split-level house in the New Monmouth section who claims his property is entitled to a tax exemption because he has turned it into a monastery. Sixty-three-year-old Raymond Bertolette,...
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June 20th, 2007 @ 6am
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June 12th, 2007 @ 10am
With just a week to go in his short tenure as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, James Zazzali of Rumson is continuing to lobby for higher judge's salaries, telling an audience in Paramus yesterday that judiciary pay...
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June 8th, 2007 @ 7am
Usually, when a chief financial officer is in the news, you're talking crisis. Think Enron. Think WorldCom. Think Borough of Red Bank last August. That's when things kind of blew up at Borough Hall, with the disclosure that freshly-resigned CFO...
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May 30th, 2007 @ 12pm
A solution to water pressure problems afflicting homes and businesses on the eastern edge of Red Bank and a portion of western Fair Haven is now in the pipeline. The Red Bank borough council introduced a bonding ordinance Wednesday night...
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May 18th, 2007 @ 6am
Last time we checked, the overdue Red Bank Public Library renovations were expected to be completed this month or next, following weather-related delays over the winter. Last night, the borough council approved the opening of a temporary storefront two doors...
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May 17th, 2007 @ 6am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI When you’re redoing a downtown, as rookie Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre is discovering, you can’t please everyone. Exhibit A: the borough’s streetscape plan, which calls for the sidewalks from Memorial Park to Oak Place to...
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May 4th, 2007 @ 7am
What might have been a session with Gov. Jon Corzine turned out, because of his recent accident, to be an event with somewhat lesser star "wattage." But a town hall meeting led in Corzine's absence by state Treasurer Bradley Abelow...
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May 3rd, 2007 @ 6am
Overriding the preference of the borough's finance chief, the Tinton Falls Borough Council last night shot down a budget proposed by Mayor Peter Maclearie in favor of one with no increase in the property tax rate, today's Asbury Park Press...
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May 2nd, 2007 @ 6am
Partyline
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 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...