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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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The lines are a little wobbly, but temporary, says Borough Administrator Mary Howell. By LINDA G. RASTELLI In a cost-cutting move that Mayor Mike Halfacre says he's been suggesting for a year, Richard Gardella will become the borough’s engineer and...
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November 29th, 2007 @ 2pm
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
New Jersey Natural Gas is asking state utilities regulators to approve a 7.5-percent increase in distribution charges, which would boost the average customer's monthly bill by $11.35 a month, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. It's the first time the...
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November 20th, 2007 @ 3pm
A 3-3 council split over the $47,000 cost of water utility equipment led Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna to cast a rare tiebreaker vote last night. With that, the council approved a change order that will allow for the installation...
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November 13th, 2007 @ 9am
An accident involving a drunk driver resulted in a brief power outage to homes in the area of East Front Street and Spring Street early Sunday morning, Red Bank police reported today. According to Lt. Darren McConnell, a pickup truck...
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November 12th, 2007 @ 11am
Middletown Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger makes the case for environmental conservation last Thursday night. By LINDA G. RASTELLI Some political opponents have characterized him as an "environmental wacko," says Middletown Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger. He's initiated a free "Dock & Roll" shuttle...
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October 8th, 2007 @ 10am
Commuters and pedestrians cross the North Jersey Coast Line tracks at Monmouth Street this morning during delays caused by a fatality on the rail bridge to Middletown. Red Bank Police were called at 7:25a. New Jersey Transit Police are investigating....
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September 17th, 2007 @ 10am
The Red Bank Environmental Commission is making a push to get residents to enroll in a statewide program aimed at promoting the development of alternative energy sources, including wind and solar power. As an enticement, the commission is giving away...
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September 14th, 2007 @ 11am
A $700,000 project to spruce up pedestrian crossings and reconfigure traffic-signal timing at Broad Street, Maple Avenue and Newman Springs Road is to start Monday, the state Department of Transportation says in a press release. From a story in today's...
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August 18th, 2007 @ 10am
Buried in today's Asbury Park Press account of Rumson's centennial parade Saturday is word of a bizarre accident that injured a spectator. From the story: At approximately 2 p.m. near the parade's end at Victory Park, a streamer shot from...
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June 11th, 2007 @ 6am
About 50 Fair Haven residents turned out for a special meeting of the zoning board last night to object to a proposal by two wireless phone carriers to build a 125-foot-tall cell tower next to the Church of the Nativity...
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June 6th, 2007 @ 7am
Visual inspections have led to the discovery of two Red Bank properties believed to have contributed to the high levels of fecal coliform in the Navesink River reported earlier this year, the Asbury Park Press reports today. One of the...
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June 4th, 2007 @ 7am
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
Those two new electric cars we told you about last week, the ones Red Bank planned to buy to replace the three-wheeled Cushmans used by parking enforcement? It turns out they can't meet the state requirement that they be able...
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May 17th, 2007 @ 6am
Say goodbye to those Cushmans. Last month, the Red Bank Borough Council authorized the purchase of two Club Car Carryall 2 electric vehicles from golf-cart seller Vic Gerard Golf Cars. They'll replace a pair of gas-powered Cushman three-wheelers used by...
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May 11th, 2007 @ 8am
... a poem as lovely as a tree. Ten, actually, to replace the nine slaughtered (humanely, it has been persuasively argued) on White Street yesterday. The replacement trees — Harvest Gold crabapples — are on order and should arrive later...
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April 24th, 2007 @ 12pm
SLAUGHTER ON WHITE STREET
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A gorgeous spring morning, the day after Earth Day, with Arbor Day just around the bend... A perfect day to take down a bunch of Bradford pear trees in bloom. Huh? That's what happened this morning on White Street. A...
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April 23rd, 2007 @ 12pm
NJ Transit's board of commissioners today approved a budget that calls for train- and bus-fare increases averaging 9.6 percent, the Asbury Park Press reports this morning from Newark. The move was depicted as a necessary measure to help close a...
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April 18th, 2007 @ 11am
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
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.