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Somehow, an agenda for the Metuchen Borough Council meeting scheduled for tonight wound up on the Borough of Red Bank website. The Red Bank council is not scheduled to meet tonight. Borough Clerk Carol Vivona says the updating of the...
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September 17th, 2007 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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Tinton Falls Council President Mike Skudera says he's starting to get some momentum behind his effort to nudge, push or drag municipal governments into the Internet age. redbankgreen readers may recall our April feature story on a groundbreaking study Skudera...
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September 6th, 2007 @ 5pm
If these jiggly bottles look familiar, it may be that you saw them when redbankgreen debuted, one year ago today. Or perhaps you came across them while dumpster-diving our archive sometime afterward. (Hey, it's perfectly sanitary, and a diverting way...
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June 1st, 2007 @ 7am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI Joe Cullity doesn’t like to make a big deal out of his hip injury, and speaks reluctantly about the day he got it — September 11, 2001. "I was lucky I was late for work," he...
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June 1st, 2007 @ 7am
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
Prompted by the shootings last month at Virginia Tech that left 33 people dead, Red Bank Regional High School has become the second school district in New Jersey to implement an email and text message alert system, today's Asbury Park...
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May 3rd, 2007 @ 6am
Want to read the minutes of a recent Red Bank Council meeting online? You'll have to wait. The latest one posted on the borough's website is from February 12, even though the council has had four meetings since then. There...
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April 19th, 2007 @ 12pm
A provision that required seekers of online information about Middletown government to identify themselves has been removed from the township's newly refurbished website, the Asbury Park Press reports today. Likewise, a similar feature included in Fair Haven's website also appears...
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March 21st, 2007 @ 6am
Gov. Jon Corzine yesterday told a gathering a Brookdale Community College that he supported a plan to transform Fort Monmouth into a private-sector technology center after the military communications facility is shut down in 2011, the Asbury Park Press reports...
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March 15th, 2007 @ 7am
Assemblyman Mike Panter thinks local government isn't as responsive as it should be. So he's holding a public forum for area residents to tee up the topic. Want more details? Well, you won't find them on Panter's blog, which hasn't...
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March 12th, 2007 @ 3pm
Red Bank Borough's somewhat underutilized official website (we're being diplomatic here) is about to make the great leap into the 21st century. The Asbury Park Press reports that the site will go live with new features tomorrow. Among the first...
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March 8th, 2007 @ 10am
A partial reopening of the Red Bank Public Library — initially planned for December and then postponed until this month — probably won't happen at all, library officials say now. The upshot: library users will have to wait until May...
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March 7th, 2007 @ 2pm
New Jersey's citizens have the right to videotape public meetings, the state Supreme Court has ruled in a unanimous opinion written by Rumson resident and Chief Justice James Zazzali. The Star-Ledger has news of the ruling, which came this morning...
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March 7th, 2007 @ 2pm
The $10.1 million renovation of the Eastern Branch of the Monmouth County Library is now expected to be completed in June, four years after work began and two years later than originally expected, according to a story in today's Asbury...
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February 28th, 2007 @ 6am
Which is to say that the Red Bank borough's official website is finally catching up to reality. Eight weeks after he was sworn in, Pasquale Menna's name is now listed on the site in the place where Ed McKenna's name...
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February 27th, 2007 @ 12am
Sunday's Star-Ledger has a terrific profile of Fair Haven's Bob Lucky, head of the Fort Monmouth re-use panel and an engineer whose seminal work led to the creation of the Internet. The article, by Wayne Wolley, begins: Bob Lucky earned...
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January 7th, 2007 @ 11am
Look, you've been through this before. So you should know by now whether you've got the patience to set up the new computer, digital camera or i-Pod that you'll be giving or receiving as a gift this month. For those...
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December 22nd, 2006 @ 11pm
The accelerating shift of newspaper content from dead trees to the web will be topic A of a special program this Thursday evening (Nov. 30) at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft. The event, titled "The Changing World of American Journalism,"...
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November 28th, 2006 @ 7pm
After a dry run in the June primaries, Monmouth County plans to use touch-screen electronic voting machines for the first time in a general election on Tuesday. The change in technology means that returns will be made available via the...
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November 6th, 2006 @ 3pm
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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.
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.