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FAIR HAVEN: ARBORCIDE AT NATURAL AREA
Nature enthusiasts want the borough to fund restoration of a mistakenly cleared-out area at the Fair Haven Fields Natural Area. Below, the affected site. (Photos by Dustin Racioppi; click toContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: ARBORCIDE AT NATURAL AREA"
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OH DEER, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE…
A deer crosses a street in Shrewsbury at dusk last year. Fair Haven officials say they’re watching Shrewsbury’s effort to curtail its deer population. (Photo by Peter Lindner. Click toContinue reading "OH DEER, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE…"
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI In Fair Haven’s great tree debate, the borough council has gone back and forth for months, trying to find middle ground on revisions that would satisfy advocatesContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN TREE LAW PUT IN THE SHADE"
FAIR HAVEN TO RETAIN ZONING BOARD
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Fair Haven’s zoning board will stay intact, despite a councilman’s call to disband the body last month. Following lengthy discussions with council, planning and zoning board members,Continue reading "FAIR HAVEN TO RETAIN ZONING BOARD"
HALL RESTORATION GETS A BIG BOOST
A cash infusion means Bicentennial Hall should be ready for a 2012 opening. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Restoration work on Fair Haven’s Bicentennial Hall,Continue reading "HALL RESTORATION GETS A BIG BOOST"
FAIR HAVEN’S PETERS QUESTIONS WATER TIPS
A sprinkler system outside a River Road home in Fair Haven. New Jersey American Water has asked residents to consider voluntary water restrictions in anticipation of a hot, dry summer.Continue reading "FAIR HAVEN’S PETERS QUESTIONS WATER TIPS"
RUMSONITES BARK AT TREE TAKEDOWN
Shade Tree Commission Chairman Doug Spencer shows residents a piece of a tree Tuesday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Fair Haven officials aren’t quite outContinue reading "RUMSONITES BARK AT TREE TAKEDOWN"
WANTED: RED LIGHT CAMERA IN FAIR HAVEN
Fair Haven’s council is looking to add a red-light camera at the intersection of River and Fair Haven roads. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI AContinue reading "WANTED: RED LIGHT CAMERA IN FAIR HAVEN"
IT’S LIGHTS OUT ON RIVER ROAD, EVENTUALLY
Older lights on River Road in Fair Haven will come down on an as-needed basis. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI River Road in Fair HavenContinue reading "IT’S LIGHTS OUT ON RIVER ROAD, EVENTUALLY"
SPOT-HOGGING AN ISSUE IN FAIR HAVEN
Businesses say owners and employees are going over the two-hour parking limit on River and Fair Haven roads, taking precious spots away from shoppers. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click toContinue reading "SPOT-HOGGING AN ISSUE IN FAIR HAVEN"
TREE LAW SPLITS FAIR HAVEN COUNCIL
Workers cut down a tree in front of a Third Street home in Fair Haven Monday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Months of discussion andContinue reading "TREE LAW SPLITS FAIR HAVEN COUNCIL"
DISBAND ZONING BOARD, COUNCILMAN SAYS
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Fair Haven Councilman Ben Lucarelli (right) has been in the construction and real estate business more than 20 years, and in that time has appeared before countlessContinue reading "DISBAND ZONING BOARD, COUNCILMAN SAYS"
FAIR HAVEN MAY TRIM TREE LAW
Hance Road in Fair Haven. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Councilman Bob Marchese’s got his axe ready, and it looks like changes to Fair Haven’sContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN MAY TRIM TREE LAW"
HATS THROWN INTO AND HELD FROM RACES
Little Silver Mayor Suzanne Castleman is calling it quits. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Monday was the deadline for candidates to file for November’s elections,Continue reading "HATS THROWN INTO AND HELD FROM RACES"
FAIR HAVEN: GO SLOW ON SIGNS & PLANTERS
The Fair Haven council wants fewer ped x-ing signs on River Road. Complaints have also been made about the number of planters and trash cans along sidewalks, below. (Photo byContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: GO SLOW ON SIGNS & PLANTERS"
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI With the help of partially restored state aid, Fair Haven’s Board of Education is bringing its budget just within the two-percent cap for the 2011-’12 school year.Continue reading "FAIR HAVEN BOE BARELY GETS WITHIN CAP"
IF IT SITS LIKE A DUCK…
Joining the Fair Haven Borough Council Monday night was this wooden duck found in a storage closet at borough hall by Mayor Mike Halfacre. “I thought it was serendipitous,” heContinue reading "IF IT SITS LIKE A DUCK…"
BONUS FOR CHIEF, TRASH JOBBED OUT
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Fair Haven Police Chief Darryl Breckenridge got his annual attaboy from the borough council last night in the form of a $3,000 bonus. This is not unusualContinue reading "BONUS FOR CHIEF, TRASH JOBBED OUT"
FAIR HAVENITES QUACK OVER PET DUCKS
Nicole Stover, left, and her mother, Dawn, make their case to the borough council to keep six ducks as pets. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPIContinue reading "FAIR HAVENITES QUACK OVER PET DUCKS"
FAIR HAVEN TRASH IS GOING PRIVATE
The cans will stay, but the people picking up the trash in Fair Haven will be different next month. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI NewContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN TRASH IS GOING PRIVATE"
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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 ...
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.