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DRAWING A PLAN FOR A WATERFRONT FUTURE
Unclaimed boats and kayaks will be removed next month from the beach at the former Charles Williams estate, Fair Haven officials say. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI By thisContinue reading "DRAWING A PLAN FOR A WATERFRONT FUTURE"
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June 30th, 2010 @ 6am
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FH COUNCIL TAKES FLAK ON TWO ISSUES
More than 50 residents filled the borough council chambers Monday night for a chance to be heard on two separate hot-button issues in town. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click toContinue reading "FH COUNCIL TAKES FLAK ON TWO ISSUES"
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June 29th, 2010 @ 5am
A BIT LATE, FAIR HAVEN GIRL TESTS TREE LAW
Zoe Gallagher, 12, in front of the Poplar Avenue property where trees are being cut down to make room for two houses. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "A BIT LATE, FAIR HAVEN GIRL TESTS TREE LAW"
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June 22nd, 2010 @ 8am
To enlarge the photo display, start it, then click the embiggen symbol in the lower right corner. To get back to redbankgreen, hit your escape key. Under a sparkling blueContinue reading "ANOTHER CLASSIC GOES INTO THE BOOKS"
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June 21st, 2010 @ 5am
SHEEHAN: 4,000 FEET POUNDING 26,400 FEET
Runners charge the finish line during the 2009 edition of the five-miler. (Click to enlarge) Event: The Sheehan Classic five-mile race, one of the nation’s top 100 races, according toContinue reading "SHEEHAN: 4,000 FEET POUNDING 26,400 FEET"
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June 18th, 2010 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN HOUSING PLAN DRAWS BACKLASH
Developer Kevin Hughes, right, watches Fair Haven’s council meeting as neighbors voiced complaints over his proposal to add age-restricted housing in town. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN HOUSING PLAN DRAWS BACKLASH"
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June 16th, 2010 @ 7am
Watching a poorly funded Tea Party-approved candidate throw a scare into an opponent this week, Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre kinda wishes he’d stayed in the GOP primary race inContinue reading "HALFACRE REGRETS EARLY EXIT FROM 12TH"
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June 11th, 2010 @ 6am
NEW IDEA IN FAIR HAVEN: SENIOR HOUSING
The project would extend from the cul-de-sac at Colonial Court west to Hance Avenue. Below, a suggested floor plan for a “cottage” envisioned on the site. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi;Continue reading "NEW IDEA IN FAIR HAVEN: SENIOR HOUSING"
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May 27th, 2010 @ 12pm
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Fair Haven held its first townwide yard sale on Saturday, a sunny day full of bike riders and bargain hunters flooding into the borough. redbankgreen was thereContinue reading "BARGAIN BOROUGH"
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May 17th, 2010 @ 11am
HALFACRE: NOBODY TOLD US
Detours will be in effect for most of this month at Hance and River roads in Fair Haven, borough officials say. (Click to enlarge) Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre isContinue reading "HALFACRE: NOBODY TOLD US"
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May 5th, 2010 @ 10am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Separated at birth? This week, we go indoors for our ‘Where.’ The spongy creature is merely a visual bonus, folks. You gotta locate the underlying image, which, may or mayContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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April 8th, 2010 @ 8am
HALFACRE ENDS CAMPAIGN
Instant memento: Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre in his office with a campaign sign earlier this month. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) Coming off a disappointing failure to win the backingContinue reading "HALFACRE ENDS CAMPAIGN"
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March 30th, 2010 @ 1pm
CHALK ONE UP TO ASKING NICELY, IN PUBLIC
Lisa Tegen came into work at Java Stop two weeks ago to find this message on the chalkboard. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI It isn’t quite as audaciousContinue reading "CHALK ONE UP TO ASKING NICELY, IN PUBLIC"
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March 30th, 2010 @ 10am
To best appreciate our angle on the gilded wrench shown in last week’s Where, perhaps one has to pull up beside it in a tiny British roadster.
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March 25th, 2010 @ 8am
HALFACRE HITTING THE TRAIL HARD
Fair Haven Mayor and candidate for Rush Holt’s 12th district Congressional seat, seen in his office with a map of the district. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI YouContinue reading "HALFACRE HITTING THE TRAIL HARD"
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March 18th, 2010 @ 1pm
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Last week’s Where could be found atop the handy Mutt Mitt dispenser at Fair Haven Fields Natural Area on Ridge Road.
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March 18th, 2010 @ 9am
ASPHALT CANVAS: A HARBINGER OF SPRING?
With less than three weeks to go before the start of spring, melting snow at Princeton Road and Park Avenue in Fair Haven left a wet spot that redbankgreen‘s accidentalContinue reading "ASPHALT CANVAS: A HARBINGER OF SPRING?"
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March 5th, 2010 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN MODEL ROCKS SPRING RUNWAYS
Less than a year out of Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High, model Jacqueline Jablonski is the “queen” of the spring fashion shows underway in New York’s Bryant Park. So proclaims today’sContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN MODEL ROCKS SPRING RUNWAYS"
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February 19th, 2010 @ 7am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Well, that was easy. Too easy, according to more than one of the many readers who wrote in to identify last week’s ‘Where?’ Except for this: two of those whoContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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February 18th, 2010 @ 9am
A stockbroker from Fair Haven is looking at seven years in prison under the terms of a plea deal he accepted yesterday for pocketing nearly $700,000 he swindled from 31Continue reading "FAIR HAVEN BROKER COPS TO $700K SCAM"
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February 17th, 2010 @ 7am
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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 ...