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RED BANK: SNACK BAR, SCREENS ON AGENDA
RED BANK: Council to take up measures on weeds, window screens and the future of the Riverside Gardens Park Wednesday. Here's an agenda scan.
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RED BANK: INKY PROBES SEGREGATION CLAIMS
RED BANK: Philadelphia Inquirer probes segregation claims leveled at charter school.
RED BANK: CHARTER SCHOOL WINS GYM OK
RED BANK: Over objections reflecting long-standing resentments, charter school wins OK to create gym in a building it's buying.
RED BANK: CHARTER, RAYRAP ON AGENDA
RED BANK: The charter school and developer Ray Rapcavage go before the zoning board with plans that have generated a fair amount of heat recently.
RED BANK: CHARTER SCHOOL TO BUY BUILDING
RED BANK: The charter school plans to pay $1.73 million for a commercial building that abuts its property to create a gym.
FAIR HAVEN: ACME CENTER MAKEOVER OK’D
FAIR HAVEN: Acme shopping center makeover approved, minus a large sign that board members said raised pedestrian safety concerns.
FAIR HAVEN: ACME CENTER CHANGES DETAILED
FAIR HAVEN: Acme center owner details plan to keep it as a "neighborhood shopping center" but with more accessible parking.
FAIR HAVEN: ACME CENTER TO GET MAKEOVER
FAIR HAVEN: As another tenant departs, the new owners of the Acme shopping center file renovation plans amid buzz about store turnover.
RED BANK: CHARTER CLAIMS NO ‘SEGREGATION’
RED BANK: In an op-ed, charter school superintendent Pennotti blasts "segregation" claims of critics, citing a 2004 court ruling.
FAIR HAVEN: BIKE SHOP CALLING IT QUITS
FAIR HAVEN: Like Laird's Stationery, Bike Haven is also getting squeezed out, though rising rent isn't the only reason.
FAIR HAVEN: AT LAIRD’S, A SIGN OF CHANGE
FAIR HAVEN: The sign comes down at Laird's Stationery, marking the end of an era.
FAIR HAVEN: LAIRD’S GETTING SQUEEZED OUT
FAIR HAVEN: After almost 40 years, a stationery store where the register "never stops ringing" is being squeezed out by a new landlord.
RED BANK: A WEIGHTED LOTTERY, AND A WAIT
CPA Scott Landau holds a ball he drew from a rotating drum as charter school business administrator Theresa Shirley records its number Thursday night. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)Continue reading "RED BANK: A WEIGHTED LOTTERY, AND A WAIT"
RED BANK: WEIGHTED CHARTER LOTTERY OK’D
The lottery drawing is scheduled for April 28 at the charter school, on Oakland Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Though its highly controversialContinue reading "RED BANK: WEIGHTED CHARTER LOTTERY OK’D"
SEA BRIGHT: EX-MAYOR MAY GET FIRE STATION
Two fire trucks have been relocated out of town and another sits beneath a tent since the firehouse, in the background, was condemned. Former Mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka-Adams, below. (Photo byContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: EX-MAYOR MAY GET FIRE STATION"
By JOHN T. WARD After three decades getting a discount, Red Bank tenants could have to pick up full cost-of-living increases starting later this year. The borough council introduced anContinue reading "RENTERS MAY FACE FULL CPI INCREASES"
RENT BOARD TABLES CPI DISCUSSION
Two tenants and two reporters turned out for Thursday night’s monthly meeting of the Red Bank rent board. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD No landlords appeared from theContinue reading "RENT BOARD TABLES CPI DISCUSSION"
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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.