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RED BANK: STATE SLAMS PAYOUT CONTROLS
RED BANK: State says borough has inadequate controls on sick leave and vacation payouts; McConnell says town is working on compliance.
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RED BANK: WEST SIDE LEAD PIPE PLAN OK’D
RED BANK: Council authorizes massive, decade-long effort to identify and replace lead water lines, starting this year on the West Side.
LITTLE SILVER: BLUEGRASS & OLDTIME MUSIC
LITTLE SILVER: The Bluegrass & Oldtime Music Association of New Jersey presents a Stage Show and Jam at Embury United Methodist Church.
FAIR HAVEN: BOROUGH EYES RIVER PARCEL
FAIR HAVEN: Borough seeks Green Acres funding for possible purchase of lot adjoining the municipal dock on the Navesink River.
RED BANK: GAS SITE MAY GET ‘JET GROUTING’
RED BANK: More than a century after it was used as a gas works, a borough property may get some 20th-century environmental remediation.
SANDY HOOK: SPRINGSTEEN BUSTED FOR DWI
SANDY HOOK: Springsteen facing DWI and other charges from November arrest that came to light three days after his Super Bowl commercial for Jeep.
RED BANK: LIQUOR STORE SETTLES CASE
RED BANK: Vingo store here among 22 booze wholesalers and retailers paying $10.3 million to settle unfair business practice charges by state ABC.
RED BANK: Virus leads to cancellation of standardized testing, but impact questions linger. Special report from NJ Spotlight.
VIRTUAL: 13TH-DISTRICT CANDIDATES’ FORUM
RED BANK: League of Women Voters hosts a virtual forum for state senate and assembly candidates in the 13th legislative district.
RED BANK: MURPHYS IN CLASSIC FINISH
RED BANK: Undaunted by a warning about Tower Hill, governor and first lady finish in top 25 percent racers in debut Red Bank Classic 5k.
RED BANK: The median police salary in New Jersey crossed the $100,000 mark in 2016, and most of the towns on the Greater Green were in step.
RED BANK: NO LEAD IN WATER, OFFICIAL SAYS
RED BANK: Utilities director says there's "no indication" of lead in drinking water after resident shows off an extricated pipe with a lead connector.
NJ.com published data Thursday showing changes in home values, as indicated by sales, in Monmouth County over the last decade. The average sale price the county in 2015 was $478,821, compared toContinue reading "ON THE GREEN: HOME SALE PRICES"
LITTLE SILVER: RBR’S 1975 VICTORY RECALLED
A photo from the Red Bank Register’s December 8, 1975 coverage of the championship game, and a team photo from the 1976 yearbook, below. (Click to enlarge) Forty years. It’s beenContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: RBR’S 1975 VICTORY RECALLED"
LINCROFT: FIRST AIRING FOR EXIT 109 PLANS
C.J. Lagan, at right, studies proposed changes for exit 109 at the township library Thursday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A proposed reconfigurationContinue reading "LINCROFT: FIRST AIRING FOR EXIT 109 PLANS"
LINCROFT: $60M EXIT 109 REBUILD SLATED
The plan calls for the elimination of the problematic jughandle at Half Mile Road that eastbound motorists now have to use to access the parkway’s northbound lanes. Below, a 2013Continue reading "LINCROFT: $60M EXIT 109 REBUILD SLATED"
RED BANK WINS ‘GREAT’ DOWNTOWN VOTE
A view along Broad Street from 2012. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The votes are in, and Red Bank is the most popularContinue reading "RED BANK WINS ‘GREAT’ DOWNTOWN VOTE"
A view along Broad Street from 2012. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) What’s your favorite New Jersey downtown? The state chapter of the American Planning Association isContinue reading "RED BANK: IS THIS A ‘GREAT’ DOWNTOWN?"
A recently enacted state law aimed at culling ‘fake farmer‘ landowners “will eventually give local tax officials the power to force out fakers,” but doesn’t go far enough, the Star-LedgerContinue reading "SLEDGER: FAKE-FARMER LAW NEEDS TEETH"
Twelve-year-old Akin Gaddis, a student at the Ranney School in Tinton Falls, reads Langston Hughes‘ poem titled ‘Negro‘ at the Red Bank council meeting Wednesday night as part of aContinue reading "RED BANK: YOUNG ORATORS DEBUT"
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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.