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Monthly Archives: December 2017

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM redbankgreen!
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December 29th, 2017 @ 3pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: NEW EMT SERVICE TAKES OVER
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RED BANK: After a proposed tenfold increase in the fee it paid MONOC, borough contracts with new 911 ambulance service starting January 1.
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December 29th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAPS ON BITTER NOTE
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RED BANK: As Sickels ends 38-year career, Taylor tees up Dems for partisanship over his successor as borough administrator.
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December 28th, 2017 @ 9am
RED BANK: APARTMENT PROJECT BEGINS
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RED BANK: Construction gets underway after a decade of inactivity on a vacant lot opposite Riverside Gardens Park. What's Going on Here? Click to find out.
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December 27th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: The freezing temperatures that have gripped the Greater Green in recent days aren't going away for least a week, says National Weather Service.
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December 27th, 2017 @ 6am
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RED BANK: Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!
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December 22nd, 2017 @ 5pm
RED BANK: NORTH POLE CALLING
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RED BANK: RBR students and other volunteers make calls from Santa's workshop at the North Pole to amped-up local boys and girls.
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December 22nd, 2017 @ 4pm
RED BANK: Want to cut your federal income income tax under the newly adopted Trump plan? Consider prepaying your property taxes, borough says.
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December 22nd, 2017 @ 2pm
RED BANK: A SLIGHTLY WHITE CHRISTMAS?
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RED BANK: There's a chance the Greater Green will get a dusting of snow for Christmas, according to the National Weather Service.
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December 22nd, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: GIANT KETTLE ROLLS INTO TOWN
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RED BANK: The world's largest Salvation Army kettle is slated to make a couple of appearances here in the days leading up to Christmas. 
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December 20th, 2017 @ 12pm
SHREWSBURY: TURNER TAKES PD COMMAND
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SHREWSBURY: The son of a cop shot on the job is the new police chief.
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December 20th, 2017 @ 9am
LITTLE SILVER: MAN JAILED FOR $9M THEFT
LITTLE SILVER: A financial advisor who lives here was sentenced to prison for stealing $9 million from a charity set up by a client.
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December 20th, 2017 @ 6am
RED BANK: Latest police blotter includes four motorists charged with DWI.
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December 19th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: SMITHEREENS SHOW TO GO ON
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RED BANK: Count Basie Theatre will go ahead with a planned January 13 concert despite the death last week of Smithereens lead singer Pat DiNizio.
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December 18th, 2017 @ 10am
RED BANK: GAS LEAK DELAYS OPENING
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RED BANK: Volunteer firefighters responded to a report of a gas leak that was expected to delay the opening of the Monmouth Day Care Center Monday morning.
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December 18th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: MILD WEATHER FORECAST
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RED BANK: This week's weather outlook on the Greater Green is for mild temperatures and recurring clouds, according to the National Weather Service.
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December 18th, 2017 @ 6am
RED BANK: ANIMA OPENS, CAFÉ REBRANDS
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a new clothing store opens downtown, a café in the Galleria rebrands, and a pilates gym opens.
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December 15th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: THIRD SNOWFALL FORECAST
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RED BANK: The Greater Green could get its third late-autumn snowfall in less than a week Friday evening, according to the National Weather Service.
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December 15th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: SICKELS LAUDED FOR ‘COMMITMENT’
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RED BANK: Closing out a 38-year municipal career, Stanley Sickels wins praise for his commitment, professionalism and institutional knowledge.
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December 14th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SMITHEREENS SINGER DIES
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RED BANK: Smithereens singer Pat Dinizio dies two days after announcement of January 13 show at the Basie.
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December 13th, 2017 @ 6am
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PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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.
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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.