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Monthly Archives: April 2018

RED BANK: ROAD CLOSURES, WEST AND EAST
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RED BANK: What's with all the road closures Monday morning?
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April 30th, 2018 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: SECOND PARK BRAINSTORM SLATED
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RED BANK: Round two of public brainstorming sessions on possible makeover of Marine Park slated for Wednesday at Senior Center.
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April 27th, 2018 @ 11am
RED BANK: COFFEE CORRAL LOOKS TO EXPAND
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RED BANK: After six years in business, the Coffee Corral is ready to bust out of its pen with expansion plan that calls for new home and adjoining deli.
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April 27th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: NO PLANS FOR LUNCH BREAK LOT
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RED BANK: Lunch Break razes a house on Drs. Parker Boulevard. What's Going On Here?
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April 26th, 2018 @ 2pm
RED BANK: INDIAN, WITH A MEXICAN TWIST
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, downtown finally gets an Indian restaurant — one with a twist —  and a beauty supply store puts the cap on its lipstick one last time.
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April 26th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: SCHOOL TAX HIKE, JOB CUTS LOOM
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RED BANK: Local school taxes set to rise almost 4 percent, with teacher jobs and programs on the cutting board, as district awaits more funding from Trenton.
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April 25th, 2018 @ 8am
SHREWSBURY: Cop agrees to quit the borough police force as part of a plea deal to settle charges of trespassing and assault.
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April 24th, 2018 @ 5pm
RED BANK: HABCORE PLAN FACES HURDLES
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RED BANK: HABcore plan for four new independent living apartments behind River Street two-family faces resistance over size, maintenance.
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April 24th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: Rejecting allegations of enrollment bias, state education commissioner upholds charter school renewal through 2022.
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April 23rd, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: FEST BRINGS TASTES OF SPRING
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RED BANK: Spring is on again as International Beer, Wine & Food Fest draws thousands to White Street lot under cloudless skies.
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April 23rd, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: GLOBAL MUSIC SPICES FOOD FEST
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RED BANK: 'Heavy metal mariachi' act Metalachi set to spice up Sunday's International Beer Wine and Food Fest under sunny skies.
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April 20th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: RESTAURANTS IN CHURN
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RED BANK: In Retail Churn, a celebrated chef wins restaurant approval as Readie's closes; a print shop opens, and a clothing store rebrands, again.
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April 20th, 2018 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: Two months of crime reports and arrests from borough police.
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April 18th, 2018 @ 1pm
RED BANK: ADMINISTRATOR ‘Z,’ ON NEW JOB
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RED BANK: New administrator 'Z' Shehady tells redbankgreen he wants to see "government done right" and make the town stand out nationally on that basis.
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April 18th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: BERGEN PLACE MAKEOVER NEARS
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RED BANK: Pothole-plagued intersection of Broad Street and Bergen Place gets temporary fix as $1.35 million makeover project nears start.
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April 17th, 2018 @ 3pm
RED BANK: WORKWEEK STARTS OFF WET
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RED BANK: The workweeks gets off to wet start, with rain, wind, coastal flooding and power outages affecting the Greater Green.
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April 16th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: The police blotter for March 16 to March 31, 2018 includes five DWI arrests.
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April 13th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: TWO DAYS OF ROADSTER WEATHER
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RED BANK: The Greater Green is in for a two days of roadster weather before temperatures settle back down Sunday, according to the forecast.
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April 13th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: NEW ADMINISTRATOR NAMED
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RED BANK: Council picks new administrator. He's 33, an Army veteran and ex-mayor from Union County. And his salary will be triple his predecessor's.
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April 12th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: OUTDOOR DINING WEATHER
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RED BANK: An osprey enjoys some takeout a half-mile inland, which somehow has something to do with today's weather forecast.
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April 12th, 2018 @ 6am
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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 ...
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 ...