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Monthly Archives: August 2018

RED BANK: FIRST WORKSHOP’S A MARATHON
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RED BANK: Dormant vehicles on Bank Street; four-way stops; a new firetruck; zoning for marijuana dispensaries. All these got mulled over at the council's first workshop session Wednesday.
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August 31st, 2018 @ 12pm
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RED BANK: The authors of a report calling for the creation of a downtown redevelopment agency appear on the verge of winning a contract to make it happen.
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August 30th, 2018 @ 2pm
RED BANK: HELLISH CORNER
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RED BANK: Road work and heat combine to create a hellish spot. Mother Nature may lend a hand, but could also put a damper on the Labor Day weekend.
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August 30th, 2018 @ 6am
ON THE GREEN: HEAT ADVISORY ISSUED
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RED BANK: National Weather Services issues heat advisory for Greater Green as index levels head past 100 Tuesday and Wednesday.
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August 28th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: HRAC TO LAUNCH ANTI-HATE DRIVE
RED BANK: KKK fliers and decline of civility in political discourse inspire borough Human Relations Advisory Committee's 'No Hate at Home' campaign.
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August 27th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: O’REE & ROCKIT ROCK OUT SUMMER
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RED BANK: On a beautiful summer evening, Rockit and Matt O'Ree Band play free concert for about 1,000 in Riverside Gardens Park.
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August 27th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: RESTAURANT, BOUTIQUE IN CHURN
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RED BANK: No summer doldrums for Retail Churn. We've got scoops on a new Vietnamese restaurant, a women's boutique, a vacuum store departure and more.
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August 23rd, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: ROCKIN’ THE PARK… AND THE RIVER
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RED BANK: The weather forecast is ideal as the Matt O'Ree Band plans to rock Riverside Gardens Park Friday night. There's a treat in store for boaters, too.
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August 22nd, 2018 @ 1pm
RED BANK: POKU CLAIMS RACIAL PREJUDICE
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RED BANK: Junk-filled yard draws attention of TV news crew and helicopter as property owner defends "hobbies" and claims racial prejudice.
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August 22nd, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: WAITING FOR SUN
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RED BANK: A lone sunflower awaits the return of sunshine behind the Maple Avenue 7-Eleven. Here's the weather forecast through next Tuesday.
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August 22nd, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: PUBLIC INPUT ON PARKING SOUGHT
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RED BANK: A public-input session on downtown parking issues has been scheduled as part of a study of parking needs now underway.
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August 21st, 2018 @ 1pm
RED BANK: JUNK-FILLED YARD IRKS NEIGHBORS
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RED BANK: Neighbors complain about a West Side house where the yard is filled with junk and vehicles parked out front never get moved.
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August 21st, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: Councilman Mike Whelan, who claimed to have been attacked in a Hamptons men's room last month, faces an assault charge, redbankgreen has learned.
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August 17th, 2018 @ 1pm
RED BANK: GOP ATTACKS RIVAL OVER THREAT
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RED BANK: In the first attack of the 2018 election season, Republicans accuse Triggiano of "cavorting" with a man Clancy said has made threats against him.
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August 17th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK REGIONAL: $17.9M PLAN ON BALLOT
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RED BANK REGIONAL: Three towns will vote in December on a $17.9 million capital plan driven in large part by a need to save a cash cow: academy tuition.
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August 16th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: KKK FLIERS CROP UP AGAIN
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RED BANK: Ku Klux Klan recruitment literature found twice in a week in plastic bags weighed down with candy. One flier rips "The BlacKkKlansman."
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August 15th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL AGENDA
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RED BANK: Council summer schedule continues with an agenda that includes a new post of police chaplain and a $1.85 million water utility bond.
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August 15th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: DOWNTOWN ‘VISION’ GAINS FOCUS
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RED BANK: An effort to redefine RiverCenter's vision for the downtown continued with new survey results on perceptions of residents and visitors Monday.
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August 14th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: A SECOND CAREER IN OLD JEANS
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RED BANK: There's money in 'crotch rot.' In this edition of Retail Churn, a woman finds a new career in repairing old jeans customers just can't part with.
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August 10th, 2018 @ 10am
RUMSON: Three months of arrest reports from borough police.
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August 10th, 2018 @ 4am
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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 ...