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Monthly Archives: January 2019

RUMSON-FAIR HAVEN: Monmouth Prosecutor's office charges former president of football booster club with stealing $25K from club.
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January 31st, 2019 @ 4pm
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RED BANK: PASTRY, PIZZA AND MORE
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RED BANK: A new pastry shop has opened in the space vacated by Carlo's Bakery, of 'Cake Boss' fame. This one offers some savory along with the sweet.
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January 31st, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: VORTEX BRINGS BITTER COLD
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RED BANK: Polar vortex brings snow squall and bitter cold to the Greater Green. Here's the forecast along with some safety tips.
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January 31st, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: CHARTER SCHOOL HEAD TO RETIRE
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RED BANK: Meredith Pennotti, who led the charter school through most of its first two, and highly fraught, decades, announces plan to retire.
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January 30th, 2019 @ 3pm
SHREWSBURY: The latest crime and arrest reports from borough police include a theft by deception case involving almost $12,000.
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January 30th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FRESH FASHION ON THE RUNWAY
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RED BANK: Young fashion designers show off their creations at a red runway event, the culmination of a three-week Parks & Rec class.
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January 30th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: To wean, or not to wean? Mayor and council walk back characterization of key parking study recommendation Menna had said was potentially "catastrophic."
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January 29th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: VICTORIAN IN CROSSHAIRS
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RED BANK: A prominent Victorian home on East Front Street is on the next planning board agenda. What's Going On Here? Answer here.
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January 29th, 2019 @ 5am
RED BANK: ‘SNO BIG DEAL
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RED BANK: Snow is forecast for the Greater Green this week, but not the 'empty the store shelves' kind of snow. Details here.
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January 28th, 2019 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: A 21-year-old borough man was one of two soldiers killed in a crash involving two military vehicles in New Mexico Tuesday night.
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January 25th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: ‘WEANING’ FROM METERS UNLIKELY
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RED BANK: Council appears unlikely to adopt a key recommendation of bombshell parking report: 'weaning' itself of using meter revenue to keep taxes down.
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January 25th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: Swaying perilously with lines that cross the NJ Transit rail, damaged utility pole forces closure of Chestnut Street block. Video.
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January 24th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: TODDLER SCORES AT CEREMONY
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RED BANK: Toddler steals show as middle school boys' soccer team is honored by council for third straight championship season.
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January 24th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: COUNCIL AGENDA
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RED BANK: Affordable housing, snow shoveling and what was said at the CFO's firing are on the council's agenda Wednesday night.
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January 23rd, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: HOPE CONCERT RAISED $224,000
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RED BANK: Bobby Bandiera's 10th and final Hope Concert at the Basie last month raised $224,000 for two charities, bringing the series total to nearly $3M.
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January 22nd, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: First cold snap of 2019 loosens its grip on the Greater Green as temperatures climb back to high 20s, and almost feel that, um, warm. Here's the forecast.
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January 22nd, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: SNOW TOSSERS TO FACE TICKETS
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RED BANK: Under a proposed law, property owners who shovel or plow snow into the street would face tickets. Shehady wants "zero tolerance."
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January 21st, 2019 @ 12pm
SHREWSBURY: CRIMES AND ARRESTS
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SHREWSBURY: The latest crime and arrest reports from borough police includes a weapons charge.
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January 21st, 2019 @ 10am
RBR: FORUM ADDRESSES IMMIGRATION CRISIS
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LITTLE SILVER: Today's young people, who overwhelmingly support immigration, will solve an issue that Americans are now torn over, RBR forum speaker says.
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January 18th, 2019 @ 1pm
RED BANK: WEATHER OUTLOOK SLIPPERY
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RED BANK: Weather outlook slippery as storm threatens northeast. Here's the forecast for the Greater Green through Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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January 18th, 2019 @ 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 ...