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Monthly Archives: March 2019

RED BANK: SHEDDING LIGHT ON SHREWSBURY
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RED BANK: Can you guess how many decorative streetlamps along Shrewsbury Avenue are out? Once again, pedestrian safety issues come to the fore.
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March 29th, 2019 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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FAIR HAVEN: CONSOLIDATION COMPLICATION?
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FAIR HAVEN: The vacant Sunoco site has a new owner who wants to build 24 townhouses there, which could complicate an ambitious borough consolidation plan.
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March 27th, 2019 @ 10pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL AGENDA
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RED BANK: Green Acres grant applications for two parks, and appointments to the new redevelopment agency are on the council's agenda Wednesday night.
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March 26th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: STUDENTS PROBE CAREER OPTIONS
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RED BANK: Middle school students get to kick the tires - and try some minimally invasive surgery - on 40 jobs and college opportunities at Career Day.
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March 22nd, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: DUNKIN’ CONTINUES SLOW DRIP
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RED BANK: Hearing resumes on proposed Dunkin' at Shell station as revised plan is unveiled and tempers flare over McKenna questions.
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March 22nd, 2019 @ 9am
LITTLE SILVER: SPORTS CUTS SPARK OUTRAGE
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LITTLE SILVER: Parents and students pack Red Bank Regional board meeting in effort to save hockey and golf from budget axe.
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March 21st, 2019 @ 12pm
LITTLE SIVER: RBR TEACHERS BLAST MOORE
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LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional teachers' union blasts Moore for "authoritarian" style and "general lack of integrity" after no-confidence vote.
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March 21st, 2019 @ 1am
FAIR HAVEN: HOUSING PLAN DRAWS FIRE
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FAIR HAVEN: Unveiled at a packed-room hearing, affordable housing plan draws ire for being "shoved down our throats."
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March 20th, 2019 @ 10am
SHREWSBURY: The latest crime and arrest blotter from borough police includes a DWI charge and three arrests for drug possession.
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March 19th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: OFFICES WITH CAR LIFTS OK’D
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RED BANK: Board OKs office building designed to fit into historic district with a modern touch: underground parking served by valets and elevators.
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March 19th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: CONSERVATORY AT HOME AT LAST
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RED BANK: Now under the Basie wing, the Monmouth Conservatory of Music finds its first real, new home on Chestnut Street.
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March 18th, 2019 @ 3pm
LITTLE SILVER: BAG & STRAW BAN PENDING
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LITTLE SILVER: It's all but in the bag that the borough will ban plastic store bags and straws, with the reluctant acceptance of the business community.
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March 18th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: (ITALIAN) ICE FORECAST
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RED BANK: The annual reopening of Strollo's Italian ice stand is a sure sign spring is near. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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March 18th, 2019 @ 5am
RED BANK: VETERANS’ ART TO GET SPOTLIGHT
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RED BANK: Free art school for veterans has been 'serendipitous' for a 71-year-old who'll have his works in the studio's first show next month.
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March 15th, 2019 @ 3pm
RED BANK: SILENCE BY ALL ON HARASSMENT
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RED BANK: There's silence all around as council ends a harassment case filed against Shehady five months into his job as business administrator.
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March 14th, 2019 @ 1pm
SHREWSBURY: The latest crime and arrest blotter from borough police.
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March 14th, 2019 @ 8am
LITTLE SILVER: BRANDT ON THE OUTS WITH FD
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LITTLE SILVER: A Republican candidate for mayor has been suspended by the volunteer fire department for violating its bylaws regarding the use of imagery.
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March 13th, 2019 @ 2pm
RED BANK: WRAPS COME OFF NEW BUILDING
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RED BANK: Wraps come off a new building that replaces the downtown's fugliest structure. What's Going On Here? Here's who'll occupy it.
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March 13th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: Nearly a decade after a borough middle school teacher was found slain in her Neptune City apartment, three men have been found guilty of her vicious murder.
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March 12th, 2019 @ 2pm
RED BANK: NO INJURIES IN CAR FIRE
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RED BANK: No injuries reported as blaze destroys vehicle traveling Maple Avenue early Tuesday.
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March 12th, 2019 @ 1am
Partyline
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 ...