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Monthly Archives: April 2019

RED BANK: COUNCIL DROPS REVERSE APPEALS
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RED BANK: After business owners and landlords blast reverse tax appeals, council votes to withdraw 2019 suits. But older cases continue.
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April 11th, 2019 @ 9am
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RED BANK: PETER NOBLE DIES
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RED BANK: Borough and schools mourn passing of Peter Noble, longtime policeman, fireman and board of ed member who died Tuesday.
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April 11th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: END IN SIGHT FOR ROAD PROJECT
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RED BANK: After nine months of detours, dust and disruption, a major road job nears completion. redbankgreen's What's Going On Here checks in.
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April 10th, 2019 @ 10am
SHREWSBURY: The latest crime and arrest blotter from borough police.
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April 9th, 2019 @ 2pm
RED BANK: ‘REVERSE’ TAX APPEALS ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Continuing "aggressive" campaign, borough identifies nine commercial properties targeted for possible 'reverse' tax appeals as under-assessed.
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April 9th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: ELECTRICITY DEAL IN THE WORKS
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RED BANK: Council moves to create energy aggregation program, under which electricity customers would get rates lower than JCP&L's.
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April 8th, 2019 @ 7am
ON THE GREEN: SPLASHES OF COLOR & RAIN
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RED BANK: As splashes of spring color arrive, so do April showers. Here's the National Weather Service forecast for the Greater Green.
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April 8th, 2019 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: NO CALL ON DUNKIN’ APPEALS
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FAIR HAVEN: A zoning board hearing to decide which borough board should hear the Dunkin' application is adjourned without a decision after four hours..
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April 5th, 2019 @ 3pm
RED BANK: Riverview Medical Center, now part of the state's largest hospital chain, will get new signs, including a lighted one facing the Navesink.
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April 5th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: SIDEWALK ISSUE SLOWS PROJECT
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RED BANK: Questions about a sidewalk on a steep slope and parking slow proposal for townhouses overlooking Navesink River.
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April 5th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: A 42-year-old borough man is facing charges he sexually assaulted a child and invaded the privacy of another, according to police.
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April 4th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: March was another busy month for RBPD, with a couple of thefts at the hospital and three DWI arrests on the activity blotter.
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April 4th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: NICE PLACE YOU GOT HERE…
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RED BANK: Looking rather thuggish, a group of vultures loitered outside Les Gertrude apartments on Broad Street Thursday morning.
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April 4th, 2019 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: LAWYERS GET DOWN TO DUNKIN’
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FAIR HAVEN: Residents planning to attend a zoning board hearing about a proposed Dunkin' might want to fortify themselves in advance with extra caffeine.
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April 3rd, 2019 @ 12pm
SANDY HOOK: BOOZE BANNED
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SANDY HOOK: The sun sets on a tradition as the last public beach to allow alcohol bans it, citing hundreds of booze-related incidents.
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April 2nd, 2019 @ 4pm
RED BANK: TOWNHOMES, SIGNS ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Zoning board takes up townhomes on vacant site twice previously approved for development, plus and large signs for Riverview Medical Center.
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April 2nd, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: SMOKE CLEARS WITH WINTER CHILL
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RED BANK: After a weekend tinged with smoke from a distant forest fire, new weeks starts with chill. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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April 1st, 2019 @ 6am
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EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
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 ...