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Monthly Archives: August 2019

RED BANK: HEMP-BASED CBD SHOP OK’D
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RED BANK: Borough OKs shop selling CBD products derived from hemp for a Shrewsbury Avenue storefront that's been vacant for 15 years.
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August 13th, 2019 @ 9am
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RED BANK: CONTAMINATION SHUTS GARDEN
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RED BANK: Borough shuts community garden in "abundance of caution" after neighbor's testing of its soil appear to show lead contamination, Shehady says.
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August 12th, 2019 @ 1pm
RED BANK: OceanFirst Bank, which acquired the former Hovnanian building here almost two years ago, plans to buy two smaller banks.
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August 12th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE TUESDAY
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RED BANK: After a warm and sunny Monday, 'severe' storms could hit the Greater Green Tuesday. Here's the extended weather forecast.
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August 12th, 2019 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER: Q&A WITH NEW RBR PRINCIPAL
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LITTLE SILVER: A Q&A with the new principal at Red Bank Regional, who will be familiar to some students from their time in middle school.
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August 9th, 2019 @ 5am
FAIR HAVEN: Police reports for June include a dog bite and three adults charged with vandalism for allegedly egging vehicles.
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August 8th, 2019 @ 4am
FAIR HAVEN: CLUB LANDS HISTORIC LISTINGS
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FAIR HAVEN: A genteel yacht club with unlikely roots in the bawdy days of vaudeville is now on the New Jersey and National Historic registers.
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August 7th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: BIG NIGHT OUT AT BASIE FIELDS
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RED BANK: A change of venue makes for a carnival-like National Night Out at Count Basie Fields. Check out redbankgreen's photos.
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August 7th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: SAXUM CONFRONTS TRAFFIC ISSUE
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RED BANK: Traffic consultant defends Saxum's plan for former VNA site, offers suggestions for improvement, including big one repeatedly shot down by NJDOT.
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August 6th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: TACO & CLOTHING SHOPS SLATED
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, downtown could soon have a new, two-story taco restaurant as well as a men's clothing shop.
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August 5th, 2019 @ 3pm
RED BANK: June and July were busy months for borough police. Here's the crimes and arrests blotter.
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August 5th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: The man who pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing volunteer firefighter Andrew Hill 14 months ago gets 13 years in state prison.
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August 2nd, 2019 @ 1pm
RED BANK: SCHOOLS AMONG ‘MOST IMPROVED”
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RED BANK: Borough school district one of 11 statewide chosen for Lighthouse award, based on greatest gains in students' academic performance.
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August 2nd, 2019 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: DUNKIN’ TRAFFIC FIXES OFFERED
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FAIR HAVEN: Planning board expected to hear several suggestions for improving pedestrian safety at its next hearing on controversial Dunkin' proposal.
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August 2nd, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: SHELL YANKS DUNKIN’ PLAN
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RED BANK: After months of sporadic, and contentious hearings, plan for Dunkin shop at Shell station is being withdrawn, redbankgreen has learned.
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August 1st, 2019 @ 1pm
RED BANK: SUNNY START TO AUGUST
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RED BANK: Storms and rainbows close out July, and August begins with sunshine. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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August 1st, 2019 @ 7am
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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 ...