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Monthly Archives: June 2020

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June 5th, 2020 @ 2am
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FAIR HAVEN: BRUSH GRINDING SITE GRATES
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FAIR HAVEN: Neighbors say they've had it with a noisy brush-grinding operation that jams narrow streets with 18-wheelers, endangering kids.
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June 5th, 2020 @ 2am
RED BANK: KNOCKOUT WEATHER FOR… SUNDAY
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RED BANK: The sun will fight to be seen over the next two days, but is expected to deliver a knockout Sunday. Here's the forecast for the Greater Green.
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June 5th, 2020 @ 2am
RED BANK: BOROUGH FRESHENS ITS PRIDE
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RED BANK: A downtown crosswalk painted last year in the rainbow colors of the LBGTQ pride flag gets a freshening for National Pride Month.
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June 4th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: BALLARD REPORTS WIFE’S ‘ARREST’
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RED BANK: Councilman adds one to the growing list of Zoom meeting embarrassments: a report of spousal arrest in progress.
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June 4th, 2020 @ 8am
FAIR HAVEN: KNOLLWOOD’S ROLLING SEND-OFF
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FAIR HAVEN: With a police vehicle supplying sirens and flashing lights, school officials hold rolling graduations at homes of Knollwood eighth-graders.
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June 3rd, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: Crime blotter includes the theft of "medicine, an old radio, an old Ford car seat and miscellaneous items from the back of a truck."
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June 3rd, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: PLAZA DETAILS STILL IN THE WORKS
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RED BANK: Borough officials shed light on plans for pedestrian dining and shopping plazas, but say they need clarity from Trenton on key issues.
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June 2nd, 2020 @ 5pm
LITTLE SILVER: Though in-person graduation ceremonies can resume July 6, Red Bank Regional High says one here is impractical.
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June 2nd, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: TIFFANY STORE BOARDED UP
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RED BANK: Though there's been no unrest here, Tiffany & Co., which has had damage elsewhere, boards up windows on its downtown store.
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June 2nd, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: STEWART TO HOST FUNDRAISER
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RED BANK: Comedian Jon Stewart, whose farm is helping feed Lunch Break clients, will host a virtual fundraiser for the nonprofit in late August.
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June 1st, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BASIE PLANS DRIVE-IN CONCERT
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RED BANK: Its stage darkened by the pandemic, Count Basie Center plans a drive-in concert by Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes at Monmouth Park.
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June 1st, 2020 @ 9am
PROSECUTOR: ‘OUR MISSION IS TO PROTECT’
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FREEHOLD: Monmouth prosecutor denounces George Floyd's death as 'murder' by Minneapolis cops, affirm efforts to build trust with local communities.
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June 1st, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: HOTEL PLANS PHASED REOPENING
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RED BANK: Its wedding and business bookings in shreds, Oyster Point Hotel plans partial reopening Monday while "reinventing" itself for post-pandemic world.
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June 1st, 2020 @ 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 ...