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Monthly Archives: August 2020

RED BANK: DELISA TO GET ‘EMERGENCY’ PACT
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RED BANK: With no bids submitted for trash contract, borough will go to interim pact to avert an "emergency" – at an extra cost of $10k per month.
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August 17th, 2020 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: PROBE, METERS & MORE ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Busy council agenda includes authorization of Zipprich email leak probe; longer parking enforcement; budget; and six police promotions.
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August 17th, 2020 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: TRAIL FUNDING SOUGHT
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FAIR HAVEN: Council to hold public hearing Monday on "dusted off" proposal for new trail that would also aid with cost of cleaning up McCarter Pond.
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August 14th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: WEEKEND WEATHER MIXED
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RED BANK: Mostly sunny Saturday. But that's the one bright spot as we head into the weekend. Here's the weather outlook for the Greater Green.
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August 14th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: COMMUNITY RALLIES FOR FAMILY
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RED BANK: Teen's online fundraiser quickly surpasses amount needed to pay for life-saving surgery on his family's pet bulldog.
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August 13th, 2020 @ 1pm
RED BANK: FUNDS NEEDED FOR PET SURGERY
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RED BANK: Borough teen launches online fundraiser for his family's pet bulldog, who needs emergency surgery they cannot afford.
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August 12th, 2020 @ 7pm
RED BANK: ANDERSON ‘EVOLUTION’ ROLLS ON
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RED BANK: Decades in the works, the revival of the long-vacant Anderson Storage building is all but complete with the opening of Sickles Market and Booskerdoo.
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August 12th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: STORMS MAY BRING FLOODING
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RED BANK: More summer storms, along with possible flooding, dominate the weather outlook over the next three days for the Greater Green.
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August 12th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: OUTDOOR FASHION SHOW SLATED
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RED BANK: Boutique owner and designer of "dreamy, punk" clothing plans an outdoor fashion show on Broad Street Sunday evening.
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August 11th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: CLANCY MULLS COUGHING ON ‘LIBS’
RED BANK: Three years after he quit Human Relations committee over a text seen as threatening, GOP chairman Clancy muses about "coughing" on liberals to "harass" them.
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August 10th, 2020 @ 4pm
RED BANK: POWER BACK ON AS HEAT DIALS UP
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RED BANK: Power almost fully restored as feels-like temperatures close to 100 loom this week. Here's the extended forecast for the Greater Green.
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August 10th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: POWER OUTAGES CONTINUE
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RED BANK: Power outages caused by Isaias continue, with much of Red Bank and Fair Haven still without electricity.
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August 7th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: ZIPPRICH ASKS FOR LEAK PROBE
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RED BANK: Zipprich wants probe of leaked emails in which Shehady warned of efforts to "sabotage" trash bidding. Also, Ballard and Shehady spar again.
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August 6th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: ZONING BOARD RESUMES WORK
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RED BANK: Sidelined for five months by the pandemic, the zoning board gets back to hearing variance requests Thursday night.
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August 6th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: ‘SABOTAGE’ OF TRASH BID ALLEGED
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RED BANK: Shehady, citing "suspicious" Zipprich email echoed by a hauler's letter, warns of effort to "sabotage" trash contract bid process.
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August 5th, 2020 @ 12pm
ON THE GREEN: OUTAGES & ABUNDANT SUN
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RED BANK: Power outages persist early Wednesday following Tropical Storm Isais. Meantime, weather forecast calls for abundant sunshine.
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August 5th, 2020 @ 6am
ON THE GREEN: OUTAGES FOLLOW STORM
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RED BANK: Tropical Storm Isais blows through the Greater Green, leaving behind power outages, a leafy mess and brilliant sunshine.
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August 4th, 2020 @ 5pm
RED BANK: TORNADO THREAT AMID OUTAGES
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RED BANK: The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for Monmouth County amid spreading power outages as Isaias approached.
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August 4th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: ISAIAS MAY SPARE AREA ITS WORST
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RED BANK: Tropical Storm Isaias regained hurricane strength but is expected to spare the Greater Green its worst impacts, which will be to the west.
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August 4th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: NEW LOT, HOURS ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: On the council workshop agenda this week: new paid-parking hours; a new lot for Marine Park; and new downtown meters going live Thursday.
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August 3rd, 2020 @ 11am
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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 ...