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RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAP
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RED BANK: Once again, council moves quickly through a light agenda, this time after Menna holds a last-minute informal session. Here's a wrap.
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January 23rd, 2020 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: LIVER DONOR SOUGHT FOR INFANT
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RED BANK: A borough couple seek a live organ donor to help their ailing three-month-old daughter, who's in intensive care in a Philadelphia hospital.
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January 21st, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: HOUSING UPGRADES PROMISED
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RED BANK: Residents of Evergreen Terrace and Montgomery Terrace assured of rent stability as housing authority plans change in funding model.
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January 20th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: WEEK BEGINS WITH SUNSHINE
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RED BANK: After a brief wet snow over the weekend, a new week begins with sunshine and cold. Here's the week's forecast for the Greater Green.
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January 20th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: PROJECT REVIEW GETS UNDERWAY
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RED BANK: Hearing on massive development proposed for West Front Street block gets underway with hints of concern about size, height and traffic impacts.
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January 17th, 2020 @ 10am
FAIR HAVEN: SIGNS OF WINTER SCENE HERE
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FAIR HAVEN: Muralist's latest tableau depicts an idyllic winter scene. Nature may follow suit this weekend, sorta. Here's the forecast for the Greater Red Bank Green.
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January 17th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: New Year brings personnel changes to borough hall, including the hiring of a confidential executive assistant to the business administrator.
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January 16th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT ON DECK
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RED BANK: A nine-story, 150-apartment addition that would shatter the borough's height limits goes to the zoning board this week. Here's what you need to know.
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January 15th, 2020 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: VETERAN LAUDED FOR HIS 100TH
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FAIR HAVEN: Mayor and council honor Henry Stevens, a Navy veteran of World War II, in advance of his 100th birthday.
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January 15th, 2020 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: STATION NOW IN HOUSING DEAL
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FAIR HAVEN: A vacant gas station seen as key to a borough facilities consolidation plan just a year ago is now key to an affordable housing plan.
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January 14th, 2020 @ 4pm
RED BANK: December police blotter includes four arrests for DWI and eight for marijuana possession, plus a number of thefts.
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January 14th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FORMER DOCTORS’ OFFICE IN REHAB
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RED BANK: A long-vacant house on Shrewsbury Avenue is getting a major makeover. What's Going On Here? Read on for the answer...
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January 14th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: JOGGER ASSAULTED
RED BANK: Police are seeking video footage or other help in identifying a man who assaulted a jogger on the East Side Sunday morning.
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January 13th, 2020 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: AN ELEGANT ENIGMA ON DISPLAY
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FAIR HAVEN: A River Road dress shop with a striking window display offers an enduring enigma: no one has ever seen it open for business.
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January 13th, 2020 @ 5am
RED BANK: CHURNING OUT A THIRD VENTURE
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a pair of accidental restaurateurs now own three eateries within steps of one another downtown.
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January 10th, 2020 @ 8am
FAIR HAVEN: A raccoon that got into a scrape with a resident's dog last month turned out to have rabies, redbankgreen has learned.
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January 9th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: TWO QUICK SESSIONS AND A SNAFU
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RED BANK: Moving swiftly through its agenda, council neglects to honor two men who had been told they'd receive proclamations.
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January 9th, 2020 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: COUNCIL ADDS TWO DEMOCRATS
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FAIR HAVEN: Democrats Meghan Chrisner-Keefe and Mike McCue are sworn to office, creating first 3-3 party split in modern memory.
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January 7th, 2020 @ 7am
SHREWSBURY: Year ends with a trio of DWI arrests.
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January 6th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: THIS WEEK’S WEATHER FORECAST
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RED BANK: After an overnight coating of light snow, sunshine expected Monday. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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January 6th, 2020 @ 7am
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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 ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
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.