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RED BANK: CORNER PLAN GETS THUMBS DOWN
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RED BANK: Developer to revise plans after neighbors and board members call proposed apartment project too much for a busy intersection.
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January 3rd, 2020 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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FAIR HAVEN: SIGN OF RENEWAL?
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FAIR HAVEN: After months of complaints by its lone clerk, the borough post office finally has an identifying sign out front.
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January 2nd, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MENNA OFFERS PROTOCOL FIX
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RED BANK: Menna proposes workaround to comments protocol as Horgan, Yngstrom and fire chiefs begin new terms. Reorganization wrap.
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January 2nd, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: SCAVONE TO LEAVE RIVERCENTER
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RED BANK: RiverCenter, the quasi-governmental agency that oversees the downtown district, is losing its executive director of the past six years.
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December 31st, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: GUSTY WIND-DOWN TO 2019
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RED BANK: Wind-down of 2019 begins with a wet and windy Monday forecast. Here's the outlook heading into the New Year for the Greater Green.
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December 30th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: Just five months after yanking a plan to add a Dunkin' shop, the owner of the Shell station is back with a proposal for a convenience store.
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December 26th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: APARTMENTS AND STORES PLANNED
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RED BANK: Builder proposes to replace building at Shrewsbury Avenue and Drs. Parker Boulevard with 16 apartments, plus retail and underground parking.
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December 24th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT PROPOSED
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RED BANK: A proposed nine-story development atop Pazzo would add 150 apartments downtown and shatter the borough's limits on building height and density.
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December 22nd, 2019 @ 10pm
RED BANK: SUN TO RISE AGAIN ON STREET
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RED BANK: Looking a bit worse for wear, sun mural busy intersection will rise again following positive feedback and planning award, borough says.
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December 20th, 2019 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: STILL NO SIGN OF POSTAL SIGN
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FAIR HAVEN: For almost three years, the borough post office hasn't had a sign out front. Its lone clerk is baffled and annoyed.
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December 19th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: ROOFTOP DINING PLAN APPROVED
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RED BANK: New owners of prominent downtown address get planning board OK for rooftop dining despite board chairman's objections.
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December 17th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: New owners of former Belmonte space propose rooftop dining and third-floor dining space. Planning board to review Monday night.
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December 16th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: SNOW ACCUMULATION UNLIKELY
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RED BANK: While northwestern New Jersey may get socked with snow Monday and Tuesday, the Greater Green is likely to be spared. Here's the forecast.
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December 16th, 2019 @ 5am
RED BANK: CLOUDS AND RAIN IN FORECAST
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RED BANK: The Greater Green won't see much sun before Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. Clouds and rain dominate the forecast.
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December 13th, 2019 @ 6am
SHREWSBURY: Latest police blotter includes two DWI arrests.
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December 12th, 2019 @ 3pm
RED BANK: Council wraps up 2019 with a quiet session that includes formation of committee to encourage resident participation in 2020 Census.
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December 12th, 2019 @ 8am
FAIR HAVEN: Police reports for November include two DWI arrests, several car break-ins and alleged vandalism by juveniles.
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December 11th, 2019 @ 2pm
MIDDLETOWN: GEORGE BOWDEN DIES
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MIDDLETOWN: George Bowden, longtime Red Bank resident and champion of historic preservation, died Sunday. He was 92 years old.
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December 11th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: INCH OR SO OF SNOW FORECAST
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RED BANK: The season's second snowfall wasn't expected to amount to much Wednesday. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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December 11th, 2019 @ 5am
RED BANK: FIVE-MAN OVERDOSE A MYSTERY
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RED BANK: Police still sorting out how five men apparently overdosed, and two of them died, in Bank Street house early Sunday.
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December 9th, 2019 @ 6pm
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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.