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RED BANK: ALTERNATE-SIDE PLAN REVISED
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RED BANK: Council to scale back proposed alternate-side parking plan for street sweeping to a monthly schedule, rather than weekly.
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July 8th, 2019 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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SHREWSBURY: The latest crime and arrest blotter from borough police includes five driving-while-intoxicated arrests.
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July 5th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: FIREFIGHTERS KEEP FREE Y ACCESS
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RED BANK: YMCA walks back part of a plan to end free memberships for borough kids and first responders, but says no kids will be turned away.
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July 3rd, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FORECAST FOR THE FOURTH
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RED BANK: Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green as we head into Independence Day and, for some, a four-day weekend.
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July 3rd, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: WHAT’S ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA?
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RED BANK: Here's what the council plans to discuss Wednesday night, when the rest of America is cracking open its first Fourth of July-eve frosties.
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July 2nd, 2019 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: Police reports for May includes three arrests on DWI charges.
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July 1st, 2019 @ 2pm
RED BANK: SUNSET CONCERT PICTURE-PERFECT
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RED BANK:Thousands enjoy picture-perfect night for sunset and music as New Jersey Symphony plays Marine Park. We've got the pictures to prove it.
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July 1st, 2019 @ 5am
RED BANK: ‘SACK & SYMPHONY IN THE PARK
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RED BANK: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra returns for a sunset concert on our beautiful Navesink River, this time with a local opener.
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June 28th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: SPREAD YOUR WINGS THIS SUMMER
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RED BANK: Spread your wings this summer by having your photo taken in front of this temporary mural in the School of Rock window on Monmouth Street.
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June 27th, 2019 @ 5pm
RED BANK: MENNA ‘IRATE’ OVER YMCA ACTION
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RED BANK: 'Irate' Menna blasts YMCA decision to terminate free memberships for borough kids and emergency first responders.
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June 27th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: KIDS, RESPONDERS LOSE FREE YMCA
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RED BANK: YMCA ending free memberships for borough kids and emergency first responders in a move driven by "accountability" issue, says director.
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June 27th, 2019 @ 5am
RED BANK: NEW AGENCY EYES TOWN ASSETS
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RED BANK: New Redevelopment Agency, with potential to exert enormous power over borough's future, quietly slips into gear.
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June 26th, 2019 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: Council introduces ban on drive-thru and walk-up restaurants, as well as a proposed ban on plastic bags and straws.
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June 25th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: PAWSING TO KICK OFF SUMMER
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RED BANK: Dog Days kick off summer in muggy style, followed by thunderstorms Tuesday. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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June 25th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: 12 FAMILIES DISPLACED BY BLAZE
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RED BANK: Fire apparently cause by a cigarette dropped into mulch displaces all residents of 12-unit apartment building.
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June 23rd, 2019 @ 1pm
RED BANK: FIRE AT NEW APARTMENT BUILDING
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RED BANK: Fire causes heavy damage to Oakland Square, a 12-unit apartment building constructed just two years ago near train station.
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June 23rd, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: BROAD TO THE RIVER? ‘WE’LL SEE…’
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RED BANK: Is a Broad-to-the-river plan finally in the works? redbankgreen checks out some intriguing clues among property deals.
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June 21st, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: SWEEPING CHANGES COMING
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RED BANK: Council delays alternate-side parking law but it's still coming, along with a sweeper tracker, despite misgivings of some residents.
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June 20th, 2019 @ 8am
FAIR HAVEN: DUNKIN’ RETURNS, HOT AS EVER
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FAIR HAVEN: After four-month detour, Dunkin' case returns to planning board, just as hot as ever. Center owner calls resident's scenarios 'ridiculous.'
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June 19th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: MORE RAIN FORECAST, BUDDY
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RED BANK: More heavy rain possible after flooding interrupts blues show at Count Basie theater. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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June 19th, 2019 @ 6am
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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.