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RED BANK: DPU UPDATES PICKUP SCHEDULES
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RED BANK: Can't remember when to put out recycling or brush for pickup? Borough DPU posts a new downloadable schedule for 2019.
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March 6th, 2019 @ 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: BUNDLE UP FOR WIND CHILL
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RED BANK: Highs in the mid-to-upper 20s and wind chill readings in the single digits expected Wednesday. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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March 6th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: February was a busy month for RBPD. See if you know anyone who ended up in handcuffs.
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March 5th, 2019 @ 2pm
RED BANK: MARINE PARK PLAN READY TO DROP
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RED BANK: An urban planning firm is scheduled to unveil a new concept plan for Marine Park at Wednesday's workshop meeting of the borough council.
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March 5th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: BUILDING CHANGES APPROVED
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RED BANK: Dramatic changes to the exterior of an office building on Chestnut Street win planning board OK in 10-minute hearing.
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March 5th, 2019 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: POLICE ACTIVITY
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FAIR HAVEN: Police reports for December, 2018 and January, 2019.
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March 4th, 2019 @ 12pm
SHREWSBURY: The latest crime and arrest blotter from borough police includes eight DWI arrests over two weeks.
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March 4th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: STATE OF EMERGENCE…EH
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RED BANK: 'State of emergency?' Not so much, as storm leaves little of the expected snow that prompted another Murphy declaration.
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March 4th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: NO-PARKING STORM ALERT ISSUED
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RED BANK: With storm expected to drop as much as seven inches of snow by morning, town tells residents to remove cars from streets.
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March 3rd, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: TOWNHOMES PLANNED, AGAIN
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RED BANK: Third time's a charm? Denholtz seeks OK for townhouses overlooking Navesink where two prior developers failed to deliver.
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March 1st, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: WINTRY MIX FOR WEEKEND
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RED BANK: After some light snow Friday morning, off-and-on sleet and rain possible through the weekend. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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March 1st, 2019 @ 5am
RED BANK: NEW OFFICER JOINS POLICE FORCE
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RED BANK: New cop joins the borough force as another one plans to retire, with more departures possible this year.
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February 28th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: BUILDING MAKEOVER PROPOSED
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RED BANK: An office building on Chestnut Street would get a dramatic makeover if proposed facade changes are approved by the planning board.
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February 27th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: REDEVELOPMENT ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: What's on the council's agenda this week? The creation of a redevelopment agency; the closing of an alleyway to vehicles; a smoking ban and more.
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February 26th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: POWER OUTAGES CONTINUE
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RED BANK: Power outages continue in small clusters across the Greater Green after strong winds rake the region. Details here.
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February 26th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: WINDS SPREAD POWER OUTAGES
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RED BANK: Outages widespread on the Greater Green as winds up to 60 mph bring down tree limbs and power lines.
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February 25th, 2019 @ 1pm
RED BANK: WIND WARNING ISSUED
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RED BANK: Dangerous conditions expected Monday with wind gusts of up to 60 mph possible. Here's the forecast for the Greater Green.
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February 25th, 2019 @ 5am
RED BANK: FORTUNE ‘MIRACLE’ COMPLETED
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RED BANK: Once facing demolition, the onetime home of pioneering civil rights journalist T. Thomas Fortune has now been restored. You can tour it this weekend.
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February 21st, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: ‘SNO PARKING? WAIT AND SEE.
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RED BANK: Snow was coming down fast and furious, but how much would be left behind on the Greater Green? And what about parking?
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February 20th, 2019 @ 2pm
FAIR HAVEN: DUNKIN’ GETS SPILLOVER CROWD
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FAIR HAVEN: Spillover crowd forces change of venue for Dunkin' Donuts hearing as lawyers hammer traffic consultant over parking adequacy.
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February 20th, 2019 @ 9am
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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.