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RED BANK: PORTMAN Q&A
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RED BANK: Here's what Billy Portman, the lone candidate for mayor, sees as the big issues in town. Plus: how to cast your ballot.
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October 26th, 2022 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: MASTER PLAN GETS MORE INPUT
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RED BANK: About two dozen residents weigh in on concept plans for the first full Master Plan update in almost three decades.
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October 25th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: PUTH TO HEAD $20M BASIE DRIVE
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RED BANK: Pop star Charlie Puth to lead a $20 million drive to provide arts education "in perpetuity" at the Count Basie Center Academy.
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October 24th, 2022 @ 5am
RED BANK: ROADWORK TO CLOSE PINCKNEY
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RED BANK: Pinckney Road is to be closed to traffic for repaving this week – weather permitting. And weather may not permit.
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October 23rd, 2022 @ 5pm
RED BANK: HALLOWEEN PARADE POSTPONED
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RED BANK: The 74th annual Halloween Parade, scheduled for Sunday, has been postponed because of rain in the forecast.
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October 21st, 2022 @ 2pm
RED BANK: DOWNTOWN APARTMENTS OK’D
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RED BANK: After developer lops off a floor, plan for 40-unit apartment building downtown gets unanimous zoning board approval.
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October 21st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: ‘CIVILITY’ ON VOTERS’ MINDS
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RED BANK: Civility was top-of-mind for many residents who packed a room for the first of two candidates' nights held Wednesday.
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October 20th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: BUILDING VALUE DOUBLES. HOW?
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RED BANK: In just two years, a downtown building that's home to a prominent restaurant doubled in value. What's Going On Here?
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October 18th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN SHRINKS
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RED BANK: Developer of proposed apartment building lops off a floor, eliminating need for height and parking variances.
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October 17th, 2022 @ 12pm
RED BANK: Voters will have two chances – or one and a half – to size up municipal candidates this week. One's in-person, the other virtual.
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October 17th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: MASTER PLAN GETS MARKED UP
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RED BANK: Sharpies in hand, residents weigh in on concept plans created for the latest iteration to the Master Plan-in-process.
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October 14th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: TWO MORE FOUR-WAY STOPS OK’D
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RED BANK: Amid discussion about speeding and pedestrian safety, council gives informal greenlight to four-way stops at two intersections.
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October 13th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: Debt refinancing and tweaks to a committee's name and aims stand out on a light agenda when the council meets Wednesday night.
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October 12th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: PORCHFEST ROCKS TOWN
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RED BANK: Porchfest goes off "flawlessly," says Portman, as more than 80 musical acts draw audiences at 22 homes across town.
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October 10th, 2022 @ 10am
RED BANK: Eight downtown stores and restaurants were burglarized or targeted in a spree along Monmouth Street earlier this week, police said.
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October 8th, 2022 @ 12pm
RED BANK: STILL NO VOTE ON SALERNO PLAN
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RED BANK: Still no vote on proposal for 46 units on Monmouth Street as McKenna assails planner for lone objector, Station Place Apartments.
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October 7th, 2022 @ 11am
LITTLE SILVER: ‘SOURCE’ IMPERILED AGAIN
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LITTLE SILVER: Two years after avoiding the axe, The Source at RBRHS again faces "devastating" cuts, says Moore.
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October 7th, 2022 @ 9am
RED BANK: BIDEN ZIPS THROUGH TOWN
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RED BANK: A motorcade transporting President Biden briefly passed through town Thursday, serenaded by employees of a nearby restaurant.
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October 6th, 2022 @ 5pm
RED BANK: September crime blotter includes multiple bike thefts, plus arrests for assault, robbery, DWI and more.
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October 6th, 2022 @ 3pm
RED BANK: PORCHFEST TO FILL EARS & HEARTS
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RED BANK: More than 70 acts on 21 porches over five hours: here's your guide to the town's first-ever Porchfest music festival.
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October 6th, 2022 @ 7am
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(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.
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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.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.