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RED BANK: PAVING TO BRING DAYS OF DETOURS
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RED BANK: Final paving of Broad Street to complete eight-month makeover will entail days of road shutdowns and detours. Here's what you need to know.
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July 15th, 2022 @ 2pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: FORMER MAYOR NICOSIA DIES AT 101
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RED BANK: Former mayor, judge and Democratic party leader Benedict Nicosia has died. He was 101 years old.
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July 15th, 2022 @ 10am
RED BANK: BROADWALK CURTAILED, FEES UPPED
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RED BANK: Broadwalk could return next week, following council action on schedule (shortened) and streatery fees (increased).
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July 15th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: Sparks fly as Zipprich leads move to terminate borough attorney and replace him with one who "exonerated" him of wrongdoing.
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July 14th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: BROADWALK ACTION EXPECTED
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RED BANK: Broadwalk restart not on council agenda, but downtown business community hopes to get green light Wednesday night.
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July 13th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: CHARTER REFERENDUM ADVANCES
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RED BANK: Charter Study Commission agrees on "council-manager" government and other aspects of November referendum.
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July 11th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: TRIGGIANO UNSEATS ZIPPRICH
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RED BANK: Triggiano-led slate completes swift overthrow of Zipprich Democrats, giving her his seat at the party's helm.
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July 8th, 2022 @ 9am
RED BANK: Police blotter for June includes six DWI arrests, a stolen package and a damaged Ring doorbell camera.
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July 7th, 2022 @ 1pm
RED BANK: LOCALS BID CITARELLA’S FAREWELL
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RED BANK: Mayor and heartbroken customers bid family-owned butcher shop farewell after a 121-year run, but a new food shop may replace it.
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July 7th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: LIBRARY PHOTO CONTEST RETURNS
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RED BANK: Library accepting submissions for third annual "Red Bank: Always Beautiful" photo and video contest. Here's how to enter.
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July 6th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: GOPAL ASSOCIATION OPENS PANTRY
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RED BANK: Vin Gopal Civic Association opens free Food Pantry & Family Services Center on Shrewsbury Avenue.
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July 6th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: More accustomed to presiding over business grand openings, mayor will mark a closing Wednesday: Citarella's Market, after a 121-year run.
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July 5th, 2022 @ 4pm
redbankgreen: NEW COMMENTS POLICY
RED BANK: redbankgreen rolls out new commenting policy that requires use of real names, which will be individually verified.
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July 4th, 2022 @ 5pm
RED BANK: ‘HAIR’ AUDITIONS SLATED
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RED BANK: Phoenix Productions to hold auditions for its autumn production of 'HAIR.'
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July 1st, 2022 @ 10am
RED BANK: PORTMAN READY FOR MAYOR’S MIC
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RED BANK: Mayoral favorite Billy Portman is even more the entertainer than we knew, with movie roles and a 'filthy" rap record in his past.
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July 1st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: BROADWALK CONCERNS AIRED
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RED BANK: Merchants and residents raise numerous concerns as delayed restart of Broadwalk dining plaza finally nears.
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June 30th, 2022 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MARKET CLOSING AFTER 121 YEARS
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RED BANK: Citarella's Meats & Deli, one of the borough's oldest businesses, plans to close for good next month.
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June 28th, 2022 @ 3pm
RED BANK: FAMILIES PACK DRAG READING
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RED BANK: Drag Queen Story Hour draws a packed room of rapt toddlers and parents as supporters stand at library entrance.
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June 28th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: LBGTQ PRIDE, IN VIVID COLOR
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RED BANK: LGBTQ Pride event drew hundreds of colorfully clad celebrants to Riverside Gardens Park Sunday. Photos.
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June 27th, 2022 @ 4am
RED BANK: SCOTUS DECISION DRAWS PROTEST
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RED BANK: Reproductive rights supporters rally at Riverside Gardens Park to protest U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade.
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June 25th, 2022 @ 10am
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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.
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.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.