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RED BANK: RESOURCE OFFICERS PLANNED
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RED BANK:  Borough schools and police plan to roll out an armed school resource officer program to boost safety, McConnell says.
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June 7th, 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: PORTMAN SEES INTERIM ROLE
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RED BANK: Running in the June 7 Democratic primary, political newcomer Portman sees himself as a bridge past the 'acrimony' and 'machine politics' to a nonpartisan future.
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June 6th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: BALLARD TOUTS ‘TEAM’ GOALS
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RED BANK: Ballard aims to reclaim borough from "administrator on steroids" and end era of council members "at each others' throats."
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June 6th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: Police blotter for May includes eight DWI arrests and a reported theft of OTC anti-allergy medications.
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June 3rd, 2022 @ 10am
RED BANK: Proposed 45-apartment project would have no adverse effect on traffic in the area, engineering consultant tells zoning board.
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June 3rd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: After three years of review and changes, plan for 45 new apartments on Monmouth Street may get a vote by the zoning board Thursday.
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June 1st, 2022 @ 5pm
RED BANK: CHIEF TO ADDRESS SAFETY QS
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RED BANK: Following mass shootings elsewhere, McConnell plans to address public safety concerns in a community Zoom meeting. 
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June 1st, 2022 @ 10am
RED BANK: MAN DIES ON STATION PLATFORM
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RED BANK: A 27-year-old borough resident died on a boarding platform at the train station Tuesday, police said.
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June 1st, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: SINKHOLE OPENS ON BROAD
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RED BANK: Sinkhole damages car parked in streetscape construction zone, and sanitary sewer fails on Tower Hill.
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May 31st, 2022 @ 11am
RED BANK: Council declines to immediately renew streateries outside Broadwalk zone, with majority voicing concern about lost parking revenue.
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May 31st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: ZIPPRICH DERIDES ‘SMEAR’ WAR
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RED BANK: Following "exoneration" of contract interference allegation, Zipprich derides two-year "smear campaign" mean to "dehumanize" him.
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May 27th, 2022 @ 11am
RED BANK: GETTING A JUMP ON THE HOLIDAY
RED BANK: Was this fox getting an early jump on the Memorial Day weekend? Here's video with the weather outlook for the Greater Green.
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May 27th, 2022 @ 10am
RED BANK: Lawyer hired by council finds no evidence of trash contract interference by Zipprich; says Shehady was like the source of leaked emails.
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May 26th, 2022 @ 2pm
FAIR HAVEN: TWO FAMILIES LOSE HOMES IN FIRE
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FAIR HAVEN: Fire destroys two-family house, causes damage to two others.
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May 26th, 2022 @ 11am
RED BANK: TEEN ALLEGES RACIAL ATTACK
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RED BANK: A 16-year-old RBR student alleges he was beaten in a racially charged attack in Oceanport Saturday night.
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May 25th, 2022 @ 7pm
RED BANK: BUDGET INTRO ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Budget intro tops busy agenda as council meets in person for first time in 26 months, with home-participation option.
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May 25th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: HOUSING GRANTS AVAILABLE
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RED BANK: The Red Bank Affordable Housing Corporation offers substantial grants to qualified first-time homebuyers, as well as to homeowners and renters seeking to improve their dwellings.
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May 23rd, 2022 @ 12pm
RED BANK: RIVERCENTER TAPS DOWNTOWN PRO
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RED BANK: RiverCenter taps a downtown-management professional with extensive experience in New York and New Jersey as executive director.
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May 23rd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: TORRES DEBUTS NEW RESTAURANT
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RED BANK: Serial entrepreneur Juan Torres debuts new restaurant, an explosion of colors and flavors in a space that was to have been a laundromat.
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May 20th, 2022 @ 4pm
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN INCHES AHEAD
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RED BANK: Proposed 45-apartment project would satisfy part of its affordable housing obligation by restoring a house previously targeted for demolition.
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May 20th, 2022 @ 12pm
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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.