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RED BANK: Library and Fortune Center to display soil from the Eatontown site of the 1886 lynching of Samuel “Mingo” Jack Johnson as a way of bearing witness.
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May 3rd, 2022 @ 2pm
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RED BANK: FIFTY APARTMENTS PROPOSED
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RED BANK: Fresh off completion of 24 downtown apartments, a developer proposes building 50 more across the street.
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May 3rd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: DREAMERS PLAN MEXICO TRIP
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RED BANK: Five DACA recipients from Brookdale Community College plan to conduct research in Mexico this summer. A May 5 fundraiser will help with expenses.
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April 29th, 2022 @ 4pm
RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK BREAKS GROUND
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RED BANK: Lunch Break kicks off $12 million facility expansion with a groundbreaking ceremony attended by New Jersey First Lady Tammy Murphy.
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April 29th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: FUNDRAISER FLOATS RESCUE BOAT
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RED BANK: A $25,000 donation enables fire department to declare fundraiser for new Marine 1 rescue boat a success.
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April 29th, 2022 @ 3am
RED BANK: COMMISSION TO HOLD FORUM
RED BANK: Charter Study Commission schedules forum on first phase of its examination of municipal government and elections.
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April 28th, 2022 @ 6pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL SPARS OVER BROADWALK
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RED BANK: With Broadwalk dining plaza expected to return mid-July, Democrats clash over membership of restart committee.
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April 28th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: Local police urge residents not to make it easy for auto thieves, who've been busy stealing high-end autos in recent months.
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April 27th, 2022 @ 1pm
RED BANK: DISTRICT TAX UP TWO PERCENT
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RED BANK: Still well below "adequacy" funding, school district keeps tax increase at two percent for second consecutive year, Rumage says.
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April 27th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: BUILDING SOLD, PHARMACY CLOSED
RED BANK: Building changes hands and pharmacy shuts its doors. What's Going On Here? redbankgreen answers.
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April 26th, 2022 @ 2pm
RED BANK: CLERK BRINGS TINY-TOWN FOCUS
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RED BANK: Having begun her career in a job that required her to wear many hats, new clerk brings a tiny-town awareness to borough hall.
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April 25th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: FOUR BUSINESSES EXPAND
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, three established retailers and a restaurant plan expansions downtown.
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April 22nd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: TESLA TRYOUT UPDATED
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RED BANK: Borough's use of donated Tesla spotlights need for charging infrastructure before EVs can be considered, McConnell says.
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April 21st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: NEW BUSINESSES SET THE TABLE
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RED BANK: This edition of Retail Churn reports on three new restaurants downtown, with an update on a much-anticipated donut shop.
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April 20th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: Shrewsbury man unhurt after trying to stop the theft of his car downtown Tuesday, police said.
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April 19th, 2022 @ 6pm
RED BANK: COP LEADS FAMILIES TO SAFETY
RED BANK: A borough cop alerted two Middletown families to a fire in their homes and helped them escape last week.
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April 18th, 2022 @ 3pm
RED BANK: ASBESTOS FOUND AT BASIE PARK
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RED BANK: Council hires remediation firm after loose asbestos is discovered in utility rooms beneath Count Basie Field grandstand.
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April 15th, 2022 @ 2pm
RED BANK: LONG-IN-THE-TOOTH SIGN UPSIZED
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RED BANK: This.
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April 15th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: BROADWALK MAY RETURN IN JULY
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RED BANK: With streetscape project still incomplete, council gives informal approval for a third season of Broadwalk dining plaza, though not before mid-July.
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April 14th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: Zipprich demands Horgan and Okeson pay borough's legal fees in lawsuit over Mirandi appointment.
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April 13th, 2022 @ 3pm
Partyline
(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.