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RED BANK: LEAD-TAINTED SOIL TO BE REMOVED
RED BANK: Two years after garden shutdown, DEP outlines $2.6M plan to excavate and replace lead-contaminated soil from nearby residential properties.
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February 23rd, 2022 @ 7am
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RED BANK: ‘BOAT RAMP’ TO FUND CENTER FIX
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RED BANK: Funding for Senior Center repairs includes 30-year-old account set aside for a contemplated boat ramp that was never built.
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February 22nd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: More than two years after community garden shutdown over possible lead contamination, DEP will give a public presentation Tuesday.
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February 21st, 2022 @ 2pm
RED BANK: ACTION WOULD KILL REDEV AGENCY
RED BANK: Sturdivant may get to check off another campaign promise with move to kill Redevelopment Agency on council agenda this week.
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February 21st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: APARTMENT REVIEW RESUMES
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RED BANK: Hearing on plan for 45 apartments on dogleg-shaped Monmouth Street site resumes after two years with concerns about parking, affordable housing.
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February 18th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: HPC SPLITS OVER CENTURY HOUSE
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RED BANK: Preservation commission debates next steps regarding plan to demolish century house for parking; approves revised Sally Boy's design.
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February 17th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: BALLARD BLASTS SELF-DEALING ALLEGATION, ANNOUNCES MAYORAL RUN
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RED BANK: Shehady memo alleges Ballard duped council into approving raise for his wife; Ballard blasts "defamatory attack" and announces run for mayor.
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February 16th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: Former business administrator Ziad Shehady and Councilwoman Kathy Horgan slated for Charter Study Commission interviews tonight.
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February 15th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: MIRANDI ZOOMS INTO OFFICE
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RED BANK: Swearing-in ceremony puts a face to the name as Angela Mirandi completes swift change from commenter to council member.
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February 14th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: MAN SURVIVES FALL ONTO TRACK
RED BANK: "Highly intoxicated" man falls onto North Jersey Coast Line tracks as train arrives but suffers minor injury, police say.
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February 13th, 2022 @ 1pm
RED BANK: APARTMENT REVIEW TO RESUME
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RED BANK: After two-year pause, review of proposed Monmouth Street apartment project to resume, if the zoning board can get to it.
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February 11th, 2022 @ 12pm
RED BANK: 5K RACE, SYMPHONY TO RETURN
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RED BANK: Classic 5K and New Jersey Symphony plan returns after two pandemic cancellations. Here's a look at how the major-events calendar is shaping up.
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February 11th, 2022 @ 8am
RED BANK: Angela Mirandi elected to fill Yngstrom's seat after Zipprich declines to endorse Hecht, one of three residents he proposed for consideration.
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February 10th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: Blotter includes arrest of 63-year-old man on sexual assault/child endangerment charges. Here's the rundown for January.
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February 9th, 2022 @ 11am
RED BANK: $2M CENTER REPAIRS ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Almost $2M in funding for Senior Center repairs on the table as council holds workshop and regular sessions Wednesday night.
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February 9th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: Ex-teacher charged with sexually assaulting four Long Branch elementary students; he later worked at Red Bank Charter School for just three days.
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February 8th, 2022 @ 6pm
RED BANK: HOME’S HISTORIC VALUE DISPUTED
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RED BANK: Claims about historic value of 132-year-old house eyed for demolition are "in error," says developer's expert. HPC members are itching to differ.
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February 8th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: Motorist killed when his car strikes a pickup truck and flips at foot of Cooper's Bridge.
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February 5th, 2022 @ 3pm
RED BANK: ADMINISTRATOR IN SPOTLIGHTS
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RED BANK: Council expected to vote on changes to reduce administrator's power, even as Charter Study Commission work may lead to reversal.
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February 4th, 2022 @ 9am
RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK COLLECTS PROMWEAR
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RED BANK: Lunch Break launches collection of formalwear for female and male students in advance of April giveaway.
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February 3rd, 2022 @ 11am
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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.