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RED BANK: HPC REJECTS TWO PLANS, OKS ONE
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RED BANK: Historic Preservation Commission rejects proposed facade makeovers at Dublin House Pub and Sally Boy's; approves a third.
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January 20th, 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: YNGSTROM QUITS, CITING TOXICITY
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RED BANK: Citing political divisiveness and "toxic rhetoric" about his recent marriage, Yngstrom quits council, setting up possible power shift.
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January 19th, 2022 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: FIRST-EVER APARTMENTS OKAYED
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FAIR HAVEN: After hours of discussion about driveway and signage, planning board approves what would be the borough's first-ever multifamily development.
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January 19th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: PRC SHRINKS PROPOSAL AGAIN
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RED BANK: After meeting resistance, PRC returns to zoning board with a shrunken plan for residential units above Pazzo restaurant on West Front Street.
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January 18th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: MAKEOVERS TO GET HPC REVIEWS
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RED BANK: Buildings at two high-visibility corners would get makeovers under plans scheduled for review this week by the Historic Preservation Commission.
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January 17th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: WIND, RAIN KNOCK OUT POWER
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RED BANK: Wind and rain combined to knock out power for about 250 borough homes early Monday, with wind expected to persist. Here's the forecast.
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January 17th, 2022 @ 3am
FAIR HAVEN: SKATER RESCUED FROM POND
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FAIR HAVEN: Fast-acting hockey players rescued a borough woman after she fell through the ice on McCarter Pond Sunday morning.
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January 16th, 2022 @ 1pm
RED BANK: MASKS ‘STRONGLY’ URGED
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RED BANK: Borough issues declaration "strongly urging" mask-wearing in stores and restaurants, but stops short of mandates seen elsewhere.
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January 14th, 2022 @ 5pm
RED BANK: STURDIVANT TEES UP REDEV, ADMIN
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RED BANK: Sturdivant calls for disbanding Redevelopment agency over high costs, lack of progress; also wants reset of business administrator's authority.
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January 14th, 2022 @ 2pm
RED BANK: WINDY WEEKEND EXPECTED
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RED BANK: Strong winds will drive feels-like temperatures below zero Saturday; uncertainty remains about storm Sunday. Here's the latest forecast.
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January 14th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: DALPRA LEAVING PARKS & REC JOB
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RED BANK: DalPra leaving as parks and rec director after just nine months on job. He's mum on his next move but says his tenure was "nothing but positive."
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January 13th, 2022 @ 1pm
RED BANK: MASK MANDATE EXPECTED
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RED BANK: Amid COVID-19 resurgence, Menna expected to issue mask mandate, following lead of other New Jersey cities and towns.
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January 13th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: DAY OF BITTER COLD FORECAST
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RED BANK: Near-zero temperatures gripped the Greater Green early Tuesday, setting conditions expected to last through the day.
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January 11th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: Police charged six motorists with DWI in December. Here's the rundown of reported crimes and arrests for the month.
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January 10th, 2022 @ 4pm
RED BANK: Co-author of report that recommended charter change tells Charter Study Commission borough needs a strong chief executive.
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January 10th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: MEXICAN, GREEK EATERIES DEBUT
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, new Mexican and Greek restaurants bring cultural and familial traditions to the table.
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January 7th, 2022 @ 11am
RED BANK: SNOW DAY? YES… FOR SOME
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RED BANK: Friday's snow adds another variable to school schedules already scrambled by rising COVID-19 cases. Here's the latest.
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January 7th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: With first snowfall of 2022 in the forecast, police warn of possible tickets and towing for vehicles left on borough streets.
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January 6th, 2022 @ 4pm
RED BANK: PHOENIX HOME GETS A MURAL
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RED BANK: New two-story mural covers facade of the Chestnut Street home of Phoenix Productions.
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January 6th, 2022 @ 1pm
RED BANK: Less than two months after settling a back-rent lawsuit by his landlord, former councilman Hazim Yassin has been evicted for nonpayment.
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January 6th, 2022 @ 6am
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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.