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FAIR HAVEN: TROMBINO Q&A
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FAIR HAVEN: Q&A with council candidate Sonja Trombino, one of four contenders for two seats on the governing body in the November 2 election.
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October 21st, 2021 @ 3pm
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RED BANK: FOREST Q&A
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RED BANK: Eleven candidates seek seats on five-member charter study commission. Here's what Ben Forest has to say about himself and the issues.
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October 21st, 2021 @ 3pm
RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK PLAN ON DECK
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RED BANK: Lunch Break plan for $12 million expansion to help it battle rising tide of food insecurity goes to zoning board Thursday.
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October 20th, 2021 @ 11am
RED BANK: COUNTY CHAIR BLASTS ZIPPRICH
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RED BANK: Monmouth Democratic chairman blasts Zipprich for refusal to support Triggiano; says obscuring her name on a mailer left him "speechless."
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October 20th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: CHRISTMAS TREE WANTED
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RED BANK: RiverCenter issues annual call for a donated Christmas tree for display in Riverside Gardens Park.
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October 19th, 2021 @ 3pm
FAIR HAVEN: NEW MAYOR FINDS COMPROMISE
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FAIR HAVEN: Five days into the job, new mayor forges "compromise" in bid to preserve funding for a road project that appeared dead a week ago.
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October 19th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: BOARD NIXES REDEVELOPMENT BID
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RED BANK: Planning board nixes Saxum's controversial request for a rezoning of VNA site, saying the firm is responsible for deterioration.
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October 18th, 2021 @ 8pm
RED BANK: WHAT’S ON COUNCIL AGENDA
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RED BANK: On the council agenda this week: paying for the master plan rewrite, selling a never-used animal control van and more.
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October 18th, 2021 @ 4pm
RED BANK: DEMOLITION SLATED FOR PARKING
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RED BANK: Development firm plans to raze century-old house in "extreme state of disrepair" for parking, new ATM and future development, owner says.
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October 18th, 2021 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: NEW MAYOR REVIVES ROAD PLAN
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FAIR HAVEN: Mayor calls special council session in bid to save funding for road project that appeared dead earlier this week.
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October 15th, 2021 @ 6pm
RED BANK: CENTER REPAIR FORUMS SLATED
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RED BANK: Public forums on planned repairs and changes to Senior Center slated for October 27.
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October 15th, 2021 @ 4pm
RED BANK: EBANKS OFFERS PLANNING PRIMER
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RED BANK: New community planning director offers a primer in zoning and land-use law, but steers clear of third-rail topics like tax abatements.
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October 15th, 2021 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: TWOFER KISS FOR NEW CAPTAIN
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FAIR HAVEN: For new police captain Robert Townshend, Tuesday's promotion was the "second-best thing" ever to happen to him on October 12.
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October 14th, 2021 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: SIDEWALK PLAN HITS DEAD END
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FAIR HAVEN: Measure to solicit bids for sidewalks and curbs in area neighbors consider bucolic fails, effectively knocking $350K grant off table.
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October 13th, 2021 @ 3pm
FAIR HAVEN: NEWCOMER TAPPED AS MAYOR
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FAIR HAVEN: Without discussion or comment, council picks political newcomer Joshua Halpern to serve as mayor through 2022.
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October 13th, 2021 @ 2am
RED BANK: JON STEWART SELLS SECOND HOME
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RED BANK: With a deal to sell the second of two adjacent homes overlooking the Navesink River, Jon Stewart appears to have ended his time in town.
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October 11th, 2021 @ 11am
RED BANK: SENIORS MARK END OF SUMMER
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RED BANK: Senior citizens, still displaced from their customary gathering place, mark end of summer with a cookout at the Westside Hose Company.
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October 11th, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: PROJECT DRAWS CLOSER TO OK
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RED BANK: Vote on condo project delayed by lack of rendering after testimony that revisions improve safety and runoff issues from 2018 plan.
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October 8th, 2021 @ 2pm
RED BANK: MORE SIGNS OF RETAIL CHURN
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, signs of change downtown include new Greek restaurant; coal-fired pizzeria; juice bar and more.
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October 8th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: SPRINKLER DOUSES UNIT FIRE
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RED BANK: Potential tragedy averted as sprinkler system douses apartment fire in River Street Commons senior housing complex.
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October 7th, 2021 @ 1pm
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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.