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RED BANK: MASTER PLAN UPDATE BEGINS
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RED BANK: At a meeting that lasts less than 12 minutes, planning board embarks on first full-scale Master Plan rewrite in 25 years.
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May 18th, 2021 @ 7am
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RED BANK: Car burglars were busy on the East Side early Monday morning, police say. In one case, they took the whole vehicle.
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May 17th, 2021 @ 4pm
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLANS NEAR VOTE
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RED BANK: Two multi-use developments that would add 42 apartments to the market top a busy zoning board agenda Thursday night.
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May 17th, 2021 @ 7am
SHREWSBURY: YMCA NAMES BOARD MEMBERS
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SHREWSBURY: YMCA of Greater Monmouth County names seven new board members.
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May 14th, 2021 @ 3pm
RED BANK: CALVARY BAPTIST ISSUES APPEAL
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RED BANK: Calvary Baptist on Bridge Avenue issues appeal for help restoring its aging sanctuary.
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May 14th, 2021 @ 3pm
RED BANK: KIDS SERVE UP GARDEN & MURALS
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RED BANK: Middle school students create community garden and murals as corner coffee shop property morphs into post-pandemic hangout.
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May 14th, 2021 @ 12pm
RED BANK: YARD SALE MAY BE REVIVED
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RED BANK: Townwide yard sale may return in September, though mayor floats idea of holding an unstructured, non-sponsored one in June.
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May 14th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: ANIMAL OPERATION ON THE BLOCK
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RED BANK: Council looking into eliminating in-house animal control service in switch to SPCA. Residents say personal service will suffer.
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May 13th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: Kirkpatrick resigns RiverCenter, leaving downtown promo agency looking for a new executive director for the second time in 17 months.
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May 11th, 2021 @ 4pm
FAIR HAVEN: FINE-TUNING FOR TWO PROJECTS
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FAIR HAVEN: Residents weigh in again on plans for new police station and public works yard, fine-tuning designs praised for fitting in among homes.
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May 11th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: Police charge man with criminal sexual contact and harassment of woman downtown; it was his fourth arrest in one month.
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May 10th, 2021 @ 2pm
RED BANK: Police arrest same guy four times in one month. Also, lots of thefts from parked cars in the latest crime blotter.
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May 10th, 2021 @ 12pm
RED BANK: On the council agenda this week: a parking ban on Chapin Avenue; police personnel changes: and a settlement of a "reverse" tax appeal.
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May 10th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: LONG APART, SENIORS MEET ANEW
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RED BANK: For the first time in months, seniors who usually meet at the Senior Center get together for a pre-Mother's Day, pandemic-era social.
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May 7th, 2021 @ 1pm
RED BANK: WEEKEND WEATHER OUTLOOK
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RED BANK: A bit cloudy, perhaps, but fine for outdoor dining on Broadwalk. Here's the weekend weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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May 7th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN DETAILED
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RED BANK: At zoning board, developer details plan for 32 apartments at Monmouth and Pearl; three other plans OK'd; ex-mayor learns he's a grandfather.
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May 7th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: CHARTER REVIEW VOTE SLATED
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RED BANK: All-Democratic council agrees to put charter study on November ballot, a move that could lead to nonpartisan elections.
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May 6th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: ORPHANED RACCOONS GET TLC
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RED BANK: For the second day in a row, an animal control officer responded to a call of a raccoon pup falling from high in a tree.
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May 5th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: On the council's workshop agenda Wednesday for Shehady's final meeting are a charter study commission and prep work to repair the Senior Center.
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May 4th, 2021 @ 4pm
RED BANK: STUDENTS HELP FEED THE HUNGRY
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RED BANK: Red Bank Catholic students combine agriculture and tech to create a laboratory that puts "wasted space" to use and helps feed the hungry.
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May 4th, 2021 @ 7am
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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.