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RED BANK: TRAP DOOR PLANS TO BUST OPEN
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, former Hobbymasters building gets a new tenant who's dreaming big: next-door neighbor Trap Door Escape.
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December 30th, 2020 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: MANSION RAZED; MORE LAND EYED
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RED BANK: Ignoring pleas by preservationists, Riverview razes 19th-century riverfront mansion, and moves to acquire more property.
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December 28th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: BON JOVI SPOTLIGHTS PORTER
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RED BANK: Rock star Jon Bon Jovi spoke with Pastor Terrence Porter of Pilgrim Baptist Church for a Christmas Eve segment on NBC's Today Show.
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December 28th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: AFTER ‘NO-HO-HO,’ CHIMNEY’S A GO
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RED BANK: After a 'no-ho-ho' for 'eyesore' chimney, Historic Preservation Commission OKs amended plan for Washington Street house.
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December 24th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MOLLY PITCHER TAKING ‘HIATUS’
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RED BANK: Molly Pitcher Inn going on "winter hiatus" next week with plans to reopen in March. Its sibling, the Oyster Point Hotel, will remain open.
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December 23rd, 2020 @ 7pm
FAIR HAVEN: DUNKIN’ AIMS FOR FRESH START
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FAIR HAVEN: More than two years after it split the town, Dunkin' shop opens. It's still early, but the world has not come to an end.
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December 23rd, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: ANDERSON MAKEOVER LAUDED
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RED BANK: Monmouth County planning board honors Anderson building, a long vacant structure now home to stores and offices, for adaptive reuse.
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December 23rd, 2020 @ 7am
VIRUS UPDATES: DATA, OUTBREAKS & TESTING
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RED BANK: RBR to offer free COVID-19 testing for staff and students. Also: updates on cases, hospital utilization, longterm care outbreaks and testing.
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December 22nd, 2020 @ 4pm
RED BANK: Riverview to pay $850k to settle borough lawsuit that sought $5.3M for 33 years of alleged illegal water and sewer usage.
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December 22nd, 2020 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional is back on full-remote Monday after a student who was present two days last week tests COVID-19 positive.
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December 21st, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: ‘CHRISTMAS STAR’ BRINGS WINTER
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RED BANK: Winter begins with a rare 'Christmas star,' though cloudy skies may obscure it. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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December 21st, 2020 @ 5am
RED BANK: WATER SERVICE AFFECTED
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RED BANK: Crew on scene of water line break at South Street and Madison Avenue. Service disruptions possible.
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December 18th, 2020 @ 6pm
RED BANK: TRASH PACT, LEAK REPORT OK’D
RED BANK: Council OKs new trash contract with more frequent recycling pickups and higher costs. Also authorizes report on Zipprich emails.
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December 18th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: SNOWPERSON WEATHER
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RED BANK: Snowpersons created after this week's storm may stick around a while as cold lingers. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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December 18th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: LOOSE LIPS AT COUNCIL SESSION
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RED BANK: Council meeting includes loose-lip disclosures about a lawsuit settlement with Riverview and misgivings about a new borough official.
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December 17th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: DURING AND AFTER THE STORM
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RED BANK: Photos from during and after the season's first snowstorm.
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December 17th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: STORM LEAVES COLD, SLUSHY MESS
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RED BANK: First winter storm of 2020-2021 leaves icy, slushy mess on roadways. Here's the forecast for the Greater Green.
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December 17th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: MURPHY DECLARES ‘EMERGENCY’
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RED BANK: National Weather Service dials back snow forecast a bit forthe Greater Green as Murphy declares statewide state of emergency.
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December 16th, 2020 @ 2pm
ON THE GREEN: WHAT TO EXPECT FROM STORM
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RED BANK: Here's what to expect and when from the storm in Wednesday's forecast.
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December 16th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: SNOW PARKING ALERT ISSUED
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RED BANK: With storm expected to drop five or more inches starting Wednesday, borough reminds residents to remove cars from streets.
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December 15th, 2020 @ 3pm
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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.