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FAIR HAVEN: COUNCIL SPLITS ON FUNDING
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FAIR HAVEN: Council authorizes debt, extends administrator's contract and bids goodbye to a three-term member at final session of 2020.
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December 15th, 2020 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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VIRUS: ICU CASES RISING AS VACCINE DEBUTS
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RED BANK: Vaccine debuts Tuesday, bringing "light at the end of tunnel," even as demand for ICU and ventilator care rises, Murphy says.
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December 15th, 2020 @ 7am
VIRUS: HEALTH WORKERS TO GET FIRST SHOTS
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RED BANK: Doctors, nurses and other frontline healthcare workers at Riverview expected to be among first to get COVID-19 vaccine.
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December 14th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: MIDWEEK SNOW POSSIBLE
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RED BANK: The Greater Green is on the margin of an area of New Jersey expected to get up to five inches of snow midweek. Here's the extended forecast.
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December 14th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: ANOTHER CAR HITS BUILDING
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RED BANK: Another vehicle plows into vacant former VNA headquarters, where neighbors cited safety concerns about a massive development plan.
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December 13th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: HOLIDAY DELIGHTS A-POPPING
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RED BANK: The holiday season is popping as organizations adapt the retail 'pop-up' concept to entertain and engage patrons.
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December 11th, 2020 @ 5pm
RED BANK: SCHOOLS DIVERGE ON SCHEDULES
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RED BANK: RBR and its largest sending district announce divergent schedule approaches as COVID-19 case totals continue to climb.
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December 11th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: FRICTION OVER WEST FRONT PLAN
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RED BANK: Hearing on PRC plan to add nine stories above Pazzo resumes with testimony on parking, friction over building height.
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December 10th, 2020 @ 8am
SHREWSBURY: PEDESTRIAN STRUCK & KILLED
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SHREWSBURY: Borough man dies after being struck on Route 35. Prosecutor says victim attempted to cross highway outside a crosswalk.
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December 9th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: A TOUCH OF WINTER IN THE AIR
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RED BANK: The Greater Green may see its first snow flurries of the season Wednesday, Here's the extended weather forecast.
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December 9th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: A plan to add seven stories of apartments and parking above Pazzo restaurant returns to the zoning board after a pandemic interruption.
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December 8th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: CRIME & ARREST REPORTS
RED BANK: There's always a jackass, right? Christmas displays vandalized in Riverside Gardens Park and elsewhere downtown, police report in November blotter.
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December 8th, 2020 @ 12pm
VIRUS UPDATE: COVID-19 CASES ON THE RISE
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RED BANK: After COVID-19 cases totals soar over the weekend, Murphy cautions against large gatherings over the coming holiday season.
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December 7th, 2020 @ 6pm
LITTLE SILVER: Pandemic bonuses for all borough employees, and new police salaries, up for council consideration Monday night.
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December 7th, 2020 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: KICK DANCE STUDIO SET TO LEAP
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FAIR HAVEN: Kick Dance Studio wins okay to add a second story – plus praise as a harbinger of the future from the only board member to vote no.
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December 4th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: RIVERVIEW ‘NOT IMPACTED’
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RED BANK: Hospital network that includes Riverview Medical Center 'not impacted' by resurgence in COVID-19 cases, chain tells redbankgreen.
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December 3rd, 2020 @ 1pm
RED BANK: New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund to provide $187,000 to help borough students stay connected via remote learning.
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December 3rd, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: Menna and two council members tee up proposed RiverCenter bylaw changes as effort to reduce oversight by governing body and residents.
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December 3rd, 2020 @ 9am
LITTLE SILVER: Whipsawed students, parents and teachers at Red Bank Regional High are in for another schedule change starting Thursday.
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December 2nd, 2020 @ 8pm
LITTLE SILVER: CALL PROMPTS ONE ARREST
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LITTLE SILVER: One person arrested for false public alarm after purported hostage situation at a Branch Avenue house, prosecutor's office says.
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December 2nd, 2020 @ 6pm
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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.