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LITTLE SILVER: HALLOWEEN GETS TRICKY
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LITTLE SILVER: Officials and residents wrestle with how to do Halloween in a pandemic, without being a buzzkill, particularly for one partying neighborhood.
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October 5th, 2020 @ 11pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: HABCORE EXPANSION COMPLETED
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RED BANK: HABcore opens four new independent living apartments on River Street with help from Jon Bon Jovi's JBJ Soul Foundation.
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October 5th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: DEBUT VOGEL LINEUP SLATED
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RED BANK: Singer Grace Potter kicks things off at the Basie Center's new Vogel performance space. Here's the initial lineup of acts.
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October 5th, 2020 @ 12pm
SHREWSBURY: Crime and arrest reports for the last two weeks of September.
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October 5th, 2020 @ 10am
ON THE GREEN: COVID CASES IMPACT SCHOOLS
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ON THE GREEN: Middle Schools in both Fair Haven and Red Bank adjust schedules as one student in each tests positive for COVID-19.
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October 5th, 2020 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER: ‘AT LEAST’ 58 ISOLATED BY RBR
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LITTLE SILVER: 'At least' 58 students and teachers are now in quarantine from Red Bank Regional in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, Moore reports.
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October 3rd, 2020 @ 12am
LITTLE SILVER: ODD LOT TO GET NEW USE
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LITTLE SILVER: Oddly shaped lot with tricky access wins planning board approval for use as vehicle storage yard for a local landscaping business.
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October 2nd, 2020 @ 8am
ON THE GREEN: BRIGHT WEEKEND AHEAD
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ON THE GREEN: The weekend weather forecast for the Greater Red Bank Green is bright.
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October 2nd, 2020 @ 6am
SHREWSBURY: WEDDING GOWNS IN SPOTLIGHT
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SHREWSBURY: Historical Society unveils a dazzling collection of restored wedding dresses from more than a century of American life.
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October 1st, 2020 @ 3pm
LITTLE SILVER: TWO STUDENTS QUARANTINED
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LITTLE SILVER: With in-person instruction resuming, two Red Bank Regional students are quarantined and eight others are excluded from activities, Moore says.
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September 30th, 2020 @ 9pm
RED BANK: TEACHERS, VEEP GET SPOTLIGHT
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RED BANK: District teachers and an administrator get delayed recognition for professional achievements and awards announced before the pandemic.
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September 30th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: COVID-19 CLAIMS TWO BUSINESSES
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RED BANK: In this 400th edition of Retail Churn, two more businesses fall to the pandemic: the restaurant Via45 and Paint A Tee, a children's event space.
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September 30th, 2020 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER: RBR AIMS FOR THURSDAY
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LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional aims for Thursday reopening after student tests positive for COVID-19; others being checked following contact.
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September 29th, 2020 @ 5pm
RED BANK: BASIE TO OPEN NEW VENUE
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RED BANK: After seven months of darkness, Basie Center plans to debut new performance space, seating just 150 in a room built for 800.
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September 29th, 2020 @ 11am
LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional will halt in-person instruction for at least a day after student tests positive for COVID-19, Moore says in announcement.
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September 28th, 2020 @ 9pm
RED BANK: DOWNTOWN SOLD
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RED BANK: The Downtown restaurant and bar has new owners. Filings indicate no immediate plans for changes to the West Front Street building.
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September 28th, 2020 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: ART FOR ALL SEASONS & WEATHER
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FAIR HAVEN: The week ahead promises a palette of seasonally appropriate weather. Here's the forecast for the Greater Green.
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September 28th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: Four tenants at Grandville Towers win a point as rent board decides they were deprived of value with pool closure this summer. Up next: so what's that worth in dollars?
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September 25th, 2020 @ 12am
RED BANK: Two weeks after they were announced, six paid-admission concerts over two Saturdays in Riverside Gardens Park have been cancelled.
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September 24th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: ‘BROADWALK’ TO GO 24/7
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RED BANK: Council approves unannounced proposal to make 'Broadwalk' dining plaza a 24/7 affair, at least through November 30.
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September 24th, 2020 @ 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.