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FAIR HAVEN: VOLUNTEERS HELP PAINT CHURCH
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FAIR HAVEN: Local volunteers help paint exterior of Fisk Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where many congregants are senior citizens.
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September 23rd, 2020 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RUMSON: 9-11 MEMORIAL DEDICATED
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RUMSON: Volunteer firefighters, with an assist from an Eagle Scout, unveil new memorial to those killed on September 11, 2001.
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September 23rd, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: LIBRARY SETS PARTIAL REOPENING
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RED BANK: Public library, closed since start of pandemic, plans a partial reopening Monday, with limits on number of patrons and more.
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September 22nd, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SNACK BAR TO BE PARKING OFFICE
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RED BANK: Vacant concession stand in Riverside Gardens Park to reopen as parking utility office, Shehady tells redbankgreen.
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September 22nd, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: COUNCIL AGENDA
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RED BANK: What's on the council agenda, and, once again, what's not: dueling resolutions calling investigations into leaked emails.
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September 21st, 2020 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: PD, DPW, PLANS IN REVISION
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FAIR HAVEN: It's back to the drawing board for two major projects following the council's decision to abandon controversial purchase of River Road property.
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September 18th, 2020 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER: After planned cuts by Murphy administration, Gopal says funding for RBR's the Source and other school-based youth service programs will be restored.
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September 17th, 2020 @ 6pm
RED BANK: LITTLE PROGRESS ON GARDEN
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RED BANK: What's Going On since community garden was shut down over contamination concerns 13 months ago? We have an update.
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September 17th, 2020 @ 2pm
SHREWSBURY: Crime and arrest reports for the first two weeks of September include three motorists charged with DWI.
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September 17th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: GRUNIN TO CHAIR BASIE BOARD
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RED BANK: Count Basie Center for the Arts names Jeremy Grunin chairman of board of trustees during "a time of recovery and resilience."
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September 17th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: Historic Preservation Commission to discuss East Front Street Victorian structure slated for demolition by Hackensack Meridian.
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September 16th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: COOLER TEMPS ARRIVE
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RED BANK: With one week of summer left, temperatures shift cooler for the next few days. Here's the extended weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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September 15th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: FIRST LESSONS OF NEW YEAR
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RED BANK: Borough schools reopened with lessons from the pandemic before children even reached their classrooms Monday morning.
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September 14th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: ILLUMINATING THE TOWN’S PAST
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RED BANK: After lobbying successfully for replacement of historical marker, retired teacher turns her attention to app to help illuminate borough's past.
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September 14th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: FOOD FESTS OUT, CONCERTS IN
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RED BANK: With its signature food fests cancelled by pandemic, RiverCenter will host six paid-admission concerts over two Saturdays in Riverside Gardens Park.
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September 11th, 2020 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER: FOOTBALL WEATHER COMING?
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LITTLE SILVER: Football weather coming? Here's the extended forecast for the Greater Red Bank Green.
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September 11th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: GOP PAIR QUIT COUNCIL RACE
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RED BANK: Both Republicans quit borough council race, leaving incumbent Democrats Ballard and Zipprich on a glide path to re-election.
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September 10th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: Boys and Girls Clubs open remote learning centers to provide safe space for children to participate in their schools’ virtual learning programs.
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September 10th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: CHANGES EYED AT BASIE FIELDS
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RED BANK: Count Basie Fields playground would be relocated to Mohawk Pond and street closed to traffic under Open Spaces application OK'd by council.
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September 10th, 2020 @ 6am
SANDY HOOK: PROPOSED FEE HIKE RETURNS
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SANDY HOOK: Four years after scrapping a proposed entry fee hike, Gateway National Recreation Area is again seeking a 33-percent increase.
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September 9th, 2020 @ 5pm
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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.