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RED BANK: MURALS BRING MESSAGE OF LOVE
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RED BANK: Giant "I LOVE RED BANK" mural pops up on Leighton Avenue, and another is coming downtown. What's Going On Here?
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March 4th, 2020 @ 1pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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FAIR HAVEN: PIZZERIA CLOSING
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FAIR HAVEN: Umberto's Pizzeria, a longtime fixture on River Road, plans to close this month. Property owner says the building will continue as a restaurant.
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March 4th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: HELP FUND ‘MOOSEDUCK’ FILM
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RED BANK: Filmmaker launches campaign to fund animated short about a duck with moose antlers on his first day of kindergarten.
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March 4th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: EXTENDED METERING ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Council to take up proposal to extend meter enforcement by four hours, to 10 p.m. Here's what else may be coming on the parking issue.
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March 3rd, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BALLARD & ZIPPRICH TO RUN AGAIN
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RED BANK: Zipprich and Ballard to defend seats on the all-Democrat council in November election. No word yet on Republican candidates.
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March 3rd, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: WORK BEGINS AT RIVERMARK SITE
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RED BANK: What's Going On with the two long-vacant buildings at Maple Avenue and West Front Street, next door to the public library?
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March 2nd, 2020 @ 1pm
LITTLE SILVER: NEW STOP ALERTS
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LITTLE SILVER: A stop sign has replaced a yield at a busy location, and other new stops are coming under an amendment to the borough traffic ordinance approved last week.
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March 2nd, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: WINTER MARCHES TOWARD SPRING
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RED BANK: The unwintry winter of 2020 continues its march toward spring this week. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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March 2nd, 2020 @ 5am
RED BANK: ‘WALKOUT’ HONORS PD RETIREES
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RED BANK: Fellow officers and borough employees mark retirement of two cops with a traditional "walkout" on their last day of work.
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February 28th, 2020 @ 5pm
RED BANK: HOMEWARES SHOP MOVES RIGHT IN
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a homewares store relocates from Bellworks after one of the downtown's quickest deals in recent memory.
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February 28th, 2020 @ 2pm
FAIR HAVEN: POLICE ACTIVITY
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FAIR HAVEN: Police reports for January.
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February 28th, 2020 @ 1pm
RED BANK: EX-FIRE CHIEF MEGO DIES
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RED BANK: Former fire chief, school maintenance worker and crossing guard John Mego has died, according to an announcement by Mayor Menna.
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February 28th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAP
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RED BANK: Weeds, a police department retirement and the library were on the agenda of a no-surprises council meeting Wednesday. Here's a wrap-up.
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February 27th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: JAZZMAN VISITS FORTUNE CENTER
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RED BANK: Before taking the stage at the Basie Wednesday night, Branford Marsalis paid a pre-concert visit to the T. Thomas Fortune Center.
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February 27th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: PHOTO BOOK AT VISITOR CENTER
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RED BANK: New book of photos taken around town available for purchase at Visitor Center.
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February 26th, 2020 @ 12pm
RUMSON: LUNCH BREAKERS BAKE A WINNER
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RUMSON: Lunch Break cooking class students win Oceanic Library's Irish soda bread-making contest.
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February 26th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: Shrewsbury man faces 18 years in prison after admitting he sexually assaulted seven children in three towns over a decade.
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February 25th, 2020 @ 8pm
RED BANK: SNACK BAR, SCREENS ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Council to take up measures on weeds, window screens and the future of the Riverside Gardens Park Wednesday. Here's an agenda scan.
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February 25th, 2020 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER: RBR HONORS SCHOLARS
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LITTLE SILVER: RBR honors scholars, not only athletes, with varsity letters. Here's the latest crop of academic achievers.
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February 25th, 2020 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: TENANTS HOT OVER TOWN DEAL
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FAIR HAVEN: Business owners and residents push back on council plan to buy River Road site for new borough hall and police station.
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February 25th, 2020 @ 9am
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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.