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RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK CELEBRATES NEW HOME
RED BANK: With a street renamed after founder Norma Todd, Lunch Break celebrates a rebuilt home finally "large enough to contain its heart."
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April 26th, 2024 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: POLICE LAUNCH CRACKDOWN ON TRAILERS
RED BANK: Police issue more than a dozen summonses and one arrest warrant to owners of work trailers violating a new 48 hour parking rule.
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April 24th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: DIAMOND SHOP HIT AGAIN
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RED BANK: Seven years after it was the target of a smash-and-grab burglary, a downtown jewelry shop was hit again Monday, police said.
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May 28th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: CLANCY QUITS COMMUNITY PANEL
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RED BANK: Still disavowing incendiary text he said was meant as a "joke," Clancy resigns Human Relations committee.
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April 6th, 2017 @ 9pm
RED BANK: CLANCY DISAVOWS DIVISIVE TEXT
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RED BANK: Amid renewed calls for his removal from Human Relations committee, GOP disputes context of controversial text message.
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April 5th, 2017 @ 4pm
RED BANK: VISCOMI DOUBLE-BARRELS CLANCY
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RED BANK: Party loyalist tees up GOP head for two issues: ignoring her, and sending a "disgusting" text about immigrant students.
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April 4th, 2017 @ 3pm
RUMSON: SPRINGSTEEN SELLING MANSION
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RUMSON: Springsteen selling his little-used mansion here to a couple who own a house just two doors away, property records indicate.
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January 20th, 2017 @ 9am
RED BANK: The new owner of a River Street home damaged in a March, 2015 fire seeks zoning board OK to rebuild it as a two-family.
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January 4th, 2017 @ 11am
RED BANK: RAYRAP CLEARS FIRST HURDLE
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RED BANK: A year after defeat, developer Ray Rapcavage wins key approval for townhouse-and-garden plan at the Five Corners on the edge of downtown.
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December 16th, 2016 @ 6am
RED BANK: LATEST RAYRAP PLAN IN SPOTLIGHT
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RED BANK: A year after being stopped cold, RayRap returns to the zoning board this week with a plan for townhouses on the edge of downtown.
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December 13th, 2016 @ 7am
RED BANK: Like another developer thwarted by the zoning board, RayRap wants its property designated as "in need of rehabilitation."
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September 19th, 2016 @ 10am
RED BANK: SICKELS FACING HEAVY DEBT WOES
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RED BANK: Stanley Sickels, the borough government's most powerful unelected official, may lose his home to foreclosure.
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August 24th, 2016 @ 9am
RUMSON: Borough man gets three years in prison for commodities market manipulation.
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August 15th, 2016 @ 4am
RED BANK: RAYRAP TO PUSH FOR LAW CHANGE
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RED BANK: Builder Ray Rap will press the council to raise the number of bedrooms allowed downtown without variances.
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July 12th, 2016 @ 11am
RED BANK: Di Somma changes his mind again, and won't continue as local GOP chair.
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June 16th, 2016 @ 1pm
RED BANK: RAYRAP RETURNS WITH NEW PLAN
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Ray Rapcavage, seen below on Hudson Avenue opposite his properties, including a house destroyed by fire in May, 2012. Above, a rendering of the proposed project, with an English gardenContinue reading "RED BANK: RAYRAP RETURNS WITH NEW PLAN"
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June 14th, 2016 @ 7am
RED BANK: FIRE BURNS DOG-FILLED CONDO
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RED BANK: Fire damages a condo unit with two people and six dogs inside.
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June 1st, 2016 @ 5pm
RUMSON: SPRINGSTEEN TOSSING KEYS TO FOYE
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Bruce Springsteen signs autographs outside the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank in 2009. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) [UPDATE: Monmouth County records show the deed to theContinue reading "RUMSON: SPRINGSTEEN TOSSING KEYS TO FOYE"
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May 11th, 2016 @ 11am
Former Brookdale Community College president Peter Burnham, who went to prison for defrauding the Lincroft institution, is out and talking about what led him there, NJ.com Tuesday. “There’s a fine line between confidenceContinue reading "LINCROFT: BURNHAM COPS TO ‘ARROGANCE̵ ...
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April 19th, 2016 @ 10am
RED BANK: DI SOMMA TO STAY AS GOP CHAIR
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Sean Di Somma on election night 2015. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Sean Di Somma, whose first two years as Red Bank RepublicanContinue reading "RED BANK: DI SOMMA TO STAY AS GOP CHAIR"
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April 6th, 2016 @ 10am
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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.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...