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VIDEO: MONMOUTH BOAT CLUB PLANS TO GO HIGHER
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Monmouth Boat club pilings 052024
Video: The Monmouth Boat Club has stood on the banks of the Navesink River in Red Bank for 145-years. But the pilings that hold it up are rotting away. A plan is being hatched to lift the historic structure and build a higher foundation. (Click to read/watch)
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May 16th, 2024 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: 2024 BUDGET STAYS THE COURSE
RED BANK: Average home tax bill nudges past $10k as budget keeps pace with inflation and town eyes big capital projects.
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April 17th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: STUDY FINDS STATION FIT FOR REDEVELOPMENT
RED BANK: Underutilized land, acres of parking lots. Study finds train station fits bill for an "area in need of redevelopment."
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March 28th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: LEGAL POT MARKET OPENS WITH CHURN
RED BANK: Monteverde NJ becomes the first to sell recreational weed in town while Scarlet Reserve moves out in frustration.
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February 21st, 2024 @ 2pm
RED BANK: STORE CLOSING A SAD SURPRISE
RED BANK: Shoppers stunned by abrupt closing of Sickles Market at train station, which in a few years became part of their routines.
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February 15th, 2024 @ 2pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL SALARIES UNCHANGED
RED BANK: Salaries for mayor and council would remain unchanged, for now, under measure on Thursday night's agenda.
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September 27th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SALARY BUMPS & MORE ON AGENDA
RED BANK: Council to set new salary ranges for top three posts, and itself, when it meets Thursday night. Here's a glance at the agenda.
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September 14th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: URBAN OUTFITTERS BUILDING SOLD
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RED BANK: One of downtown's oldest and most prominent landmarks, home to an Urban Outfitters store, has new owners.
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May 12th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: BROAD STREET ‘VAULT’ SOLD
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RED BANK: After years of vacancy followed by full rehabilitation, 108-year-old bank building downtown changes hands.
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November 10th, 2022 @ 10am
RED BANK: BUILDING VALUE DOUBLES. HOW?
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RED BANK: In just two years, a downtown building that's home to a prominent restaurant doubled in value. What's Going On Here?
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October 18th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: MINORITIES AND HEALTH IN FOCUS
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RED BANK: Panelists in library's 'Let's Talk About Race' discussion focus on unequal access and discrimination in healthcare.
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September 1st, 2022 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MERCHANTS BLAST FEE HIKE
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RED BANK: Council boosts streatery fees over objections of brewery owner who says his cost would rise more than fivefold.
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June 9th, 2022 @ 2pm
RED BANK: Council declines to immediately renew streateries outside Broadwalk zone, with majority voicing concern about lost parking revenue.
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May 31st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: RIVERCENTER TAPS DOWNTOWN PRO
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RED BANK: RiverCenter taps a downtown-management professional with extensive experience in New York and New Jersey as executive director.
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May 23rd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: MEAL PROVIDERS TEAM UP
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RED BANK: Lunch Break and No Limits Cafe team up to feed area residents.
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April 12th, 2022 @ 3pm
RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK COLLECTS PROMWEAR
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RED BANK: Lunch Break launches collection of formalwear for female and male students in advance of April giveaway.
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February 3rd, 2022 @ 11am
RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK IN HOUSING MERGER
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RED BANK: Lunch Break and the Family Promise team up to help head off homelessness.
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January 4th, 2022 @ 4pm
RED BANK: GUITARS, TOYS & TABLES CHURN IN
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RED BANK: In Churn, new guitar shop hopes to revive town's reputation as a six-stringer's mecca; also collectible toys; tables and jewelry in one space.
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November 12th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: EBANKS OFFERS PLANNING PRIMER
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RED BANK: New community planning director offers a primer in zoning and land-use law, but steers clear of third-rail topics like tax abatements.
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October 15th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: TOWN HALL OPEN BY APPOINTMENT
RED BANK: After 17 months off-limits to visitors because of the pandemic, borough hall offices reopened Monday on an appointment-only basis.
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September 20th, 2021 @ 8am
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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 ...