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Category Archives: Energy

GRANNY FLATS COMING? RED BANK COUNCIL LOOKS TO LEGALIZE ADUs
Red Bank council moves to legalize backyard cottages, garage apartments and other forms accessory dwelling units. (Click to read)
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June 3rd @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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FILLING UP? RED BANK GAS STATION’S “GIVING PUMP” FUELS SCHOOL CHARITY
Red Bank gas station's "giving pump" will donate portion of sales to Red Bank Education Foundation this fall. (click to read)
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September 10th, 2025 @ 2pm
RED BANK: ENVIROS SEEK TO QUELL GAS LEAF BLOWERS
The war on gas powered leaf blowers is coming to Red Bank. But unlike the battles over them in communities across the US – and the machines themselves – the approach for now is hoped to be quiet and gentle.
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October 14th, 2024 @ 10pm
RED BANK: COMMISSION HOSTS EARTH DAY FAIR
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RED BANK: Two days early, borough Environmental Commission hosts an Earth Day Green Fair at the middle school tonight.
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April 20th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: PARKING, EV CHARGING ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: On the council agenda: new rules for parking on Spring Street, EV charging stations. Not on: cannabis.
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March 21st, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: TESLA TRYOUT UPDATED
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RED BANK: Borough's use of donated Tesla spotlights need for charging infrastructure before EVs can be considered, McConnell says.
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April 21st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAPS UP 2021
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RED BANK: Council wraps 2021 with PBA contract, a plan to recombine workshop and regular sessions, a new used Tesla, and praise for a departing colleague.
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December 17th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: Couple offers borough their used, fire-engine-red Tesla sedan, hoping it will demonstrate the feasibility of adding EVs to the fleet.
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December 14th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: LINE BREAK INTERRUPTS POWER
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RED BANK: Downed power line briefly cuts electricity to hundreds of JCP&L customers – and interrupts Gabbagools hard at work across the street.
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August 24th, 2021 @ 9pm
RED BANK: GAS SITE MAY GET ‘JET GROUTING’
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RED BANK: More than a century after it was used as a gas works, a borough property may get some 20th-century environmental remediation.
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March 25th, 2021 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: PETERS BLASTS JCP&L ON LAMPS
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FAIR HAVEN: Apparent backpedaling by JCP&L on a streetlamp test project sets environmental commission member sparking like a downed wire.
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January 22nd, 2021 @ 12pm
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
RED BANK: GRANT TO FUND SOLAR BOOST
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RED BANK: Customers of the concession stand at Count Basie Fields could soon be drinking hot chocolate made with an assist from the sun.
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January 24th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: POWER OUT AFTER POLES SNAP
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RED BANK: Power is out for up to 100 customers in the area of Maple Avenue following an incident in which two utility poles snapped.
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June 7th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: POWER SWITCH IN THE WORKS
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RED BANK: Borough kicks off public awareness effort after council begins transition to electricity program said to reduce bills from JCP&L level.
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April 26th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: ELECTRICITY DEAL IN THE WORKS
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RED BANK: Council moves to create energy aggregation program, under which electricity customers would get rates lower than JCP&L's.
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April 8th, 2019 @ 7am
ON THE GREEN: BPU rejects JCP&L high-power line plan for 10-mile-long high-power line terminating in Red Bank.
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June 22nd, 2018 @ 1pm
RED BANK: Judge rejects JCP&L power line plan along 10 miles of rail, citing "overwhelming' adverse impacts and unproven need.
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March 8th, 2018 @ 5pm
RED BANK: Pedestrian suffers minor injuries when she's hit by falling debris as a truck takes down a pole on Brad Street.
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August 3rd, 2017 @ 5pm
LINCROFT: RESIDENTS ZAP JCP&L LINE PLAN
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LINCROFT: Two months after they were thwarted from speaking, opponents of a proposed JCP&L high-voltage line vent their anger.
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March 29th, 2017 @ 10pm
Partyline
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 ...