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LITTLE SILVER: BAG & STRAW BAN PENDING
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LITTLE SILVER: It's all but in the bag that the borough will ban plastic store bags and straws, with the reluctant acceptance of the business community.
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March 18th, 2019 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: DPU UPDATES PICKUP SCHEDULES
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RED BANK: Can't remember when to put out recycling or brush for pickup? Borough DPU posts a new downloadable schedule for 2019.
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March 6th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BORDER ‘EMERGENCY’ DISPUTED
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RED BANK: Three days after Trump's declaration of national emergency on Mexican border, protestors rally in Riverside Gardens Park.
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February 18th, 2019 @ 3pm
RED BANK: BELLHAVEN MAKEOVER IN SIGHT
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RED BANK: After years of controversy and changes, a 'scaled-back' plan for Bellhaven Natural Area could be built by this summer, officials said.
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February 13th, 2019 @ 4pm
RED BANK: SMOKING BAN COMING
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RED BANK: The council plans to introduce a ban on smoking in public places. Employees of Riverview Medical Center would lose their go-to smoke break spot.
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February 12th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: HIGHER VNA SITE DENSITY URGED
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RED BANK: Council moves to boost allowable density of VNA site to 90 units per acre, which would negate a planning board compromise reached last week.
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November 29th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: COUNCIL AGENDA
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RED BANK: The council's agenda for Wednesday night includes bonds, telecom, action on the former VNA headquarters and more. Details here.
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November 28th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: Planning board OKs up to 80 units per acre at VNA site; Menna says high density is critical to town meeting its affordable housing obligation.
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November 20th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: HUNT FOR GRANTS CONTINUES
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RED BANK: No money has yet come in from grants a contractor helped the borough apply for, but officials hope the pump is now primed.
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November 13th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: H2O REFILL STATION INSTALLED
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RED BANK: What's Going On Here takes a look at a mysterious new piece of equipment at Ralph 'Johnny Jazz' Gatta Jr. Park.
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November 8th, 2018 @ 2pm
RED BANK: VNA, BANK ST. LOT ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: New zoning for the former VNA site, and a plan to build two new homes on Bank Street, are on Monday night's planning board agenda.
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November 5th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: ANTI-KAVANAUGH RALLY SLATED
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RED BANK: "Walk-out" rally to protest Kavanaugh SCOTUS appointment slated for Thursday afternoon in Riverside Gardens Park.
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October 4th, 2018 @ 11am
RED BANK: BELLHAVEN PLAN SCALED BACK
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RED BANK: Bellhaven plan revived and 'scaled back' once again, says Shehady, after questions about tree removal at the wetlands site.
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July 23rd, 2018 @ 12pm
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
ON THE GREEN: NEW RECYCLING RULES
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ON THE GREEN: New rules concerning plastic bags used to hold recyclables for curb pickup kicking in locally, thanks to China.
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June 21st, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BIKE SHARE PLAN IN THE WORKS
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RED BANK: Bike-share program is in the works following council authorization last week, and it could involve Fair Haven and Little Silver.
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June 18th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: WAWA MEGASTORE PLAN YANKED
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RED BANK: Plan for Wawa megastore and gas station on Newman Springs Road yanked amid concerns over impact on traffic.
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June 7th, 2018 @ 8am
RUMSON: NAVESINK QUALITY IMPROVES
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RUMSON: After a bacteria crisis, Navesink is showing "rapid" improvement in water quality, with possible reopening of shellfish beds a year earlier than expected, state DEP says.
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April 2nd, 2018 @ 12pm
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: TRAFFIC TALK SLOWS WAWA PLAN
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RED BANK: Plan for supersized Wawa and gas station on Newman Springs Road inches forward as lawyers attack traffic estimates and proposed turning lane.
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March 2nd, 2018 @ 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 ...