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RED BANK: CHURNING OUT A THIRD VENTURE
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a pair of accidental restaurateurs now own three eateries within steps of one another downtown.
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January 10th, 2020 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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FAIR HAVEN: A raccoon that got into a scrape with a resident's dog last month turned out to have rabies, redbankgreen has learned.
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January 9th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: TWO QUICK SESSIONS AND A SNAFU
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RED BANK: Moving swiftly through its agenda, council neglects to honor two men who had been told they'd receive proclamations.
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January 9th, 2020 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: COUNCIL ADDS TWO DEMOCRATS
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FAIR HAVEN: Democrats Meghan Chrisner-Keefe and Mike McCue are sworn to office, creating first 3-3 party split in modern memory.
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January 7th, 2020 @ 7am
SHREWSBURY: Year ends with a trio of DWI arrests.
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January 6th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: THIS WEEK’S WEATHER FORECAST
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RED BANK: After an overnight coating of light snow, sunshine expected Monday. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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January 6th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: CORNER PLAN GETS THUMBS DOWN
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RED BANK: Developer to revise plans after neighbors and board members call proposed apartment project too much for a busy intersection.
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January 3rd, 2020 @ 8am
FAIR HAVEN: SIGN OF RENEWAL?
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FAIR HAVEN: After months of complaints by its lone clerk, the borough post office finally has an identifying sign out front.
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January 2nd, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MENNA OFFERS PROTOCOL FIX
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RED BANK: Menna proposes workaround to comments protocol as Horgan, Yngstrom and fire chiefs begin new terms. Reorganization wrap.
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January 2nd, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: SCAVONE TO LEAVE RIVERCENTER
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RED BANK: RiverCenter, the quasi-governmental agency that oversees the downtown district, is losing its executive director of the past six years.
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December 31st, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: GUSTY WIND-DOWN TO 2019
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RED BANK: Wind-down of 2019 begins with a wet and windy Monday forecast. Here's the outlook heading into the New Year for the Greater Green.
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December 30th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: Just five months after yanking a plan to add a Dunkin' shop, the owner of the Shell station is back with a proposal for a convenience store.
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December 26th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: APARTMENTS AND STORES PLANNED
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RED BANK: Builder proposes to replace building at Shrewsbury Avenue and Drs. Parker Boulevard with 16 apartments, plus retail and underground parking.
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December 24th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT PROPOSED
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RED BANK: A proposed nine-story development atop Pazzo would add 150 apartments downtown and shatter the borough's limits on building height and density.
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December 22nd, 2019 @ 10pm
RED BANK: SUN TO RISE AGAIN ON STREET
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RED BANK: Looking a bit worse for wear, sun mural busy intersection will rise again following positive feedback and planning award, borough says.
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December 20th, 2019 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: STILL NO SIGN OF POSTAL SIGN
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FAIR HAVEN: For almost three years, the borough post office hasn't had a sign out front. Its lone clerk is baffled and annoyed.
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December 19th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: ROOFTOP DINING PLAN APPROVED
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RED BANK: New owners of prominent downtown address get planning board OK for rooftop dining despite board chairman's objections.
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December 17th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: New owners of former Belmonte space propose rooftop dining and third-floor dining space. Planning board to review Monday night.
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December 16th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: SNOW ACCUMULATION UNLIKELY
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RED BANK: While northwestern New Jersey may get socked with snow Monday and Tuesday, the Greater Green is likely to be spared. Here's the forecast.
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December 16th, 2019 @ 5am
RED BANK: CLOUDS AND RAIN IN FORECAST
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RED BANK: The Greater Green won't see much sun before Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. Clouds and rain dominate the forecast.
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December 13th, 2019 @ 6am
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...