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RED BANK: With no new petitions submitted by Monday deadline, voters will have two mayoral and 13 council choices in historic election.
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March 6th, 2023 @ 4pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: CARS STOLEN AFTER HOME BREAK-IN
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RED BANK: Thieves break into home, swipe keys and make off with two luxury vehicles, leaving third behind, police say.
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March 6th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: SPARKS FLY BEFORE OVERRIDE VOTE
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RED BANK: Controversy continues at special council session called to override Portman veto of Airbnb-style rental law .
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March 3rd, 2023 @ 2pm
RED BANK: ITALIAN ICE, LOBSTER ROLLS COMING
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RED BANK: In Retail Churn, Rita's Italian Ice and Mystic Lobster Roll plan openings; hair stylist opens in live/work space.
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March 3rd, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: HOGAN ADDRESSES ‘CONFLICTS’
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RED BANK: Riverview president and mayoral candidate Hogan downplays concerns about conflicts of interest; Viscomi launches fifth council bid.
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March 2nd, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: BALLARD SLAMS PORTMAN VETO
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RED BANK: Ballard criticizes Portman veto of short-term rental law as a "political stunt aimed to slow down Borough operations."
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March 1st, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: ‘SNO SNOW HERE, JUST RAIN
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RED BANK: While much of the Northeast deals with snow Tuesday, the Greater Red Bank will be spared. Here's the forecast.
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February 28th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: CHURCH BLOCK TO BE RENAMED
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RED BANK: Council answers prayers from St. Anthony of Padua for official street name change to Oratory Way.
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February 26th, 2023 @ 4am
RED BANK: MAKING SPACE FOR MAKERS
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RED BANK: redbankgreen's 'Human Bites' series of quickie interviews gets a restart with Artisans Collective founder Debbie Eisenstein.
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February 24th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: HOUSING, POT DOMINATE SESSION
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RED BANK: Cannabis restrictions and funding request by Housing Authority among the issues at second long council meeting in three days.
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February 23rd, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: PORTMAN VETOES RENTAL LAW
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RED BANK: In surprise move, Portman vetoes short-term rental law, saying council "ignored the simple and widely acceptable solution."
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February 23rd, 2023 @ 5am
RED BANK: COUNCIL DEMS, HOGAN FORM SLATE
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RED BANK: Three council Dems team up with Riverview's president and three others in bid to form new government in July.
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February 22nd, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: POT LAW OVERHAUL PROPOSED
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RED BANK: Expecting tweaks, attendees of special cannabis hearing instead learn of proposals to overhaul law to make it more restrictive.
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February 21st, 2023 @ 2pm
RED BANK: ZIPPRICH WON’T SEEK NEW TERM
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RED BANK: His years as Democratic chair marked by strife, Zipprich says he won't seek re-election under a new form of government he opposed.
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February 21st, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: 1980s SEX ASSAULTS ALLEGED
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RED BANK: Lawsuit claims now-dead rec department official sexually assaulted woman more than 200 times, starting when she was 11 years old.
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February 20th, 2023 @ 7am
REDBANKGREEN’S NEW PARTNER: 83 YEARS TO GO
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RED BANK: Some news about redbankgreen itself.
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February 17th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: ICELESS WINTER FOILS ICEBOATERS
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RED BANK: With another 60-degree day in the forecast, members of America's oldest ice boat club lament the fifth iceless winter in a row.
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February 16th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: CANNABIS SITINGS ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Council slates special session to consider easing limits on cannabis shop locations while heading off potential "cannabis row." 
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February 15th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: COUNCIL OKS EARLY, LIVE VOTING
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RED BANK: At an added cost of $21k, council greenlights weekend of early, in-person voting for the May 9 special election.
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February 14th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: PARK TO GET PICKLEBALL COURTS
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RED BANK: Tennis courts in Eastside Park will be remade into "hybrid" tennis and pickleball surfaces under plans that advanced last week. 
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February 13th, 2023 @ 7am
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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 ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...