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FAIR HAVEN: NEW MAYOR REVIVES ROAD PLAN
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FAIR HAVEN: Mayor calls special council session in bid to save funding for road project that appeared dead earlier this week.
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October 15th, 2021 @ 6pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: CENTER REPAIR FORUMS SLATED
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RED BANK: Public forums on planned repairs and changes to Senior Center slated for October 27.
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October 15th, 2021 @ 4pm
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
FAIR HAVEN: TWOFER KISS FOR NEW CAPTAIN
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FAIR HAVEN: For new police captain Robert Townshend, Tuesday's promotion was the "second-best thing" ever to happen to him on October 12.
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October 14th, 2021 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: SIDEWALK PLAN HITS DEAD END
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FAIR HAVEN: Measure to solicit bids for sidewalks and curbs in area neighbors consider bucolic fails, effectively knocking $350K grant off table.
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October 13th, 2021 @ 3pm
FAIR HAVEN: NEWCOMER TAPPED AS MAYOR
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FAIR HAVEN: Without discussion or comment, council picks political newcomer Joshua Halpern to serve as mayor through 2022.
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October 13th, 2021 @ 2am
RED BANK: JON STEWART SELLS SECOND HOME
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RED BANK: With a deal to sell the second of two adjacent homes overlooking the Navesink River, Jon Stewart appears to have ended his time in town.
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October 11th, 2021 @ 11am
RED BANK: SENIORS MARK END OF SUMMER
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RED BANK: Senior citizens, still displaced from their customary gathering place, mark end of summer with a cookout at the Westside Hose Company.
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October 11th, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: PROJECT DRAWS CLOSER TO OK
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RED BANK: Vote on condo project delayed by lack of rendering after testimony that revisions improve safety and runoff issues from 2018 plan.
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October 8th, 2021 @ 2pm
RED BANK: MORE SIGNS OF RETAIL CHURN
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, signs of change downtown include new Greek restaurant; coal-fired pizzeria; juice bar and more.
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October 8th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: SPRINKLER DOUSES UNIT FIRE
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RED BANK: Potential tragedy averted as sprinkler system douses apartment fire in River Street Commons senior housing complex.
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October 7th, 2021 @ 1pm
RED BANK: LGBTQ+ SAFETY PLAN LAUNCHES
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RED BANK: Borough becomes one of three Monmouth towns to adopt Safe Spaces program under which businesses can aid individuals threatened with bias crimes.
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October 7th, 2021 @ 1pm
RED BANK: Reports of bike and iPhone thefts, plus arrests for assault and contempt kept police busy in September, latest blotter report shows.
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October 7th, 2021 @ 10am
RED BANK: CENTER REPAIR FORUM(S) POSSIBLE
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RED BANK: Council moves to hold public forums on planned repairs and changes to Senior Center, closed almost three years since a leak.
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October 7th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: PLASTIC FILM RECYCLING TO BEGIN
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RED BANK: Recycling of plastic film, such as newspaper bags and boat wrap, slated to begin under a one-year trial. Free receptacles available.
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October 6th, 2021 @ 4pm
RED BANK: Developer returns to zoning board Thursday with plan for 10 apartments on vacant, riverfront lot next door to public library.
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October 6th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: TOWNHOUSE WORK BEGINS
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RED BANK: After two false starts this century, construction has begun on 10 luxury townhouses on a downtown bluff overlooking the Navesink.
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October 5th, 2021 @ 3pm
LITTLE SILVER: MURPHYS IN RUN FOR SCHOOLS
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LITTLE SILVER: Governor Phil Murphy and First Lady Tammy Murphy were among nearly 600 participants in Sunday's 5k fundraiser for borough schools. Photos.
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October 4th, 2021 @ 10am
RED BANK: HUNDREDS RALLY FOR WOMEN
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RED BANK: Hundreds march through downtown and rally at Riverside Gardens Park for women's reproductive rights ahead of new Supreme Court term.
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October 4th, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: SALLY BOY’S TAKES CORNER SPOT
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a high-visibility downtown vacancy gets filled, a CBD-and-cigar 'tasting room' opens and a bank branch closes.
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October 1st, 2021 @ 12pm
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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 ...
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 ...