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RED BANK: CARTER TO LEAD RIVERCENTER
RED BANK: RiverCenter names former borough planning director Glenn Carter as executive director, succeeding Laura Kirkpatrick.
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RED BANK: AGENCY CALLS FOR $9.3M YARD
RED BANK: Redevelopment Agency pushes plan for overhaul and expansion of Chestnut Street public works yard. Estimated price tag: $9.3 million.
RED BANK: WHAT’S ON AGENDA, AND NOT
RED BANK: On the council agenda: animal control change on hold; Saxum seeks new site designation; charter study measure advancing and more.
FAIR HAVEN: COUNCIL HIGHLIGHTS
FAIR HAVEN: New council member appointed; borough hall reopening announced; spending cuts proposed; councilman loses his pandemic ponytail.
RED BANK: HIGHRISE GETS NEW POOL & NAME
RED BANK: Three years after the old one 'popped out of the ground,' residents of a high-rise co-op have a swanky new pool and poolhouse overlooking the Navesink.
RED BANK: Council to vote Wednesday on eliminating in-house animal control service in switch to SPCA. Residents say response times will suffer.
RED BANK: FORUM ON FISH KILL SLATED
RED BANK: Clean Ocean Action announces town hall meeting with state officials on fish kill that has littered Navesink and Shrewsbury with reeking carcasses.
RED BANK: ‘GOOD LIFE’ CHURNS INTO TOWN
RED BANK: In Churn, high school sweethearts go all in on a health-food venture; basketball school opens; a Mexican and pizza eateries near debuts, and more.
RED BANK: APARTMENT HEARINGS DELAYED
RED BANK: A welter of confusion dominated the zoning board meeting Thursday night, resulting in rescheduled hearings on several apartment plans.
RED BANK: COLORS AT ISSUE IN MAKEOVER
RED BANK: Fifties-style rooftop pylon can go, but Historic Preservation Commission members take issue with colors for proposed bank makeover.
RED BANK: CENSURED, GREGORY QUITS RBHA
RED BANK: Gregory resigns from housing authority after censure he calls 'retaliatory.' He's the second Republican to quit in a year.
RED BANK: MASTER PLAN UPDATE BEGINS
RED BANK: At a meeting that lasts less than 12 minutes, planning board embarks on first full-scale Master Plan rewrite in 25 years.
RED BANK: Car burglars were busy on the East Side early Monday morning, police say. In one case, they took the whole vehicle.
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLANS NEAR VOTE
RED BANK: Two multi-use developments that would add 42 apartments to the market top a busy zoning board agenda Thursday night.
RED BANK: KIDS SERVE UP GARDEN & MURALS
RED BANK: Middle school students create community garden and murals as corner coffee shop property morphs into post-pandemic hangout.
RED BANK: YARD SALE MAY BE REVIVED
RED BANK: Townwide yard sale may return in September, though mayor floats idea of holding an unstructured, non-sponsored one in June.
RED BANK: ANIMAL OPERATION ON THE BLOCK
RED BANK: Council looking into eliminating in-house animal control service in switch to SPCA. Residents say personal service will suffer.
RED BANK: Kirkpatrick resigns RiverCenter, leaving downtown promo agency looking for a new executive director for the second time in 17 months.
FAIR HAVEN: FINE-TUNING FOR TWO PROJECTS
FAIR HAVEN: Residents weigh in again on plans for new police station and public works yard, fine-tuning designs praised for fitting in among homes.
RED BANK: Police charge man with criminal sexual contact and harassment of woman downtown; it was his fourth arrest in one month.
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SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.