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RED BANK: PLAQUE HONORS A ‘FIGHTER’
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RED BANK: After a career as a professional boxer, Freddie Boynton became a fighter for the community he grew up in. Now he has a plaque in Johnny Jazz Park. (Fight video included.)
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April 4th, 2022 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: CAR UNFENCED
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RED BANK: What's Going On Here? Here's the latest on the dispute in which an art gallery owner had his car boxed in by a fence last week.
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April 4th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: SAXUM SEEKS MORE BEDROOMS
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RED BANK: Two years after winning approval to build 210 units, Saxum wants to increase the bedroom count while reducing density.
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April 1st, 2022 @ 11am
RED BANK: Facing a challenge to his Democratic party leadership, Zipprich loses on demand for "county line" on primary ballot.
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April 1st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: ‘FED UP’ SLATE AIMS FOR OVERHAUL
RED BANK: "Frustrated" Democrats field "diverse" 18-member slate hoping to clean house and unseat Zipprich as party chairman.
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March 31st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: FENCE ENCLOSES GALLERIST’S CAR
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RED BANK: In downtown property dispute, art gallery owner gets his car boxed in by a fence. It'll need "wings" to escape, he says.
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March 29th, 2022 @ 4pm
RED BANK: MASTER PLAN INPUT SOUGHT
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RED BANK: Residents invited to offer input into Master Plan via website that asks what they love and what they want changed, among other questions.
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March 29th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: HYBRID SESSIONS PLANNED
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RED BANK: After more than two years of virtual meetings, council moves toward hybrid of live and online sessions.
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March 28th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: DISTRACTED DRIVING CRACKDOWN
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RED BANK: Borough police plan enhanced enforcement of distracted-driving laws through April.
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March 25th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: SPARKS FLY YET AGAIN
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RED BANK: Yet again, sparks fly at a council session, this time over the protocol of an appointment to housing authority.
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March 24th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: LOCALS GATHER FOR UKRAINE
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RED BANK: Locals gathered at Riverside Gardens Park Friday in a show of support for the people of Ukraine as they contend with a brutal invasion by Russia.
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March 21st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: DENHOLTZ PLANS MASSIVE PROJECT
RED BANK: Denholtz Properties is negotiating to create a massive new development at the train station, redbankgreen has learned.
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March 18th, 2022 @ 3pm
RED BANK: Why did a modern office building need Historic Preservation Commission OK for remodeling work? No one seemed to know Wednesday night.
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March 17th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: Half-dozen residents weigh in as Charter Study Commission holds public hearing on first phase of its examination of municipal government and elections.
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March 16th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: MAKEOVER TO GET HPC REVIEW
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RED BANK: A modernist building among Broad Street's converted Victorians goes before Historic Preservation Commission for makeover approval this week.
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March 15th, 2022 @ 2pm
RED BANK: Heading into Tuesday's Charter Study Commission public hearing, partisan elections are clearly in the crosshairs.
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March 15th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: TAYLOR GRILLS ZIPPRICH, BALLARD
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RED BANK: Taylor's aggressive questioning of Zipprich and Ballard on "interference" dominates special session of Charter Study Commission.
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March 11th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: HIRING DELAYED BY SALARY ISSUE
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RED BANK: Menna balks at salary proposed for new clerk; Ballard, who aims to displace him as mayor, says he's playing "Monday night quarterback."
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March 10th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: ZIPPRICH, BALLARD ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: On deck to offer Charter Study Commission testimony at a special session Thursday: councilmen Ed Zipprich and Michael Ballard.
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March 9th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: DENHOLTZ TO BUY MAYO PROPERTY
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RED BANK: The Denholtz juggernaut keeps rolling as the developer plans to buy Mayo Auto Service site on Monmouth Street and three adjoining lots.
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March 8th, 2022 @ 7am
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(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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.