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RED BANK: WATER SERVICE AFFECTED
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RED BANK: Crew on scene of water line break at South Street and Madison Avenue. Service disruptions possible.
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December 18th, 2020 @ 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: TRASH PACT, LEAK REPORT OK’D
RED BANK: Council OKs new trash contract with more frequent recycling pickups and higher costs. Also authorizes report on Zipprich emails.
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December 18th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: LOOSE LIPS AT COUNCIL SESSION
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RED BANK: Council meeting includes loose-lip disclosures about a lawsuit settlement with Riverview and misgivings about a new borough official.
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December 17th, 2020 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: COUNCIL SPLITS ON FUNDING
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FAIR HAVEN: Council authorizes debt, extends administrator's contract and bids goodbye to a three-term member at final session of 2020.
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December 15th, 2020 @ 12pm
VIRUS: HEALTH WORKERS TO GET FIRST SHOTS
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RED BANK: Doctors, nurses and other frontline healthcare workers at Riverview expected to be among first to get COVID-19 vaccine.
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December 14th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: SCHOOLS DIVERGE ON SCHEDULES
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RED BANK: RBR and its largest sending district announce divergent schedule approaches as COVID-19 case totals continue to climb.
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December 11th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: FRICTION OVER WEST FRONT PLAN
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RED BANK: Hearing on PRC plan to add nine stories above Pazzo resumes with testimony on parking, friction over building height.
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December 10th, 2020 @ 8am
SHREWSBURY: PEDESTRIAN STRUCK & KILLED
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SHREWSBURY: Borough man dies after being struck on Route 35. Prosecutor says victim attempted to cross highway outside a crosswalk.
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December 9th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: A plan to add seven stories of apartments and parking above Pazzo restaurant returns to the zoning board after a pandemic interruption.
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December 8th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: CRIME & ARREST REPORTS
RED BANK: There's always a jackass, right? Christmas displays vandalized in Riverside Gardens Park and elsewhere downtown, police report in November blotter.
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December 8th, 2020 @ 12pm
VIRUS UPDATE: COVID-19 CASES ON THE RISE
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RED BANK: After COVID-19 cases totals soar over the weekend, Murphy cautions against large gatherings over the coming holiday season.
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December 7th, 2020 @ 6pm
LITTLE SILVER: Pandemic bonuses for all borough employees, and new police salaries, up for council consideration Monday night.
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December 7th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: Menna and two council members tee up proposed RiverCenter bylaw changes as effort to reduce oversight by governing body and residents.
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December 3rd, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: BROAD REOPENED TO TRAFFIC
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RED BANK: 'Broadwalk' dining and shopping plaza goes on winter hiatus, though streateries can continue to use parking spots for restaurant seating.
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December 2nd, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: MENNA APOLOGIZES TO MURPHY
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RED BANK: Menna apologizes to Murphy for two women who assailed governor and his family as they ate dinner downtown Sunday.
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November 25th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: Westside Hose Company has two new volunteer firefighters in the house, and one is already the borough fire commissioner.
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November 25th, 2020 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: HOLZAPFEL, BRENNAN WIN
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LITTLE SILVER: Official result confirms Republicans Holzapfel and Brennan outpolled Democrats Keenan and Gotti in council race.
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November 24th, 2020 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: DEMS WIN RARE MAJORITY
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FAIR HAVEN: Democrats secure first council majority in memory as Rodriguez retains seat and newcomer Neff displaces Sorensen.
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November 24th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: A day after he and his family were heckled while eating dinner here, Murphy takes an understanding tone, citing "incredibly stressful time."
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November 23rd, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: HOSPITAL PLAN DRAWS HPC IRE
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RED BANK: Frustration erupts at Historic Preservation Commission over hospital plan to raze riverfront Victorian mansion.
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November 19th, 2020 @ 1pm
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PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(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.