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FAIR HAVEN: SORENSEN Q&A
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FAIR HAVEN: Q&A with borough council candidate Susan Sorensen, one of three contenders in this year's race for two seats.
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October 28th, 2020 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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FAIR HAVEN: NEFF Q&A
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FAIR HAVEN: Q&A with borough council candidate Laline Neff, one of three contenders in this year's race for two seats.
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October 28th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: SUIT SEEKS $5.3M FROM RIVERVIEW
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RED BANK: Borough seeks $5.3M from Riverview in lawsuit claiming hospital "concealed" a water meter that allowed it to use half a billion gallons without payment.
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October 27th, 2020 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER: BRENNAN Q&A
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LITTLE SILVER: Q&A with council candidate Kevin Brennan one of four contenders for two seats on the governing body in the November 3 election.
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October 27th, 2020 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: GOTTI Q&A
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LITTLE SILVER: Q&A with council candidate Joan Gotti, one of four contenders for two seats on the governing body in the November 3 election.
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October 27th, 2020 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: HOLZAPFEL Q&A
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LITTLE SILVER: Q&A with council candidate Michael Holzapfel, one of four contenders for two seats on the governing body in the November 3 election.
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October 27th, 2020 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: KEENAN Q&A
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LITTLE SILVER: Q&A with council candidate Stephanie Keenan, one of four contenders for two seats on the governing body in the November 3 election.
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October 27th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: After months of hearings, rent board awards four tenants at Grandville Towers $37 each for being deprived pool and gym access this summer.
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October 23rd, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: HEAD-ON PARKING TO BE REQUIRED
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RED BANK: In a move to keep new ADA-compliant walkways clear, council moves to ban vehicles from backing into spaces in parking lots.
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October 19th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: NEIGHBORS’ DISPUTE GETS MESSY
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RED BANK: Two-time council candidate and husband face complaints of harassment after a neighbor's doorbell video catches them dumping trash in her driveway.
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October 15th, 2020 @ 11pm
RED BANK: In the latest police blotter: wine, crab traps and bikes stolen; arrests for child sexual assault, marijuana possession, DWI and more.
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October 15th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: DEAL OVER LEAK PROBES POSSIBLE
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RED BANK: Menna proposes interim compromise in council split over dueling probe demands stemming from emails leaked in August.
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October 15th, 2020 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: PD, DPW CONCEPTS UNVEILED
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FAIR HAVEN: Borough unveils concept plans for new police station, rec center and public works facility, with first hint of possible cost.
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October 14th, 2020 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: Brush disposal, bike lanes and police and public works facilities pack a busy agenda for Tuesday night's council session.
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October 13th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: GYM PLANNED FOR CORNER SITE
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RED BANK: In Retail Churn, a gym plans to occupy a high-visibility building; movies return to downtown; and an insurance agency sets up shop.
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October 9th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: SPLIT OVER LEAK PROBE CONTINUES
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RED BANK: Split over probe into leaked emails enters its third month as Ballard derides colleagues for wanting to "whistle past the graveyard" and ignore the issue.
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October 8th, 2020 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: HALLOWEEN GETS TRICKY
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LITTLE SILVER: Officials and residents wrestle with how to do Halloween in a pandemic, without being a buzzkill, particularly for one partying neighborhood.
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October 5th, 2020 @ 11pm
RED BANK: HABCORE EXPANSION COMPLETED
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RED BANK: HABcore opens four new independent living apartments on River Street with help from Jon Bon Jovi's JBJ Soul Foundation.
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October 5th, 2020 @ 3pm
ON THE GREEN: COVID CASES IMPACT SCHOOLS
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ON THE GREEN: Middle Schools in both Fair Haven and Red Bank adjust schedules as one student in each tests positive for COVID-19.
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October 5th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: COVID-19 CLAIMS TWO BUSINESSES
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RED BANK: In this 400th edition of Retail Churn, two more businesses fall to the pandemic: the restaurant Via45 and Paint A Tee, a children's event space.
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September 30th, 2020 @ 6am
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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.