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RED BANK: COVID-19 pandemic claims Alfonso's Pastry Shoppe after just 17 months of operation on Broad Street.
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June 18th, 2020 @ 1pm
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RED BANK: PLAZAS OPEN RAIN OR STARSHINE
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RED BANK: With pedestrian plazas set to debut under an iffy weather forecast, the question arises: what happens if it rains?
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June 18th, 2020 @ 1pm
FAIR HAVEN: NO DUNKIN’ ON OVER EASY
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FAIR HAVEN: Proposed Over Easy restaurant has a far easier time of it than its prospective neighbor, a Dunkin' shop that triggered heated arguments.
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June 17th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: PREPPING FOR PLAZAS
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RED BANK: In-tree uplighting and other prep work underway for launch of downtown dining-and-shopping plazas starting Thursday evening.
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June 17th, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: COPS SAY SESTITO INTERFERED
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RED BANK: Chief sends dashcam video and reports from incident involving Councilman Ballard and his wife to prosecutor for "fair and impartial review."
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June 16th, 2020 @ 5pm
RED BANK: LANE TO GO ONE-WAY, PARTWAY
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RED BANK: A steep and narrow road near the Navesink River would become one-way, but not for its full length, under a change on this week's council agenda.
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June 15th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: TALKING TRASH, AND RECYCLING
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RED BANK: After five years of private trash collection, borough plans to survey residents and businesses about garbage and recycling pickups.
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June 11th, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: COP AIDED EVENTUAL VICTIM
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RED BANK: Off-duty borough cop had first of four law enforcement encounters with a man who was later shot dead on the Parkway last month, AG's office says.
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June 8th, 2020 @ 7pm
RED BANK: RETAIL DAMAGE, BUT HOPE, TOO
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RED BANK: As the dust settles, business closings are on the rise downtown, but there are also a few glimmers of optimism.
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June 8th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: BALLARD DUBS COPS ‘AGGRESSIVE’
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RED BANK: Ballard blasts cops "overaggressive" response to incident that led to his wife being handcuffed. Also tees up unnamed borough hall officials.
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June 5th, 2020 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: BRUSH GRINDING SITE GRATES
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FAIR HAVEN: Neighbors say they've had it with a noisy brush-grinding operation that jams narrow streets with 18-wheelers, endangering kids.
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June 5th, 2020 @ 2am
RED BANK: BOROUGH FRESHENS ITS PRIDE
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RED BANK: A downtown crosswalk painted last year in the rainbow colors of the LBGTQ pride flag gets a freshening for National Pride Month.
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June 4th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: BALLARD REPORTS WIFE’S ‘ARREST’
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RED BANK: Councilman adds one to the growing list of Zoom meeting embarrassments: a report of spousal arrest in progress.
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June 4th, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: PLAZA DETAILS STILL IN THE WORKS
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RED BANK: Borough officials shed light on plans for pedestrian dining and shopping plazas, but say they need clarity from Trenton on key issues.
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June 2nd, 2020 @ 5pm
RED BANK: Council delays action on proposed settlement that would slash bank site assessment by almost one-third, but only to tweak the wording.
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May 28th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: STREET CLOSINGS FOR DINING OK’D
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RED BANK: To spark COVID-19 recovery, council gives lightning approval to downtown street closings for pedestrian plazas, mid-streeet dining and shopping.
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May 28th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: BIG TAX CUT FOR BANK ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: A tax appeal settlement on tonight's council agenda would slash the assessment on a drive-thru bank property by almost one-third.
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May 27th, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: QUICK PARADE, SMALL DELIGHTS
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RED BANK: The pandemic edition of the Memorial Day parade was a quick, scaled-down swing through town that delighted smatterings of residents. Photos.
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May 26th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: DRIVE-BY PARADE SLATED
RED BANK: A year after the town's Memorial Day parade was revived, this year's version will be a scaled-down, drive-by affair. Here are the details.
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May 22nd, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: BIRD DELIVERY, ON THE CHEEP
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RED BANK: FedEx driver finds himself carrying an unusual package: a bird that flew into his truck and hid under the dashboard.
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May 21st, 2020 @ 12pm
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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.