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RED BANK: PUBLIC PROJECTS ADVANCING
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RED BANK: What's Going On Here with these borough projects? Updates on Bellhaven Natural Area, Eastside Park and parking meter replacement.
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April 7th, 2020 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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ON THE GREEN: RED BANK JOINS MOVE ONLINE
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ON THE GREEN: Red Bank to debut online public meetings in the COVID-19 era Tuesday, joining Fair Haven and Little Silver, where second virtual sessions are planned tonight.
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April 6th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: YASSIN GETS POLS TO PONY UP
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RED BANK: First-term Councilman Yassin wrangles a bipartisan group of New Jersey politicians to donate from their campaign funds to help fight COVID-19.
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April 2nd, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: MENNA BLASTS HEALTH ‘RUMORS’
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RED BANK: Menna blasts Burnham for false "rumors" about his health and Shehady tees her up for "blatant lies" about his health and whereabouts.
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March 30th, 2020 @ 1pm
RED BANK: IS SCHOOL REOPENING IN SIGHT?
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RED BANK: Rumage says school district hopes it can reopen April 20, but decision is up to Murphy, who says he won't decide before April 17.
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March 26th, 2020 @ 4pm
VIRUS UPDATES: BLOOD, FOOD DRIVES SLATED
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RED BANK: YMCA plans a blood drive employing "extreme precautions" to help address shortfall from COVID-19 pandemic. Details here.
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March 25th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: Virus leads to cancellation of standardized testing, but impact questions linger. Special report from NJ Spotlight.
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March 25th, 2020 @ 9am
ON THE GREEN: MEETINGS MOVE ONLINE
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ON THE GREEN: Local governments and school boards make abrupt change to online meetings in the COVID-19 pandemic. There may be some glitches.
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March 23rd, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BARBER SHOP CLIPPED
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RED BANK: A barber shop that continued operating after an anti-COVID-19 executive order by the governor closed after a visit by police Saturday morning.
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March 21st, 2020 @ 11am
ON THE GREEN: VIRUS UPDATES
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ON THE GREEN: Latest COVID-19 updates in the Red Bank area include train schedules, a virtual tip jar for restaurant and bar workers, and a scam alert.
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March 20th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: SHEHADY COVID-19 POSITIVE
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RED BANK: Borough Business Administrator Ziad Shehady tests positive for COVID-19 and tells redbankgreen his symptoms were no worse than a common cold.
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March 19th, 2020 @ 1pm
LITTLE SILVER: RBR STAFFER VIRUS-POSITIVE
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LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional staffer tests positive for COVID-19. Moore asks community not to "let fear get the better of us."
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March 18th, 2020 @ 10pm
RED BANK: FREE MEALS FOR ALL STUDENTS
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RED BANK: Free grab 'n go breakfast and lunch distribution gets underway for all borough kids under 18 and all RBR students no matter where they live.
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March 17th, 2020 @ 11am
VIRUS IMPACTS: BOROUGH RESCINDS ORDER
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ON THE GREEN: Virus updates on Red Bank emergency order; grab 'n go meals for kids; Catholic Mass; liquor deliveries and Fair Haven's next council session.
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March 16th, 2020 @ 6pm
RED BANK: Monmouth County reports two more COVID-19 cases. Little Silver reports additional person 'symptomatic.' Red Bank mayor declines to address.
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March 16th, 2020 @ 3pm
LITTLE SILVER: SIBLINGS WITH COVID SPEAK
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LITTLE SILVER: Siblings who tested positive for COVID-19 "never got really, really sick," their mother tells the Asbury Park Press.
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March 16th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED; SEATING AT BARS & RESTAURANTS BANNED
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RED BANK: Frustrated by lack of voluntary compliance, town declares 'local state of emergency,' ordering all bars, restaurants and large facilities closed.
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March 15th, 2020 @ 8pm
LITTLE SILVER: Borough has a third 'presumed positive' for COVID-19 virus victim. Mayor says she is neither a relative nor neighbor of first two.
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March 15th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: URBAN OUTFITTERS STORES CLOSE
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RED BANK: The Urban Outfitters store on Broad Street is among 200 in a global shutdown to address COVID-19 concerns, the retailer announced.
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March 14th, 2020 @ 7pm
RED BANK: DISTRICT, CHARTER NOW CLOSED
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RED BANK: After short holdouts, district and charter schools will close indefinitely Monday, joining the home instruction wave prompted by COVID-19.
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March 13th, 2020 @ 5pm
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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.