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RED BANK: SHELL GETS SHOP OK ON THIRD TRY
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RED BANK: After previous plans for a 7-Eleven and a Dunkin' shop fell short, Shell station at busy corner wins OK for a convenience store.
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February 4th, 2020 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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LITTLE SILVER: RBR DIGS IN FOR EXPANSION
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LITTLE SILVER: Heavy equipment and piles of dirt now surround Red Bank Regional High.What's Going on Here? We've got the answers.
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February 3rd, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: Library trustees embark on five-year strategic plan update, starting with public survey of attitudes and input on services.
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January 30th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: CRIME RATE DROPPED IN 2019
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RED BANK: Borough crime rate showed sharp drop in 2019. Also down: use-of-force incidents and internal affairs complaints, says Chief McConnell.
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January 28th, 2020 @ 1pm
RED BANK: GRANT TO FUND SOLAR BOOST
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RED BANK: Customers of the concession stand at Count Basie Fields could soon be drinking hot chocolate made with an assist from the sun.
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January 24th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAP
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RED BANK: Once again, council moves quickly through a light agenda, this time after Menna holds a last-minute informal session. Here's a wrap.
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January 23rd, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: HOUSING UPGRADES PROMISED
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RED BANK: Residents of Evergreen Terrace and Montgomery Terrace assured of rent stability as housing authority plans change in funding model.
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January 20th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: PROJECT REVIEW GETS UNDERWAY
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RED BANK: Hearing on massive development proposed for West Front Street block gets underway with hints of concern about size, height and traffic impacts.
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January 17th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: New Year brings personnel changes to borough hall, including the hiring of a confidential executive assistant to the business administrator.
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January 16th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT ON DECK
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RED BANK: A nine-story, 150-apartment addition that would shatter the borough's height limits goes to the zoning board this week. Here's what you need to know.
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January 15th, 2020 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: STATION NOW IN HOUSING DEAL
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FAIR HAVEN: A vacant gas station seen as key to a borough facilities consolidation plan just a year ago is now key to an affordable housing plan.
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January 14th, 2020 @ 4pm
RED BANK: FORMER DOCTORS’ OFFICE IN REHAB
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RED BANK: A long-vacant house on Shrewsbury Avenue is getting a major makeover. What's Going On Here? Read on for the answer...
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January 14th, 2020 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: A raccoon that got into a scrape with a resident's dog last month turned out to have rabies, redbankgreen has learned.
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January 9th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: TWO QUICK SESSIONS AND A SNAFU
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RED BANK: Moving swiftly through its agenda, council neglects to honor two men who had been told they'd receive proclamations.
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January 9th, 2020 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: COUNCIL ADDS TWO DEMOCRATS
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FAIR HAVEN: Democrats Meghan Chrisner-Keefe and Mike McCue are sworn to office, creating first 3-3 party split in modern memory.
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January 7th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: CORNER PLAN GETS THUMBS DOWN
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RED BANK: Developer to revise plans after neighbors and board members call proposed apartment project too much for a busy intersection.
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January 3rd, 2020 @ 8am
FAIR HAVEN: SIGN OF RENEWAL?
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FAIR HAVEN: After months of complaints by its lone clerk, the borough post office finally has an identifying sign out front.
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January 2nd, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MENNA OFFERS PROTOCOL FIX
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RED BANK: Menna proposes workaround to comments protocol as Horgan, Yngstrom and fire chiefs begin new terms. Reorganization wrap.
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January 2nd, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: SCAVONE TO LEAVE RIVERCENTER
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RED BANK: RiverCenter, the quasi-governmental agency that oversees the downtown district, is losing its executive director of the past six years.
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December 31st, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: Just five months after yanking a plan to add a Dunkin' shop, the owner of the Shell station is back with a proposal for a convenience store.
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December 26th, 2019 @ 11am
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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.