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RED BANK: A SUPERLATIVE COUNCIL SESSION
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RED BANK: Primary students regale council audience with 'Superfragilisticexpialidocious' and other Disney tunes as two teachers are honored.
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February 14th, 2019 @ 5am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: BELLHAVEN MAKEOVER IN SIGHT
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RED BANK: After years of controversy and changes, a 'scaled-back' plan for Bellhaven Natural Area could be built by this summer, officials said.
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February 13th, 2019 @ 4pm
RED BANK: SMOKING BAN COMING
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RED BANK: The council plans to introduce a ban on smoking in public places. Employees of Riverview Medical Center would lose their go-to smoke break spot.
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February 12th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: GREEK FOOD, FLOWERS, ART & HAIR
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RED BANK: In Retail Churn, Greek restaurant replaces French bistro; flower shop opens; hair salon relocates; art gallery and sub shop coming.
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February 8th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR FOR POT SHOP
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RED BANK: Borough rejects its first application for a medical marijuana store over concern about law on proximity to schools.
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February 7th, 2019 @ 1pm
RED BANK: THREE NEW HOMES APPROVED
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RED BANK: Planning board approves three new homes on West Westside Avenue property over objections that builder is "squeezing in" too much.
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February 7th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: Rejecting pleas that it be saved, planning board approves demolition of hospital-owned Victorian home on East Front Street.
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February 5th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: PASTRY, PIZZA AND MORE
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RED BANK: A new pastry shop has opened in the space vacated by Carlo's Bakery, of 'Cake Boss' fame. This one offers some savory along with the sweet.
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January 31st, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: To wean, or not to wean? Mayor and council walk back characterization of key parking study recommendation Menna had said was potentially "catastrophic."
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January 29th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: ‘WEANING’ FROM METERS UNLIKELY
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RED BANK: Council appears unlikely to adopt a key recommendation of bombshell parking report: 'weaning' itself of using meter revenue to keep taxes down.
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January 25th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: COUNCIL AGENDA
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RED BANK: Affordable housing, snow shoveling and what was said at the CFO's firing are on the council's agenda Wednesday night.
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January 23rd, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: SNOW TOSSERS TO FACE TICKETS
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RED BANK: Under a proposed law, property owners who shovel or plow snow into the street would face tickets. Shehady wants "zero tolerance."
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January 21st, 2019 @ 12pm
RBR: FORUM ADDRESSES IMMIGRATION CRISIS
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LITTLE SILVER: Today's young people, who overwhelmingly support immigration, will solve an issue that Americans are now torn over, RBR forum speaker says.
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January 18th, 2019 @ 1pm
RED BANK: DOWNTOWN GETS FIRST TATTOOS
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RED BANK: Just three months after zone change allows tattoo parlors downtown, one has inked its first biceps and bellies with skulls and butterflies.
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January 17th, 2019 @ 5pm
RED BANK: PLANS CLEARS HISTORICAL REVIEW
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RED BANK: With Historic Preservation Commission flexing new muscle, developer scraps modernist office building for Victorian and gets thumbs-up.
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January 17th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: BOYNTON ENTERING BOXING HALL
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RED BANK: Long before he started sparring with the council, gadfly Freddie Boynton was an actual boxer. Now he's headed to the NJ amateur hall of fame.
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January 16th, 2019 @ 5pm
FAIR HAVEN: CONCEPT PLANS UNVEILED
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FAIR HAVEN: Officials unveil concept plans for ambitious consolidation that calls for turning abandoned gas station into new town hall and much more.
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January 11th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: PARKING SYSTEM FOUND ‘BROKEN’
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RED BANK: Forget a new parking garage for now. A study finds the borough's parking operation "broken" and says that needs to be fixed first.
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January 11th, 2019 @ 2am
RED BANK: NEW FOUR-WAY STOP GOES LIVE
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RED BANK: New four-way stop goes live at South Street and East Bergen Place. Don't know how one works? Here's what state law says.
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January 10th, 2019 @ 10am
FAIR HAVEN: CURTAIN TO RISE ON BORO PLAN
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FAIR HAVEN: Residents will get their first look Thursday at a concept plan for for a new borough hall and police station. Here's what to expect.
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January 9th, 2019 @ 3pm
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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.