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RED BANK: A parking study commissioned in the aftermath of an aborted redevelopment of the White Street lot is to be unveiled Thursday evening.
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January 9th, 2019 @ 7am
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RED BANK: Another food truck-turned-restaurant business gets a green light to open downtown, this one offering tacos and burritos.
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January 8th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: DUNKIN’ PLAN RAISES CONCERNS
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RED BANK: Hearing on proposed addition of Dunkin' Donuts to Shell station begins with a looming traffic question: what if it's really popular?
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January 4th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: ZONERS OPEN WITH BIG AGENDA
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RED BANK: Zoning board begins 2019 with two big projects: proposed expansion of a downtown building and the addition of a Dunkin' Donuts to the Shell station.
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January 3rd, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: DEMS GLIDE INTO NEW YEAR
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RED BANK: Democrats glide into New Year with unfettered control as Menna begins fourth term as mayor. Highlights from the reorganization meeting.
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January 2nd, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: DEMS OUST POULOS AS CFO
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RED BANK: In an otherwise empty borough hall on New Year's Eve, the council convenes a special meeting to fire the CFO, hours before she was due to reach tenure.
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December 31st, 2018 @ 2pm
RED BANK: CORNER BUILDING SOLD
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a high-visibility, long-vacant downtown building changes hands, and a jewelry store opens.
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December 21st, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: BUILDING DESIGN TO BE REVISED
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RED BANK: Modernist building won't fly in historic district, preservation commissioners tell developer. Architect says he'll revise design again.
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December 20th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: STUDENTS RETHINK MONMOUTH ST.
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RED BANK: Sixteen urban planning students at Rutgers take on the challenge of redesigning a stretch of Monmouth Street. Here's what they came up with.
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December 18th, 2018 @ 11am
RED BANK: COUNCIL SAYS ‘BYE-BYE, 2018’
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RED BANK: Council says farewell to 2018, and the only two remaining Republican members, at its final session of the year.
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December 17th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: BANK CHURNS OUT, STATIONERY IN
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a new neighborhood grocery opens on the West Side and a vape shop opens downtown.
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December 14th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: CORNER OVERHAUL PROPOSED
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RED BANK: A dowdy corner in the town's historic district could get some big and bold architecture, if a proposed medical office building wins approval.
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December 13th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK REGIONAL: REFERENDUM PASSES
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LITTLE SILVER, RED BANK & SHREWSBURY: Voters in three towns give overwhelming support to $17.3 in repairs and improvements at Red Bank Regional.
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December 11th, 2018 @ 10pm
RED BANK: FINAL COUNCIL AGENDA OF 2018
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RED BANK: Final council session of 2018 is also the last for the two remaining Republicans on the governing body. Here's the agenda.
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December 11th, 2018 @ 11am
RED BANK REGIONAL: $17.3M PLAN ON BALLOT
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LITTLE SILVER, RED BANK & SHREWSBURY: Voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide a $17.3M spending plan for a roof, classrooms and turf at Red Bank Regional.
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December 10th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN WITHDRAWN
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RED BANK: Plan for a three-unit apartment building to replace a burned-out single family withdrawn amid objections by neighbors.
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December 7th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: CHIEF ADDRESSES USE OF FORCE
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RED BANK: Police chief says he has reviewed every arrest involving use of force over the past five years, and found no cases where it was inappropriate.
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December 6th, 2018 @ 1pm
RED BANK: DUBLIN HOUSE TO ADD BANDSHELL
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RED BANK: A plan by the Dublin House Pub to erect a patio bandshell made for one of the quickest planning board meetings in memory Monday night.
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December 4th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: PASTRIES TO FILL ‘CAKE BOSS’ SPOT
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, another pastry shop takes the Broad Street space vacated by Carlo's Bakery, of 'Cake Boss' fame.
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December 3rd, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: HIGHER VNA SITE DENSITY URGED
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RED BANK: Council moves to boost allowable density of VNA site to 90 units per acre, which would negate a planning board compromise reached last week.
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November 29th, 2018 @ 9am
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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.