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RED BANK REGIONAL: $17.9M PLAN ON BALLOT
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RED BANK REGIONAL: Three towns will vote in December on a $17.9 million capital plan driven in large part by a need to save a cash cow: academy tuition.
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August 16th, 2018 @ 10am
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RED BANK: COUNCIL AGENDA
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RED BANK: Council summer schedule continues with an agenda that includes a new post of police chaplain and a $1.85 million water utility bond.
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August 15th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: DOWNTOWN ‘VISION’ GAINS FOCUS
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RED BANK: An effort to redefine RiverCenter's vision for the downtown continued with new survey results on perceptions of residents and visitors Monday.
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August 14th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: A SECOND CAREER IN OLD JEANS
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RED BANK: There's money in 'crotch rot.' In this edition of Retail Churn, a woman finds a new career in repairing old jeans customers just can't part with.
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August 10th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: NEWS TICKER FLICKERS TO LIFE
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RED BANK: News ticker flickers to life on the OceanFirst headquarters building (formerly Hovnanian HQ). What do we think about this?
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August 6th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: COURT NIXES TAX ACTION
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RED BANK: Tax court nixes borough attempt to revoke Riverview Medical Center's tax-exempt status as "fishing expedition."
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August 2nd, 2018 @ 2pm
RED BANK: WHELAN CLAIMS HAMPTONS ATTACK
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RED BANK: Councilman Mike Whelan wound up in a Hamptons police station Saturday after he was attacked in a hotel men's room, he says.
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July 25th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: APARTMENTS COMPLETED
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RED BANK: What's Going on Here at this little-seen site in the heart of the borough's industrial core? Six new apartments.
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July 24th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: BELLHAVEN PLAN SCALED BACK
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RED BANK: Bellhaven plan revived and 'scaled back' once again, says Shehady, after questions about tree removal at the wetlands site.
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July 23rd, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL ADDS MONTHLY MEETING
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RED BANK: Local-government groupies and gadflies will have another municipal meeting to add to their calendars starting next month: a council workshop session.
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July 23rd, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: PUPPY MILL LAW WITHDRAWN
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RED BANK: After seven months of controversy, a proposed ban on retail sales of "puppy mill" pets was withdrawn Wednesday night.
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July 19th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: With a 55-percent boost in state funding, school administrators rush to reverse cuts to jobs and services. But the tax hike remains, superintendent says.
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July 18th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: PLANNING AND ZONING AGENDAS
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RED BANK: Proposed new building at West Front Street and Maple Avenue, Sickles Market Provisions on planning and zoning agendas this week.
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July 16th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: SAXUM SPREE CONTINUES
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RED BANK: Real estate investment firm Saxum continues its recent buying spree with acquisition of Urban Outfitters building.
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July 13th, 2018 @ 12am
RED BANK: STATION CRAVES DUNKINS
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RED BANK: Five years after planners shot down a proposed 7-Eleven at the Newman Springs Road Shell station, the station owner is proposing to build a Dunkin' Donuts.
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July 12th, 2018 @ 12am
RED BANK CHURN: VEGAN TAKEOUT OPENS
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, vegan mecca opens a new takeout shop, a framing business consolidates, and a party-services business holds a moving sale.
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July 11th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: AFTER SCATHING REPORT, WHAT?
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RED BANK: What's next after scathing report on borough operations? It won't end up on shelf gathering dust, says the new official tasked with implementing its recommendations.
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July 10th, 2018 @ 11am
RED BANK: LIBRARY DIRECTOR CHECKS OUT
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RED BANK: Elizabeth McDermott checks out as library director and gets a proclamation; Barbara Pickell named interim director.
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July 3rd, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: ‘FAMILIES’ MARCH DRAWS 2,000
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RED BANK: A 'Families Belong Together' march and rally in protest of the Trump Administration's border policies draws some 2,000. Photos.
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July 2nd, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: RALLY FOR IMMIGRANT FAMILIES
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RED BANK: March and rally to protest Trump Administration separation of immigrants families slated for downtown Saturday morning.
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June 29th, 2018 @ 6am
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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.