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RED BANK: NO MOVEMENT ON PARKING
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RED BANK: Frustration over apparent lack of progress toward a downtown parking solution crops up at council meeting.
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August 10th, 2017 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: RAYRAP HOME PLAN WINS FINAL OK
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RED BANK: Developer Ray Rapcavage wins final approval for 18 homes with a huge garden plan at the Five Corners on the edge of downtown.
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August 7th, 2017 @ 9am
RED BANK: CHARTER SCHOOL WINS GYM OK
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RED BANK: Over objections reflecting long-standing resentments, charter school wins OK to create gym in a building it's buying.
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August 4th, 2017 @ 9am
RED BANK: RIVERCENTER TAKES STANCE ON LOT
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RED BANK: RiverCenter says it will oppose any parking plan that doesn't net 500 new parking spaces, drawing a rebuke from Whelan.
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August 4th, 2017 @ 6am
RED BANK: CRAFT BREWERY LEASES FIREHOUSE
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RED BANK: In another sign of a possible tsunami of craft beer coming to downtown, the former firehouse on White Street has been leased to a startup brewery,
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August 3rd, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: CHARTER, RAYRAP ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: The charter school and developer Ray Rapcavage go before the zoning board with plans that have generated a fair amount of heat recently.
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August 1st, 2017 @ 10am
RED BANK: SECOND-METER ISSUE RETURNS
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RED BANK: The issue of separate water meters for lawn water and car washing sputters back to life after 18 months of silence.
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July 31st, 2017 @ 9am
RED BANK: CHARTER DATA RELEASE ORDERED
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RED BANK: A state agency orders charter school to provide enrollment demographics after borough resident's complaint about lack of transparency.
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July 28th, 2017 @ 2pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL PROMOTES FIVE OFFICERS
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RED BANK: Five police officers move up the command ladder at swearing-in ceremonies during Wednesday night's council meeting.
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July 27th, 2017 @ 6am
ON THE GREEN: BRIDGES UP FOR COMMENT
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ON THE GREEN: Comments wanted on a replacement for the Oceanic Bridge and a proposed opening schedule for the Rumson-Sea Bright span.
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July 25th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: STATION APARTMENTS OK’D
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RED BANK: Developer wins approval to convert five-story office building at the train station to apartments.
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July 21st, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: APARTMENTS ON ZONING AGENDA
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RED BANK: A plan to convert a five-story office building at the train station to apartments, and add 16 new ones, goes before the zoning board tonight.
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July 20th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: EXTRA CASH FUNDS TEACHER HIRES
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RED BANK: The board of ed could hire as many as eight teachers and aides with a "gigantic" infusion of additional state aid, superintendent says.
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July 19th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: RETAIL RETURNING TO EMPTY SPACE
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RED BANK: A large downtown space approved for conversion to a restaurant will resume life as a retail store. That story and more in Retail Churn.
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July 17th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: NO CONSENSUS AT PARKING FORUM
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RED BANK: Merchant-led parking forum turns fractious, with residents unconvinced of the need for a parking garage and major development downtown.
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July 14th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: Council approves additional funding for Bellhaven Nature Area oil contamination cleanup, re-igniting spraypark controversy.
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July 13th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: STATION APARTMENTS PLANNED
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RED BANK: A Jersey City builder wants to convert most of a five-story office building at the train station to apartments, and add 16 new ones.
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July 11th, 2017 @ 10am
LITTLE SILVER: TOWN HIRES TOWER LAWYER
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LITTLE SILVER: Council hires outside attorney to help determine if it's stuck with a cell tower that dialed up anger borough-wide.
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July 11th, 2017 @ 12am
RED BANK: Business Alliance schedules public forum on downtown parking proposals. Council's parking committee also plans to hold one.
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July 6th, 2017 @ 2pm
RED BANK: TWO PARKING FORUMS PLANNED
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RED BANK: Residents and merchants could weigh in on the downtown parking crisis — or whether one exists — at a pair of forums in coming weeks.
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June 29th, 2017 @ 12pm
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THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
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 ...