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RED BANK: DEMS BACK ‘PURE’ GARAGE
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RED BANK: Council Democrats back 'pure' parking garage approach for White Street lot, setting up possible head-on collision with Republicans.
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June 27th, 2017 @ 5pm
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FAIR HAVEN: POLICE STATION UPGRADES SLATED
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FAIR HAVEN: The borough police station, housed since 1983 in a former schoolhouse, is about to get its first remodeling since then.
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June 26th, 2017 @ 6am
RUMSON: OCEANIC MAKEOVER BEGINS ANEW
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RUMSON: Locals get a look at options for a new Oceanic Bridge as officials hit the reset button on the consensus-building process begun a decade ago.
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June 21st, 2017 @ 9am
OCEANIC BRIDGE: CONCEPT PLANS ON DISPLAY
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OCEANIC BRIDGE: Monmouth County officials will unveil concept plans for repairing or replacing the span at public sessions in Middletown and Rumson today.
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June 20th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: PARKING PLANS GET FIRST AIRING
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RED BANK: Five would-be builders tout their visions for large parking and housing projects in the heart of downtown, some with retail thrown in as well.
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June 15th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: MUMFORD LOCKS UP EXTRA SITES
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RED BANK: In the contest to redevelop White Street Roger Mumford may have an edge or two: options to buy two key properties.
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June 15th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: TOWNHOUSE LOOK FOR MILL CREEK
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RED BANK: Mill Creek's proposed White Street redevelopment calls for luxury apartments and a parking garage disguised to look like a row of townhouses.
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June 15th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: DOBCO PLANS ‘CORRIDOR’ TO RIVER
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RED BANK: Dobco proposes 1,010-spot garage and pedestrian 'corridor' to West Front Street as part of garage and apartment project.
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June 15th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: BNE PUSHES ‘APPROPRIATE SCALE’
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RED BANK: BNE-Canoe garage proposal calls for 'appropriately scaled' apartments and no retail, so as not to compete with existing stores.
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June 15th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: BIJOU TOUTS GREEN APPROACH
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RED BANK: Builder Bijou Properties touts its track record in Hoboken, where "they don't want to be Jersey City," principal tells parking committee.
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June 15th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: SCHOOL TO GET 500 BOOKS
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RED BANK: As part of an effort to prevent educational "summer slide," the Primary School is to receive 500 books.
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June 14th, 2017 @ 8am
LITTLE SILVER: CELL TOWER DIALS UP OUTRAGE
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LITTLE SILVER: Hundreds of residents pack a meeting to give elected officials an earful about a new cell tower built just 500 feet away.
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June 13th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: PARKING PLANS MOVE TO THE FORE
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RED BANK: After a dozen years of talk and inaction on a new parking garage in the heart of town, five plans will get their first public airing Wednesday.
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June 12th, 2017 @ 6am
RED BANK: DEMS GOAD GOP OVER GARAGE
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RED BANK: Council Democrats goad two Republican counterparts over downtown garage issue, but Schwabenbauer says they won't take the bait.
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June 2nd, 2017 @ 6am
RED BANK: WILL ‘PURE’ GARAGE GET A SHOT?
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RED BANK: With three Democrats vowing "staunch opposition" to ambitious garage and housing proposals, will a garage-only plan get equal time?
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May 31st, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: AIR RAID SIRENS SILENCED AT LAST
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RED BANK: Final vestiges of the Cold War to vanish as town authorizes removal of Civil Defense air raid sirens from last three locations in town.
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May 30th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: THREE WEEKEND DEBUTS PLANNED
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RED BANK: Two new businesses plan Memorial Day weekend openings, and a longtime veteran of the restaurant and bar scene unveils a new beer garden.
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May 26th, 2017 @ 1pm
RED BANK GARAGE: BIJOU PROPOSAL
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RED BANK: Highlights of proposal for a new parking garage submitted by Bijou Properties, one of five builders vying for the project.
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May 25th, 2017 @ 5pm
RED BANK GARAGE: BNE-CANOE PLAN
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RED BANK: Highlights of proposal for a new parking garage submitted by BNE-Canoe, one of five builders vying for the project.
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May 25th, 2017 @ 5pm
RED BANK GARAGE: DOBCO PLAN
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RED BANK: Highlights of proposal for a new parking garage submitted by Dobco, one of five builders vying for the project.
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May 25th, 2017 @ 5pm
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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 ...