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RED BANK: Library trustees embark on five-year strategic plan update, starting with public survey of attitudes and input on services.
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January 30th, 2020 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAP
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RED BANK: Once again, council moves quickly through a light agenda, this time after Menna holds a last-minute informal session. Here's a wrap.
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January 23rd, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: FORMER DOCTORS’ OFFICE IN REHAB
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RED BANK: A long-vacant house on Shrewsbury Avenue is getting a major makeover. What's Going On Here? Read on for the answer...
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January 14th, 2020 @ 6am
MIDDLETOWN: GEORGE BOWDEN DIES
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MIDDLETOWN: George Bowden, longtime Red Bank resident and champion of historic preservation, died Sunday. He was 92 years old.
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December 11th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: OLD BRICK BUILDINGS REVIVED
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RED BANK: Two red brick buildings with deep histories have gotten new leases on life in recent days – with assists from Brooklyn and Seattle.
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November 22nd, 2019 @ 1pm
FAIR HAVEN: PARK OPENS ON OLD HOUSE SITE
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FAIR HAVEN: After more than a decade of work, borough opens passive park where generations of an African-American family lived overlooking the Navesink.
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October 16th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: WRECKING BALL FOR BIG MAN’S?
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RED BANK: In its 18 months of existence, Big Man's West, owned by the late Clarence Clemons, laid claim to rock history. It's now facing the wrecking ball.
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October 7th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: APARTMENT PROJECTS PLANNED
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RED BANK: Two proposed projects would add 69 new apartments to the edge of downtown, with 59 on Monmouth Street and 10 on Riverside Avenue.
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October 7th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: CARRYING THE FLAG TO REMEMBER
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RED BANK: Veterans' activist Mark Otto, AKA 'the flag man,' carries flag bearing names of September 11, 2001 victims 11 miles in their honor.
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September 11th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: REMEMBERING VICTIMS OF ‘MALICE’
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RED BANK: Locals gather in Riverside Gardens Park to remember the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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September 11th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: Remembering those from the Greater Green who were killed in the attacks on America on the morning of September 11, 2001.
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September 11th, 2019 @ 12am
ON THE GREEN: REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11
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ON THE GREEN: Local memorial events slated to remember to area residents killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America.
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September 10th, 2019 @ 1pm
FAIR HAVEN: CLUB LANDS HISTORIC LISTINGS
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FAIR HAVEN: A genteel yacht club with unlikely roots in the bawdy days of vaudeville is now on the New Jersey and National Historic registers.
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August 7th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: Journalists spotlight former home of one of their predecessors, T. Thomas Fortune, as a story "that needs to be told.''
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July 30th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: HPC AIMS TO SAVE DOOMED HOUSE
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RED BANK: Five months after planning board OKs demolition of hospital-owned Victorian house, historic commission proposes an alternative.
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July 18th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: LONG-VACANT BUILDING GETS TLC
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RED BANK: A long-vacant building that might be key to a Broad-to-the-river project is suddenly getting some TLC. What's Going On Here?
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July 11th, 2019 @ 4pm
RED BANK: A BRIEF BOUT OF ANGLOMANIA
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RED BANK: Eighty years ago today, the Greater Red Bank Green was seized by Anglomania as British King George VI and Queen Elizabeth paid a quick visit.
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June 10th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: PARADE MARCHES BACK TO LIFE
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RED BANK: After a long absence, the Memorial Day parade marches back to life under brilliant spring skies. Check out redbankgreen's 50-photo slideshow.
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May 28th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: FORTUNE CULTURAL CENTER OPENS
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RED BANK: With a mission of promoting civil rights, T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center opens in house that came perilously close to being bulldozed.
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May 24th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: OFFICES WITH CAR LIFTS OK’D
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RED BANK: Board OKs office building designed to fit into historic district with a modern touch: underground parking served by valets and elevators.
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March 19th, 2019 @ 8am
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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.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...