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RED BANK: TWO NEW TO BOROUGH BLUE
RED BANK: The borough police department is back to full force with the hiring of two new patrolmen, one of whom has a familiar name.
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RED BANK: The median police salary in New Jersey crossed the $100,000 mark in 2016, and most of the towns on the Greater Green were in step.
LINCROFT: Brookdale CC offers career training in the building and construction trades, through a new program that starts May 30.
RED BANK: Budget vote creates unexpected bedfellows as two Republicans oppose plan drafted by colleague, who wins praise from her election opponent.
LINCROFT: The Brookdale campus is the setting for a county-sponsored Job Fair on April 21.
RED BANK: TAX BILLS TO RISE 2.9 PERCENT
RED BANK: The annual budget has been introduced. Here's the impact on taxpayers.
RUMSON, FAIR HAVEN PARENTS GO TO SCHOOL
RUMSON: Parents of Special Ed students here and in Fair Haven can take advantage of monthly Parent Academy workshops organized by the school districts.
LINCROFT: BCC HOSTS MINORITY MALE EVENT
LINCROFT: Brookdale CC will host its third annual Minority Male Initiative conference on the morning of February 17.
LINCROFT: FREE WELDING TRAINING FROM BCC
LINCROFT: Unemployed individuals can train for free as a welder, in a program co-sponsored by Brookdale CC.
RED BANK: CROSSING GUARDS NEEDED
RED BANK: The police department has job openings for school crossing guards. Here's information on the job requirements and pay.
RED BANK: DEMOCRATS REASSERT CONTROL
RED BANK: The first Republican majority in a generation turns out to be short-lived as Democrats reassert control over municipal operations.
RED BANK: BURNHAM CASTS FINAL ‘NO’ VOTE
RED BANK: Firebrand Cindy Burnham, often the sole 'no' vote, ends her three-year term on the council with parting words and one last 'no.'
RED BANK: PAYOUTS WILL DEPLETE FUND
RED BANK: Payouts to three town employees for unused sick days and vacation time will deplete a rainy day fund, officials said.
RED BANK: SICKELS TO RETIRE AT END OF 2017
RED BANK: Stanley Sickels, the borough's most powerful unelected official, plans to retire in a year. But first, he'll cash out his unused sick days.
RED BANK: UPDATES ON WATER
RED BANK: Updates on stinky water and new water meters.
RED BANK: After complaints about stinky, foul-tasting water, officials have reverted to borough wells, blaming an algae issue at the NJAW reservoir.
MIDDLETOWN LIBRARY HOSTS JOB FAIR
MIDDLETOWN: The Public Library hosts a November 19 Community Employment Fair, sponsored by The Community YMCA. 
RUMSON: A police sergeant has sued the borough, claiming he blew the whistle on wrongdoing and was retaliated against, according to a news report
RED BANK: WATER METER SWAPS BEGIN
RED BANK: After controversy over its cost, a program to replace every water meter in town has begun, with homeowners to get visits starting this month.
SEA BRIGHT: After handing out $1.6 in aid to Sandy victims, Sea Bright Rising dissolves, saying its work is done.
Partyline
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 ...