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RED BANK: NEW ADMINISTRATOR NAMED
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RED BANK: Council picks new administrator. He's 33, an Army veteran and ex-mayor from Union County. And his salary will be triple his predecessor's.
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April 12th, 2018 @ 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: THREE HONORED FOR LONGEVITY
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RED BANK: The theme was longevity as the borough council and state legislators honored a centenarian and two others Wednesday night.
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March 1st, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: BURNHAM DISHES AND… OOPS!
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RED BANK: Amid debate about proposed puppy mill ordinance, Burnham dishes about Whelan's dating life, and... oops! Never mind!
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January 11th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BASIE TO AIR DINIZIO TRIBUTE
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RED BANK: Count Basie Theatre to livestream Saturday's tribute concert in memory of late Smithereens lead singer Pat DiNizio.
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January 10th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: DEMS TAP ACTING ADMINISTRATOR
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RED BANK: Flexing their muscle as the majority party once again, Democrats pick consultant as interim borough administrator.
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January 2nd, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAPS ON BITTER NOTE
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RED BANK: As Sickels ends 38-year career, Taylor tees up Dems for partisanship over his successor as borough administrator.
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December 28th, 2017 @ 9am
RED BANK: SMITHEREENS SHOW TO GO ON
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RED BANK: Count Basie Theatre will go ahead with a planned January 13 concert despite the death last week of Smithereens lead singer Pat DiNizio.
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December 18th, 2017 @ 10am
RED BANK: SICKELS LAUDED FOR ‘COMMITMENT’
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RED BANK: Closing out a 38-year municipal career, Stanley Sickels wins praise for his commitment, professionalism and institutional knowledge.
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December 14th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SMITHEREENS SINGER DIES
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RED BANK: Smithereens singer Pat Dinizio dies two days after announcement of January 13 show at the Basie.
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December 13th, 2017 @ 6am
RED BANK: JENSEN ELECTED FIRE CHIEF
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RED BANK: Firefighters mark election of Stu Jensen as 2018 chief as he pledges to try to give volunteers training and gear they need.
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December 6th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: HABCORE RAISES $55K
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RED BANK: Borough-based HABcore raises $55k for housing and related programs.
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November 22nd, 2017 @ 10pm
TINTON FALLS: GIVING BACK ON MITZVAH DAY
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TINTON FALLS: Monmouth Reform Temple members fan out to help in a wide variety of ways on Mitzvah Day.
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November 22nd, 2017 @ 10pm
RED BANK: A LITTLE LIBRARY FOR NORMA TODD
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RED BANK: The new owners of the longtime home of late Lunch Break co-founder Norma Todd have erected a little free library in her honor in the front yard.
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November 1st, 2017 @ 11am
RED BANK: ARTISTS HONOR ONE OF THEIR OWN
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RED BANK: Local artists are auctioning off their own work to fund a bench overlooking the Navesink in honor one of their own.
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September 25th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: DEAD BANK, GRATEFUL AT GIG 200
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RED BANK: SIx years after it was conceived at an open-mic night, the Grateful Dead cover band Dead Bank plans its 200th show this week.
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July 5th, 2017 @ 8am
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
RED BANK: ONE-STOP WEDDING BIZ OPENS
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RED BANK: A wedding DJ bets big on "vertical integration" of DJ, photography and other wedding services in a wedding-crazy town.
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February 16th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: LONGTIME MUNICIPAL JUDGE DIES
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RED BANK: Judge William Himelman, believed to be the longest-serving municipal jurist in New Jersey, dies at age 85.
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January 26th, 2017 @ 10pm
RED BANK: DONATED HOUSE COMING DOWN
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RED BANK: A house left to Saint James Church put $359,000 in its coffers. It's now to be razed for parking and, eventually, development, new owner says.
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January 25th, 2017 @ 5am
RUMSON’S SWARTZ RE-ELECTED LIBRARY CHAIR
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SHREWSBURY: Renee Swartz of Rumson is re-elected chair of the County Library Commission, a position she's held since 1976.
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January 18th, 2017 @ 5am
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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 ...