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RED BANK: PARKING, NEWS RACKS AND MORE
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RED BANK: A new alternate-side parking law is up for introduction. Also on the council agenda: honors for retiring RBR principal Risa Clay.
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May 22nd, 2019 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: STREETSCAPE PROJECT BEGINS
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RED BANK: What's Going On Here at English Plaza and White Street? A $1.5 million streetscape makeover begins in the heart of downtown. Here's what to expect.
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May 21st, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: SHREWSBURY AVENUE TO GET $1M
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RED BANK: Long a subject of pedestrian complaints about safety, Shrewsbury Avenue will get $1 million in upgrades under a grant awarded to the borough.
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May 20th, 2019 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: SCHOOL REFERENDUM ON TABLE
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FAIR HAVEN: Borough school district announces capital bonding referendum. For how much, and to be used how? Details next week, says superintendent.
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May 17th, 2019 @ 11am
LITTLE SILVER: SPOTLIGHT ON NARROW LANE
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LITTLE SILVER: Borough wrestles with question of what to do with a quaint, narrow lane in the age of "humongous" family vehicles.
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April 24th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: SHEDDING LIGHT ON SHREWSBURY
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RED BANK: Can you guess how many decorative streetlamps along Shrewsbury Avenue are out? Once again, pedestrian safety issues come to the fore.
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March 29th, 2019 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: CONSOLIDATION COMPLICATION?
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FAIR HAVEN: The vacant Sunoco site has a new owner who wants to build 24 townhouses there, which could complicate an ambitious borough consolidation plan.
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March 27th, 2019 @ 10pm
RED BANK: MARINE PARK PLAN UNVEILED
RED BANK: A new concept plan for Marine Park would eliminate clay tennis courts, relocate parking lot and add riverfront green space. Details here.
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March 7th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: MARINE PARK PLAN READY TO DROP
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RED BANK: An urban planning firm is scheduled to unveil a new concept plan for Marine Park at Wednesday's workshop meeting of the borough council.
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March 5th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: BELLHAVEN MAKEOVER IN SIGHT
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RED BANK: After years of controversy and changes, a 'scaled-back' plan for Bellhaven Natural Area could be built by this summer, officials said.
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February 13th, 2019 @ 4pm
RED BANK: SMOKING BAN COMING
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RED BANK: The council plans to introduce a ban on smoking in public places. Employees of Riverview Medical Center would lose their go-to smoke break spot.
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February 12th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: To wean, or not to wean? Mayor and council walk back characterization of key parking study recommendation Menna had said was potentially "catastrophic."
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January 29th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: ‘WEANING’ FROM METERS UNLIKELY
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RED BANK: Council appears unlikely to adopt a key recommendation of bombshell parking report: 'weaning' itself of using meter revenue to keep taxes down.
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January 25th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: SNOW TOSSERS TO FACE TICKETS
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RED BANK: Under a proposed law, property owners who shovel or plow snow into the street would face tickets. Shehady wants "zero tolerance."
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January 21st, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BOYNTON ENTERING BOXING HALL
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RED BANK: Long before he started sparring with the council, gadfly Freddie Boynton was an actual boxer. Now he's headed to the NJ amateur hall of fame.
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January 16th, 2019 @ 5pm
RED BANK: PARKING SYSTEM FOUND ‘BROKEN’
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RED BANK: Forget a new parking garage for now. A study finds the borough's parking operation "broken" and says that needs to be fixed first.
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January 11th, 2019 @ 2am
RED BANK: NEW FOUR-WAY STOP GOES LIVE
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RED BANK: New four-way stop goes live at South Street and East Bergen Place. Don't know how one works? Here's what state law says.
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January 10th, 2019 @ 10am
FAIR HAVEN: CURTAIN TO RISE ON BORO PLAN
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FAIR HAVEN: Residents will get their first look Thursday at a concept plan for for a new borough hall and police station. Here's what to expect.
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January 9th, 2019 @ 3pm
RED BANK: A parking study commissioned in the aftermath of an aborted redevelopment of the White Street lot is to be unveiled Thursday evening.
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January 9th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: DEMS GLIDE INTO NEW YEAR
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RED BANK: Democrats glide into New Year with unfettered control as Menna begins fourth term as mayor. Highlights from the reorganization meeting.
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January 2nd, 2019 @ 7am
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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 ...