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RED BANK: PORTMAN VETOES RENTAL LAW
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RED BANK: In surprise move, Portman vetoes short-term rental law, saying council "ignored the simple and widely acceptable solution."
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February 23rd, 2023 @ 5am
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RED BANK: COUNCIL DEMS, HOGAN FORM SLATE
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RED BANK: Three council Dems team up with Riverview's president and three others in bid to form new government in July.
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February 22nd, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: POT LAW OVERHAUL PROPOSED
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RED BANK: Expecting tweaks, attendees of special cannabis hearing instead learn of proposals to overhaul law to make it more restrictive.
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February 21st, 2023 @ 2pm
RED BANK: FREE PANTRY GETS SOME LOVE
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RED BANK: Local women make Valentine's Day grocery drop at food bank.
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February 21st, 2023 @ 10am
RED BANK: ZIPPRICH WON’T SEEK NEW TERM
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RED BANK: His years as Democratic chair marked by strife, Zipprich says he won't seek re-election under a new form of government he opposed.
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February 21st, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: 1980s SEX ASSAULTS ALLEGED
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RED BANK: Lawsuit claims now-dead rec department official sexually assaulted woman more than 200 times, starting when she was 11 years old.
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February 20th, 2023 @ 7am
REDBANKGREEN’S NEW PARTNER: 83 YEARS TO GO
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RED BANK: Some news about redbankgreen itself.
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February 17th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: ICELESS WINTER FOILS ICEBOATERS
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RED BANK: With another 60-degree day in the forecast, members of America's oldest ice boat club lament the fifth iceless winter in a row.
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February 16th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: CANNABIS SITINGS ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Council slates special session to consider easing limits on cannabis shop locations while heading off potential "cannabis row." 
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February 15th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: COUNCIL OKS EARLY, LIVE VOTING
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RED BANK: At an added cost of $21k, council greenlights weekend of early, in-person voting for the May 9 special election.
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February 14th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: PARK TO GET PICKLEBALL COURTS
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RED BANK: Tennis courts in Eastside Park will be remade into "hybrid" tennis and pickleball surfaces under plans that advanced last week. 
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February 13th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: TAKE A STROLL, SWEETHEARTS
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RED BANK: RiverCenter unveils a new Valentine's Day event Saturday, one for lovers... of strolling, shopping and dining.
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February 10th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: WEST SIDE LEAD PIPE PLAN OK’D
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RED BANK: Council authorizes massive, decade-long effort to identify and replace lead water lines, starting this year on the West Side.
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February 10th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: SHORT-RENTAL LAW PASSES
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RED BANK: Amid complaints that it is still "not listening," council adopts short-term law barring short-term rentals in residential-only zone.
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February 9th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: GENDER NEUTRALITY ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: A resolution calling for gender-neutral language in borough government communications is on the council agenda Wednesday night.
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February 8th, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: PIPES, RENTALS, VOTING ON DECK
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RED BANK: On a heavy council agenda Wednesday: lead pipes, cannabis zoning, water rates, special election and gender-neutral language.
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February 7th, 2023 @ 2pm
RED BANK: MASTER PLAN’S USE DEBATED
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RED BANK: Concluding a 14-month process, planning board adopts Master Plan amid debate over "prioritizing" its recommendations.
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February 7th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: CRIME & ARREST REPORTS
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RED BANK: Busy January crime blotter includes four motorists charged with DWI, a burglary charge and a stolen package.
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February 6th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: PORTMAN-TRIGGIANO SLATE NAMED
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RED BANK: Incumbent Mayor Portman and Councilperson Triggiano among the first announced slate running in the May 9 special election.
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February 6th, 2023 @ 10am
RED BANK: RACIAL IMAGE DRAWS FIRE
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RED BANK: Former council member Lee rips into billboard company for including "offensive" image of black man in zoning board exhibits.
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February 3rd, 2023 @ 12pm
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(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 ...
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.