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RED BANK: WALTON TAKES OVER DPU
RED BANK: Council picks new DPU head, OKs Broadwalk, takes action on long-closed town dump and hears plan for downtown gardens. Highlights.
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RED BANK: POT, BUDGET & MORE ON AGENDA
RED BANK: On the council agenda Wednesday: cannabis review board, budget, new DPU director, housing grant and a four-way stop.
RED BANK: POT LAW DRAWS FIRE BUT ADVANCES
RED BANK: Council advances changes to cannabis zoning law as would-be pot retailers warn of litigation.
RED BANK: Changes on agenda for special council session would bar cannabis businesses within 1,000 feet of schools and playgrounds.
RED BANK: PARKING CHANGE TABLED
RED BANK: Council taps brakes on new rules for parking on Spring Street while residents raise issues of parking and four-way stops elsewhere in town.
RED BANK: PAIR PRODS ACTION ON BROADWALK
RED BANK: Council sets Broadwalk season after Portman and Triggiano goad reluctant majority into immediate decision.
RED BANK: PARKING, EV CHARGING ON AGENDA
RED BANK: On the council agenda: new rules for parking on Spring Street, EV charging stations. Not on: cannabis.
RED BANK: SIX-MONTH BROADWALK ON HOLD
RED BANK: RiverCenter lays out plan to address programming, trash and more in bid for six-month Broadwalk, but council withholds quick action.
RED BANK: SMOKE, BUT NO FIRE ‘COMPANY’
RED BANK: Cannabis business with the "terrible" name of "Red Bank Fire Company" says it will change its branding following planning board OK for dispensary.
RED BANK: CHURCH BLOCK TO BE RENAMED
RED BANK: Council answers prayers from St. Anthony of Padua for official street name change to Oratory Way.
RED BANK: HOUSING, POT DOMINATE SESSION
RED BANK: Cannabis restrictions and funding request by Housing Authority among the issues at second long council meeting in three days.
RED BANK: POT LAW OVERHAUL PROPOSED
RED BANK: Expecting tweaks, attendees of special cannabis hearing instead learn of proposals to overhaul law to make it more restrictive.
RED BANK: CANNABIS SITINGS ON AGENDA
RED BANK: Council slates special session to consider easing limits on cannabis shop locations while heading off potential "cannabis row." 
RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAP
RED BANK: Council tackles heavy agenda, honors retiree, remembers longtime soup maker. Here's a quick recap of the highlights.
RED BANK: DPU HEAD OUSTED
RED BANK: Unlisted on agenda, no terms revealed, no discussion: council fires DPU director, brings back his predecessor at $16,500 a month.
SHREWSBURY: MAIN BREAK PROMPTS DETOURS
SHREWSBURY: Water main break slowing traffic at a primary entry point to Red Bank Tuesday morning. Detours expected until evening.
RED BANK: SUBDIVISION ON AGENDA
RED BANK: Plan to subdivide Catherine Street residential property into three is the sole matter on planning board agenda Monday night.
RED BANK: SUBDIVISION APPROVED
RED BANK: Plan to subdivide two Shrewsbury Avenue lots into three gets a greenlight from the planning board. Owner has similar plan nearby.
RED BANK: DETOURS, FOUR-WAY STOP COMING
RED BANK: Detours for road work on Spring Street; implementation of two new four-way stops: here's what you need to know.
RED BANK: TREE PLANTING UNDERWAY
RED BANK: The borough's tree inventory is scheduled to grow by 75 this week under a Shade Tree Committee planting. Here's where they'll go.
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CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.
CARPY DIEM
From the redbankgreen Partyline: A pair of large carp cruise the shallows under Hubbard's Bridge (Senator Kyrillos Bridge) on Front Street T ...
BIBS ON FOR OPENING DAY
Partyline: Two longtime neighbors re-unite for lobsters on the Boondocks Fishery opening day.