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RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAP
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RED BANK: Council gets through session with less friction than in the recent past. Here's a quick recap of the highlights.
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January 27th, 2022 @ 4pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: COUNCIL OKS MAIN, TIE-IN COSTS
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RED BANK: Council approves $1.3M water line not originally included in Broad Street dig; town will eat connection costs landlords had feared.
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January 27th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: ROAD SAFETY ON COUNCIL AGENDA
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RED BANK: On the council agenda: pressing state to install traffic signal on Riverside Avenue; pressing county for crosswalks on Shrewsbury Avenue.
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January 25th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: Co-author of report that recommended charter change tells Charter Study Commission borough needs a strong chief executive.
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January 10th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: COMMISSION PREPARES TO DIG IN
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RED BANK: Newly empaneled charter study commission hires an attorney and gets its first "homework" assignment: reading a report.
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December 23rd, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: “YOU BROKE IT, YOU FIX IT”
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RED BANK: Via RiverCenter, downtown landlords push back on possible bills for leaking water lines, telling council, "you broke it, you fix it."
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December 16th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: GOVERNMENT REVIEW LAUNCHED
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RED BANK: Newly empaneled charter study commission kicks off "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to reorient town's governance, says chairwoman.
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December 1st, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: COMMISSION SETS FIRST MEETING
RED BANK: Less than a month after voters authorized its formation, charter study commission sets organizational meeting for Tuesday evening.
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November 29th, 2021 @ 1pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL ‘NO’ TO CHARTER SCHOOL
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RED BANK: After three hours of divided comments, council unanimously endorses measure calling for end of charter school.
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November 24th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: WHAT’S ON COUNCIL AGENDA
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RED BANK: On the council agenda: new contract for McConnell; weighing in on charter school; awarding Master Plan work; accepting a retirement.
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November 23rd, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: It's official: Sturdivant to join Triggiano on council; five winners of charter study race certified after overwhelming referendum approval.
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November 16th, 2021 @ 6pm
RED BANK: MASTER PLAN OUTREACH PLEDGED
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RED BANK: Planning board approves Master Plan consultant on pledge of public outreach "head and tails above" four other proposals, says board member.
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November 16th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: MASTER PLAN IN SPOTLIGHT
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RED BANK: After Ballard demand for greater transparency, planning board expected to air its process for selecting Master Plan consultant.
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November 15th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: On the council agenda this week: a skateboarding event, a tweak to the rent control ordinance, two murals and more.
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November 9th, 2021 @ 10am
RED BANK: CHARTER STUDY SET INTO MOTION
RED BANK: Voters overwhelmingly set charter study in motion, choosing four slate candidates plus DuPont for advisory commission.
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November 2nd, 2021 @ 11pm
RED BANK: STURDIVANT, TRIGGIANO WIN
RED BANK: Newcomer Sturdivant is top votegetter as Triggiano holds on for second council term; Viscomi again runs distant third.
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November 2nd, 2021 @ 10pm
FAIR HAVEN: KOCH, COLE WIN COUNCIL TERMS
FAIR HAVEN: Republicans Koch and Cole secure council seats with strong wins, halting Democrats's gains of recent years.
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November 2nd, 2021 @ 10pm
RED BANK: CENTER REPAIR PLANS TWEAKED
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RED BANK: Residents weigh in with suggestions large (dig basement) and small (add door buzzer) on long-awaited Senior Center repairs.
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October 28th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: COUNCIL CANDIDATE Q&As
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RED BANK: Here's what the three candidates for borough council have to say about themselves and the big issues in town. Plus: a guide to voting this year.
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October 21st, 2021 @ 5pm
RED BANK: CHARTER STUDY CANDIDATE Q&As
RED BANK: Eleven candidates seek seats on five-member charter study commission. Q&As, plus a voter guide on the various ways to cast ballots.
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October 21st, 2021 @ 4pm
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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 ...