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RED BANK: BORO HOPES TO SPUR WALKWAY, CLEANUP ON RIVERFRONT SITES
14 townhomes and two cottages on the block bounded by Harding and Hudson Avenues and Clay Street.
Red Bank Borough Council advances plan aimed at spurring development - and a public river walk - on two prominent waterfront properties. (click to read)
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August 29th, 2025 @ 1pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: SAXUM CHANGES APPROVED
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RED BANK: Saxum wins approval for changes to its massive, not-yet-built housing project on the former VNA headquarters site.
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April 5th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: SAXUM SEEKS MORE BEDROOMS
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RED BANK: Two years after winning approval to build 210 units, Saxum wants to increase the bedroom count while reducing density.
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April 1st, 2022 @ 11am
RED BANK: AGENCY FUTURE IN SPOTLIGHT
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RED BANK: Redevelopment agency may be on the chopping block in 2022, with an early test as soon as January 1 in the form of vacancies to be filled.
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December 29th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: BOARD NIXES REDEVELOPMENT BID
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RED BANK: Planning board nixes Saxum's controversial request for a rezoning of VNA site, saying the firm is responsible for deterioration.
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October 18th, 2021 @ 8pm
RED BANK: AGENCY TO SEEK COUNCIL INPUT
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RED BANK: Redevelopment agency needs better outreach about its work, and council input on what that work should be, officials said Tuesday.
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September 29th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: Planning board hearing on Saxum's controversial request for a rezoning of VNA site has been postponed again.
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September 28th, 2021 @ 3pm
RED BANK: SAXUM HEARING POSTPONED
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RED BANK: Hearing on Saxum's request for a rezoning of VNA site, which could lead to controversial tax deal, postponed until October 2.
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August 31st, 2021 @ 1pm
RED BANK: TAX BREAK CLOUDS SAXUM HEARING
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RED BANK: Residents, and one board member, vent about tax impact as planning board takes up Saxum request for zoning change.
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August 17th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: WHAT’S ON AGENDA, AND NOT
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RED BANK: On the council agenda: animal control change on hold; Saxum seeks new site designation; charter study measure advancing and more.
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May 26th, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: ZONING SHORTCUT TO GET DO-OVER
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RED BANK: Council will try again to make it easier for builders to redevelop "underutilized" properties in the train station area.
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May 11th, 2017 @ 9am
RED BANK: COUNCIL TO MEET FRIDAY EVENING
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RED BANK: In observance of Yom Kippur, the regular semimonthly meeting of the borough council was rescheduled. To Friday evening.
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October 12th, 2016 @ 8am
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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 ...