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RED BANK: CHARTER DATA RELEASE ORDERED
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RED BANK: A state agency orders charter school to provide enrollment demographics after borough resident's complaint about lack of transparency.
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July 28th, 2017 @ 2pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: RACIAL ROOTS OF MEMORIAL DAY
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RED BANK: As part of a series called "Let's Talk About Race," the library hosts a lecture Wednesday night on "The Surprising Origins of Memorial Day."
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May 31st, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: HOMEBUILDER EYES FACTORIES
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RED BANK: Homebuilder plans to raze West Side buildings, including millworks and former guitar factory, to replace them with townhouses.
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April 25th, 2017 @ 2pm
RED BANK: The ACLU and a marquee civil rights lawyer take up the case of two organizations hoping to close the charter school over charges of segregation.
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April 12th, 2017 @ 11pm
RED BANK: ACLU ENTERS CHARTER BATTLE
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RED BANK: The ACLU has joined two other organizations battling the charter school over charges of segregation and will appeal this week's charter renewal.
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March 2nd, 2017 @ 6pm
RED BANK: CHARTER WINS FIVE MORE YEARS
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RED BANK: Amid controversy over its impact on it host district, charter school wins state approval to operate for another five years.
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March 1st, 2017 @ 8pm
RED BANK: Three months after a complaint, feds say they're investigating allegations of segregation related to charter school.
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February 15th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: CHARTER FOES ALLEGE FALSE DATA
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RED BANK: Charter school opponents allege the "outright fabrication" of data used by the school in pursuit of a five-year extension.
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January 27th, 2017 @ 10am
RED BANK: Area women to hold "nonpartisan" rally today on theme of "committing to reminding ourselves and our leaders that we are one community."
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January 21st, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: WOMEN PLAN ‘NONPARTISAN’ RALLY
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RED BANK: Area women plan "nonpartisan" rally day after Trump inauguration "committed to reminding ourselves and our leaders that we are one community."
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January 9th, 2017 @ 5pm
RED BANK: DISTRICT CALLS FOR CHARTER END
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RED BANK: District superintendent asks state to reject charter renewal because the borough "can no longer support two separate school districts."
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December 6th, 2016 @ 3pm
RED BANK: P.R. BATTLE OVER CHARTER SCHOOL
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RED BANK: Charter school and adversaries swap charges in press release skirmish.
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November 22nd, 2016 @ 7am
RED BANK: CHARTER FOES CLAIM BROAD BASE
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RED BANK: Who's behind the Civil Rights complaint against the Red Bank Charter School filed with the Justice Department earlier this week?
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November 17th, 2016 @ 11am
RED BANK: GROUPS SEEK FEDS PROBE OF CHARTER SCHOOL FOR STUDENT ‘SEGREGATION’
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RED BANK:Two groups ask the Justice Department to investigate alleged Civil Rights violations in the continued existence of the charter school.
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November 15th, 2016 @ 2pm
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE’S GOOD FORTUNE
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RED BANK: The crumbling Fortune House gives journalism students a taste of what it's planned to become: a cultural and educational center.
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July 28th, 2016 @ 10am
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE RESCUE PLAN OK’D
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RED BANK: A plan to save the Fortune House, and build 31 apartments out back, wins zoning board approval..
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July 22nd, 2016 @ 1am
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE PLAN SCHEDULED
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RED BANK: A developer's plan to preserve the Fortune House, and build 32 apartments, goes to the zoning board this week.
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July 18th, 2016 @ 9am
RED BANK: A VIGIL FOR VICTIMS, AND PEACE
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RED BANK: Vigil for Dallas police and civilian victims of violence draws several dozen participants.
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July 11th, 2016 @ 6am
RED BANK: Vigil slated Sunday evening for Dallas police and civilian victims of violence.
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July 9th, 2016 @ 5pm
RED BANK: BUILDER EYES FORTUNE HOUSE SITE
RED BANK: Developer Roger Mumford has a plan to save the Fortune House, but it comes with a catch.
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June 28th, 2016 @ 9am
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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.