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RED BANK: Council meeting won't be held on Yom Kippur after all as three council members walk back their controversy-stirring votes.
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October 4th, 2019 @ 2pm
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RED BANK: Council debates balloon-release ordinance. Menna says it shouldn't apply when "a kid's singing 'Happy Birthday' and the balloon goes in the air."
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October 4th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: ‘SURPRISE’ RIFT OVER YOM KIPPUR
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RED BANK: Rejecting otherwise routine change, council decides on split vote to stick to its schedule and meet on October 9, Yom Kippur.
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October 3rd, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: EX-CHEF FOUND NEW WAY TO SERVE
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RED BANK: Promotion from patrolman to sergeant at council ceremony marks the latest chapter for a former corporate chef.
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September 27th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: PUSHBACK OVER REDEV CONTRACT
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RED BANK: Price difference prompts Redevelopment Agency commissioner to tap the brakes on its first contract with planning firm.
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August 28th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: With no opposition, and support from the town's only supermarket, council adopts ban on single-use plastic ban and styrofoam food containers.
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August 23rd, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: Once again, a push to allow food trucks to operate here fails, as brick-and-mortar businesses cite the impact on their own investments in town.
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August 16th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: COUNCIL KILLS PARKING PLAN
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RED BANK: After getting an earful about proposed alternate-side parking law, council votes to kill it. Menna says a "reasonable" alternative will be sought.
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July 25th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: REDEV AGENCY INCHES AHEAD
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RED BANK: New Redevelopment Agency, with potential to exert enormous power over borough's future, inches toward goal of fixing municipal facilities.
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July 24th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: WHAT’S ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA?
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RED BANK: The borough council has street-sweeping, green roofs, single-use plastics and cranes on its plate when it meets this week. Details here.
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July 22nd, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: NEW TRACK, NEW DEAL FOR BASIE
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RED BANK: Count Basie Fields is getting a new track, and the borough has a new deal with Red Bank Catholic to help pay for it.
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July 11th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: ALTERNATE-SIDE PLAN REVISED
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RED BANK: Council to scale back proposed alternate-side parking plan for street sweeping to a monthly schedule, rather than weekly.
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July 8th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: WHAT’S ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA?
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RED BANK: Here's what the council plans to discuss Wednesday night, when the rest of America is cracking open its first Fourth of July-eve frosties.
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July 2nd, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: NEW AGENCY EYES TOWN ASSETS
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RED BANK: New Redevelopment Agency, with potential to exert enormous power over borough's future, quietly slips into gear.
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June 26th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: SWEEPING CHANGES COMING
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RED BANK: Council delays alternate-side parking law but it's still coming, along with a sweeper tracker, despite misgivings of some residents.
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June 20th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: WHAT’S ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA?
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RED BANK: Taxes, a new track for Basie Fields, alternate-side parking and more pack the agenda for council's only regular meeting this month.
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June 18th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SECOND CLASSIC 5K DRAWS 1,200+
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RED BANK: Classic 5K road race draws 1,200+ runners and walkers, including one who put on a goofy pantomime for our camera. Check out redbankgreen's photos.
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June 16th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: CLASSIC 5K READY TO RUN AGAIN
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RED BANK: More than 1,000 runners and walkers expected for Saturday's Classic 5K. Here's your FAQ on the course, road closures and more.
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June 13th, 2019 @ 5pm
RED BANK: FOOD TRUCKS UP FOR DISCUSSION
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RED BANK: Allowing food trucks on private property appears to have council backing. RiverCenter, which has opposed the idea in the past, hasn't said no.
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June 12th, 2019 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: NEFF TROUNCES BRANDT
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LITTLE SILVER: Neff easily wins rare GOP primary in which his opponent was banned from schools and firehouses over campaign photos.
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June 4th, 2019 @ 9pm
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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 ...