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RED BANK: TOP TWO JOBS OPEN AS CFO QUITS
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RED BANK: O'Reilly resigns as chief financial officer after just two and half years, leaving top two jobs in borough government open.
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September 1st, 2021 @ 10pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: TREES BOOST TAB FOR ROADWORK
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RED BANK: "Unanticipated" need to save large trees on Hudson Avenue contributed to $227,000 change order this summer, officials say.
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August 31st, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: Taxpayers have until September 20 to pay their third-quarter property taxes, under a resolution up for adoption Wednesday.
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August 16th, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: BALLARD OPPOSES SURPLUS USE
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RED BANK: Ballard challenges fellow Democrats on council's use of $3.5 million surplus "just to say we didn't raise taxes."
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July 30th, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: SURPLUS KEEPS TAX RATE LEVEL
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RED BANK: McConnell credits "wise" spending decisions during pandemic for surplus that's keeping 2021 tax increase to zero.
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July 28th, 2021 @ 7am
ON THE GREEN: Some taxpayers get a breather as due dates for third-quarter property taxes in Red Bank and Fair Haven pushed back by delays.
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July 26th, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: "Soft" costs associated with repairs to water-damaged Senior Center add $96,000 to budget. Public presentation scheduled for Tuesday.
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July 23rd, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: ANIMAL JOB ENDANGERED
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RED BANK: Animal control officer's job appears doomed; borough "is not not a pest control company," says McConnell, citing non-emergencies.
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June 10th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: Car burglars were busy on the East Side early Monday morning, police say. In one case, they took the whole vehicle.
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May 17th, 2021 @ 4pm
RED BANK: Shehady floats idea of $200+ tickets for snow parking as chief cites nose-thumbing at ordinance. But Triggiano says "no way" to steep hike.
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March 4th, 2021 @ 10am
RED BANK: SNOW PARKING COMPLIANCE CITED
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RED BANK: Chief cites improved compliance with parking law as half as many tickets are issued in Sunday snowfall versus last week's storm.
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February 8th, 2021 @ 11am
RED BANK: WITHIN THE STORM, A TICKET BLITZ
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RED BANK: Police issued a near-record number of parking violations during the snowstorm that began Sunday, redbankgreen has learned.
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February 2nd, 2021 @ 10am
RED BANK: Case against two-time council candidate and husband over trash dumping caught on neighbor's security video goes to court-ordered mediation.
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November 5th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: NEIGHBORS’ DISPUTE GETS MESSY
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RED BANK: Two-time council candidate and husband face complaints of harassment after a neighbor's doorbell video catches them dumping trash in her driveway.
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October 15th, 2020 @ 11pm
RED BANK: CHANGES EYED AT BASIE FIELDS
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RED BANK: Count Basie Fields playground would be relocated to Mohawk Pond and street closed to traffic under Open Spaces application OK'd by council.
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September 10th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: COPS GET THEIR PROMO CEREMONY
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RED BANK: Six cops sworn in to new command positions as officials note the air of tension over policing elsewhere.
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September 4th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: Driver charged with DWI after crash. Also, police pursue Range Rover believed stolen in Rumson, and get report of stolen Mercedes.
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August 31st, 2020 @ 1pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL PROMOTES SIX COPS
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RED BANK: Six police officers move up the command ladder – unceremoniously, for now, because of the pandemic. Here's who they are.
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August 25th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: CRASH CUTS RESTAURANT POWER
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RED BANK: Car v. building knocks out power to restaurant, prompting early closure. Driver charged with DWI.
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August 26th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: BIG NIGHT OUT AT BASIE FIELDS
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RED BANK: A change of venue makes for a carnival-like National Night Out at Count Basie Fields. Check out redbankgreen's photos.
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August 7th, 2019 @ 7am
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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 ...