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RED BANK: POT LAW DRAWS FIRE BUT ADVANCES
RED BANK: Council advances changes to cannabis zoning law as would-be pot retailers warn of litigation.
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RED BANK: Changes on agenda for special council session would bar cannabis businesses within 1,000 feet of schools and playgrounds.
RED BANK: POT LAW OVERHAUL PROPOSED
RED BANK: Expecting tweaks, attendees of special cannabis hearing instead learn of proposals to overhaul law to make it more restrictive.
RED BANK: CANNABIS SITINGS ON AGENDA
RED BANK: Council slates special session to consider easing limits on cannabis shop locations while heading off potential "cannabis row." 
RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAP
RED BANK: Council gets through session with less friction than in the recent past. Here's a quick recap of the highlights.
RED BANK: ROAD SAFETY ON COUNCIL AGENDA
RED BANK: On the council agenda: pressing state to install traffic signal on Riverside Avenue; pressing county for crosswalks on Shrewsbury Avenue.
RED BANK: NJDOT OBSTRUCTION REMOVED
RED BANK: NJDOT quickly removes traffic signal activator it had placed in the middle of a sidewalk. Borough awaiting similar action on another.
RED BANK: DOT POLE BLOCKS SIDEWALK
RED BANK: NJDOT recently installed a traffic signal activator in the middle of a sidewalk – in front of a senior living complex. What's Going On Here?
RED BANK: HOTEL DELAY REQUEST REJECTED
RED BANK: In a stunner, planning board rejects developer's request for an additional year to start building Hampton Inn, throwing project into uncertainty.
RED BANK: ROADWORK UNDER THE LIGHTS
RED BANK: What's with all the floodlights, cones and detours along Route 35 at night? redbankgreen's latest What's Going On Here has the answer.
RED BANK: LIGHT ‘NOT FEASIBLE’ SAYS DOT
RED BANK: DOT says new traffic light on Riverside Avenue isn't feasible, but Menna says sale of VNA building could force change.
RED BANK: COUNCIL PRESSES FOR LIGHT
RED BANK: Council urges state to install traffic light at Bodman & Riverside, both for safety and to aid new overlay zone encouraging housing redevelopment.
FAIR HAVEN: WALK & BIKE PLAN ON TABLE
FAIR HAVEN: The borough closing in on new walking-and-biking plan that officials say could serve as a blueprint for generations to come.
FAIR HAVEN / RUMSON: BIKE LANES AWAIT
Both a bicyclist and an approaching a jogger appeared shy recently about using a new bike lane on the Little Silver side of Harding Road, seen here from Tower Hill in RedContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN / RUMSON: BIKE LANES AWAIT"
FAIR HAVEN: LUCARELLI PUMPS FOR BIKE LANE
Mayor Ben Lucarelli heads to D.C. this week to sharpen his biker-and-pedestrian safety campaign. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Anyone who’s heard FairContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: LUCARELLI PUMPS FOR BIKE LANE"
RED BANK: FAUX BRICK CROSSWALKS REMOVED
State highway workers removed crumbling fake brick crosswalks from two intersections near the north end of Maple Avenue in Red Bank Friday after officials complained about safety concerns. “They saidContinue reading "RED BANK: FAUX BRICK CROSSWALKS REMOVED"
SEA BRIGHT: OCEAN AVENUE REOPENED
State Department of Transportation dumptrucks leaving Sea Bright at midday Monday after several days of sand removal work. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The northern stretch of OceanContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT: OCEAN AVENUE REOPENED"
World War II-era love letters written by a former Rumson woman to her future husband washed ashore in Sandy Hook Bay after Hurricane Sandy, according to various news accounts. TheContinue reading "BAY YIELDS RUMSON WOMAN’S LOVE LETTERS"
Red Bank police will roll out a portable flashing sign warning motorists not to block intersections at the north end of Route 35/Maple Avenue, Captain Darren McConnell tells redbankgreen. ButContinue reading "MAPLE AVENUE LIGHTS TO BE TWEAKED"
LIGHTS ARE ON, BUT SIGNS A PROBLEM?
For the first time, cars in the right lane on northbound Maple Avenue are allowed to turn left onto West Front Street. First, the news: the new traffic lights atContinue reading "LIGHTS ARE ON, BUT SIGNS A PROBLEM?"
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.