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RED BANK: HOUSING & MORE PACKS AGENDA
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RED BANK: On council agenda: affordable housing deal; parking change for dicey corner; small-bore zoning tweaks; new fines for false alarms; and more.
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April 23rd, 2019 @ 8am
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RED BANK: “TENACIOUS’ INSPECTOR CITED
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RED BANK: A nose for trouble turns a routine inspection into a hunt for a gas leak that averted potential disaster at an apartment complex, officials said.
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April 12th, 2019 @ 1pm
RED BANK: HOOPS, A PARADE, PIRATES & MORE
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RED BANK: A packed council agenda included lots of feel-good news, including honors for middle school hoopsters, plans for a parade and more.
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April 12th, 2019 @ 12pm
MIDDLETOWN: Longtime Red Bank resident and volunteer Gladys Bowden, injured by a fire in her Shadow Lake condo last month, has died. She was 88.
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January 14th, 2019 @ 7am
MIDDLETOWN: FUNDRAISER FOR BOWDENS
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MIDDLETOWN: A GoFundMe account seeks to help an elderly couple, former Red Bank volunteers, who were injured by a fire in their home earlier this month.
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December 24th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: FIRE BLAMED ON RIGGED HEATER
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RED BANK: House destroyed by fire Wednesday was undergoing illegal renovations, officials say. Blaze traced to jury-rigged portable heater.
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December 13th, 2018 @ 11am
RED BANK: FIRE DESTROYS VACANT HOME
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RED BANK: House fire at rush hour destroys home under renovation, sends blanket of white smoke across the downtown Wednesday morning.
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December 12th, 2018 @ 11am
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN WITHDRAWN
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RED BANK: Plan for a three-unit apartment building to replace a burned-out single family withdrawn amid objections by neighbors.
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December 7th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: HUNT FOR GRANTS CONTINUES
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RED BANK: No money has yet come in from grants a contractor helped the borough apply for, but officials hope the pump is now primed.
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November 13th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: DOG AND CAT INJURED IN FIRE
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RED BANK: Residents displaced from home after Shrewsbury Avenue fire that left a dog and a cat in veterinary care with smoke inhalation injuries.
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July 19th, 2018 @ 5am
RED BANK: FIRE VICTIMS SEEK HELP
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RED BANK: A sister and brother whose lifelong home was destroyed by fire last month seek the public's help with housing and other costs as their savings vanish.
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June 14th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: ‘GOING HOME’ FOR FIREFIGHTER
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RED BANK: Video of pipes-and-drums tribute for slain firefighter Andrew Hill as Engine 96, bearing his casket, passes the firehouse he loved.
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June 6th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: HONORS FOR SLAIN FIREFIGHTER
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RED BANK: Firefighters honor Andrew Hill, their slain 26-year-old colleague, with a procession past the firehouse where he found his purpose in life.
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June 5th, 2018 @ 1pm
RED BANK: STREET VIGIL HONORS FIREFIGHTER
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RED BANK: Firefighter Andrew Hill recalled by family and friends at quiet vigil on the spot where he was slain a week ago.
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June 3rd, 2018 @ 12am
RED BANK: FIREFIGHTER’S FUNERAL SET
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RED BANK: Firefighters plan white-glove sendoff for Andrew Hill, their 26-year-old colleague who died after being stabbed early Sunday.
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June 1st, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: MURDERED FIREFIGHTER RECALLED
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RED BANK: Slain firefighter had just paid for his dress blues to wear to Monday's Memorial Day service. Instead, he was honored there among the recently deceased.
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May 29th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BLAZE DAMAGES EAST SIDE HOME
RED BANK: Residents safe as volunteer firefighters battle Washington Street house blaze just hours after a colleague's murder.
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May 27th, 2018 @ 3pm
RED BANK: RIVERFRONT POOL CONDEMNED
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RED BANK: The riverfront pool at a residential high-rise has been condemned after it was displaced, apparently on an incoming tide.
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May 17th, 2018 @ 11am
RED BANK: OLDEST FIRE COMPANY RETIRED
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RED BANK: Relief Engine Company, the town's oldest firefighting unit, is to be retired and reconstituted as historic preservation outfit.
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March 1st, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FIRST SNOW OF 2018 BLOWS IN
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RED BANK: It's just another workday for some people as snowstorm prompts widespread closings and cancellations. What comes next is anything but ordinary, however.
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January 4th, 2018 @ 7am
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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 ...
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 ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.