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RED BANK: SENIOR CENTER STILL ON ICE
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RED BANK: The Senior Center, which has been closed since a leak almost two years ago, is not for sale, officials say. But will it ever reopen?
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January 8th, 2021 @ 1pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: YASSIN MOVES TO COUNCIL FORE
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RED BANK: After a year of butting heads with fellow Dems, Ballard loses seat on finance committee as Yassin moves to the fore. Reorganization wrap.
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January 4th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: MANSION RAZED; MORE LAND EYED
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RED BANK: Ignoring pleas by preservationists, Riverview razes 19th-century riverfront mansion, and moves to acquire more property.
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December 28th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: Menna and two council members tee up proposed RiverCenter bylaw changes as effort to reduce oversight by governing body and residents.
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December 3rd, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: MENNA APOLOGIZES TO MURPHY
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RED BANK: Menna apologizes to Murphy for two women who assailed governor and his family as they ate dinner downtown Sunday.
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November 25th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: HOSPITAL PLAN DRAWS HPC IRE
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RED BANK: Frustration erupts at Historic Preservation Commission over hospital plan to raze riverfront Victorian mansion.
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November 19th, 2020 @ 1pm
RED BANK: MENNA ADMITS FOOD TRUCK ERROR
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RED BANK: Following redbankgreen questions about conflict of interest, Menna acknowledges he should not have participated in council food truck discussion.
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July 2nd, 2020 @ 11pm
RED BANK: FOOD TRUCK EYES VACANT SITE
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RED BANK: A year after it appeared dead, a move to end the ban on food trucks rolls back into the spotlight, led by a mother-daughter venture called Your Sister's Balls.
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July 2nd, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MENNA BLASTS HEALTH ‘RUMORS’
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RED BANK: Menna blasts Burnham for false "rumors" about his health and Shehady tees her up for "blatant lies" about his health and whereabouts.
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March 30th, 2020 @ 1pm
RED BANK: SNACK BAR, SCREENS ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Council to take up measures on weeds, window screens and the future of the Riverside Gardens Park Wednesday. Here's an agenda scan.
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February 25th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAP
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RED BANK: Once again, council moves quickly through a light agenda, this time after Menna holds a last-minute informal session. Here's a wrap.
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January 23rd, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: TWO QUICK SESSIONS AND A SNAFU
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RED BANK: Moving swiftly through its agenda, council neglects to honor two men who had been told they'd receive proclamations.
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January 9th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: MENNA OFFERS PROTOCOL FIX
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RED BANK: Menna proposes workaround to comments protocol as Horgan, Yngstrom and fire chiefs begin new terms. Reorganization wrap.
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January 2nd, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAP
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RED BANK: Council wrap includes details of parking bond, update on Eastside Park project, and the return of a former police department employee.
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November 27th, 2019 @ 8am
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: INTERPRETERS TO AID POLICE
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RED BANK: In what may be a New Jersey first, police department assembles a team of volunteer interpreters to help bridge language gaps with the public.
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July 29th, 2019 @ 7am
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: FIREFIGHTERS KEEP FREE Y ACCESS
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RED BANK: YMCA walks back part of a plan to end free memberships for borough kids and first responders, but says no kids will be turned away.
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July 3rd, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MENNA ‘IRATE’ OVER YMCA ACTION
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RED BANK: 'Irate' Menna blasts YMCA decision to terminate free memberships for borough kids and emergency first responders.
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June 27th, 2019 @ 10am
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
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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 ...