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RED BANK: REFLECTIONS ON SEPTEMBER 11
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RED BANK: Mayor and eighth-grader offer reflections as about 100 gather in Riverside Gardens Park on 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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September 13th, 2021 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: Search for a new borough administrator has "stalled," say two council members, with a looming vacancy in the borough's finance office, too.
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September 10th, 2021 @ 4pm
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
RED BANK: BALLARD TOUTS NEW FEE LAW
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RED BANK: Ballard touts new development fee law as countering impact of "explosive growth," though Menna sees it as ripe for legal challenge.
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August 26th, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: Planning board approves proposed 10-unit apartment building as chairman commends applicant for not pushing for more.
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August 17th, 2021 @ 2pm
RED BANK: Council approves new redevelopment agency director amid debate over sexual harassment lawsuit and contrasting views of #metoo.
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July 22nd, 2021 @ 1pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL TO HOSE FIREWORKS
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RED BANK: Days after a booming Fourth of July weekend, mayor and council say they'll act to enforce state ban on illegal fireworks.
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July 8th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: Council to vote Wednesday on eliminating in-house animal control service in switch to SPCA. Residents say response times will suffer.
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May 24th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: YARD SALE MAY BE REVIVED
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RED BANK: Townwide yard sale may return in September, though mayor floats idea of holding an unstructured, non-sponsored one in June.
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May 14th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: ANIMAL OPERATION ON THE BLOCK
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RED BANK: Council looking into eliminating in-house animal control service in switch to SPCA. Residents say personal service will suffer.
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May 13th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: CHARTER REVIEW VOTE SLATED
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RED BANK: All-Democratic council agrees to put charter study on November ballot, a move that could lead to nonpartisan elections.
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May 6th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: TOWN HALL ON FISH KILL SOUGHT
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RED BANK: Council joins Clean Ocean Action in demand for DEP town hall on fish kill that has littered Navesink and Shrewsbury with reeking carcasses.
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April 30th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: COUNCIL TO HIRE SEARCH FIRM
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RED BANK: On council agenda: police chief to be named interim administrator while search firm seeks permanent replacement. Not on: a charter study.
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April 26th, 2021 @ 11am
RED BANK: Ballard decries 'tragedy' of Daunte Wright killing and the fear he and other Black Americans experience in encounters with police.
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April 15th, 2021 @ 3pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL MAY REOPEN VNA PLAN
RED BANK: Council moves on possible re-review of VNA site as Saxum pursues reclassification as "area in need of redevelopment."
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April 15th, 2021 @ 12pm
RED BANK: TOP JOB OPEN AT TIME OF STRIFE
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RED BANK: Menna blames Shehady departure after just three years on "scheme" and worries "dysfunctional" atmosphere will repel good candidates.
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April 13th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: Civil war among Democrats intensifies as local Republican chairman says Zipprich has made local politics "a toxic endeavor."
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April 9th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: SHEHADY RESIGNS TOP BORO JOB
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RED BANK: Shehady resigns as business administrator after just three years, leaving sharply divided council to fill top unelected position.
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April 8th, 2021 @ 12pm
RED BANK: DEMS CALL FOR CHARTER STUDY
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RED BANK: Bitter split among Democrats widens as mayor and four council members call for charter study, deride Zipprich as party boss.
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April 7th, 2021 @ 3pm
RED BANK: STILL NO MOVEMENT ON REFORM
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RED BANK: Two approaches to a possible change from the borough form of government have shown no signs of traction in recent months.
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April 7th, 2021 @ 7am
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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 ...
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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.