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FAIR HAVEN: MIXED-USE PLAN SCRUTINIZED
FAIR HAVEN: Though approval seems preordained, proposed mixed-use building gets three hours of close scrutiny by planning board.
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FAIR HAVEN: MULTIFAMILY PROJECT ON DECK
FAIR HAVEN: Borough's first multifamily project in modern times slated to go before planning board. M&M proposal calls for no variances.
RED BANK: MASTER PLAN OUTREACH PLEDGED
RED BANK: Planning board approves Master Plan consultant on pledge of public outreach "head and tails above" four other proposals, says board member.
RED BANK: MASTER PLAN IN SPOTLIGHT
RED BANK: After Ballard demand for greater transparency, planning board expected to air its process for selecting Master Plan consultant.
RED BANK: BOARD NIXES REDEVELOPMENT BID
RED BANK: Planning board nixes Saxum's controversial request for a rezoning of VNA site, saying the firm is responsible for deterioration.
RED BANK: EBANKS OFFERS PLANNING PRIMER
RED BANK: New community planning director offers a primer in zoning and land-use law, but steers clear of third-rail topics like tax abatements.
RED BANK: Planning board hearing on Saxum's controversial request for a rezoning of VNA site has been postponed again.
RED BANK: SAXUM HEARING POSTPONED
RED BANK: Hearing on Saxum's request for a rezoning of VNA site, which could lead to controversial tax deal, postponed until October 2.
RED BANK: TAX BREAK CLOUDS SAXUM HEARING
RED BANK: Residents, and one board member, vent about tax impact as planning board takes up Saxum request for zoning change.
RED BANK: REVISED CORNER PLAN AIRED
RED BANK: Developer seeks OK for plan changes at site adjoining library as Maida presses for "holistic" reduction of stormwater into Maple Cove.
RED BANK: MUMFORD SHRINKS PLAN AGAIN
RED BANK: Mumford again shrinks plan for Shrewsbury Avenue apartment building. Also on zoning agenda: apartments next to library and exotic car rentals.
RED BANK: MASTER PLAN UPDATE BEGINS
RED BANK: At a meeting that lasts less than 12 minutes, planning board embarks on first full-scale Master Plan rewrite in 25 years.
RED BANK: BANK DIMS LIGHTING TO WIN OK
RED BANK: Wells Fargo dims 'overkill' lighting plan and wins approval on property being reviewed as possible new town hall site.
RED BANK: Commenting protocol up for discussion Wednesday. Here's what to expect at the council, planning and zoning meetings slated for this week.
FAIR HAVEN: NO DUNKIN’ ON OVER EASY
FAIR HAVEN: Proposed Over Easy restaurant has a far easier time of it than its prospective neighbor, a Dunkin' shop that triggered heated arguments.
ON THE GREEN: RED BANK JOINS MOVE ONLINE
ON THE GREEN: Red Bank to debut online public meetings in the COVID-19 era Tuesday, joining Fair Haven and Little Silver, where second virtual sessions are planned tonight.
FAIR HAVEN: VOTERS APPROVE SCHOOLS PLAN
FAIR HAVEN: Voters give overwhelming approval for $15.6m school upgrades in Tuesday's special election.
FAIR HAVEN: VOTERS TO DECIDE $15.6M PLAN
FAIR HAVEN: Voters to decide $15.6m school upgrades referendum Tuesday. But first, they've got to get to the right polling station.
RED BANK: Once again, a push to allow food trucks to operate here fails, as brick-and-mortar businesses cite the impact on their own investments in town.
RED BANK: FOOD TRUCKS UP FOR DISCUSSION
RED BANK: Allowing food trucks on private property appears to have council backing. RiverCenter, which has opposed the idea in the past, hasn't said no.
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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.