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RED BANK: HOUSING GRANTS AVAILABLE
RED BANK: The Red Bank Affordable Housing Corporation offers substantial grants to qualified first-time homebuyers, as well as to homeowners and renters seeking to improve their dwellings.
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RED BANK: YASSIN CHARGED WITH THEFT
RED BANK: Former councilman Hazim Yassin charged with stealing $7,650 from the nonprofit Red Bank Borough Education Foundation.
RED BANK: Less than two months after settling a back-rent lawsuit by his landlord, former councilman Hazim Yassin has been evicted for nonpayment.
RED BANK: On the council agenda this week: a skateboarding event, a tweak to the rent control ordinance, two murals and more.
RED BANK: YASSIN SETTLES RENT CASE
RED BANK: Lame-duck Councilman Hazim Yassin avoids possible eviction with agreement to pay landlord more than $32,000 in back rent.
RED BANK: YASSIN FACES BACK-RENT LAWSUIT
RED BANK: Lame-duck Councilman Hazim Yassin hasn't paid his rent in 18 months and owes more than $29,000, landlord alleges in lawsuit.
FAIR HAVEN: CONSOLIDATION COMPLICATION?
FAIR HAVEN: The vacant Sunoco site has a new owner who wants to build 24 townhouses there, which could complicate an ambitious borough consolidation plan.
FAIR HAVEN: CONCEPT PLANS UNVEILED
FAIR HAVEN: Officials unveil concept plans for ambitious consolidation that calls for turning abandoned gas station into new town hall and much more.
FAIR HAVEN: CURTAIN TO RISE ON BORO PLAN
FAIR HAVEN: Residents will get their first look Thursday at a concept plan for for a new borough hall and police station. Here's what to expect.
FAIR HAVEN: PLAN ELICITS VARIED CONCERNS
FAIR HAVEN: Residents pepper council with questions about ambitious plan for new borough hall, police station relocation, DPW changes and more.
FAIR HAVEN: NEW TOWN HALL PLANNED
FAIR HAVEN: Borough officials are eyeing a vacant River Road gas station for a new borough hall, the first move in a series of expected consolidations and land sales.
FAIR HAVEN: GIFTS AND THREADS IN CHURN
FAIR HAVEN: A needlepoint shop will close, and be reborn, and a housewares store moves up to bigger space as downtown retailers shuffle addresses.
FAIR HAVEN: ACME CENTER MAKEOVER OK’D
FAIR HAVEN: Acme shopping center makeover approved, minus a large sign that board members said raised pedestrian safety concerns.
FAIR HAVEN: ACME CENTER CHANGES DETAILED
FAIR HAVEN: Acme center owner details plan to keep it as a "neighborhood shopping center" but with more accessible parking.
FAIR HAVEN: ACME CENTER TO GET MAKEOVER
FAIR HAVEN: As another tenant departs, the new owners of the Acme shopping center file renovation plans amid buzz about store turnover.
FAIR HAVEN: INVESTORS BANK PLAN STALLS
FAIR HAVEN: Driveways and a roof dome that "looks like a blister" doom bank plan.
FAIR HAVEN: BIKE SHOP CALLING IT QUITS
FAIR HAVEN: Like Laird's Stationery, Bike Haven is also getting squeezed out, though rising rent isn't the only reason.
FAIR HAVEN: AT LAIRD’S, A SIGN OF CHANGE
FAIR HAVEN: The sign comes down at Laird's Stationery, marking the end of an era.
FAIR HAVEN: LAIRD’S GETTING SQUEEZED OUT
FAIR HAVEN: After almost 40 years, a stationery store where the register "never stops ringing" is being squeezed out by a new landlord.
RED BANK: REAL ESTATE IN SPOTLIGHT
Looking to buy or rent a home in Red Bank? Borough life gets the spotlight in a New York Times real estate feature published online Wednesday. Three married couples whoContinue reading "RED BANK: REAL ESTATE IN SPOTLIGHT"
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SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.