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RED BANK: BRUSH PICKUP REMINDER
RED BANK: Public utilities department reminds residents that there are only two remaining brush pickups scheduled for the year.
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August 31st, 2023 @ 11am
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RED BANK: Neither of two clashing requests for investigations of leaked emails appears on Wednesday night's council agenda. Here's what is on it.
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September 8th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: DELISA TO GET ‘EMERGENCY’ PACT
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RED BANK: With no bids submitted for trash contract, borough will go to interim pact to avert an "emergency" – at an extra cost of $10k per month.
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August 17th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: PROBE, METERS & MORE ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Busy council agenda includes authorization of Zipprich email leak probe; longer parking enforcement; budget; and six police promotions.
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August 17th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: ZIPPRICH ASKS FOR LEAK PROBE
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RED BANK: Zipprich wants probe of leaked emails in which Shehady warned of efforts to "sabotage" trash bidding. Also, Ballard and Shehady spar again.
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August 6th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: ‘SABOTAGE’ OF TRASH BID ALLEGED
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RED BANK: Shehady, citing "suspicious" Zipprich email echoed by a hauler's letter, warns of effort to "sabotage" trash contract bid process.
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August 5th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: With borough about to award its second private trash collection contract, here's a chance for residents to weigh in on pickup frequency.
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July 28th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: TALKING TRASH, AND RECYCLING
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RED BANK: After five years of private trash collection, borough plans to survey residents and businesses about garbage and recycling pickups.
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June 11th, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: DPU UPDATES PICKUP SCHEDULES
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RED BANK: Can't remember when to put out recycling or brush for pickup? Borough DPU posts a new downloadable schedule for 2019.
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March 6th, 2019 @ 12pm
ON THE GREEN: NEW RECYCLING RULES
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ON THE GREEN: New rules concerning plastic bags used to hold recyclables for curb pickup kicking in locally, thanks to China.
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June 21st, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: EATERIES SPOTLIGHT STRAWS
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RED BANK: To spotlight the environmental impact of plastic drinking straws, eight restaurants agree to give them only to customers who ask this month.
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December 8th, 2017 @ 8am
Residents will now be able to put their bulk waste out with regular household trash once a week. But there are rules. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "RED BANK: WEEKLY BULK PICKUPS OK’D"
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November 24th, 2015 @ 6am
Mountains of household waste, like this one seen on Bridge Avenue in 2011, may become less common in Red Bank soon. The borough council, having privatized regular trash pickup twoContinue reading "RED BANK: BULK PICKUPS MAY GO WEEKLY"
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November 11th, 2015 @ 10am
RED BANK: CRUSHING IT DOWNTOWN
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New to the Red Bank business district: solar-powered trash compactors paired with recycling bins, which RiverCenter executive director Jim Scavone says should help reduce spillage by holding five times theContinue reading "RED BANK: CRUSHING IT DOWNTOWN"
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October 19th, 2015 @ 6am
Boris Kofman, above, and Michael Paul Raspanti, below, during Saturday’s riverfront cleanup on Red Bank’s West Side. (Photos by Wil Fulton, above, and Sarah Klepner. Click to enlarge) By SARAH KLEPNERContinue reading "RED BANK: REMOVING ‘CRAP’ LEFT BY OTHERS"
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April 30th, 2013 @ 7am
SECOND ‘MOUNTAIN’ PILES UP MEMORIES
A passerby eyes debris in the Anchorage Beach parking lot, above, while a mountain of it dominates the former Peninsula House lot, below. (Photo by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge)Continue reading "SECOND ‘MOUNTAIN’ PILES UP MEMORIES"
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December 10th, 2012 @ 7am
SPRING BLOOMS IN BULK ON WEST SIDE
Mountains of household waste line Bridge Avenue, above, and Shrewsbury Avenue, below, as seasonal bulk waste pickups resumed in Red Bank Thursday morning. (Click to enlarge) Ah, the smell ofContinue reading "SPRING BLOOMS IN BULK ON WEST SIDE"
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April 14th, 2011 @ 11am
Plans for the demolition of Red Bank’s idle incinerator stack are moving ahead, with work expected to begin as early as Monday,  borough engineer Christine Ballard tells redbankgreen. In aContinue reading "STACK MAY COME DOWN MONDAY"
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September 22nd, 2009 @ 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 ...