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RED BANK: PARKS SHUT DOWN & BARRICADED
RED BANK: Parks shut down and barricaded off as borough implements controversial closure over COVID-19 concerns. Fair Haven's and Little Silver's remain open.
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RED BANK: BOROUGH SHUTS DOWN PARKS
RED BANK: Following Murphy shutdown of state and county parks, borough does same, citing "non-compliance with social distancing directives."
RED BANK: PUBLIC PROJECTS ADVANCING
RED BANK: What's Going On Here with these borough projects? Updates on Bellhaven Natural Area, Eastside Park and parking meter replacement.
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.
RED BANK: MENNA BLASTS HEALTH ‘RUMORS’
RED BANK: Menna blasts Burnham for false "rumors" about his health and Shehady tees her up for "blatant lies" about his health and whereabouts.
ON THE GREEN: VIRUS UPDATES
ON THE GREEN: Latest COVID-19 updates in the Red Bank area include train schedules, a virtual tip jar for restaurant and bar workers, and a scam alert.
VIRUS UPDATE: CASE NUMBER RISES
VIRUS UPDATE: Monmouth County has 11 more COVID-19 cases and another death as statewide pandemic total climbs again, Murphy Administration reported Thursday.
RED BANK: SHEHADY COVID-19 POSITIVE
RED BANK: Borough Business Administrator Ziad Shehady tests positive for COVID-19 and tells redbankgreen his symptoms were no worse than a common cold.
RED BANK: Borough shutting down public access to all buildings over COVID-19. Court cases to be rescheduled; trash and recyclables pickups unaffected.
RED BANK: PATIO WORK UNDONE ON PARK JOB
RED BANK: Yet another setback on the delay-plagued Eastside Park restroom installation, this time involving the patio deck. What's Going On Here?
RED BANK: DEP EXPANDS GARDEN SOIL TESTS
RED BANK: What's Going On since community garden shutdown over contamination concerns? Tests that could involve properties hundreds of feet away.
RED BANK: BRAKES TAPPED ON METERING PLAN
RED BANK: Council slows controversial plan to extend paid-parking enforcement to 10pm and will revisit the issue next month.
RED BANK: EXTENDED METERING ON AGENDA
RED BANK: Council to take up proposal to extend meter enforcement by four hours, to 10 p.m. Here's what else may be coming on the parking issue.
RED BANK: BELLHAVEN OIL TANK YANKED
RED BANK: What's Going On Here? Environmental cleanup underway at Bellhaven Natural Area, which is slated to get a playground and observation deck.
RED BANK: STREET AND LOT CHANGES AIRED
RED BANK: Officials air plans for White Street streetscape makeover and upgrades to adjoining lot, where massive development was envisioned two years ago.
RED BANK: OILY MESS NEAR EASTSIDE PARK
RED BANK: Two tractor-trailers delivering roof sections of the new Eastside Park restrooms collided Tuesday, leaving an oily trail half a mile long.
RED BANK: STALLS READY TO BE INSTALLED
RED BANK: What's Going On Here at Eastside Park, where prefab building modules were being assembled Tuesday? Click to find out.
RED BANK: WHITE STREET MAKEOVER ON DECK
RED BANK: Borough to hold information/public input session on plan for angled parking and White Street streetscape makeover.
RED BANK: A study of traffic at 19 downtown intersections is on the agenda for council's workshop meeting Wednesday. Also: a ban on mass balloon releases.
RED BANK: New Year brings personnel changes to borough hall, including the hiring of a confidential executive assistant to the business administrator.
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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 ...