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FAIR HAVEN: FAST-FOOD LAW NEEDS RE-DO
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FAIR HAVEN: The borough's ban on fast food restaurants, mistakenly dropped from the books, is no longer in effect, attorney says, so a new one is needed.
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May 14th, 2019 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: RED ROCK, SECRET STASH WIN OKS
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RED BANK: Red Rock Tap + Grill can add year-round dining space, and Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash can keep its window signage, planning board says.
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May 7th, 2019 @ 8am
FAIR HAVEN: FAST-FOOD LAW GOES M.I.A.
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FAIR HAVEN: New twist on hotly contested plan for a Dunkin' shop as resident discovers ban on fast food joints that "simply vanished" from borough records.
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April 30th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: HOUSING & MORE PACKS AGENDA
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RED BANK: On council agenda: affordable housing deal; parking change for dicey corner; small-bore zoning tweaks; new fines for false alarms; and more.
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April 23rd, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: HOTEL DELAY REQUEST REJECTED
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RED BANK: In a stunner, planning board rejects developer's request for an additional year to start building Hampton Inn, throwing project into uncertainty.
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April 16th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: DUNKIN’ CONTINUES SLOW DRIP
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RED BANK: Hearing resumes on proposed Dunkin' at Shell station as revised plan is unveiled and tempers flare over McKenna questions.
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March 22nd, 2019 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: HOUSING PLAN DRAWS FIRE
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FAIR HAVEN: Unveiled at a packed-room hearing, affordable housing plan draws ire for being "shoved down our throats."
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March 20th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: BUILDING CHANGES APPROVED
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RED BANK: Dramatic changes to the exterior of an office building on Chestnut Street win planning board OK in 10-minute hearing.
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March 5th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: BUILDING MAKEOVER PROPOSED
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RED BANK: An office building on Chestnut Street would get a dramatic makeover if proposed facade changes are approved by the planning board.
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February 27th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: GREEK FOOD, FLOWERS, ART & HAIR
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RED BANK: In Retail Churn, Greek restaurant replaces French bistro; flower shop opens; hair salon relocates; art gallery and sub shop coming.
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February 8th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR FOR POT SHOP
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RED BANK: Borough rejects its first application for a medical marijuana store over concern about law on proximity to schools.
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February 7th, 2019 @ 1pm
RED BANK: DOWNTOWN GETS FIRST TATTOOS
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RED BANK: Just three months after zone change allows tattoo parlors downtown, one has inked its first biceps and bellies with skulls and butterflies.
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January 17th, 2019 @ 5pm
RED BANK: Another food truck-turned-restaurant business gets a green light to open downtown, this one offering tacos and burritos.
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January 8th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: DUNKIN’ PLAN RAISES CONCERNS
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RED BANK: Hearing on proposed addition of Dunkin' Donuts to Shell station begins with a looming traffic question: what if it's really popular?
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January 4th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: ZONERS OPEN WITH BIG AGENDA
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RED BANK: Zoning board begins 2019 with two big projects: proposed expansion of a downtown building and the addition of a Dunkin' Donuts to the Shell station.
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January 3rd, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: CORNER BUILDING SOLD
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a high-visibility, long-vacant downtown building changes hands, and a jewelry store opens.
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December 21st, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: BANK CHURNS OUT, STATIONERY IN
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a new neighborhood grocery opens on the West Side and a vape shop opens downtown.
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December 14th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN WITHDRAWN
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RED BANK: Plan for a three-unit apartment building to replace a burned-out single family withdrawn amid objections by neighbors.
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December 7th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: PASTRIES TO FILL ‘CAKE BOSS’ SPOT
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, another pastry shop takes the Broad Street space vacated by Carlo's Bakery, of 'Cake Boss' fame.
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December 3rd, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: HIGHER VNA SITE DENSITY URGED
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RED BANK: Council moves to boost allowable density of VNA site to 90 units per acre, which would negate a planning board compromise reached last week.
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November 29th, 2018 @ 9am
Partyline
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 ...