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RED BANK: SUMMER STORMS SOAK THE GREEN
RED BANK: Thunderstorms soaked the Greater Green Wednesday afternoon, with more to come in the closing hours of July, 2019, NWS forecasts.
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RED BANK: Journalists spotlight former home of one of their predecessors, T. Thomas Fortune, as a story "that needs to be told.''
RED BANK: INTERPRETERS TO AID POLICE
RED BANK: In what may be a New Jersey first, police department assembles a team of volunteer interpreters to help bridge language gaps with the public.
LINCROFT: Curchin Open, a mini-golf tournament held each autumn in a CPA office, has named its two beneficiaries for 2019.
SHREWSBURY: The latest crime and arrest blotter from borough police.
RED BANK: COUNCIL KILLS PARKING PLAN
RED BANK: After getting an earful about proposed alternate-side parking law, council votes to kill it. Menna says a "reasonable" alternative will be sought.
RED BANK: REDEV AGENCY INCHES AHEAD
RED BANK: New Redevelopment Agency, with potential to exert enormous power over borough's future, inches toward goal of fixing municipal facilities.
FAIR HAVEN: OUTAGES LINGER AFTER STORM
FAIR HAVEN: Power remained out for hundreds of customers on the Greater Green as cleanup got underway following Tuesday's brief, intense thunderstorm.
RED BANK: STORM LEAVES POWER OUTAGES
RED BANK: A brief, intense thunderstorm blew a tree down onto an apartment building and left numerous power outages across the Greater Green.
RED BANK: WHAT’S ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA?
RED BANK: The borough council has street-sweeping, green roofs, single-use plastics and cranes on its plate when it meets this week. Details here.
RED BANK: AFTER BRUTAL HEAT, T-STORMS?
RED BANK: After a brutally hot weekend, the Greater Green could see thunderstorms with "excessive rainfall" Monday. Here's the detailed forecast.
RED BANK: EXCESSIVELY HOT WEEKEND AHEAD
RED BANK: Greater Green braces for excessive heat through weekend with feels-like temperature well above 100 expected. Forecast and tips.
RED BANK: HPC AIMS TO SAVE DOOMED HOUSE
RED BANK: Five months after planning board OKs demolition of hospital-owned Victorian house, historic commission proposes an alternative.
RED BANK: BRICK-OVEN CONDITIONS EXPECTED
RED BANK: Dangerous heat and thunderstorms dominate the forecast through the coming weekend. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
RED BANK: SAXUM TRAFFIC Q&A DELAYED
RED BANK: With traffic the biggest issue surrounding Saxum's plan for old VNA site, many questions are deferred to next planning board session.
RED BANK: HOT ENOUGH TO FRY/BOIL/POACH…
RED BANK: Temperatures expected to climb through Saturday, with possible T-storms midweek. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
SHREWSBURY: The latest crime and arrest blotter from borough police.
RED BANK: RESTAURANTS FEED THE CHURN
RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, two new restaurants prepare to open, two others close their doors and five shops get a new landlord.
RED BANK: LONG-VACANT BUILDING GETS TLC
RED BANK: A long-vacant building that might be key to a Broad-to-the-river project is suddenly getting some TLC. What's Going On Here?
RED BANK: NEW TRACK, NEW DEAL FOR BASIE
RED BANK: Count Basie Fields is getting a new track, and the borough has a new deal with Red Bank Catholic to help pay for it.
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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.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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 ...