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Monthly Archives: March 2024

RED BANK: NJAG FINDS McCONNELL VIOLATED ETHICS, SHOULD BE ‘TERMINATED’
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RED BANK: Attorney General slams McConnell for "unethical behavior" regarding unidentified officer – who redbankgreen has learned is his spouse.
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March 15th, 2024 @ 4pm
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CORNED BEEF AND DISCO FRIES?
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It’s Friday, and smart Lent-observing Leprechauns know the pot of gold at the end of Red Bank’s rainbow is actually the delicious fried flounder sandwich served up at The RedContinue reading "CORNED BEEF AND DISCO FRIES?"
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March 15th, 2024 @ 9am
RED BANK: DOWNTOWN PARKLET PLAN GETS THUMBS UP
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RED BANK: There will soon be a new outdoor place to chill downtown: a "parklet" at Monmouth and Broad Streets.
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March 15th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: CRIME & ARREST REPORTS
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RED BANK: Police blotter includes reported thefts of gas, porch package; arrests for sex assaults, DWI and holding "over six ounces" of pot.
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March 15th, 2024 @ 5am
RED BANK: AID CUTS REKINDLE CHARTER DEBATE
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RED BANK: School district again decries double whammy of state funding cuts and forking over millions to charter school.
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March 14th, 2024 @ 1pm
RED BANK: PBA NOW “CONFIDENT” IN OFFICIALS
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RED BANK: PBA president says union is again "confident" in police and borough leadership after AG "sustains" its complaints about McConnell.
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March 14th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: K9S TO RETIRE FROM FORCE
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RED BANK: Hunter and Eko, the four-legged members of the police K9 unit, will retire this month after years of "faithful exemplary service."
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March 13th, 2024 @ 7am
SURFBOARD DITCHED
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It’s a violation of etiquette in surfing to ditch your board.  (it could hit another surfer and hurt them). But someone appears to have ditched theirs into an actual ditch.Continue reading "SURFBOARD DITCHED"
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March 12th, 2024 @ 3pm
RED BANK: WAS SICKLES SUNK BY EXPANSION?
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RED BANK: A failed expansion by Sickles Market to the Anderson building here may have torpedoed its 116-year-old Little Silver business.
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March 12th, 2024 @ 11am
LITTLE SILVER: SICKLES MARKET CLOSES
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LITTLE SILVER: Four weeks after abruptly pulling the plug on its Red Bank expansion, 116-year-old Sickles Market here also has closed.
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March 11th, 2024 @ 6pm
LITTLE SILVER: OUTAGE CLOSES RBR
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LITTLE SILVER: Power outage prompts early dismissal and event cancellations at RBR as wind knocks hundreds offline.
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March 11th, 2024 @ 1pm
RED BANK: SPEED LIMIT RADAR SIGNS POSTED
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RED BANK: New radar-equipped speed limit signs tell speeders to slow down on two borough streets – and thank law-abiders.
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March 11th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: RBC TAKES GIRLS HOOPS CROWN
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RED BANK: Red Bank Catholic girls hoops win state championship. Check out video highlights of the big win.
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March 9th, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: TOWN’S 10 WORST INTERSECTIONS?
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RED BANK: What's the most hair-raising intersection in our town? Here's a list of those with the most crashes.
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March 8th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: SALE CLOSES RED TANK’S TAPS
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RED BANK: After five years of operation, Red Tank Brewing closed this week following sale to a Bergen County microbrewery.
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March 7th, 2024 @ 8am
ELSIE, TAKE ME WITH YOU!
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Soaked by pouring rain with the temperature hovering in the low 40’s, this sign in the window of Elsie’s Subs on Monmouth Street conjures up daydream notions of chowing downContinue reading "ELSIE, TAKE ME WITH YOU!"
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March 6th, 2024 @ 6pm
RED BANK: TENNIS/PICKLEBALL COURTS SIGNUPS LAUNCHED
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RED BANK: Online reservation system launched for fresh new pickleball courts.
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March 5th, 2024 @ 4pm
RED BANK: SCHOOLS EYE “DEVASTATING” STATE AID CUTS
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RED BANK: Borough schools face cutbacks if a proposed massive cut in state aid is not restored.
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March 5th, 2024 @ 11am
RED BANK: HAIR SALON CLOSES
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RED BANK: A mainstay of the downtown health-and-beauty sector for a dozen years has closed its doors.
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March 5th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: GANT PUTS McCONNELL ON LEAVE
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RED BANK: Borough manager puts McConnell on administrative leave eight months after union allegations delayed chief's plan to retire.
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March 4th, 2024 @ 8am
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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 ...