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BROAD STREET GETS LITTY
Turn up the sound to hear the crowd’s countdown to the annual tree lighting. 🎄🌟✨ Santa, The Grinch, a dog dressed as the Grinch, Tim McLoone and Holiday Express, aContinue reading "BROAD STREET GETS LITTY"
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RED BANK: THOUSANDS FILL STREETS FOR HOLIDAY CELEBRATION
Who wore it better: the Grinch or the dog dressed as the Grinch? Answer this question and warm your soul with photos galore from the 32nd annual Red Bank holiday town lighting bonanza.
SOGGY PICKLE
Several days after a rain, the new pickleball/tennis courts at East Side Park are still partially under water.  Partyline contributor Craig Dolan sent in this photo adding “Red Bank paysContinue reading "SOGGY PICKLE"
BLACK FRIDAY HITS JACK’S
It’s not even 8am and there’s a line outside of Jack’s Music Shoppe down to Starbucks. Music fans are parked there for “Record Store Day.” Details in Jack’s Instagram postContinue reading "BLACK FRIDAY HITS JACK’S"
RED BANK HOLIDAY SEASON BEGINS WITH HUGE WEEKEND
The 32nd annual town holiday lighting celebration, Santa leading a parade, models posing as mannequins, gift card giveaways, an art gallery walking tour and more. The Holiday Season begins with a blizzard of things to do this weekend - oh, and FREE PARKING! (click to read)
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👀 THANKSGIVING EVE FESTIVITIES IN FULL SWING
It wasn’t even 10PM and there was a packed house at Red Rock on Wharf Ave. Blocks away on Monmouth Street, an equally impressive line was building up at DublinContinue reading "👀 THANKSGIVING EVE FESTIVITIES IN FULL SWING"
EARLY THANKSGIVING AT ELSIE’S
Elsie’s Thanksgiving Sub is almost as iconic as Elsie’s itself. On special for $10.99. It even has the cranberry sauce.
CLERK WHO USHERED RED BANK THROUGH CHANGES CHECKS OUT
Borough Clerk Laura Reinertsen is departing after two and half years on the job. (click to read)
SOGGY THANKSGIVING ON TAP
A rainy Thanksgiving followed by the first true cold snap is in the forecast for the greater Red Bank area. (click to read)
RED BANK VS LONG BRANCH FOOTBALL: CLOCK EXPIRES ON THANKSGIVING TRADITION
Fans lament as the tradition of a Thanksgiving high school football game between Red Bank and Long Branch fades into history. (click to read)
MONDAY MORNING QB
The license plate frame on this car parked in a lot in town reflects the sentiment perhaps many who plan fantasy football feel on a November Monday morning. We wonderContinue reading "MONDAY MORNING QB"
RED BANK: NAVESINK DREDGING BEGINS
Dredging work to begin in the upper stretches of the Navesink River. (click to read)
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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RED BANK: ZONING BOARD NIXES DIGITAL BILLBOARD
Red Bank zoning board nixes a digital billboard proposal for town's gateway. (click to read)
RED BANK/RIVERVIEW SETTLEMENT: WINDFALL OR TAXPAYER HOSING?
Nine years. 54 tax appeals. $1.2 million plus. Did Red Bank get a good deal when it settled tax appeals with Riverview Medical Center?
BRING THAT SHEET RIGHT IN HERE
A construction worker waits while a crane sends a stack of sheet rock up to the third story of the new apartment building being built at 120 Monmouth Street. (photoContinue reading "BRING THAT SHEET RIGHT IN HERE"
RED BANK: BOROUGH ADDS “WONDER WEED” LECTURE TO WELLNESS CAMPAIGN
Borough adds cannabis lecture to Mayor's Wellness Campaign. (click to read)
COOKING OIL HEIST, EGGINGS, DWI’s ON OCTOBER POLICE REPORTS
RED BANK: Police blotter for October includes arrests for DWI and assault, criminal mischief and the theft of a $1,000 container of cooking oil. (click to read)
ELUSIVE SHADOW “MURAL” APPEARS
This pic is a little tricky because it only appears during a sunny day. It is next to 117 Monmouth St in an empty lot awaiting construction. The shadows castContinue reading "ELUSIVE SHADOW “MURAL” APPEARS"
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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 ...