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RED BANK REGIONAL SPORTS UPDATE: HOOPS, SWIMMING HOCKEY IN FULL SWING
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Red Bank Regional sees strong start for hoops, swimming, winter track as hockey program grows. (Click to read)
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January 9th @ 1pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Do you know where this photo was taken? Play the weekly "Where Have I Seen This?" and get the answer to last week's photo.
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January 9th @ 8am
RED BANK: A REMINDER FROM ARTISTS, THAT UKRAINE FIGHTS ON
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A show featuring three Ukrainian artists living in New Jersey opens in Red Bank this weekend. (Click to read)
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January 8th @ 4pm
RED BANK BANK PAYS BANK FOR BANK
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Red Bank based Ocean First Bank announces $500 million purchase of Long Island based bank. (click to read)
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January 7th @ 11am
RED BANK: MASKED FEDERAL AGENTS NAB WOMAN
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Masked men believed to be federal agents in unmarked cars nabbed at least one person in Red Bank. (click to read)
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January 6th @ 2pm
RED BANK: DEVELOPER BUYS CHARTER SCHOOL PROPERTIES
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With a 45-unit building rising on Monmouth Street, developer buys more property right next door. (Click to read)
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January 6th @ 7am
RED BANK COUNCIL: NEW FIRE CHIEF, NEW COUNCILMAN MEMBER, SAME OLD HARMONY
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Red Bank council swears in new member and new fire chiefs at annual reorganization meeting. (click to read)
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January 2nd @ 12pm
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Do you know where this photo was taken? Play the weekly "Where Have I Seen This?" and get the answer to last week's photo.
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January 2nd @ 8am
SMOKE PROMPTS EVACUATION
Red Bank Fire Department crews descended on the West Side Lofts building on Bridge Avenue to investigate thick smoke in the hallways at around 6:20 pm New Year’s Eve. TheContinue reading "SMOKE PROMPTS EVACUATION"
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December 31st, 2025 @ 7pm
GUSTS TOPPLE CRAPPER
High winds toppled a porta potty at a Red Bank construction site Tuesday.
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December 31st, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: PASTOR CHARGED WITH SEX ASSAULT OF JUVENILE
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Pastor charged with assaulting a juvenile parishoner during his years leading a church in Red Bank. (Click to read)
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December 30th, 2025 @ 8am
CHRISTMAS DAY SURPRISE
What to my wondering eyes? Kids on Herbert Street may have been asking themselves that question when a Red Bank native suddenly appeared in this old neighborhood with a trunkfulContinue reading "CHRISTMAS DAY SURPRISE"
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December 29th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: WINTER STORM WARNING, PARKING BAN IN EFFECT
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With a winter storm warning in effect, Red Bank issues on-street parking ban. (Click to read)
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December 26th, 2025 @ 9am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Do you know where this photo was taken? Play the weekly "Where Have I Seen This?" and get the answer to last week's photo.
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December 26th, 2025 @ 8am
Red Bank Hosts Annual Santa Drop Celebration
That red glow in this photo is not from Rudolph’s nose. It’s from a Red Bank fire truck. Red Bank Fire Department’s Navesink Hook & Ladder and West Side HoseContinue reading "Red Bank Hosts Annual Santa Drop Celebration"
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December 23rd, 2025 @ 7pm
CAR FANS IN GLOBAL FRENZY TO SAVE RED BANK JUNKMAN’S TRANS AM
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On three continents, fans of the rare Macho Trans Am car are freaking out after one was unearthed in a junk-filled Red Bank back yard. (Click to read)
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December 23rd, 2025 @ 6pm
RED BANK GIFT GUIDE: HOLIDAY EXPRESS COFFEE
A new seasonal feature from redbankgreen featuring holiday gift ideas from local Red Bank shops and businesses. (Click to read)
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December 23rd, 2025 @ 8am
RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
redbankgreen Partyliner Jen Singer captured a stunning photo of a rainbow over the Navesink River Friday afternoon.
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December 22nd, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: DARLENE LOVE, SMITHEREENS GET BASIE CENTER HONORS
Legendary artists Darlene Love and The Smithereens inducted to the Count Basie Center for the Arts Walk of Fame. (Click to read)
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December 22nd, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK GIFT GUIDE: BASIE CENTER SHIRTS, HOODIES, GEAR
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A new seasonal feature from redbankgreen featuring holiday gift ideas from local Red Bank shops and businesses. (Click to read)
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December 19th, 2025 @ 1pm
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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 ...