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PIPE WORK CLOSES MONMOUTH STREET
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Monmouth Street closed for pipe work.
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December 2nd, 2025 @ 3pm
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RED BANK: RIVERFRONT CONDO PLAN GETS AIRING
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Forty condos are proposed for a riverfront parking lot in Red Bank. The nascent plan got a vibe check at a special public meeting Monday night. (click to read)
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December 2nd, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: FUND DRIVES FOR FIRE VICTIMS
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Fund drives are underway to assist two Red Bank familles who lost their homes to fire last week. (Click to read)
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December 2nd, 2025 @ 11am
HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: ‘RED BANK TWIST’ CHOCOLATES
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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 2nd, 2025 @ 7am
NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE
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…Needs a bassist. Old skool flyer posted on a doorway on West Front Street. Submitted by Brian Donohue
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December 1st, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK: PUBLIC MEETING FOR WATERFRONT SITE PLAN
News 14 townhomes and two cottages on the block bounded by Harding and Hudson Avenues and Clay Street.
A special public meeting Monday on a plan that would pave the way for 40 apartments on the Navesink River. (Click to read.)
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December 1st, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: EVIL CLOWN 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 1st, 2025 @ 6am
A MOST WONDERFUL NIGHT: RED BANK TOWN LIGHTING DELIGHTS (VIDEO)
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Thousands dance away the wind chills for Red Bank's annual Town Lighting. (Video and photos)
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November 29th, 2025 @ 7am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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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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November 28th, 2025 @ 5am
WHEN DUTY CALLS
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Still soaked from hose water and covered in soot, Red Bank firefighter Jim Erving walk his dog Dusty, who had to wait in the car while Erving and other firefighters battled a house fire Monday. (Click for more.)
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November 25th, 2025 @ 5pm
RED BANK: HOLIDAYS KICK OFF WITH BLIZZARD OF EVENTS
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Red Bank kicks off the holiday season with the annual town lighting, an open art studio event and more. (Click for all the details)
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November 25th, 2025 @ 4pm
“DINNER CHURCH” HOSTS THANKSGIVING FEAST
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The Feast at First Baptist Church held their annual Thanksgiving meal for the community Sunday, with more than 30 volunteers serving a feast for 150 people.
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November 25th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK CAMEOS IN NETFLIX THRILLER
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Actor Claire Danes tosses a brick through the window of a Red Bank storefront in a scene from the new Netflix thriller “The Beast in Me.” As we reported lastContinue reading "RED BANK CAMEOS IN NETFLIX THRILLER"
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November 24th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: FIRE RIPS THROUGH TWO FAMILY HOME
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Two families are displaced as fire tears through a Red Bank duplex. (Click to read)
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November 24th, 2025 @ 2pm
“JOHN POO” FOR RED BANK COUNCIL? SOME VOTERS WROTE IN OTHER OPTIONS
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Various Red Bank residents, celebrities and cartoon characters garnered more than two percent of the vote in the recent council election. Take a look at the write-in tally. (click to read)
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November 24th, 2025 @ 8am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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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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November 21st, 2025 @ 8am
WITH 28 STRAIGHT WINS, RED BANK’S 9U FOOTBALL TEAM SEEKS TITLE
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A Red Bank 9U football team that has not lost in three years is one win away from a prestigious national tourney bid. (Click to read)
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November 20th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK: ICE, FBI RAMP UP ARRESTS
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Federal agents have arrested several people over three straight weekends in Red Bank. Details on who and how many people have been detained are scarce. (Click to read)
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November 20th, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK: ZONERS TO CONSIDER PLAN FOR 14 APARTMENTS
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A Holmdel builder will ask the Red Bank Zoning board for variances to build 14 apartments on the site of a former funeral home. (click to read)
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November 19th, 2025 @ 7pm
REDBANKGREEN NAMED “LOCAL NEWS BRIGHT SPOT”
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redbankgreen is named one of twelve "Local News Bright Spots" in the U.S. by Northwestern University's journalism school. (click to read)
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November 18th, 2025 @ 11am
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PIANO TRASHED
Left out to take at 83 River Street. Property owner is a touring musician. Studio and home. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris H ...
FALL COLORS IN RED BANK
redbankgreen's Partyline captures peaking fall foliage on a Red Bank street corner.
FALL AT THE COURTS OF RED BANK
On the Partyline: stunning foliage at Red Bank's "medieval office park."
WALK FOR DEMOCRACY
The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center led a "Walk for Democracy" Sunday from Riverside Gardens Park to the cultral center on Drs. James Park ...
Go big or go home
On the redbankgreen Partyline: Gourd display at Lighthouse on its penultimate night of the season.
MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
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