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RED BANK: TOWER HILL VAN FIRE
Red Bank Fire Department extinguishes van fire as distraught driver looks on. (click to read)
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June 12th, 2025 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK 5K, BIKE BLESSING TOP WEEKEND SLATE
Two big annual events - the Red Bank Classic 5k and Pilgrim Baptist Church's Community Festival top the slate for a jam packed Red Bank weekend. (click to read)
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June 12th, 2025 @ 10am
PLANNING BOARD OK’S RED BANK TRAIN STATION REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
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Red Bank train station development plan gets Planning Board approval after being scaled back from 400 to about 351 apartments. (click to read)
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June 11th, 2025 @ 11pm
HOME RUNS EQUAL HEADACHES FOR RED BANK AUTO SHOP
From dingers to dings: Red Bank auto shop says home runs are wreaking havoc on cars parked on its lot. (click to read)
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June 11th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: WATER SUPPLY SWITCH MAKES THINGS MURKY
Residents report tinted water in recent days as officials cite a yearly water supply switch for churning things up. (click to read)
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June 10th, 2025 @ 2pm
RED BANK: TRAIN STATION PLAN SHAVES ONE FLOOR OFF BUILDING HEIGHT
RED BANK: TRAIN STATION PLAN SHAVES ONE FLOOR OFF BUILDING HEIGHT
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Red Bank planners shave one floor off the maximum building height and make other tweaks to the massive train station redevelopment plan. (click to read)
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June 9th, 2025 @ 3pm
CHECK OUT THESE COOL PLEIN AIR PAINTINGS OF RED BANK
Plein air artists fanned out across Red Bank last week to quickly capture the town on canvas. Here are some of their works. (click to view)
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June 6th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: PRIDE CELEBRATION TOPS WEEKEND
The word "Love" is painted in the grass at Riverside Gardens Park and the flag is raised as Red Bank prepares for its annual Pride celebration. (click to read)
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June 6th, 2025 @ 12pm
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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June 6th, 2025 @ 7am
NO LEFT TURN? RED BANK PLANS CHANGES AT SKETCHY INTERSECTION
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Red Bank moves to ban a left turn and install a pedestrian island at one of its most notoriously sketchy intersections. (click to read)
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June 5th, 2025 @ 10pm
RED BANK: MR. FOREST GOES TO THE MASONIC LODGE
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A mixup or miscommunication leaves an affable councilman alone in the hot seat at a community meeting. (click to read)
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June 3rd, 2025 @ 5pm
AS LUXURY BUILDINGS RISE, RED BANK’S “MISSING MIDDLE” DISAPPEARS
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As Red Bank builds more affordable housing and luxury units/million-dollar condos rise by the hundreds, where will people in the middle live? (click to read)
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June 2nd, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK: BOROUGH OFFICIALS PLAN “COMMUNITY CONVERSATION”
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Borough of Red Bank plans community meeting to discuss "borough efforts, projects, roads, parks, public safety, and more." (click to read)
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June 1st, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: FC MONMOUTH WOMEN’S SOCCER GOES BACK TO BACK
FC MONMOUTH WOMENS SOCCER 2025
Red Bank's semipro women's soccer team opens its home season with two games at Count Basie Field this weekend. (click to read)
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May 31st, 2025 @ 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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May 30th, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: THEATER SCHOOL MARKS 20 YEARS AS “SANCTUARY” FOR KIDS
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Red Bank: A theatre school for young actors celebrates 20 years as a "sanctuary" where kids can find a sense of belonging. (click to read)
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May 29th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: EMILY DOHERTY, 41-YEAR RBR BOARD MEMBER DIES
Emily Doherty, who represented Red Bank for 41 years on the Red Bank Regional Board of Education died recently. (click to read)
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May 29th, 2025 @ 10am
RED BANK HONORS THE FALLEN
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Several hundred gathered to honor the nation's war dead at Red Bank's annual Memorial Day ceremony. (click to read)
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May 26th, 2025 @ 8pm
RED BANK: HOMETOWN HEROES, WAR DEAD TO BE HONORED MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
Red Bank: Hometown heroes barbecue and Memorial Day ceremony on tap for holiday weekend. (click to read)
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May 23rd, 2025 @ 3pm
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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May 23rd, 2025 @ 7am
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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 ...