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RED BANK : AMAZON TRUCK CARRIER CRASHES AT RAILROAD OVERPASS
Driver hauling an Amazon delivery truck crashes at Red Bank's West Front Street railroad overpass. (click for more)
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May 1st, 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: SCHOOL TAX HIKE TRIMMED TO 10 PERCENT
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A planned 13 percent hike in Red Bank school taxes is whittled down to ten percent by a last minute curveball from Trenton. (click to read)
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April 30th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: NEWSPAPER BUILDING FACADE RETURNS TO OLD GLORY
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Renovation restores the name of Red Bank's long-dead newspaper to the Broad Street building it called home for 71 years. (click to read)
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April 30th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: GET SET TO BOOGIE FOR COUNT BASIE
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It's boogie time, Red Bank! redbankgreen seeks video clips of residents dancing for an epic celebration honoring jazz icon William "Count" Basie.
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April 30th, 2025 @ 6am
“RED BANK’S READY” TEAM ANNOUNCES COUNCIL SLATE
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The team of candidates that swept Borough Council elections in 2023 announces who will run for four open seats in November. (click to read)
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April 29th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK’S DOWNTOWN FLOWER MAVEN DIES
Danielle Boyle, the gardener who beautified downtown Red Bank and likened her work to conducting an orchestra has died at age 54. (click to read)
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April 28th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK BUDGET STICKS TO TWO PERCENT TAX HIKE
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Red Bank officials unveil a 2025 budget that raises spending and borough taxes by two percent. (click to read)
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April 28th, 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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April 25th, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK WEEKEND: PIZZA FEST, STREET FAIR, ART OPENING, JAZZ BRUNCH ON TAP
Tons of things to do in Red Bank this weekend, from a "Spring Fever" art opening to a jazz brunch for charity and a street fair. Whew. (click to read)
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April 25th, 2025 @ 5am
MAILBOXES HEAD TO HISTORY’S SCRAP HEAP
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Sign of the digital age: mailboxes hauled away from Red Bank post office to storage.
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April 24th, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK PLANNERS TAP BRAKES ON TRAIN STATION PLAN
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Red Bank Planning Board delays vote on massive redevelopment plan to consider lower building heights and other changes. (click to read)
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April 24th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK PLAYWRIGHT MARKS DOUBLE-HEADER MILESTONE
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Red Bank native, college senior and playwright Faith King sees two of her works brought to life this week. (click to read)
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April 23rd, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK: TRAIN STATION PLAN UP FOR POSSIBLE VOTE
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Red Bank Planning Board to hold third round of hearings and possible vote on massive train station redevelopment plan. (click to read)
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April 23rd, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: FIRE DAMAGES MARION STREET HOME
Fire tears through a home on Marion Street in Red Bank. (click to read)
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April 22nd, 2025 @ 4pm
COURT UPHOLDS RED BANK POLICE CROSSWALK STING
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A drivers' attempt to fight a ticket issued during a police sting crashes and burns. Twice. (click to read)
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April 22nd, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK CHARTER SCHOOL SEEKS DUFFERS AND DONORS FOR GOLF OUTING
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School puts out the call for golfers and sponsors for May 2 Colts Neck outing. (click to read)
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April 21st, 2025 @ 10am
RED BANK SCHOOLS SEEK TAX HIKE TO COVER STATE AID CUTS
Squeezed by state aid cuts and skyrocketing costs, Red Bank Borough schools ask state to allow a 13 percent tax levy hike. (click to read)
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April 18th, 2025 @ 1pm
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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April 18th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: ZONING BOARD TO CONSIDER SHREWSBURY AVE APARTMENTS
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The Red Bank zoning board will consider a Holmdel developers plan to knock down two story home and build 14 garden apartments on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank. (click for more)
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April 16th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: CHARTER SCHOOL SCRAPS GYM PLAN, SELLING BUILDING
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The Red Bank Charter School is selling a building it had hoped to convert into a gym. (click to read)
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April 14th, 2025 @ 4pm
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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.
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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 ...