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RBR SOFTBALL, TRACK, BASEBALL, LACROSSE, GOLF, SPRING INTO ACTION
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Red Bank Regional High School Bucaneers softball, baseball, lacrosse, track and field off to strong starts. (click to read).
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April 14th, 2025 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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MAFIA BIG ARRESTED AT RED BANK CONDO AMID STATEWIDE DRAGNET
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Alleged top Mafia boss arrested in predawn raid of his downtown Red Bank condominium in statewide takedown that nabs 39 Lucchese members and associates. (click to read)
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April 11th, 2025 @ 4pm
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 11th, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK PLANNING BOARD GETS AN EARFUL ON TRAIN STATION PLAN
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Residents sound off on a plan that would allow up to 400 apartments, green space and 725 parking spaces near the Red Bank train station. (click to read)
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April 10th, 2025 @ 9am
THROWBACK: “DEAD BANK” TACKLES VACANT DOWNTOWN STOREFRONTS
A look back at April, 1990 when the Borough of Red Bank took action to address vacant storefronts that gave rise to the nickname "Dead Bank."
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April 9th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: NJ TRANSIT HAS BIG PLANS BUT FEWER RIDERS
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NJ Transit is planning a massive redevelopment of the Red Bank train station area amid a new reality few saw coming: 65 percent fewer train riders. (click to read)
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April 8th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: GALLERIA OWNER SEEKS OK FOR 40 APARTMENTS ON RIVERFRONT
14 townhomes and two cottages on the block bounded by Harding and Hudson Avenues and Clay Street.
Red Bank's building boom roars on as a developer proposes 40 units on the banks of the Navesink River. (click to read)
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April 7th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: 2,000 PROTEST TRUMP POLICIES
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Roughly 2,000 people joined a nationwide 50-state protest against Trump administration policies in Red Bank. (click to read)
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April 5th, 2025 @ 6pm
RED BANK: HISTORIC WALKING TOURS RETURN
Do you know your Red Bank history? Red Bank Public Library Historic Walking Tours resume this weekend. (click to read)
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April 4th, 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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April 4th, 2025 @ 6am
COMMUNITY RALLIES FOR RED BANK ROCKER WITH ALS
The Red Bank community, along with the rock 'n roll and comedy worlds, are rallying to support frontman and Jack's Music Shoppe clerk Tim Cronin's battle with ALS. (click to read)
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April 3rd, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: PROM GIVEAWAY DECKS OUT 135 FOR BIG NIGHT
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Lunch Break's annual prom giveaway decks out 135 local students for the big night. (click to read and see photos)
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April 2nd, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK BRUSH PICKUP RESUMES WITH NEW SCHEDULE
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Yard cleanup season's here and the Borough of Red Bank is resuming brush collection with a new schedule. Check out the map and details. (click to read).
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April 2nd, 2025 @ 7am
VIDEO: DEPUTIZED FOR WEDDINGS, BELOVED BUTCHER CARVES OUT CONTROVERSY WITH POWER GRAB
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Deputized by the mayor to help officiate amid a deluge of weddings, Red Bank butcher raises eyebrows as he turns Monmouth Meats into a political power center. Watch the exclusive redbankgreen video.
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April 1st, 2025 @ 6am
THE FUR AND THE FOG: RED BANK EGG HUNT IN PHOTOS
The fur and the fog: Red Bank's annual Spring Egg Hunt in photos. (click for more)
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April 1st, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: MONMOUTH STREET SIDEWALK PROJECT BEGINS
Three months of construction to replace and improve sidewalks begins on Monmouth Street in Red Bank this week. 
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March 31st, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: DRIVER CRASHES INTO UTILITY POLE, ROAD CLOSED
Drivers hits telephone pole in Red Bank, dangling wires closes county highway 520. (click to read)
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March 30th, 2025 @ 7am
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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March 28th, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: MARINE PARK REMAKE ZIPS FORWARD
Sunset corn hole by the Navesink, anyone? More details - from a hammock hangout to a food truck area - emerge in the plan to remake Red Bank's Marine Park. (click to read).
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March 27th, 2025 @ 8pm
RED BANK TRAIN STATION PLAN GETS AIRING
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A redevelopment plan that would guide the biggest project Red Bank has seen in more than a century gets its first public airing before a full council chamber at Borough Hall. (click to read)
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March 27th, 2025 @ 12am
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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 ...