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RED BANK HOUSING AUTHORITY EYES NEW SENIOR APTS. SITE
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Public housing agency hires a builder to design a new 54-apartment building that would replace an aging Red Bank senior citizen complex. (click to read)
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July 22nd @ 2pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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SEARCHING FOR PARKING IN RED BANK, FOR 100 YEARS
Red Bank business owners frustrated by a lack of parking proposed new rules and parking lots - 100 years ago this week. (Click to read)
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July 21st @ 5pm
HOW SAFE DO YOU FEEL? RED BANK SEEKS INPUT ON PEDESTRIAN/BIKE SAFETY
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How safe do you feel walking or biking in Red Bank? The Borough wants your input in a new survey. (Click to read)
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July 21st @ 8am
RED BANK: DEVELOPERS WITHDRAW SHREWSBURY AVE APARTMENT PLAN, FOR NOW
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Developers withdrew a plan to build 14 new apartments on Shrewsbury Avenue before the Zoning Board on Thursday night, opting to revise their designs. (Click to read)
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July 17th @ 2pm
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street as temperatures soared into the 90's this week.
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July 17th @ 11am
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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July 17th @ 8am
RED BANK: SCHOOL OF ROCK CLOSES WITH WALLS CRUMBLING DOWN
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RED BANK: School of Rock closes Red Bank location as building is deemed unsafe. (Click to read)
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July 15th @ 5pm
RED BANK: 14 APARTMENT PLAN GOES TO ZONING BOARD
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Red Bank Zoning Board will decide whether to approve 14 garden apartments on Shrewsbury Avenue. (Click to read)
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July 14th @ 5pm
RED BANK: CAMPINESS AND COMMUNITY AT ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
redbankgreen goes behind the curtain to find raucous camp and welcoming community at Red Bank's long-running production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. (Click to read).
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July 14th @ 8am
RED BANK: FUND DRIVE FOR FIRE VICTIMS
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A family of five displaced when a fire tore through their Chestnut Street home last week is getting help from a GoFundMe campaign set up to help get them back on their feet. (click to read)
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July 13th @ 11am
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank Saturday and Sunday.
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July 13th @ 8am
RED BANK: B-52’s LAND ON BASIE WALK OF FAME
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B-52s founders and fellow NJ native alt-rockers Dramarama are honored with plaques on the Basie Center walk of fame. (Click to read)
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July 10th @ 7pm
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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July 10th @ 8am
RED BANK: YOUTH MARCH AGAINST IMMIGRATION ARRESTS
As ICE crackdowns continue in Red Bank, a group of protestors as young as six years old took to the streets. (Click to read)
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July 9th @ 7pm
RED BANK: PLANNERS PAN “DEPRESSING” TRAIN STATION PROJECT PLANS
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Red Bank planning board expresses fifty shades of dismay as builder presents "Darth Vader" grey facade for 175-unit building near train station. (Click to read)
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July 9th @ 6pm
RED BANK: FIRE RIPS THROUGH CHESTNUT STREET HOME
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Two families were displaced after firefighters battled an early morning blaze on Chestnut Street in Red BankThursday. (Click to read)
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July 9th @ 8am
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit train leaves the station Wednesday morning.
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July 8th @ 8pm
ICE SAYS IT TARGETED ASSAULT SUSPECT. RED BANK ARRESTS CONTINUE
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ICE breaks silence on June 28 arrests, detains more as Red Bank operations continue. (Click to read)
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July 8th @ 1pm
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
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July 7th @ 3pm
SEE THE PLANS FOR RED BANK TRAIN STATION PROJECT
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175 units and a woonerf: A look at the plans for The Rail North, the first phase of Red Bank's totally yooj train station redevelopment. (Click to read)
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July 7th @ 2pm
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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 ...