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BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Center for the Arts - directly across from the Red Bank Police Department headquarters. 
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June 30th @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK ADDS WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY FOR BIG USA MATCH
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Red Bank adds a fourth World Cup watch party for Wednesday's United States vs. Bosnia Herzogovina match. (Click to read)
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June 30th @ 8am
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival Sunday.
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June 29th @ 8am
MASKED ICE AGENTS ARREST MEN IN RED BANK
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Teams of masked federal agents in unmarked cars arrested an unknown number of people in Red Bank Sunday morning. Video shows men fleeing from agents on Shrewsbury Avenue before one is caught and detained. (Click to read)
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June 28th @ 7pm
VIDEO: TOUR THE DRAMATIC REMAKE OF RED BANK’S MARINE PARK
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A video walk-through of Red Bank's dramatically remade Marine Park on the Navesink River. (Click to read)
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June 27th @ 6pm
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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June 26th @ 7am
INSIDE THE FAIR HAVEN/RED BANK REGIONAL PARKING SPAT
Ninety pages of emails reveal a long simmering dispute that led to Fair Haven's controversial decision to ban on street parking for Red Bank Regional High School graduation. (Click to read)
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June 25th @ 2pm
RED BANK: NEW RULES, NEW GARDEN HELP NATIVE PLANT EFFORTS BLOOM
A new native plant garden and an ordinance requiring native plants in major developments could boost butterfly fortunes in Red Bank. (click to read)
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June 24th @ 2pm
“DROOLING PIANOS” SHOW LATEST IN RED BANK COMIC’S 25-YEAR RUN
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Red Bank comedian Chris Covert discusses a 25-year-career, why he still works in a deli, and his upcoming show at The Vogel. (Click to read)
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June 22nd @ 6pm
RED BANK: OWNER SEEKS TO CONNECT TWO HOMES, BUILD SIX APARTMENTS
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Owner of two lower Broad Street Victorians seeks to build a bridge connecting them and a six-unit apartment building behind them. (Click to read)
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June 21st @ 4pm
RED BANK GRAFFITI JAM FILLS PARK WITH ART AND COLOR
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Photos from Red Bank's first ever graffiti jam event. (click to read)
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June 21st @ 9am
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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June 19th @ 4am
FAIR HAVEN BANS PARKING FOR RED BANK REGIONAL GRADUATION
Fair Haven bans parking on streets near Red Bank Regional High School for graduation day. The school superintendent calls it "retribution." (Click to read)
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June 17th @ 9pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL OK’S ADUs, SMALL HOTELS. DATA CENTERS, VAPE SHOPS BANNED
In: backyard cottages and boutique hotels. Out: data centers, vape shops and strict parking rules for small businesses. Red Bank Council revamps planning laws. (Click to read)
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June 13th @ 1pm
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 12th @ 8am
RED BANK: BORO LAUNCHES WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY SERIES
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First of three World Cup watch parties in Red Bank set for Thursday's Mexico vs. South Africa matchup. (Click to read)
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June 10th @ 2pm
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
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June 10th @ 10am
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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June 5th @ 6am
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.
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June 4th @ 12pm
RED BANK: BORO MANAGER GANT GETS ANOTHER 3 YEARS
Red Bank Borough Manager Jim Gant gets a new three-year contract. (Click to read)
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June 4th @ 11am
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
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 ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
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 ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
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 tr ...
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.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.