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HAZLET MAN ARRESTED FOR RED BANK SHOOTING
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Hazlet man arrested in Florida for a Dec. 7 shooting in Red Bank. (click to read)
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March 6th, 2025 @ 1pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: BOROUGH WEB SITE GETS NEW LOOK
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Borough of Red Bank redesigns its notoriously clunky web site. (click to read)
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March 5th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: VNA DEMOLITION BEGINS TO CLEAR WAY FOR APARTMENTS
What's going on here? Former VNA building is being reduced to rubble to make way for 212 apartment building. (click to read)
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March 4th, 2025 @ 8am
CAN WE COME IN? RED BANK LEAD WATER LINE PROJECT TO KNOCK ON DOORS
Red Bankers: Check the list to see if teams need to get inside your home to find the water shut off for the lead service line replacement project.(click to read)
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March 3rd, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK THROWBACK: RED BANK’S BOOZE LIMIT SET 90 YEARS AGO
A look back 90 years ago as Red Bank commissioners set a ceiling on liquor license that still stands today. (click to read)
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March 3rd, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: WATER MAIN BREAK CAUSES ROAD CLOSURES, PRESSURE DROP
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A water main break at Red Bank's water treatment facility on Chestnut Street is causing road closures and other headaches. (click to read)
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February 28th, 2025 @ 2pm
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
windward deli 254 Maple Avenue
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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February 28th, 2025 @ 6am
‘DUMB BOXES’ AND ‘TEXAS DONUTS’: TRAIN STATION PROJECT BRINGS DESIGN DEBATE TO RED BANK
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As Red Bank prepares to join the ranks of towns redeveloping around train stations we ask, "Why do all these buildings look like that?" (click to read)
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February 26th, 2025 @ 1pm
REPORT: RED BANK BUILDER DENHOLTZ AIMS HIGH WITH NEW BIZ MODEL, BIG PLANS
Red Bank train station zone developer Denholtz emerges as a private investment management firm, as new CEO tells business web site: "We want to be doing deals. Denholtz is ready to go.” Click to read.
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February 25th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: LIQUOR STORE GETS PARTIAL OK, BOARD SEEKS BIGGER SPRUCE-UP
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A Red Bank liquor store's plan to move to a larger location in a former mechanic shop on Shrewsbury Avenue gets a partial ok. (click to read)
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February 24th, 2025 @ 8am
APP REPORT: RED BANK REAL ESTATE FIRM FACES $12M FRAUD SUIT
Report: Red Bank real estate firm faces $12 million lawsuit from investors. (click to read)
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February 21st, 2025 @ 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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February 21st, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: ICE NABS SUSPECT POLICE SAY CLUBBED, DOUSED VICTIM IN GASOLINE
ICE agents say they've arrested the Salvadoran-born man police say clubbed a Red Bank neighbor over the head and doused him with gasoline. (click to read)
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February 20th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: BANK STREET JUNKER SUES OVER TOWED VEHICLES
Red Bank junker sues police-contracted towing company for the return of four vehicles and a trailer of lumber. It's the latest chapter in a two decade battle over the defacto junkyard. (click to read)
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February 20th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: LIQUOR STORE LOOKS TO MAKE IT A DOUBLE
204 Shrewsbury Avenue
Red Bank liquor store looks to double its space with a move across the street. (click to read)
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February 19th, 2025 @ 4pm
“GHETTO FOR THE RICH?” RED BANK COUNCIL TALKS PILOT PROS
Council talks train station PILOT, renews police-social worker contract and more. A full rundown of the people's business. (click to read)
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February 18th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK TRAIN STATION REDEVELOPMENT: HOW THE PROCESS WORKS
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Red Bank's train station redevelopment: where does it stand and when does the public get their say? (click to read)
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February 17th, 2025 @ 7am
TAP WATER TASTE SALTY? ROAD SALT, DROUGHT ARE CULPRITS, COMPANY SAYS
Does your water taste salty? Road salt may be to blame. (click to read)
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February 14th, 2025 @ 5pm
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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February 14th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS HOOPS CROWNED CHAMPS IN NAIL BITER
Red Bank Middle School girls basketball wins championship. redbankgreen has photos and video of the on court celebration.
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February 13th, 2025 @ 10pm
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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 ...