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RED BANK: WEED RETAILER SNUFFS LAUNDROMAT PLAN
Marlton-based cannabis retailer that wanted to open a weed shop next door to a popular Red Bank Italian ice seller withdraws its application. (click to read)
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January 9th, 2025 @ 3pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK TRAFFIC ALERT: TWO DAY CLOSURE OF EAST FRONT STREET
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East Front Street to be closed at Riverview Plaza Thursday and Friday. Read on for the details and don't get caught in traffic.
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January 8th, 2025 @ 3pm
BUCS FLY HIGH: RED BANK REGIONAL TRACK, HOOPS, WRESTLING HIGHLIGHTS
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Red Bank Regional sports: New school records in pole vault and sprint relay,  a second straight boys hoops tourney win, and a 6-0 start for the girls hoops season.
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January 8th, 2025 @ 1pm
CHECK IT OUT: SEVEN REALLY COOL RED BANK MAPS
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What’s the noisiest spot in Red Bank? What’s the hottest? Do you know where the water coming from your tap comes from? Check out these seven cool data maps that explain the past, present and future of Red Bank. (click to read)
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January 8th, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK: POLICE TOW AWAY BANK STREET JUNK FLEET
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Red Bank Police tow five junk-laden vehicles owned by a man in a years long legal battle with the borough over the junkyard-like conditions at his home. (click to read)
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January 7th, 2025 @ 1pm
FLEETING BLANKET OF SNOW TURNS RED BANK WHITE
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redbankgreen took a walk in the snow to take in the sights so you didn't have to. Here's a flurry of photos with snarky/reflective captions taken around Red Bank from Monday's admittedly sad snowfall. (click)
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January 6th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK: HOSPITAL BALKS AT RIVERFRONT ACCESS LAW
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Riverview Medical Center plans a new parking lot overlooking the Navesink River but doesn't want to include a public access easement required by Red Bank ordinance. (click to read)
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January 6th, 2025 @ 8am
MR. PIZZA SLICE FOUNDER DIES, PROTEGE LOOKS TO BUY RED BANK EATERY
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Mr. Pizza Slice: as founder of beloved Red Bank eatery dies, the man he hired and taught seeks to carry on his legacy. (click to read)
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January 3rd, 2025 @ 12pm
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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January 3rd, 2025 @ 6am
AN OATH, AND A PLEA, FROM NEW RED BANK FIRE CHIEF
Red Bank swears in new fire chiefs with a plea for more volunteers. (click to read)
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January 2nd, 2025 @ 6am
PEDESTRIAN KILLED BY TRAIN NEAR RED BANK
Pedestrian killed by NJ Transit train near Red Bank on New Year's Eve.
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December 31st, 2024 @ 9pm
VIDEO: RIVER DREDGING STIRS UP SWEET SMELLS OF NAVESINK RIVER MUD
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Would the mud from the Navesink River make a good skin care product? Two separate dredging operations provide a chance to explore the potential of the stuff that's the source of a reporter's favorite smell.
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December 31st, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK MENORAH LIGHTING MONDAY
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Red Bank's annual menorah lighting scheduled for Monday night.
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December 30th, 2024 @ 10am
RED BANK: SATURDAY RECYCLABLE PICKUPS SCHEDULED
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Special recycling pickups scheduled in Red Bank over the holidays. (click to read)
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December 27th, 2024 @ 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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December 27th, 2024 @ 6am
MONTGOMERY TERRACE TREES REMOVED
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A row of tall oaks on Tilton Avenue are removed. (click to read)
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December 26th, 2024 @ 1pm
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM REDBANKGREEN
A holiday message from the journalism equivalent of George Bailey's "Wonderful old building and loan."
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December 24th, 2024 @ 3pm
BIKE DONATION BRINGS SMILES TO RED BANK KIDS
Twenty seven Red Bank Primary School students got shiny new bicycles just before the holidays thanks to a high school student and a charity set up in the name of a fallen 9-11 hero. (click for story and photos)
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December 23rd, 2024 @ 3pm
SINKHOLES SNARL PRE-HOLIDAY TRAFFIC IN RED BANK
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Two sinkholes. One narrow stretch of Route 35 in Red Bank. And a giant traffic mess on the last shopping day before Christmas Eve. (click to read)
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December 23rd, 2024 @ 12pm
POWER OUTAGE IN RED BANK
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Power outage hits streets in and around downtown Red Bank. (click to read)
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December 22nd, 2024 @ 12pm
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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 ...