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RED BANK: BILLBOARD PLAN QUESTIONED
RED BANK: Replacing a 60-year-old billboard at the town's entrance with a new digital version: an upgrade or an albatross?
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April 5th, 2024 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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THROWBACK: A SUPERSTAR’S FIRST GLIMMER
THROWBACK: This week in 1964, a photographer serendipitously captured a future pop superstar, Melanie, then a senior at Red Bank High School.
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April 4th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: CAMS TO RECORD PAVING AND POTHOLES
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RED BANK: Dashcams mounted on DPW vehicles will use AI to help officials decide which roads most need fixing.
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April 3rd, 2024 @ 11am
RED BANK: TEACHING NEW JERSEY DRIVERS TO PUMP THEIR OWN GAS
RED BANK: A new class teaches drivers from New Jersey – the only state with no self-serve – how to pump their own gas.
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April 1st, 2024 @ 12am
RED TRUCKS AT RED ROCK
A small dishwasher fire at Red Rock Tap and Grill was put out quickly by firefighters overnight, causing minimal damage. Red Bank Fire Department responded at 5:20 a.m.  and putContinue reading "RED TRUCKS AT RED ROCK"
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March 28th, 2024 @ 3pm
RED BANK: STUDY FINDS STATION FIT FOR REDEVELOPMENT
RED BANK: Underutilized land, acres of parking lots. Study finds train station fits bill for an "area in need of redevelopment."
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March 28th, 2024 @ 7am
CHIEF WON COUNCIL PRAISE WHILE SHIELDING GIRLFRIEND
RED BANK: While repeatedly protecting his girlfriend and subordinate from discipline, McConnell won plaudits for managing the town.
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March 27th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: SPOTLIGHT ON FASHION’S HISTORIC ROLE
RED BANK: Fortune Center and Two River Theater team up to showcase the Ebony Fashion Fair and its role in Civil Rights history.
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March 25th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: EDITH BLAKE REFLECTS ON 106 YEARS
RED BANK: Steamboats, segregation and a laugh you won't forget. Looking back on 106 years with Edith Blake. Video.
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March 21st, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: ALLEGED FAVORITISM SPARKED PROBE
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RED BANK: State AG's report exposes alleged pattern of favoritism by police Chief McConnell toward officer he dated and married.
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March 18th, 2024 @ 5pm
RED BANK: PICTURE PERFECT ST. PATRICK’S DAY
RED BANK: redbankgreen's photos captured a picture-perfect St. Patrick's Day. Did we catch you shamrockin' your best? Check out the photos.
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March 18th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: AID CUTS REKINDLE CHARTER DEBATE
RED BANK: School district again decries double whammy of state funding cuts and forking over millions to charter school.
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March 14th, 2024 @ 1pm
RED BANK: SPEED LIMIT RADAR SIGNS POSTED
RED BANK: New radar-equipped speed limit signs tell speeders to slow down on two borough streets – and thank law-abiders.
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March 11th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: RBC TAKES GIRLS HOOPS CROWN
RED BANK: Red Bank Catholic girls hoops win state championship. Check out video highlights of the big win.
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March 9th, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: TOWN’S 10 WORST INTERSECTIONS?
RED BANK: What's the most hair-raising intersection in our town? Here's a list of those with the most crashes.
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March 8th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: TENNIS/PICKLEBALL COURTS SIGNUPS LAUNCHED
RED BANK: Online reservation system launched for fresh new pickleball courts.
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March 5th, 2024 @ 4pm
RED BANK: SCHOOLS EYE “DEVASTATING” STATE AID CUTS
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RED BANK: Borough schools face cutbacks if a proposed massive cut in state aid is not restored.
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March 5th, 2024 @ 11am
RED BANK: POT SHOP GOING FOR LONG SHOT?
RED BANK: With all three retail cannabis licenses allowed by ordinance already approved, a fourth seller applies to open anyway.
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March 4th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: CIVIC-MINDED DOG KILLED BY POISON
A beloved St. Bernard known for attending Red Bank council meetings was among five dogs found poisoned 100 years ago this week. Throwback.
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March 1st, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: PARADIDDLE SKEDADDLES?
RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, Paradiddle Griddle and 30 Burgers go dark, while a new tattoo studio opens.
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February 29th, 2024 @ 8am
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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 ...