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RED BANK: FUTILE SEARCH FOR A HOUSE FOR MOM
RED BANK: Amid a housing crunch, one man’s futile search for an affordable small house in town for his mother has left him praying for answers.
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February 28th, 2024 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: $1.1M HOME SETS WEST SIDE MARK
RED BANK: A new, 5,000-square foot home on Shrewsbury Avenue sells for a jaw-dropping sum, setting a West Side record.
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February 27th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: COUNCIL PROMOTES SEVEN COPS
RED BANK: Seven police officers promoted, and a new one appointed, before a large gathering of friends and family at council session.
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February 26th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: COUNCIL AVOIDS ISRAEL-HAMAS DEBATE
RED BANK: Opposing advocates for Israel and Palestine argue over a non-existent ceasefire resolution as council stays out of it.
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February 23rd, 2024 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: RBR DREAMER GETS OVATION
LITTLE SILVER: The last time Madelyn Sanchez-Bera stood before the RBR board of Ed, she says she blacked out. Things were different Wednesday.
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February 22nd, 2024 @ 4pm
RED BANK: LEGAL POT MARKET OPENS WITH CHURN
RED BANK: Monteverde NJ becomes the first to sell recreational weed in town while Scarlet Reserve moves out in frustration.
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February 21st, 2024 @ 2pm
RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN STRUCK BY TRAIN
A pedestrian was able to walk away after being struck by a train pulling into Red Bank’s NJ Transit rail station this afternoon, according to several people on the scene.
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February 18th, 2024 @ 3pm
RED BANK: CARDS, BOOZE AND BAD LUCK
RED BANK: Taking it back to Monmouth Street in 1924 for a story about guns, booze, gambling and "the cop with 100 hats."
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February 14th, 2024 @ 1pm
RED BANK: SCENES FROM A SNOWSTORM
RED BANK: As a pre-Valentine's Day snowstorm arrives, redbankgreen puts on its galoshes and takes in the sights so you didn’t have to.
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February 13th, 2024 @ 1pm
RED BANK: UNPLANNED BID DRIVES AUCTION
RED BANK: Spontaneous offer for parking spots prompts brief bidding war between pot shop owner and nearby resident.
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February 13th, 2024 @ 10am
RED BANK: BROADWALK HERE TO STAY
RED BANK: Broadwalk, the car-free dining and shopping plaza, gets locked in as a recurring seasonal feature downtown.
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February 12th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: DEMS NEUTRAL AS RACE ROILS PARTY
RED BANK: Amid a wild primary showdown for U.S. Senate seat, borough's Democratic leaders claim neutrality.
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February 9th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: COUNCIL WEIGHS PLASTIC UTENSIL CURBS
Red Bank Borough Council looks to ban plastic utensils in takeout orders - unless the customer asks for them.
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February 7th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: RBFD RALLIES AGAIN FOR FIRE VICTIMS
RED BANK: Fire volunteers and pet shop Fins & Feathers provide a new pet to a family who lost everything in a fire. Video.
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February 6th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: RBR CLAIMS TITLE
RED BANK: Watch pure joy as the RBR boys basketball team celebrates its first B North championship in 17 years.
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February 3rd, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: WARM SUMMER GLOW GETS A NEW HUE
RED BANK: A summer icon will look a bit different this year following approval of a new neon sign at Strollo’s Lighthouse Italian Ice.
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February 2nd, 2024 @ 10am
RED BANK: “RIVER OF EAST BERGEN” MYSTIFIES RESIDENTS
RED BANK: A never-ending - and growing - stream of water that has flowed down the street 24/7 for several years is baffling residents of East Bergen Place.
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February 1st, 2024 @ 11am
RED BANK: VETERANS MONUMENT RESTORATION PITCHED
RED BANK: Monument restoration expert pitches rehab of Veterans Monument he says is in "terrible shape."
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January 30th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: COUNCIL STEERS CLEAR OF GAZA RESO
RED BANK: Council declines to consider resident's cease-fire plea proposal.
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January 26th, 2024 @ 12pm
WOODSTOCK ERA STAR, RBR ALUM “MELANIE” DIES
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Melanie Safka, Woodstock era singer songwriter and Red Bank Regional High School alumni hall of fame member known simply as "Melanie," has died.
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January 25th, 2024 @ 10am
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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 ...