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RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK CELEBRATES NEW HOME
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RED BANK: With a street renamed after founder Norma Todd, Lunch Break celebrates a rebuilt home finally "large enough to contain its heart."
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April 26th, 2024 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: DANDELION CHAMP CROWNED
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RED BANK: To celebrate the pretty yellow flowers demonized by the lawn industrial complex, we held a dandelion display contest for Earth Day. Meet the winner.
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April 25th, 2024 @ 1pm
RED BANK: POLICE LAUNCH CRACKDOWN ON TRAILERS
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RED BANK: Police issue more than a dozen summonses and one arrest warrant to owners of work trailers violating a new 48 hour parking rule.
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April 24th, 2024 @ 6am
GREEN MINDED RED BANKERS CONVERGE AT FAIR
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A crocodile made out of discarded egg cartons.
RED BANK: From a "trashion show" of dresses made of garbage to displays on how to save a school from sea level rise, photos from the Earth Day Green Fair.
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April 23rd, 2024 @ 10am
RED BANK: DANDELION DISPLAY CONTEST
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RED BANK: Earth Day contest offers prize and bragging rights for the lawn with the best dandelion display.
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April 22nd, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: WEEKEND PICKS FOR BODY & SOUL
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Uplifting music, art shows, old-school jazz jams and a chance to help clean up the town: Red Bank offers some cool options this weekend.
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April 19th, 2024 @ 12pm
PODCAST DEBUT: ITZEL HERNANDEZ ON “VISUALIZING COMMUNITY”
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For redbankgreen's first podcast, Brian Donohue chats with Itzel Hernandez, an immigrants' rights activist whose story is both familiar and extraordinary.
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April 18th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: NEW MURAL BRIGHTENS CORNER
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RED BANK: Lunch Break founder Norma Todd is depicted in a mural painted this week on the front of the newly renovated social service agency.
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April 17th, 2024 @ 10am
RED BANK: 2024 BUDGET STAYS THE COURSE
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RED BANK: Average home tax bill nudges past $10k as budget keeps pace with inflation and town eyes big capital projects.
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April 17th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: POLICE DOGS WALK INTO RETIREMENT
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RED BANK: Drug sniffing dogs find their skill set outdated now that pot is legal. With Milk Bones and salutes, a thankful town honors their service and loyalty at retirement ceremony.
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April 15th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: WEEKEND PICKS
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A spring street fair, Mexican dance lessons, an Abba tribute and a visit to the T. Thomas Fortune House. redbankgreen has some weekend picks here.
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April 12th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK TRAIN STATION AREA PLAN CHUGS FORWARD
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RED BANK: The planning board paved the way for council to declare train station area a redevelopment zone as builder plans to go big.
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April 11th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: BEHIND AN EPIC APRIL FOOLS PRANK
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RED BANK: Thousands watched the video and fell for it. Seventeen people tried to sign up. The story and people behind the "Self Service University" April Fools prank.
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April 10th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: ECLIPSE TURNS FACES SKYWARD
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RED BANK: All over town, folks young and old trained their (protected) eyes to the sky to witness a rare solar eclipse Monday.
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April 9th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: BILLBOARD PLAN QUESTIONED
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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
THROWBACK: A SUPERSTAR’S FIRST GLIMMER
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.