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AFTER 40 YEARS, SALON ZOOMS OUT OF RED BANK; JAMIAN’S HITS 25 YEARS
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A Monmouth Street hair studio is moving out of Red Bank after 40 years. Two doors down a bar celebrates its 25th anniversary. (Click to read)
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March 27th @ 1pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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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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March 27th @ 6am
SNOW’S LAST GASP
A snow pile from the brutal winter of 2025-26 breathes its last dirty gasp in a parking lot at Count Basie Fields on Monday. (Partyline photo by Brian Donohue) SubmittedContinue reading "SNOW’S LAST GASP"
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March 26th @ 10am
RED BANK: BILLBOARD LAWSUIT SETTLED WITH SWAP
Ad company will drop its bid to build a digital billboard at the Red Bank's northern gateway - if it can build one on the southern border instead. (Click to read)
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March 26th @ 7am
RED BANK SCHOOLS EYE 9.5 PERCENT TAX LEVY HIKE
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Statewide school funding crunch hits Red Bank as district seeks 9.5 percent tax levy hike. (Click to read)
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March 24th @ 3pm
RED BANK: 2026 DANDELION DISPLAY CONTEST
Do you have what it doesn't take to be Red Bank's dandelion king or queen? It's time for redbankgreen's sorta annual contest. (Click to read)
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March 23rd @ 7am
RED BANK POLICE: MAN SMASHED BOROUGH HALL WINDOWS, SWUNG PIPE AT COPS
A Red Bank man was arrested after police say he smashed four windows at Borough Hall with a large metal pole, then swung the weapon at police officers responding to the incident. (click to read)
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March 21st @ 8am
WINTER IS DEAD
Like a hand from the grave, a glove someone lost over the long winter appears to be making one final zombie reach from the soil of a Broad Street planterContinue reading "WINTER IS DEAD"
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March 20th @ 1pm
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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March 19th @ 6pm
RED BANK: BAR, LIQUOR STORE SETTLE DRUNKEN FALL LAWSUIT
A man injured in a fall from a train station platform sued businesses he said broke the law by serving him when he was already drunk. (Click to read)
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March 19th @ 12pm
RED BANK: GLOVES AND GUINNESS ON A CHILLY ST. PATRICK’S DAY
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Photos from around Red Bank on a chilly St. Patrick's Day. (click to read)
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March 17th @ 9pm
RED BANK: EAST SIDE PARK CLOSES FOR LEAD CLEANUP
Most of East Side Park is closed while the NJ DEP works to remove lead-contaminated soil. (click to read)
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March 17th @ 3pm
DOCUMENTING OLD RED BANK, BEFORE THE BULLDOZERS ARRIVE
History buff and filmmaker sets out to document a block of old Red Bank before the bulldozers and condos arrive. (click to read)
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March 17th @ 7am
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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March 13th @ 6am
RBR SPORTS UPDATE: WINTER SPORTS WRAP UP
Red Bank Regional High School's sports update, winter wrap-up edition. (Click to read)
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March 12th @ 5pm
RED BANK: BROKER FINED FOR ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAPSES
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Red Bank financial broker/dealer fined for breaking laws designed to prevent money laundering. (Click to read)
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March 12th @ 1pm
RED BANK GIVES PUSHCART VENDOR IDEA A SPIN
Red Bank creates a new pushcart vendor license for summertime food & drink sales in borough parks. (click to read)
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March 11th @ 5pm
RED BANK: BORO RELEASES PLAN FOR 40-UNIT “NAVESINK CROSSING”
A rendering of the proposed project for 26-28 Shrewbury Avenue included in the the rehabilitation plan by borough planner BFJ Planning.
Five stories with a waterfront walkway: Borough planner issues a report with development guidelines for a proposed 40 unit building on the Navesink River. (Click to read.)
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March 10th @ 2pm
GOLF CART ASSAULT. FORGED DOCUMENTS. STOLEN MONEY. CHARGES FLY AS BUILDERS BATTLE IN COURT
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In dueling lawsuits, developers on a Fort Monmouth golf course project are accusing each other of misdeeds ranging from forgery to violence.(Click to read)
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March 10th @ 6am
RED BANK: EDITH BLAKE DIES AT 108
Edith Blake, believed to be Red Bank's oldest resident, dies at 108. (click to read)
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March 9th @ 7am
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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 ...