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RED BANK: WHAT’S ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA?
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RED BANK: Taxes, a new track for Basie Fields, alternate-side parking and more pack the agenda for council's only regular meeting this month.
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June 18th, 2019 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: SECOND CLASSIC 5K DRAWS 1,200+
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RED BANK: Classic 5K road race draws 1,200+ runners and walkers, including one who put on a goofy pantomime for our camera. Check out redbankgreen's photos.
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June 16th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: May was another busy month for RBPD, with four DWI arrests on the activity blotter.
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June 14th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: CLASSIC 5K READY TO RUN AGAIN
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RED BANK: More than 1,000 runners and walkers expected for Saturday's Classic 5K. Here's your FAQ on the course, road closures and more.
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June 13th, 2019 @ 5pm
SANDY HOOK: BIRDS DISPLACE CONCERTS
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SANDY HOOK: Free summer concerts on the beach cancelled to protect nests of piping plovers, a species that's "on the brink," National Park Service says.
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June 13th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: MOTORCYCLIST HURT IN CRASH
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RED BANK: A Florida was man injured when his motorcycle collided with car on Riverside Avenue Tuesday evening.
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June 12th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FOOD TRUCKS UP FOR DISCUSSION
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RED BANK: Allowing food trucks on private property appears to have council backing. RiverCenter, which has opposed the idea in the past, hasn't said no.
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June 12th, 2019 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: SERVICE SUSPECTED IN FIRE
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LITTLE SILVER: Electrical service suspected in small fire that burned a power strip in a Seven Bridges Road residence Tuesday.
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June 11th, 2019 @ 2pm
SHREWSBURY: The latest crime and arrest blotter from borough police includes four reports of shoplifting and an arrest on that charge.
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June 11th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: A BRIEF BOUT OF ANGLOMANIA
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RED BANK: Eighty years ago today, the Greater Red Bank Green was seized by Anglomania as British King George VI and Queen Elizabeth paid a quick visit.
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June 10th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: UNUSUAL INTERSECTION EXPLAINED
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RED BANK: Officials gathered at Drs. Parker and Bridge Avenue to explain, and defend, the mysterious, eye-popping image painted on the asphalt last month.
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June 7th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: JAZZ BAR/OPEN MARKET PLAN OK’D
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RED BANK: A combo food market/basement jazz club proposed for Broad Street wins praise from business owners and zoning board approval.
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June 7th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: POWER OUT AFTER POLES SNAP
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RED BANK: Power is out for up to 100 customers in the area of Maple Avenue following an incident in which two utility poles snapped.
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June 7th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: BOROUGH SHOWS ITS LGBTQ PRIDE
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RED BANK: The borough shows its Pride this week with a repainting of a downtown crosswalk and special event in Riverside Gardens Park Saturday.
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June 6th, 2019 @ 4pm
RED BANK: NJDOT OBSTRUCTION REMOVED
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RED BANK: NJDOT quickly removes traffic signal activator it had placed in the middle of a sidewalk. Borough awaiting similar action on another.
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June 6th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: Almost a year after it began, a bumpy, dusty rebuilding of East Bergen Place is expected to be completed this week, officials said.
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June 6th, 2019 @ 5am
RED BANK: SPEAKEASY ON ZONING AGENDA
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RED BANK: Zoning board agenda Thursday includes downtown speakeasy/ food market; changes to theater plaza; and new home where last one burned down.
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June 5th, 2019 @ 10am
LITTLE SILVER: NEFF TROUNCES BRANDT
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LITTLE SILVER: Neff easily wins rare GOP primary in which his opponent was banned from schools and firehouses over campaign photos.
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June 4th, 2019 @ 9pm
RED BANK: DOT POLE BLOCKS SIDEWALK
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RED BANK: NJDOT recently installed a traffic signal activator in the middle of a sidewalk – in front of a senior living complex. What's Going On Here?
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June 4th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: TAXES ON WORKSHOP AGENDA
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RED BANK: The 2019 municipal budget, with a 2.2-percent tax increase, is among the topics up for discussion at Wednesday's council workshop session.
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June 4th, 2019 @ 9am
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PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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.