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RED BANK: THREE NEW HOMES APPROVED
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RED BANK: Planning board approves three new homes on West Westside Avenue property over objections that builder is "squeezing in" too much.
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February 7th, 2019 @ 8am
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SHREWSBURY: The latest crime and arrest reports from borough police include the theft of a $40k vehicle from Regent Drive.
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February 6th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: KEEP THE COAT HANDY
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RED BANK: The Greater Green got a taste of coat-free weather Tuesday. But just a taste. Things get back to normal weatherwise on Wednesday. Local forecast.
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February 6th, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: CRIMES AND ARRESTS
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RED BANK: A month's worth of crime and arrest reports includes the theft of a tip jar and a smattering of DWI and contempt charges.
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February 5th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: COPS CHARGE ROBBERS & VICTIMS
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RED BANK: Attempted street robbery by two men leads to altercation and charges against alleged robbers and victims alike.
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February 5th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: Rejecting pleas that it be saved, planning board approves demolition of hospital-owned Victorian home on East Front Street.
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February 5th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK & FAIR HAVEN: SOLDIER HONORED
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RED BANK & FAIR HAVEN: Residents mourn Pfc. Jamie Riley, a 21-year-old soldier killed in a crash involving two military vehicles in New Mexico last month.
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February 4th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: WARMER DAYS RETURN
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RED BANK: Bone-chilling cold ends as warmer temperatures return. Here's the extended weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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February 4th, 2019 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER: A MUSE FOR ALL AGES
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LITTLE SILVER: Borough woman launches art-instruction studio in a space with odd-shaped rooms, tons of natural light and a pizzeria downstairs.
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February 1st, 2019 @ 7am
RUMSON-FAIR HAVEN: Monmouth Prosecutor's office charges former president of football booster club with stealing $25K from club.
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January 31st, 2019 @ 4pm
RED BANK: PASTRY, PIZZA AND MORE
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RED BANK: A new pastry shop has opened in the space vacated by Carlo's Bakery, of 'Cake Boss' fame. This one offers some savory along with the sweet.
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January 31st, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: VORTEX BRINGS BITTER COLD
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RED BANK: Polar vortex brings snow squall and bitter cold to the Greater Green. Here's the forecast along with some safety tips.
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January 31st, 2019 @ 6am
RED BANK: CHARTER SCHOOL HEAD TO RETIRE
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RED BANK: Meredith Pennotti, who led the charter school through most of its first two, and highly fraught, decades, announces plan to retire.
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January 30th, 2019 @ 3pm
SHREWSBURY: The latest crime and arrest reports from borough police include a theft by deception case involving almost $12,000.
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January 30th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FRESH FASHION ON THE RUNWAY
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RED BANK: Young fashion designers show off their creations at a red runway event, the culmination of a three-week Parks & Rec class.
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January 30th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: To wean, or not to wean? Mayor and council walk back characterization of key parking study recommendation Menna had said was potentially "catastrophic."
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January 29th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: VICTORIAN IN CROSSHAIRS
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RED BANK: A prominent Victorian home on East Front Street is on the next planning board agenda. What's Going On Here? Answer here.
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January 29th, 2019 @ 5am
RED BANK: ‘SNO BIG DEAL
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RED BANK: Snow is forecast for the Greater Green this week, but not the 'empty the store shelves' kind of snow. Details here.
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January 28th, 2019 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: A 21-year-old borough man was one of two soldiers killed in a crash involving two military vehicles in New Mexico Tuesday night.
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January 25th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: ‘WEANING’ FROM METERS UNLIKELY
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RED BANK: Council appears unlikely to adopt a key recommendation of bombshell parking report: 'weaning' itself of using meter revenue to keep taxes down.
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January 25th, 2019 @ 8am
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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.