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RED BANK: A month's worth of crimes and arrest reports from RBPD includes two DWI arrests and three stolen bicycles.
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July 9th, 2018 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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FAIR HAVEN: TOWN RALLIES FOR INJURED COP
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FAIR HAVEN: Residents rally for police officer who broke his neck in a swimming accident in the ocean on Independence Day.
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July 7th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: LIBRARY DIRECTOR CHECKS OUT
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RED BANK: Elizabeth McDermott checks out as library director and gets a proclamation; Barbara Pickell named interim director.
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July 3rd, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: SWEET MUSIC ON A SULTRY NIGHT
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RED BANK: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's sweet sounds soften a sultry evening on the banks of the Navesink River in Red Bank. Photos galore.
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July 2nd, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: ‘FAMILIES’ MARCH DRAWS 2,000
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RED BANK: A 'Families Belong Together' march and rally in protest of the Trump Administration's border policies draws some 2,000. Photos.
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July 2nd, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: TWO EATERIES AND A ‘WILD EYE’
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RED BANK: After an overhaul, a long-closed restaurant reopens; a new one announces its debut plan; and an intriguing new retail spot opens its doors.
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June 29th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: RALLY FOR IMMIGRANT FAMILIES
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RED BANK: March and rally to protest Trump Administration separation of immigrants families slated for downtown Saturday morning.
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June 29th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: RATS INFEST NEIGHBORHOOD
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RED BANK: Borough officials promise swift action after East Side residents complain of "fireworks display" of rats infesting their neighborhood.
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June 28th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: LOCAL ACTS TO ROCK THE PARK
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RED BANK: Bobby Bandiera, Matt O'Ree Band set to play free concerts in Riverside Gardens Park this summer to spotlight local music venues.
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June 28th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: WORDS AND MUSIC IN THE PARK
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RED BANK: Words of civil rights journalist T. Thomas Fortune to greet attendees to New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's sunset concert in Marine Park Sunday.
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June 27th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: Tinton Falls man charged with assault on cops following fracas at train station.
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June 26th, 2018 @ 11am
RED BANK: ‘DOG DAYS’ ROMPS IN PARK
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RED BANK: Whelped five years ago on Monmouth Street, 'Dog Days' returns with a romp in Marine Park for several hundred canines and their human companions. Photos galore.
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June 26th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: PUPPY MILL BILL RETURNS… MAYBE
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RED BANK: A controversial anti-puppy-mill proposal is on the council agenda for Wednesday night, though a vote is uncertain.
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June 25th, 2018 @ 2pm
LITTLE SILVER: AN UNDAMPENED DAY’S END
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LITTLE SILVER: Undampened by weather, town's biennial 'day' of food and music and ends with a spectacular fireworks display.
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June 25th, 2018 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: CRASH SHUTS ROAD
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FAIR HAVEN: Minor injuries reported after cars hits utility pole, closing Hance Road.
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June 25th, 2018 @ 6am
ON THE GREEN: BPU rejects JCP&L high-power line plan for 10-mile-long high-power line terminating in Red Bank.
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June 22nd, 2018 @ 1pm
ON THE GREEN: NEW RECYCLING RULES
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ON THE GREEN: New rules concerning plastic bags used to hold recyclables for curb pickup kicking in locally, thanks to China.
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June 21st, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: A TOEHOLD ON SUMMER 2018
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RED BANK: Summer began Thursday morning, and this little guy on West Front Street was ready. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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June 21st, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: FINAL DAWN OF SPRING 2018
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RED BANK: Your final sunrise on the Navesink of spring, 2018 as official summer starts Thursday. Meantime, here's Wednesday's weather forecast.
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June 20th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: RIVERCENTER REBOOT BEGINS
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RED BANK: RiverCenter kicks off drive to new 'vision' and strategic plan with a session that attracts about 70 merchants and others.
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June 19th, 2018 @ 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.