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RED BANK: The police blotter for March 16 to March 31, 2018 includes five DWI arrests.
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April 13th, 2018 @ 9am
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RED BANK: TWO DAYS OF ROADSTER WEATHER
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RED BANK: The Greater Green is in for a two days of roadster weather before temperatures settle back down Sunday, according to the forecast.
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April 13th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: NEW ADMINISTRATOR NAMED
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RED BANK: Council picks new administrator. He's 33, an Army veteran and ex-mayor from Union County. And his salary will be triple his predecessor's.
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April 12th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: OUTDOOR DINING WEATHER
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RED BANK: An osprey enjoys some takeout a half-mile inland, which somehow has something to do with today's weather forecast.
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April 12th, 2018 @ 6am
RUMSON: ‘RIVAL’ TEENS UNITE TO SAVE LIVES
RUMSON: Students from three high schools, normally rivals, unite to organize suicide awareness and prevention run scheduled for Sunday.
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April 11th, 2018 @ 11am
RED BANK: BRAINSTORMING ON MARINE PARK
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RED BANK: What should become of Marine Park? Borough residents weigh in on tennis courts, kayaking, parking and more at brainstorming sessions.
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April 10th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: MARINE PARK SESSIONS SLATED
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RED BANK: What does Marine Park need? Borough slates public input sessions on Monday to develop concept plan for a possible makeover.
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April 8th, 2018 @ 4pm
RED BANK: RECHNITZES GIVE $5M TO HOSPITAL
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RED BANK: Two River Theater founders Joan and Bob Rechnitz donate $5 million to Riverview, and it's not the first time, either.
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April 5th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: ROUND THREE FOR MEGA WAWA
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RED BANK: A controversial plan for a mega Wawa store and gas station at one of the busiest intersections in town returns to the borough zoning board Thursday night.
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April 5th, 2018 @ 5am
RUMSON: Two months of arrest reports from borough police.
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April 4th, 2018 @ 1pm
RED BANK: FOG, WIND & T-STORMS FORECAST
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RED BANK: The Greater Green is in for a wide range of weather conditions Wednesday, including fog, strong winds, thunderstorms and sunshine.
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April 4th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: FOOD, CLOTHES & MORE IN CHURN
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RED BANK: New food and women's clothing businesses open. Also in Churn: about a 24-hour gym, a deep-freeze therapy place and a new Good Karma takeout spot in the West Side Lofts.
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April 3rd, 2018 @ 9am
RUMSON: NAVESINK QUALITY IMPROVES
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RUMSON: After a bacteria crisis, Navesink is showing "rapid" improvement in water quality, with possible reopening of shellfish beds a year earlier than expected, state DEP says.
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April 2nd, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: WINTER ROARS ONCE AGAIN
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RED BANK: Winter roars back to life with an early spring snow on the Greater Green, though it's expect to end quickly and melt rapidly away.
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April 2nd, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: MORNING SNOW & QUICK MELT-OFF
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RED BANK: A brief, heavy snow was forecast for the Monday morning commute, with a rapid melt-off in the afternoon.
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April 2nd, 2018 @ 5am
RED BANK: GOP CHAIR TO SEEK COUNCIL SEAT
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RED BANK: GOP chairman Michael Clancy and a political newcomer to run for council instead of Whelan and Taylor. Once again, party has no mayoral candidate.
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March 30th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: In a bombshell announcement, incumbent GOP council members Taylor and Whelan say they won't run for re-election this year.
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March 30th, 2018 @ 6am
ON THE GREEN: OUT OF THE FOG, INTO…
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ON THE GREEN: After Thursday night's heavy fog, expect rain Friday. And then? Here's the forecast for the weekend and beyond.
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March 30th, 2018 @ 5am
RED BANK: CONCESSION LEASE TO BE RE-BID
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RED BANK: The council has to find a new vendor for the concession stand in Riverside Gardens Park after the last successful bidder pulls out.
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March 29th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL OKS ‘REVERSE’ APPEALS
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RED BANK: Going "aggressive" at Menna's urging, council OKs 'reverse' tax appeals on commercial properties. Also, Menna gets a surprise tax bill in the mail.
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March 29th, 2018 @ 9am
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THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
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 ...