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RBR SUPERINTENDENT: ADDRESS GUN ACCESS
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RED BANK REGIONAL: Before starting an 'arms race' in schools by arming teachers, let's address gun access, says Superintendent Louis Moore.
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March 14th, 2018 @ 5am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: SIDEWALK CAFÉ, STAND ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Agenda for Wednesday's council meeting includes tweak to sidewalk café law, designation of new ice cream vendor in Riverside Gardens Park.
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March 13th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SNOW, SLIPPERY ROADS EXPECTED
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RED BANK: Wet snow and slippery roads are in Tuesday's forecast as the third storm in two weeks arrives on the Greater Green.
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March 13th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: RAIN, THEN SNOW IN FORECAST
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RED BANK: Rain turning to snow Monday afternoon could leave up to three inches on the Greater Green by Tuesday morning, forecasters say.
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March 12th, 2018 @ 5am
RED BANK: RBC YEARBOOKS TO BE DIGITIZED
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RED BANK: First Red Bank High, now Red Bank Catholic; borough library expands its effort to convert high school yearbooks to digital format.
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March 9th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: In contrast to a blizzard that prompted a record number of parking tickets earlier this year, cops went light on ticketing in this week's storm.
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March 9th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: Judge rejects JCP&L power line plan along 10 miles of rail, citing "overwhelming' adverse impacts and unproven need.
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March 8th, 2018 @ 5pm
RED BANK: CARLO’S STAYING PUT; PHO LE OUT
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RED BANK: Retail Churn includes news about Carlo's Bake Shop, owned by 'Cake Boss' Buddy Valastro, plus some changes in the restaurant scene.
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March 8th, 2018 @ 10am
ON THE GREEN: OUTAGES & DELAYED OPENINGS
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ON THE GREEN: A post-storm rundown of outages and delayed school starts in the Red Bank area.
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March 8th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: EX-REC HEAD ALLEGES RACISM
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RED BANK: Former parks & rec head Memone Crystian files suit against borough alleging racial discrimination by former administrator and councilman.
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March 7th, 2018 @ 11am
RED BANK: SNOW AND SLEET IN FORECAST
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RED BANK: A late-winter storm could drop seven inches of snow and sleet on Green Wednesday. Governor declares state of emergency.
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March 7th, 2018 @ 5am
RED BANK: MARINE PARK MAKEOVER KICKS OFF
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RED BANK: What does Marine Park need? Borough schedules first in a series of public input sessions on concept plan for a possible makeover.
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March 6th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: WET SNOW IN FORECAST
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RED BANK: The latest forecast for the Greater Green shows Winter Storm Quinn dropping a couple of inches of snow, sleet and rain Wednesday.
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March 6th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: The latest police blotter includes six DWI arrests.
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March 5th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: A 59-year old borough man was arrested last month on charges arising from an alleged aggravated sexual assault on a child in early 2017, police said.
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March 5th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: Borough cop charged with driving while intoxicated and other offenses following off-duty accident in Middletown, chief says.
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March 2nd, 2018 @ 5pm
RED BANK: A borough cop arrested was arrested in Middletown a week ago, but no charges or details have yet been disclosed.
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March 2nd, 2018 @ 3pm
RED BANK: TRAFFIC TALK SLOWS WAWA PLAN
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RED BANK: Plan for supersized Wawa and gas station on Newman Springs Road inches forward as lawyers attack traffic estimates and proposed turning lane.
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March 2nd, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: SOGGY, WINDY DAY IN STORE
RED BANK: A soggy, windy day is forecast as a storm lashes the region Friday, bringing the possibility of power outages and coastal flooding.
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March 2nd, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: OLDEST FIRE COMPANY RETIRED
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RED BANK: Relief Engine Company, the town's oldest firefighting unit, is to be retired and reconstituted as historic preservation outfit.
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March 1st, 2018 @ 12pm
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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 ...