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RED BANK: JEWELRY SHOP COMING
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RED BANK: Already home to a dozen, downtown is about to get another new jewelry shop.
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November 17th, 2017 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: FALLING INTO THANKSGIVING
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RED BANK: A look at the weather forecast for the Greater Green through Thanksgiving.
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November 17th, 2017 @ 8am
SHREWSBURY: A STUDY IN CHILLING OUT
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SHREWSBURY: Retail Churn checks out the Study, a clubby new hair salon for men on White Road.
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November 16th, 2017 @ 10am
RED BANK: ‘GREEN’ BUSINESSES WANTED
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RED BANK: The Environmental Commission has launched a program to promote businesses that adopt to waste-reduction practices.
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November 16th, 2017 @ 7am
SHREWSBURY: The latest crime and arrest reports from borough PD include charges for DWI, burglary and shoplifting.
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November 15th, 2017 @ 10am
RED BANK: LIGHT ‘NOT FEASIBLE’ SAYS DOT
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RED BANK: DOT says new traffic light on Riverside Avenue isn't feasible, but Menna says sale of VNA building could force change.
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November 15th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: NEW HISTORY IN FORTUNE HOUSE
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RED BANK: Builder finds new history, and a lot of rot, in effort to restore Fortune House, onetime home of pioneering civil rights journalist.
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November 14th, 2017 @ 11am
RED BANK: MEETING ENDS WITH BELLY RUB
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RED BANK: Councilwoman Linda Schwabenbauer's dog had free run of the room at a special meeting of the borough council Monday night.
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November 14th, 2017 @ 6am
RUMSON: Repaving of Monmouth County roads may prompt night detours.
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November 13th, 2017 @ 7am
ON THE GREEN: OBSERVING VETERANS DAY
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ON THE GREEN: Towns plan community Veterans Day ceremonies.
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November 9th, 2017 @ 5pm
RED BANK: Commuters on West Front Street are in for construction-related lane closures for the rest of the month.
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November 9th, 2017 @ 2pm
RED BANK: WRITE-IN WINS BOARD SEAT
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RED BANK: Write-in wins school board seat, making him the second successor to then-president Carrie Ludwikowski, who resigned eight months into her term.
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November 9th, 2017 @ 11am
LITTLE SILVER: MAIN BREAK PROMPTS DETOURS
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LITTLE SILVER: A water main break has prompted the closure of a stretch of Branch Avenue, which could cause problems for the morning commute.
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November 9th, 2017 @ 6am
STATEHOUSE: GOPAL, O’SCANLON SCORE WINS
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ON THE GREEN: A look at statehouse and county race outcomes.
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November 7th, 2017 @ 11pm
LITTLE SILVER: Healy, Holzapfel win race overshadowed by cell tower.
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November 7th, 2017 @ 10pm
FAIR HAVEN: Incumbents, one Dem and one GOP, win council seats.
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November 7th, 2017 @ 10pm
SHREWSBURY: Republicans outpoll Democrats 3 to 2 in council voting.
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November 7th, 2017 @ 10pm
RED BANK: DEMOCRATS BACK ON TOP
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RED BANK: Democrats regain council majority as Zipprich and Ballard breeze to win.
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November 7th, 2017 @ 9pm
RED BANK: Churches to meet with law enforcement on worshipper security in the wake of Sunday's slaughter of 26 in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
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November 7th, 2017 @ 2pm
ON THE GREEN: WE GET TO VOTE
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ON THE GREEN: We get to vote. And ICYMI, here are Q&As with council candidates in the four Red Bank-area towns with contested races.
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November 7th, 2017 @ 7am
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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 ...