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RED BANK: LIGHTING THE WAY
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RED BANK: This week's Summer Scenes photo features a luminous green fence.
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August 8th, 2016 @ 3pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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FAIR HAVEN: Latest police blotter includes pair arrested on drug charges during traffic stop.
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August 8th, 2016 @ 1pm
SANDY HOOK: CLINGING JELLYFISH TARGETED
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SANDY HOOK: American Littoral Society seeks the public's help looking into clinging, stinging jellyfish.
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August 8th, 2016 @ 10am
RED BANK: OUTDOOR ARTISTRY
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RED BANK: More art gets an airing at soon-to-open Detour Gallery.
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August 8th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: PARAKEET FOUND
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RED BANK: Did you lose a parakeet?
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August 5th, 2016 @ 6pm
COOL INSIDE: PARTY IN A CUP
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COOL INSIDE: PieHole serves up perhaps the most insane treat you've ever seen in a cup.
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August 5th, 2016 @ 4pm
RED BANK: APARTMENTS & GARAGE PROPOSED
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RED BANK: Developer plans 45 apartments above a parking garage alongside the train station at cab company office.
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August 5th, 2016 @ 9am
SHREWSBURY: NAVESINK EFFORT UPDATED
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SHREWSBURY: Effort to find and reduce fecal coliform levels in the Navesink cites a small success involving horse manure
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August 5th, 2016 @ 6am
RED BANK: ORPHANED OPOSSUMS SAVED
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RED BANK: Baby opossums taken for care after their mother is killed.
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August 4th, 2016 @ 7am
RED BANK: FOOD & CLOTHING POWER CHURN
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RED BANK: Retail Churn reports new bake shop coming and other changes in restaurant and retail scene downtown.
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August 3rd, 2016 @ 10am
SHREWSBURY: Crime and arrest reports.
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August 3rd, 2016 @ 8am
RUMSON: NAVESINK HEALTH RALLY SLATED
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RUMSON: Clean Ocean Action and other enviro groups plan a 'rally' to save the Navesink from runoff-borne pollution.
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August 2nd, 2016 @ 12pm
SANDY HOOK: ENTRY FEE HIKE PROPOSED
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SANDY HOOK: Entry fees would rise 33 percent next summer under a proposal by the National Park Service.
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August 2nd, 2016 @ 7am
RED BAN: Crime and arrest reports.
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August 2nd, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: BEE IN THE MOMENT
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RED BANK: This week's Summer Scenes photo zeroes in on a busy bee.
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August 1st, 2016 @ 1pm
RED BANK: APARTMENTS ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: A proposed six-unit apartment building needs a carload of variances.
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August 1st, 2016 @ 12pm
MIDDLETOWN: The accused assailant in a brutal knife attack on a shopper here three years ago escaped from a mental institution Saturday.
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August 1st, 2016 @ 5am
COOL INSIDE: INSIDE THE BUBBLE
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COOL INSIDE: PieHole goes for something fruity and bubbly in Red Bank.
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July 29th, 2016 @ 4pm
RED BANK: CHUCK LAMBERT HITS A MILESTONE
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RED BANK: Hardworking blues, jazz & R&B guitarist Chuck Lambert notches another in an impressive string of gigs, this one on his 65th birthday.
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July 29th, 2016 @ 9am
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE’S GOOD FORTUNE
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RED BANK: The crumbling Fortune House gives journalism students a taste of what it's planned to become: a cultural and educational center.
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July 28th, 2016 @ 10am
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ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
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!