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ON THE GREEN: Setting the stage for a faceoff with residents living alongside it, JCP&L formally files plan for 10-mile high-power line.
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August 9th, 2016 @ 6pm
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RED BANK: THIRD NOVEL FOR BARTENDER
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RED BANK: Bartender-slash-author serves up his third novel in two years.
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August 9th, 2016 @ 10am
RED BANK: School board president Carrie Ludwikowski is leaving town.
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August 9th, 2016 @ 6am
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
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
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FALL COLORS IN RED BANK
redbankgreen's Partyline captures peaking fall foliage on a Red Bank street corner.
FALL AT THE COURTS OF RED BANK
On the Partyline: stunning foliage at Red Bank's "medieval office park."
WALK FOR DEMOCRACY
The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center led a "Walk for Democracy" Sunday from Riverside Gardens Park to the cultral center on Drs. James Park ...
Go big or go home
On the redbankgreen Partyline: Gourd display at Lighthouse on its penultimate night of the season.
MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
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