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RED BANK: October crime blotter includes multiple thefts from vehicles, including valuable parts, plus four arrests for alleged DWI.
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November 9th, 2022 @ 12pm
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RED BANK: VOTERS FAVOR DEMS… AND CHANGE
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RED BANK: Voters appear to stick with Democrats – while also endorsing changes in government and how candidates get on the ballots.
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November 9th, 2022 @ 2am
RED BANK: TREE PLANTING UNDERWAY
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RED BANK: The borough's tree inventory is scheduled to grow by 75 this week under a Shade Tree Committee planting. Here's where they'll go.
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November 8th, 2022 @ 5am
RED BANK: GOP ATTACKS AT RACE’S END
RED BANK: Republican council candidates go hard in closing days of council race, terming their opponents "MAGA Democrats."
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November 7th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: HISTORIC REFERENDUM ON BALLOT
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RED BANK: Organized opposition to November 8 referendum did not materialize, but there has been pushback, and voters still have questions.
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November 4th, 2022 @ 4pm
RED BANK: SECRET STAR OF THE PARADE?
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RED BANK: Is this woman, who marched in Sunday's Halloween parade and kissed a clown afterward, who we think she is?
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November 4th, 2022 @ 12pm
RED BANK: APARTMENTS WIN BOARD OK
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RED BANK: Plan for 45 apartments on site of former Big Man's West approved. Builder plans to call it The Sax, in honor of Clarence Clemons.
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November 4th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK SETS INTERIM SPACE
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RED BANK: Amid a $12 million facility expansion, Lunch Break will temporarily move its operations to St. Anthony's starting Friday.
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November 3rd, 2022 @ 5am
RED BANK: STATION RAZED FOR APARTMENTS
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RED BANK: A onetime gas station-turned-gym downtown was razed Tuesday. What's Going On Here? Here's what's coming.
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November 2nd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: CATALYTIC CONVERTERS STOLEN
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RED BANK: Thieves cut catalytic converters from two cars in one night last month, police Chief Darren McConnell said Tuesday.
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November 1st, 2022 @ 11am
RED BANK: After three years, proposal for 46 apartments on Monmouth Street appears set for a vote by zoning board Thursday night
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November 1st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: HALLOWEEN PARADE SHINES
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RED BANK: Photos galore from the 74th annual Halloween parade, a sun-kissed event that drew hundreds of colorfully costumed participants.
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October 31st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: LYNCH SCHOLARSHIP FUNDED
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Lynch scholar David ‘Louie’ Connolly, center, with Monsignor Joseph Rosie and RBC President Bob Abatemarco. Below, Ann Marie and Dennis Lynch.  (Click to enlarge.) Press release Red Bank Catholic (RBC)Continue reading "RED BANK: LYNCH SCHOLARSHIP FUNDED"
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October 28th, 2022 @ 12pm
RED BANK: PARKER LAUNCHES ADDITION
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RED BANK: Parker Family Health Center embarks on expansion to accommodate growing roster of patients without health insurance.
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October 28th, 2022 @ 10am
RED BANK: VNA PLANS HEALTH CENTER MOVE
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RED BANK: What's Going On Here in retail space opposite the train station? Here's the scoop on plans for a relocated VNA health center.
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October 28th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: PENNEY CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION
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RED BANK: Republican council candidate calls for investigation into the abrupt firing of borough attorney in July.
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October 27th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: MIRANDI Q&A
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RED BANK: Here's what Angela Mirandi, a Democrat running for council, sees as the big issues in town. Plus: how to cast your ballot.
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October 26th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: PENNEY Q&A
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RED BANK: Here's what Jonathan Maciel Penney, a Republican running for council, sees as the big issues in town. Plus: how to cast your ballot.
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October 26th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: TAYLOR Q&A
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RED BANK: Here's what Mark Taylor, a Republican running for council, sees as the big issues in town. Plus: how to cast your ballot.
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October 26th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: JACKSON Q&A
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RED BANK: Here's what John Jackson, a Democrat running for council, sees as the big issues in town. Plus: how to cast your ballot.
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October 26th, 2022 @ 7am
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(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 ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.