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RED BANK: MASTER PLAN INPUTS SLATED
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RED BANK: Residents to get two chances next month to weigh in on Master Plan update, with special focus on three areas of town.
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September 20th, 2022 @ 3pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: ROMCOM FILMING IN PARK
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RED BANK: What's with all the film production trucks in front of Riverside Gardens Park? Click here for the answer.
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September 19th, 2022 @ 1pm
RED BANK: POLICE SEEK HELP WITH IDs
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RED BANK: Police seek public's assistance in identifying two individuals considered "persons of interest" in a theft investigation.
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September 19th, 2022 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SUNSHINE AS SUMMER WINDS DOWN
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RED BANK: Forecast calls for sunshine and daytime temps in the mid-80s in the final days of summer 2022. Here's the full forecast.
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September 19th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: TAYLOR ENTERS COUNCIL RACE
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RED BANK: Taylor replaces Stout on GOP ticket, seeks to reclaim council seat he left in 2018 and undo "chaos" at borough hall.
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September 16th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: August crime blotter includes four arrests for DWI, plus reported theft of $7,000 from trunk of parked car.
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September 15th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: HONK IF YOU LOVE THIS REHAB JOB
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RED BANK: Remodeling of a century-old house at a busy corner wins approval in the form of honks and shouts from passersby.
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September 13th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: RAILFANS SAVOR FREIGHT CHANGE
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RED BANK: Change in freight haulers brings railfans to crossing here, where they document 'rolling history' – and maybe even give chase.
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September 12th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: Riverside Gardens Park ceremony to mark 21st anniversary of loss of life in terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
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September 9th, 2022 @ 7am
ON THE GREEN: IN MEMORY
RED BANK: Remembering those from the Greater Red Bank area who were killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America.
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September 9th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: SENIOR CENTER UPDATE
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RED BANK: Where do repairs stand with the Senior Center, which has been shuttered more than three years? We check in on the latest.
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September 8th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: FOR 1,261, IT’S BACK TO SCHOOL
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RED BANK: As borough school district welcomes students for new year, Rumage addresses security, preschool, enrollment and staffing.
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September 7th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: BBQ KICKS OFF REFERENDUM PUSH
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RED BANK: "Taking nothing for granted," government overhaul advocates launch campaign for November 8 referendum.
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September 6th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: Police arrest Montgomery Terrace apartments resident on drug and weapons charges.
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September 2nd, 2022 @ 5pm
RED BANK: FIVE-STORY PLAN CHALLENGED
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RED BANK: Questions about the need for a fifth floor surround plan for 50 new downtown apartments as zoning board commences review.
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September 2nd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: MINORITIES AND HEALTH IN FOCUS
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RED BANK: Panelists in library's 'Let's Talk About Race' discussion focus on unequal access and discrimination in healthcare.
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September 1st, 2022 @ 12pm
RED BANK: Unidentified bicyclist seriously injured in early morning hit-and-run on Newman Springs Road, says police chief.
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August 31st, 2022 @ 10am
LITTLE SILVER: RIDGE ROAD OAKS CUT DOWN
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LITTLE SILVER: Monmouth County cuts down 17 oak trees along Ridge Road in front of Red Bank Regional High.
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August 31st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: FIFTY-UNIT PLAN UP FOR REVIEW
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RED BANK: A plan for 50 new downtown apartments is scheduled for review by the borough zoning board Thursday night.
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August 30th, 2022 @ 5pm
RED BANK: HOSPITALS TO KEEP CHILD CARE
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RED BANK: Hackensack Meridian Health reverses plan to end day care services for children of hospital employees, according to report.
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August 30th, 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.