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RED BANK: HOT AND HAZY DAYS AHEAD
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RED BANK: It's about to get hotter and hazier on the Greater Green. Like, "be careful" hot and humid. Here's the extended weather forecast.
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August 3rd, 2022 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: A LENS ON A LITTLE SHAKESPEARE
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RED BANK: 'Here's the Story' explores A Little Shakespeare's creation of 'Much Ado About Nothing' this spring in a film to air on NJ PBS.
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August 2nd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: AUGUST MAY GET DAMP START
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RED BANK: August begins under partly cloudy skies with a chance of rain. Check out the extended forecast here.
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August 1st, 2022 @ 5am
RED BANK: ROBBERY, ARSON CHARGED
RED BANK: Borough man arrested on charges he set three fires here and robbed a Little Silver pharmacy in a 12-hour spree earlier this week.
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July 28th, 2022 @ 5pm
RED BANK: SCHOOL COPS ON HOLD
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RED BANK: Council tables plan to put armed police in the borough's primary and middle schools; quarrels over meeting-date change.
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July 28th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: A plan to put a police representative in the primary and middle schools is up for approval by the council Wednesday night.
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July 27th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: HISTORIC CLOCK BACK ON BROAD
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RED BANK: Eight months after it was toppled by a truck, the 120-year-old Reussille's clock is back in place on Broad Street.
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July 26th, 2022 @ 12pm
RED BANK: CHROMEBOOKS ON LOAN AT LIBRARY
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RED BANK: Borough library has added Chromebooks to the technology available for take-home borrowing by patrons.
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July 26th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: PAVING TO CLOSE ROAD OVERNIGHT
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RED BANK: Overnight closings of Harding Road planned for repaving. Here's what you need to know.
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July 25th, 2022 @ 5am
RED BANK: BROADWALK SET FOR RETURN
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RED BANK: With streetscape complete and bollards up, restaurants race to set up for Broadwalk. No takers for streateries elsewhere, however.
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July 22nd, 2022 @ 2pm
RED BANK: LAWN-WATERING RESTRICTED
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RED BANK: Amid the hottest stretch of weather this year, New Jersey American Water issues 'mandatory' odd/even lawn-watering restrictions.
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July 22nd, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: TOURS ADDED TO APP
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RED BANK: Walking tours history app created by High Tech High students adds new themed routes.
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July 22nd, 2022 @ 5am
RED BANK: BROADWALK RELAUNCH “ON TRACK”
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RED BANK: Broadwalk "on track" to return Friday, but it remains to be seen how many businesses participate in the dining and shopping plaza.
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July 21st, 2022 @ 11am
RED BANK: Air conditioning outage prompts Riverview Medical Center to shut ER, divert patients elsewhere in building and to other hospitals.
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July 20th, 2022 @ 12pm
RED BANK: REFERENDUM ON CHANGE SET
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RED BANK: Charter Study Commission wraps up with report that puts new form of government and non-partisan elections up for November vote.
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July 20th, 2022 @ 10am
RED BANK: MUGGY HEAT BLANKETS REGION
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RED BANK: Hot, humid weather to continue as Broad Street makeover nears completion. Here's the extended forecast for the Greater Green.
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July 20th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: CLOTHING, SALADS, SHAKES & MORE
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RED BANK: New shops selling vintage clothing, healthy beverages, fresh salads and more debut. Meet the owners.
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July 19th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: ANI ART OFFERS SCHOLARSHIPS
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RED BANK: Previously limited to military veterans, Ani Art Academy is now open to all adults, and has 12 scholarships to offer to beginners.
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July 19th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: EX-STUDENT LEADS CONSERVATORY
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RED BANK: Count Basie Center for the Arts names Laura Petillo to head Monmouth Conservatory of Music, where she studied as a child.
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July 18th, 2022 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER: FIRE DAMAGES DRY CLEANER
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LITTLE SILVER: Volunteer firefighters stop early morning fire at Branch Avenue dry cleaning shop, containing blaze to contents, says chief.
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July 16th, 2022 @ 10am
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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.