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LITTLE SILVER: HEAVY POLICE ACTIVITY
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LITTLE SILVER: Heavy police action and large swath of town blocked by detours around unexplained activity apparently centered on a Branch Avenue house.
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December 2nd, 2020 @ 5pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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VIRUS: MURPHY NOTES HOSPITAL TREND
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VIRUS UPDATE: Hospital admissions continue to rise even as rate of COVID-19 transmission is easing, Murphy warns. Also: latest case data by town.
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December 2nd, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: BROAD REOPENED TO TRAFFIC
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RED BANK: 'Broadwalk' dining and shopping plaza goes on winter hiatus, though streateries can continue to use parking spots for restaurant seating.
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December 2nd, 2020 @ 7am
VIRUS: MONMOUTH HOSPITALIZATIONS RISE
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ON THE GREEN: Monmouth County hospitals were treating 344 COVID-19 patients as of Monday, freeholders report. Here are latest case totals by town.
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December 1st, 2020 @ 1pm
RED BANK: DECEMBER WEATHER ARRIVES
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RED BANK: Final month of 2020 – finally – begins Tuesday with partly sunny skies and falling temps. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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December 1st, 2020 @ 5am
LITTLE SILVER: RBR EYES TUESDAY RESTART
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LITTLE SILVER: After a month away, students and teachers will begin returning to Red Bank Regional Tuesday, superintendent says.
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November 30th, 2020 @ 10pm
RED BANK: ‘PRECAUTION’ CLOSES TOWN HALL
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RED BANK: Unannounced closure keeps borough facilities empty for extra day in what Shehady says is solely a 'precaution' against COVID-19.
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November 30th, 2020 @ 4pm
LITTLE SILVER: Crime reports from August, September and October include include a number of arrests for marijuana possession.
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November 30th, 2020 @ 2pm
LITTLE SILVER: LAST-MINUTE CHANGE FOR RBR
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LITTLE SILVER: A planned resumption of in-school instruction at Red Bank Regional won't happen Monday after all, school says in last-minute notice.
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November 30th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: PLAYING-IN-THE-PARK WEATHER
RED BANK: Saxophonist relaxes with a tune in Eastside Park. Here's video, plus the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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November 27th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: SECRET STASH TO RELOCATE
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RED BANK: Kevin Smith's downtown comics shop, Secret Stash, plans to relocate to a new Broad Street location, the filmmaker said Wednesday.
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November 25th, 2020 @ 7pm
RED BANK: LOW-KEY TREE LIGHTING
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RED BANK: Traditional Holiday Express concert/Town Light-Up is cancelled. Even the Christmas tree lighting will be a quiet affair.
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November 25th, 2020 @ 5pm
LITTLE SILVER: IT’S BACK TO SCHOOL FOR RBR
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LITTLE SILVER: Citing absence of in-school COVID-19 transmission, Red Bank Regional will stick with plan to resume in-school instruction Monday, Moore says.
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November 25th, 2020 @ 3pm
FAIR HAVEN: FIREFIGHTERS RESCUE TREED CAT
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FAIR HAVEN: Rumson fire volunteers bring ladder truck to rescue cat stuck high up in a tree. Clingy kitty appears thankful.
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November 25th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: MENNA APOLOGIZES TO MURPHY
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RED BANK: Menna apologizes to Murphy for two women who assailed governor and his family as they ate dinner downtown Sunday.
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November 25th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: Westside Hose Company has two new volunteer firefighters in the house, and one is already the borough fire commissioner.
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November 25th, 2020 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: HOLZAPFEL, BRENNAN WIN
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LITTLE SILVER: Official result confirms Republicans Holzapfel and Brennan outpolled Democrats Keenan and Gotti in council race.
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November 24th, 2020 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: DEMS WIN RARE MAJORITY
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FAIR HAVEN: Democrats secure first council majority in memory as Rodriguez retains seat and newcomer Neff displaces Sorensen.
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November 24th, 2020 @ 11am
COVID-19 WATCH: HOSPITALIZATIONS CLIMB
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RED BANK: Amid a second wave of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations in Monmouth County are again on the rise, freeholders' figures show.
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November 24th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: A day after he and his family were heckled while eating dinner here, Murphy takes an understanding tone, citing "incredibly stressful time."
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November 23rd, 2020 @ 3pm
Partyline
(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.