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RED BANK: LIBRARY HOSTS PHOTO CONTEST
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RED BANK: Library hosts a photo and video contest titled "Red Bank: Always Beautiful." Here's what you need to know to enter.
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May 15th, 2020 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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VIRUS UPDATE: BEACHES TO REOPEN, PARTLY
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VIRUS UPDATE: In further easing of COVID-19-related restrictions, Murphy to allow beaches and boardwalks to reopen in time for Memorial Day weekend.
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May 14th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: JOBS DEBATE SPLITS COUNCIL
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RED BANK: Things get personal on Zoom as two part-time recycling center jobs are eliminated, prompting split on the all-Democratic council.
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May 14th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SAFE REOPENING TIPS FOR STORES
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RED BANK: Borough plans info session on safety measures for merchants as partial reopening of retail operations begins Monday.
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May 14th, 2020 @ 7am
VIRUS UPDATE: LIMITS EASED ON RETAIL
VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy eases COVID-19-related limits on retailing and construction; state reports 18 cases of Kawasaki disease in children.
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May 13th, 2020 @ 3pm
VIRUS UPDATE: MORE TESTS, TRACING SLATED
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy plans to boost COVID-19 testing and contact tracing; says reopening the economy won't be like flipping a light switch.
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May 12th, 2020 @ 4pm
RED BANK: CENSUS PARTICIPATION URGED
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RED BANK: Complete Count Committee makes the case for all borough residents to complete Census questionnaire.
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May 12th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: HAIL THE RETURN OF SUNSHINE
RED BANK: All hail the return of sunshine for a three-day visit. Here's the extended weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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May 12th, 2020 @ 6am
VIRUS UPDATE: O’SCANLON, MURPHY JOUST
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VIRUS UPDATE: With COVID-19 cases and deaths in decline, O'Scanlon calls for "rebellion" against Murphy's shutdown, and Murphy pushes back.
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May 11th, 2020 @ 5pm
RED BANK: The March and April crime and arrest blotter from RBPD includes four DWI charges, plus a number of thefts from vehicles.
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May 11th, 2020 @ 11am
VIRUS UPDATE: RED BANK CASES STILL RISING
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VIRUS UPDATE: Amid a general slowing of COVID-19 cases and deaths, Red Bank's new-infection count continues to grow at a stubborn rate.
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May 11th, 2020 @ 7am
VIRUS UPDATE: CHILD’S DEATH REPORTED
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy reports death of a four-year-old, the first person under 18 to die in the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed 8,952 state residents.
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May 8th, 2020 @ 6pm
LITTLE SILVER: DALPRA RETIRING FROM RBR
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LITTLE SILVER: After turning around the sports culture at Red Bank Regional over the past 12 years, Louis 'Del' DalPra is retiring. For real this time, he says.
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May 8th, 2020 @ 1pm
FAIR HAVEN: CHEERING HEALTHCARE HEROES
FAIR HAVEN: Town gives a clamorous, five-minute cheer to frontline COVID-19 heroes, an event it plans to repeat weekly through May 28.
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May 8th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: FEEDING NURSES IN APPRECIATION
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RED BANK: Restaurants donate cartloads of meals for frontline healthcare worker at Riverview Medical Center in recognition of Nurse Appreciation Week.
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May 8th, 2020 @ 7am
VIRUS UPDATE: FACILITY DEATH TOLL SOARS
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VIRUS UPDATE: No explanation offered as COVID-19 deaths at Monmouth County longterm care facilities appear to spike, now accounting for 73 percent of total.
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May 7th, 2020 @ 5pm
RED BANK: FRESH TAKE ON FOOD INSECURITY
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RED BANK: With food insecurity rising in the COVID-19 crisis, Kitch Organic rolls out way to donate fresh vegetables and fruits to hungry families.
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May 7th, 2020 @ 9am
LITTLE SILVER: PAVING JOB STEAMS AHEAD
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LITTLE SILVER: A resurfacing of Branch Avenue means some neighborhoods are cut off from vehicular access for hours at a time.
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May 6th, 2020 @ 6pm
VIRUS UPDATE: COUNTY DEATHS SURPASS 400
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VIRUS UPDATE: Monmouth County has now lost more than 400 residents to COVID-19, two-thirds of them connected to longterm care facilities, state reports.
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May 6th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: What's Going On Here with the brown tap water flowing through faucets? Here's the likely answer, and what to expect in coming days.
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May 6th, 2020 @ 12pm
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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.