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LITTLE SILVER: RBR SETS IN-PERSON HEARING
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LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional High board plans a "live, in-person" meeting Wednesday night, despite Governor Murphy's "stay home" order.
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April 28th, 2020 @ 10pm
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VIRUS UPDATE: MURPHY PICKS ‘RESTART’ TEAM
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy names "restart and recovery" team but declines to say when state might reopen as data shows continued gains against COVID-19.
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April 28th, 2020 @ 3pm
LITTLE SILVER: RESPONDERS GET SPOTLIGHT
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LITTLE SILVER: Townwide lightup and fundraiser for volunteer fire and first aiders planned as thank-you for first-responders in the COVID-19 crisis.
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April 28th, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: MAN CHARGED IN BOTTLE-STAB
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RED BANK: A borough man is behind bars on charges he stabbed another with a broken bottle during an argument Friday, police said.
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April 27th, 2020 @ 6pm
VIRUS UPDATE: MURPHY MAPS ‘ROAD BACK’
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy maps out broad "restart and recovery" parameters for reopening state economy, which he expects to begin in "weeks, not months."
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April 27th, 2020 @ 1pm
RBR SENIOR PHOTO SHOW GOES VIRTUAL
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LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional's student photographers host this year's Senior Photo Show online. Check out their great work.
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April 27th, 2020 @ 10am
VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy administration reports lowest new death toll from COVID-19 since April 1 as other indicators also point to improvement.
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April 26th, 2020 @ 9pm
VIRUS UPDATE: MORE PROGRESS REPORTED
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy reports continued improvements in COVID-19 fight as he prepares to unveil "broad parameters" for possible eventual reopening.
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April 25th, 2020 @ 3pm
VIRUS UPDATE: CRISIS SHOWS MORE TAPERING
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VIRUS UPDATE: Data from last 10-to-14 days shows tapering ravages of COVID-19, Murphy reports as Persichilli warns against using cleaning agents as treatment.
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April 24th, 2020 @ 4pm
FAIR HAVEN: WEEKEND GOOD AND WET
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FAIR HAVEN: Weather outlook is favorable, if you like it wet. Here's the extended forecast for the Greater Red Bank Green.
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April 24th, 2020 @ 3am
VIRUS UPDATE: MORE FLATTENING SEEN
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy team reports more signs of COVID-19 curve flattening, with no deaths due to lack of hospital beds or ventilators.
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April 23rd, 2020 @ 4pm
RED BANK: BELLHAVEN VIEW SNEAK PREVIEW
RED BANK: redbankgreen gets a sneak peek of stunning river vistas from nearly finished playground/lookout stand at Bellhaven Natural Area. Video.
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April 23rd, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MAPLE COVE ADDITION POSSIBLE
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RED BANK: Borough may get a small addition to Maple Cove tract under negotiations authorized by council in executive session Wednesday night.
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April 23rd, 2020 @ 8am
VIRUS UPDATE: New COVID-19 data shows further signs of stabilization as Murphy lays groundwork for possible second wave later in the year.
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April 22nd, 2020 @ 4pm
RED BANK: WHITE STREET ON COUNCIL AGENDA
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RED BANK: Fiscal impact of COVID-19 looms, but the traditional budget intro won't occur at Wednesday's online council meeting. Here's what's on the agenda.
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April 22nd, 2020 @ 7am
VIRUS UPDATE: RECORD DEATHS REPORTED
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VIRUS UPDATE: New Jersey sees greatest loss of life in COVID-19 battle as other signs show pandemic both migrating south and stabilizing, Murphy team says.
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April 21st, 2020 @ 4pm
RED BANK: CHEERING TRINITY HALL SENIORS
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RED BANK: Procession of cars travels to homes of all seniors from Trinity Hall to cheer them on during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 21st, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: GETTING FED, AND HELPING TO FEED
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RED BANK: With food insecurity rising in the COVID-19 crisis, charities are helping keep families fed. Here's where to get food and make cash donations.
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April 21st, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: FIRE DAMAGES HOME
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RED BANK: Firefighters quickly extinguish Madison Avenue house fire that may have started with pipe-soldering in the basement.
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April 20th, 2020 @ 7pm
VIRUS UPDATE: CARE FACILITY DATA RELEASED
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy "seeing some light" in COVID-19 battle as state reports 8 deaths at longterm care facilities in Red Bank.
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April 20th, 2020 @ 3pm
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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.