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RED BANK: POLICE BUST UP CAR RALLY
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RED BANK: Police busted up a car rally in the parking lot of the Molly Pitcher Inn Sunday as a violation of Murphy's "stay home" order.
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April 20th, 2020 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: Public school teachers created an upbeat video reminder for students at home. Here's the not-so-upbeat weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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April 20th, 2020 @ 6am
VIRUS UPDATE: DATA SHOWS IMPROVEMENT
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VIRUS UPDATE: Pace of death from COVID-19 shows slowing as other indicators hint at improvement. Nine more deaths in Monmouth longterm care homes reported.
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April 19th, 2020 @ 1pm
VIRUS UPDATE: CARE-HOME DEATHS CONTINUE
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy reports "undeniable" progress in COVID-19 hospitalizations and blasts official calling for unrestricted state reopening.
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April 18th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: FAMILY ‘DODGED BULLET’ OF VIRUS
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RED BANK: Under one roof, a family of five comes through COVID-19 healthy and thankful that tests kept them from further spreading the virus.
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April 17th, 2020 @ 6pm
VIRUS UPDATE: COVID-19 deaths double in one week as longterm care facilities are hit hard with peak still "coming," says health commissioner.
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April 17th, 2020 @ 2pm
LITTLE SILVER: A BACKYARD SWEARING-IN
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LITTLE SILVER: After the first socially distanced backyard swearing-in ceremony in borough history, Keenan joins the council Monday - remotely.
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April 17th, 2020 @ 8am
VIRUS UPDATE: DEATH TOLL UNYIELDING
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VIRUS UPDATE: New COVID-19 deaths continue at or near record pace even as other indicators of the crisis signal improvement.
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April 16th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: FREE MEALS AT BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
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RED BANK: The Boys & Girls Clubs of Monmouth County unit on Drs. Parker Boulevard is helping feed the community's hungry with free meals five nights a week.
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April 16th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: A HEAD-TURNING SIGHT
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RED BANK: Bicyclist does double take when an usual sight catches his eye on Bridge Avenue.
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April 16th, 2020 @ 7am
VIRUS UPDATE: DEATH TOLL SOARS AGAIN
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VIRUS UPDATE: Amid encouraging signs, another near-record death increase pushes New Jersey's COVID-19 toll to 3,156, including 22 more in Monmouth County.
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April 15th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: THEATER CONSIDERS NEXT ACT
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RED BANK: Will theatergoers return to their seats after the COVID-19 pandemic ends? NEWS12 explores the question with Two River Theater's artistic director.
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April 15th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK HELPS FEED PETS
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RED BANK: Lunch Break and the Monmouth County SPCA team up to help feed the pets of area residents hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 15th, 2020 @ 10am
VIRUS UPDATE: ‘WORST CASE’ REVISED DOWN
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VIRUS UPDATE: One-day increase in COVID-19 deaths hits new record as Murphy team revises down "worst-case" crisis peak impact on hospitals.
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April 14th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: GOOD EATING AND SHARING
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RED BANK: Updates on finding good takeout in town (and beyond) and efforts to help support both restaurants and frontline healthcare worker at once.
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April 14th, 2020 @ 9am
VIRUS UPDATE: POSITIVE SIGNS AMID BRACING
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VIRUS UPDATE: More encouraging data emerges as state continues bracing for COVID-19 surge and issues guidance for "worst-case" triage of resources.
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April 13th, 2020 @ 4pm
ON THE GREEN: TRANQUIL SCENES ABOUND
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ON THE GREEN: Three weeks into the COVID-19 shutdown of non-essential activity, tranquility abounds on the Greater Red Bank Green. Photos galore.
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April 13th, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: LEAF-BLOWING STORM FORECAST
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ON THE GREEN: Heavy rain, strong winds likely Monday. Here's the extended weather forecast for the Greater Red Bank Green.
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April 13th, 2020 @ 7am
VIRUS UPDATE: Both Monmouth County and New Jersey saw further softening in new COVID-19 positive cases and other encouraging signs in the pandemic.
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April 12th, 2020 @ 2pm
VIRUS UPDATE: COUNTY CASE GROWTH SLOWS
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VIRUS UPDATE: Monmouth County reports smallest increase in COVID-19 positive cases in almost two weeks as Murphy asks holiday celebrants not to gather.
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April 11th, 2020 @ 1pm
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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.