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VIRUS UPDATE: DEATH TOLL & CASELOAD RISE
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VIRUS UPDATE: New Jersey's COVID-19 death toll rose by 18 and the number of infected residents continued its climb, Murphy team said Wednesday.
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March 25th, 2020 @ 3pm
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VIRUS UPDATES: BLOOD, FOOD DRIVES SLATED
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RED BANK: YMCA plans a blood drive employing "extreme precautions" to help address shortfall from COVID-19 pandemic. Details here.
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March 25th, 2020 @ 12pm
VIRUS UPDATE: MONMOUTH SEEKS GEAR
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VIRUS UPDATE: Monmouth County officials issue appeal for medical gear, say non-residents are coming to their shore homes in spite of Murphy stay-home order.
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March 25th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: Virus leads to cancellation of standardized testing, but impact questions linger. Special report from NJ Spotlight.
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March 25th, 2020 @ 9am
VIRUS UPDATE: Largest one-day climb in state's COVID-19 death toll reported as total reaches 44, including one more in Monmouth County, Murphy team says.
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March 24th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: WILL LONG-CLOSED ‘VAULT’ OPEN?
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RED BANK: After a seven-year vacancy, Saxum Real Estate had finally landed a tenant for the building it calls 'the Vault' on Broad Street. And then, COVID-19 hit.
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March 24th, 2020 @ 10am
VIRUS UPDATE: COVID-19 DEATH TOLL RISES
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VIRUS UPDATE: State's COVID-19 death toll grows by seven as Murphy Administration announces plans to reduce jail population and enforce stay-home order.
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March 23rd, 2020 @ 1pm
ON THE GREEN: MEETINGS MOVE ONLINE
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ON THE GREEN: Local governments and school boards make abrupt change to online meetings in the COVID-19 pandemic. There may be some glitches.
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March 23rd, 2020 @ 12pm
ON THE GREEN: SCENES FROM THE PANDEMIC
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ON THE GREEN: Panic? What panic? Out on the streets, an air of serenity prevails, masking the true anxiety many feel because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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March 23rd, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: HOPEFUL MESSAGES IN CHALK
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RED BANK: Homebound by COVID-19, John Street neighbors decorated their walks and driveways with chalk art and encouraging messages Sunday.
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March 23rd, 2020 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: SOCIAL DISTANCING WEATHER
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LITTLE SILVER: Whether you're covered in red fur or not, Monday will be a good day to stay inside, with lots of rain in the forecast.
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March 23rd, 2020 @ 6am
VIRUS UPDATE: State's COVID-19 death toll rises by four as patient total climbs by 590, including 66 more in Monmouth County, Murphy Administration says.
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March 22nd, 2020 @ 3pm
VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy announces all New Jersey residents must "stay home" to help flatten spike in COVID-19 cases, which officials said have claimed five more lives.
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March 21st, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BARBER SHOP CLIPPED
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RED BANK: A barber shop that continued operating after an anti-COVID-19 executive order by the governor closed after a visit by police Saturday morning.
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March 21st, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: Borough government reports first confirmed COVID-19 in a resident.
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March 20th, 2020 @ 10pm
VIRUS UPDATE: HOLMDEL TEST SITE TO OPEN
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy announces Monday opening of COVID-19 drive-thru test site in Holmdel as case total rises by 155 and two more die.
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March 20th, 2020 @ 3pm
ON THE GREEN: VIRUS UPDATES
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ON THE GREEN: Latest COVID-19 updates in the Red Bank area include train schedules, a virtual tip jar for restaurant and bar workers, and a scam alert.
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March 20th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: Spring 2020 gets underway with summer-like temperatures Friday. Here's the extended weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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March 20th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: TAKEOUT, ANYONE?
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RED BANK: Pandemic or not, you need to eat, and restaurants need to feed you. RiverCenter has a list of which eateries are open and doing takeout/delivery.
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March 19th, 2020 @ 3pm
VIRUS UPDATE: CASE NUMBER RISES
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VIRUS UPDATE: Monmouth County has 11 more COVID-19 cases and another death as statewide pandemic total climbs again, Murphy Administration reported Thursday.
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March 19th, 2020 @ 2pm
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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.