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RED BANK: COUNCIL MEETING STINKS
RED BANK: This is what democracy looks (and, maybe, smells) like: a water rate hike, moments of silence, and a weird exchange about body odor.
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July 13th, 2024 @ 1pm
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RED BANK: SEWAGE SPILL THREATENS RIVER
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RED BANK: Contractors for a train station redevelopment project hit a major sewer line, sending sewage into the storm drains, officials said. Click for more.
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July 11th, 2024 @ 9pm
RED BANK: MARINE PARK REMAKE BEGINS
RED BANK: Workers have begun a long awaited remake of Marine Park on the Navesink River.
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July 2nd, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: VOGEL RUNWAY GETS PUNKED
RED BANK: Two downtown clothing boutiques fill the Vogel with eye popping sustainable punk fashions and their screaming fans.
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June 29th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: COUNCIL SWALLOWS “HARD TRUTH” ON WATER RATES
Red Bank council members call water rate hike painful but necessary - and better than privatization. (click to read)
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June 28th, 2024 @ 8am
‘PUNK EDIT’ FASHION TO LIGHT UP THE VOGEL
RED BANK: Pearl St. Consignment and Shedhead Vintage team up Wednesday night on "The Punk Edit Fashion Show," a sonic and visual phantasmagoria. (Click for more)
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June 24th, 2024 @ 4am
FAWNING OVER HER BABY
A mother deer and her fawn were spotted between a row of garages on Hudson Avenue and some trees alongside the Broad Street parking lots. Redbankgreen has video of the cuteness.
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June 12th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: AFTER LOST DECADE, TOXIC CLEANUP IS “EMERGENCY”
RED BANK: In 2014, officials said the cleanup of a contaminated former landfill along the Swimming River would take five to ten years to finish. A decade later, they haven't even started. (click to read)
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May 21st, 2024 @ 8am
DOGFEST, FARMERS MARKET TOP RED BANK WEEKEND PICKS
Red Bank Green's pick of seratonin-boosting events for a wonderful May weekend.
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May 17th, 2024 @ 11am
VIDEO: MONMOUTH BOAT CLUB PLANS TO GO HIGHER
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Video: The Monmouth Boat Club has stood on the banks of the Navesink River in Red Bank for 145-years. But the pilings that hold it up are rotting away. A plan is being hatched to lift the historic structure and build a higher foundation. (Click to read/watch)
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May 16th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: LEAD WATER LINE PROJECT MOVES EAST
RED BANK: Crews have replaced 345 lead water service lines so far. There are likely hundreds more to go as the massive lead service line project moves to the eastern portions of town. (click to read)
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May 15th, 2024 @ 1pm
RED BANK: BIRD BONANZA BEGINS
RED BANK: A morning visit to a little known birding hotspot along the Swimming River reveals an explosion of sound and color.
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May 7th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: DEP TARGETS VAPORS AT CONDO COMPLEX
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RED BANK: "Vapor mitigation systems" installed at Marion Street condo complex built on former dry cleaner site.
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May 2nd, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: PLASTIC UTENSIL LAW KICKS IN, GENTLY
RED BANK: Enforcement won't start until July. But many eateries are already following a new "by request only" plastic utensil law.
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April 30th, 2024 @ 11am
RED BANK: DANDELION CHAMP CROWNED
RED BANK: To celebrate the pretty yellow flowers demonized by the lawn industrial complex, we held a dandelion display contest for Earth Day. Meet the winner.
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April 25th, 2024 @ 1pm
GREEN MINDED RED BANKERS CONVERGE AT FAIR
A crocodile made out of discarded egg cartons.
RED BANK: From a "trashion show" of dresses made of garbage to displays on how to save a school from sea level rise, photos from the Earth Day Green Fair.
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April 23rd, 2024 @ 10am
RED BANK: DANDELION DISPLAY CONTEST
RED BANK: Earth Day contest offers prize and bragging rights for the lawn with the best dandelion display.
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April 22nd, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: BILLBOARD PLAN QUESTIONED
RED BANK: Replacing a 60-year-old billboard at the town's entrance with a new digital version: an upgrade or an albatross?
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April 5th, 2024 @ 6am
TREES PROCLAIM SPRING’S ARRIVAL IN GLORIOUS COLOR
RED BANK: In the midst of an extended rainy streak, trees all over town are proclaiming the full-on arrival of spring. Feast your eyes here.
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April 2nd, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: STUDY FINDS STATION FIT FOR REDEVELOPMENT
RED BANK: Underutilized land, acres of parking lots. Study finds train station fits bill for an "area in need of redevelopment."
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March 28th, 2024 @ 7am
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PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.