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RED BANK SWEARS IN TWO POLICE OFFICERS
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The Red Bank Police Department welcomes two new officers. (click to read)
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January 10th, 2025 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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WILL IT FREEZE? AS ICE COVERS NAVESINK RIVER, RED BANK ICE BOATERS WAIT AND HOPE
As a thin layer of ice forms, ice boaters hope for a long-awaited return to the Navesink River. (click to read)
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January 9th, 2025 @ 4pm
🥂 A NEW YEAR MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE FROM REDBANKGREEN
Dear Red Bank, Years ago, I was sitting, beer in hand, in my backyard on South Street. I had this sudden compulsion to get up and peek through an openingContinue reading "🥂 A NEW YEAR MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE FROM REDBANKGREEN"
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December 31st, 2024 @ 2pm
VIDEO: RIVER DREDGING STIRS UP SWEET SMELLS OF NAVESINK RIVER MUD
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Would the mud from the Navesink River make a good skin care product? Two separate dredging operations provide a chance to explore the potential of the stuff that's the source of a reporter's favorite smell.
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December 31st, 2024 @ 7am
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM REDBANKGREEN
A holiday message from the journalism equivalent of George Bailey's "Wonderful old building and loan."
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December 24th, 2024 @ 3pm
BIKE DONATION BRINGS SMILES TO RED BANK KIDS
Twenty seven Red Bank Primary School students got shiny new bicycles just before the holidays thanks to a high school student and a charity set up in the name of a fallen 9-11 hero. (click for story and photos)
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December 23rd, 2024 @ 3pm
CARELESS AT RECKLESS: RED BANK PEDESTRIAN STRUCK AS INCIDENTS DOUBLE
Drivers strikes, injures pedestrian in Red Bank crosswalk, as Monmouth County fatalities skyrocket. (click to read)
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December 19th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: 400 APARTMENTS, GREEN PLAZA, NEW STREETS IN TRAIN STATION PLAN
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Developer unveils proposal to transform area around Red Bank train station into a neighborhood of apartment buildings and public plazas. (click to read)
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December 18th, 2024 @ 12am
CATALYTIC CONVERTER, PACKAGE THEFTS TOP RED BANK CRIME REPORT
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RED BANK: Thieves steal five catalytic converters in one night and Amazon packages from front porches. Read the November police report. (click to read)
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December 17th, 2024 @ 2pm
RED BANK: TRAIN STATION PROJECT TO BE UNVEILED
Drumroll, please. A developer will unveil the plans for a transformation of the neighborhood around the Red Bank train station Tuesday night. (click to read)
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December 16th, 2024 @ 1pm
“AMAZING” RED BANK COPS HONORED FOR EXTRAORDINARY ACTS
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Saving the life of a choking victim. Disarming a suspect carrying a stolen gun. Performing a DWI investigation that will make your head spin. Ten Red Bank Police officers are honored for extraordinary acts over the past year. (click to read)
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December 13th, 2024 @ 8am
COPS: RED BANK KILLING LATEST IN BLOODY “HATFIELDS & MCCOYS” FEUD
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Prosecutors describe a "cold blooded execution" of a Red Bank man in July they say was part of a dispute that accounts for a majority of gun violence in the Borough over more than a decade. (click to read)
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December 11th, 2024 @ 8am
THROWBACK: THE STORY BEHIND RED BANK’S ICEBOAT EMBLEM
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Red Bank Throwback: the story behind the borough's ice-boat emblem, designed by an 80-year-old artist in 1969. (click to read)
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December 9th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: WEST SIDE TREE LIGHTING WARMS HEARTS
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Red Bank's West Side holiday tree lighting lights up the cold frigid night at Johnny Jazz Park.
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December 7th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: WEST SIDE TREE LIGHTING, SANTA FIRE TRUCK VISITS ON TAP
Deadline approaches to schedule a Santa fire truck visit, the West Side tree lighting, and more. (click to read)
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December 5th, 2024 @ 2pm
SICKLES MARKET PLANS LITTLE SILVER RE-OPENING
Sickles Market owner vows to re-open this summer after a bankruptcy reorganization. (click to read)
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December 5th, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK CHURN: “CHELSEA MARKET” OK’D, LEBANESE DELI CLOSES AND MORE
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, plans for a market in the former Sickles market space emerge, two eateries pack it in and more. (click to read)
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December 4th, 2024 @ 4pm
RED BANK RIVERCENTER NAMES NEW LEADER
Red Bank RiverCenter taps the head of Toms River's special improvement district to lead the organization. (click to read)
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December 2nd, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: GALLERY MARKS ONE YEAR “PUSHING BOUNDARIES”
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Last November, a former New York gallery owner opened Gallery Lucida on Wallace Street. He celebrates a year "challenging" patrons with a killer new dual-artist exhibit. (click to read)
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December 2nd, 2024 @ 9am
RED BANK: THOUSANDS FILL STREETS FOR HOLIDAY CELEBRATION
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Who wore it better: the Grinch or the dog dressed as the Grinch? Answer this question and warm your soul with photos galore from the 32nd annual Red Bank holiday town lighting bonanza.
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November 30th, 2024 @ 8am
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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.
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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
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SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...