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RED BANK: STATION APARTMENTS HEARING SET
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RED BANK: Plans for 32 new apartments opposite train station scheduled to go before zoning board Thursday with need for variances.
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June 14th, 2023 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: WE’RE HUNGRY, MOMMY DEEREST
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RED BANK: Twin fawns idle away the day in dappled sunshine, awaiting mama's return with supper.
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June 13th, 2023 @ 10am
RED BANK: After a failed attempt to preserve part of the Senior Center property by subdivision, council will try another approach.
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June 13th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: STOLEN CAR FLIPS GUARDRAIL
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RED BANK: Car stolen from Fair Haven flips guardrail, strikes boats and lands on its front grill in predawn crash at marina Sunday.
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June 12th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: Police blotter from May includes a spate of graffiti, auto vandalism, thefts and four alleged DWI incidents.
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June 8th, 2023 @ 10am
RED BANK: IN THE CLOUD
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RED BANK: Smoke from Canadian forest fires smothered the borough in an otherworldly haze Wednesday. Photos.
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June 8th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: CANNABIS SHOP OK MAKES THREE
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RED BANK: Town now has three cannabis shops approved. None have yet opened, and more are pending decisions.
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June 7th, 2023 @ 4pm
RED BANK: SMOKY HAZE BLANKETS REGION
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RED BANK: "Avoid time outdoors," says National Weather Service, as smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets Northeastern U.S.
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June 7th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: BOARD NIXES CENTER SUBDIVISION
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RED BANK: Planning board rejects subdivision of Senior Center property as ceding control of land to New Jersey "in return for nothing."
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June 6th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: Another in a line of proposed cannabis retailers, this one in a former dry cleaning shop, goes to the planning board Monday night.
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June 5th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: COUNCIL MUM ON BODYCAM FEE
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RED BANK: Amid "flood" of OPRA requests for bodycam videos, council rejects proposed RBPD fees without comment.
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June 2nd, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: NOT QUITE ALL-IN ON SUMMER
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RED BANK: Nature appears to be less than fully committed to providing summer sunshine this weekend. Forecast for the Greater Green.
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June 2nd, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: FLIP OK’D ON MAYOR’S TIEBREAKER
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RED BANK: With neighbors divided, council approves parking 'flip' on Spring Street as Portman casts his first tiebreaker vote as mayor.
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June 1st, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: SENIOR CENTER TO REOPEN AT LAST
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RED BANK: After a four-year closure and $2 million in repairs, Senior Center slated to formally reopen next week.
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May 30th, 2023 @ 1pm
RED BANK: BOROUGH MARKS MEMORIAL DAY
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RED BANK: "Remember those who gave all so you could have the life you have," a says speaker at Memorial Day ceremony. Check out the photos.
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May 30th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: MAN STABBED WITH BBQ FORK
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RED BANK: A dispute over money ended with a Long Branch man stabbed in the chest with a barbecue fork Saturday, police said.
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May 29th, 2023 @ 2pm
RED BANK: NEIGHBORS RAPT OVER OWLET
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RED BANK: A young owl surprised neighbors when it perched in a tree on Hudson Avenue in Red Bank last week. 
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May 26th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: BROADWALK BOLLARDS GO BIG
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RED BANK: Tall, bright-red bollard covers installed as RiverCenter moves on plan to address various complaints about Broadwalk zone.
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May 25th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: PORTMAN ‘LISTENING’ TO MANDATE
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RED BANK: Coming off a decisive win, Portman says he's listening to residents and preparing to use the 'mandate' they gave him.
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May 23rd, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: BAGEL OVEN ENDS 45-YEAR RUN
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RED BANK: The Bagel Oven, a tiny Monmouth Street mecca for bagel lovers, ended a 45-year run under its founding owners Sunday.
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May 22nd, 2023 @ 8am
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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.
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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
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.