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RED BANK SCHOOLS SEEK TAX HIKE TO COVER STATE AID CUTS
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Squeezed by state aid cuts and skyrocketing costs, Red Bank Borough schools ask state to allow a 13 percent tax levy hike. (click to read)
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April 18th, 2025 @ 1pm
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RED BANK CHURN: FUNERAL HOME FOR SALE, NEW MENSWEAR SHOP VANISHES AND MORE
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a Rolex dealer and a toy shop move to bigger digs, while a "comfy chic" boutique opens and a menswear shop disappears after a fiery five-month run. (click to read)
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April 17th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: CHARTER SCHOOL SCRAPS GYM PLAN, SELLING BUILDING
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The Red Bank Charter School is selling a building it had hoped to convert into a gym. (click to read)
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April 14th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK: NINE DWI’S, SHOOTING ARREST IN MARCH POLICE BLOTTER
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RED BANK: Police blotter for March includes an arrest for attempted murder, nine people arrested for DUI and other offenses.
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April 11th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK PLANNING BOARD GETS AN EARFUL ON TRAIN STATION PLAN
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Residents sound off on a plan that would allow up to 400 apartments, green space and 725 parking spaces near the Red Bank train station. (click to read)
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April 10th, 2025 @ 9am
THROWBACK: “DEAD BANK” TACKLES VACANT DOWNTOWN STOREFRONTS
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A look back at April, 1990 when the Borough of Red Bank took action to address vacant storefronts that gave rise to the nickname "Dead Bank."
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April 9th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: NJ TRANSIT HAS BIG PLANS BUT FEWER RIDERS
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NJ Transit is planning a massive redevelopment of the Red Bank train station area amid a new reality few saw coming: 65 percent fewer train riders. (click to read)
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April 8th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: GALLERIA OWNER SEEKS OK FOR 40 APARTMENTS ON RIVERFRONT
News 14 townhomes and two cottages on the block bounded by Harding and Hudson Avenues and Clay Street.
Red Bank's building boom roars on as a developer proposes 40 units on the banks of the Navesink River. (click to read)
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April 7th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK BRUSH PICKUP RESUMES WITH NEW SCHEDULE
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Yard cleanup season's here and the Borough of Red Bank is resuming brush collection with a new schedule. Check out the map and details. (click to read).
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April 2nd, 2025 @ 7am
THE FUR AND THE FOG: RED BANK EGG HUNT IN PHOTOS
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The fur and the fog: Red Bank's annual Spring Egg Hunt in photos. (click for more)
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April 1st, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: MONMOUTH STREET SIDEWALK PROJECT BEGINS
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Three months of construction to replace and improve sidewalks begins on Monmouth Street in Red Bank this week. 
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March 31st, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: MARINE PARK REMAKE ZIPS FORWARD
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Sunset corn hole by the Navesink, anyone? More details - from a hammock hangout to a food truck area - emerge in the plan to remake Red Bank's Marine Park. (click to read).
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March 27th, 2025 @ 8pm
RED BANK TRAIN STATION PLAN GETS AIRING
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A redevelopment plan that would guide the biggest project Red Bank has seen in more than a century gets its first public airing before a full council chamber at Borough Hall. (click to read)
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March 27th, 2025 @ 12am
RED BANK: NO CHARGES IN MAY PEDESTRIAN DEATH
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Prosecutors: No charges against the driver in a May crash that took the life of a 20-year-old Frankie Luna Santamaria of Red Bank. (click to read)
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March 25th, 2025 @ 2pm
RED BANK: TRAIN STATION REDEVELOPMENT HEARING SCHEDULED
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Planner for Borough of Red Bank releases 44-page draft train station redevelopment plan and first public hearing is scheduled. (click to read)
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March 21st, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK: MARINE PARK TRANSFORMATION BEGINS
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Bulldozers move in as the second phase of a dramatic transformation of Red Bank's signature waterfront park begins.(click to read)
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March 20th, 2025 @ 10am
RED BANK: CHEESY WINDOWS GONE, BUILDING RESTORED TO “LOOK SHARP”
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Remember these windows that sparked astonishment when they were installed on a century old Red Bank building? Read on to see how it's all turning out.
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March 18th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK’S CEDAR CROSSING: OFFICIALS CITE FIXES WHILE CRITIC CALLS IT “A DUMP”
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A Red Bank complex once hailed as a beacon for affordable housing tries to get itself back on firm financial footing, but may need help from the borough. (click to read)
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March 17th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: HISTORIC GUIDELINES PLAN ON TAP
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Six months after tabling a plan for a new historic district for Irving Place Red Bank seeks to prepare a wider survey to protect historic buidlings townwide. (click to read)
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March 13th, 2025 @ 8am
5K ORGANIZERS SHOW MERCY WITH NEW FLATTER COURSE FOR ’25
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Red Bank Classic 5k organizers announce June 14 race date and a new flatter course. (click to read)
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March 12th, 2025 @ 11am
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COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(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 ...