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RED BANK: BROADWALK, NOW “SETTLED LAW” SEEKS TO MOVE PAST CONTROVERSY
Red Bank's seasonal pedestrian plaza returns, with officials hoping opponents will get on board. (Click to read)
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May 11th @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK GETS GRANT FOR WORLD CUP CELEBRATION
Red Bank scores a $50,000 state grant to hold World Cup soccer watch parties and other events in June and July. (Click to read)
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May 7th @ 7am
RED BANK: BOARD OF ED NIXES BID TO OUST MEMBER FOR ABSENCES
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Should a Red Bank Board of Education member be removed for missing three meetings? Board members split on bid to consider ouster. (Click to read)
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May 4th @ 8am
RED BANK: BOROUGH INKS NEW BASIE FIELDS DEAL WITH RBC
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Red Bank Catholic will pay the Borough of Red Bank $185,000 a year to use Count Basie Park under a new 10-year deal.(Click to read)
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April 30th @ 7am
RED BANK: BOARD OF ED OK’S 9.5 PERCENT SCHOOL TAX HIKE
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Red Bank taxpayers will shell out 9.5 percent more to run the two district schools as officials cite skyrocketing health care costs. (click to read)
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April 29th @ 10am
RED BANK’S “DOCTOR PENIS” DRAWS NY TIMES SCRUTINY FOR BREAST SURGERY PAYOUTS
Newspaper expose on eye-popping insurance payments focuses on Red Bank plastic surgeon. (Click to read)
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April 27th @ 7am
RED BANK: BUSY SUNDAY ON TAP WITH STREET FAIR, GRAFFITI FEST
Street fair and Graffiti Fest on tap Sunday in Red Bank. (click to read)
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April 24th @ 4pm
AS ENROLLMENT DROPS, CHARTER SCHOOL RECRUITS OUTSIDE RED BANK
With ten percent of its seats empty and once-long wait list shrunken, Red Bank Charter School enrolls more children from out of town. (Click to read)
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April 21st @ 3pm
RED BANK: NEW LIBRARY MURAL SHINES
Red Bank Public Library mural depicts fauna featured in literature, the local landscape, and one Red Bank student's cherished memories. (Click to read.)
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April 20th @ 8am
RED BANK: LONG LIST OF ARRESTS IN MARCH POLICE BLOTTER
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RED BANK: A man charged with assaulting and taking an officer's weapon is among a long list of arrests by police in the month of March.
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April 17th @ 5pm
RED BANK CHURN: PINBALL LOUNGE, PRE-MADE MEALS SPOT OPEN
Red Bank Retail Churn: A pinball speakeasy and a $10 premade meals spot open. All the details and more news of comings and goings in Churn.
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April 15th @ 7am
RED BANK: NJ TRANSIT TRAIN STATION PARKING FEES SPIKE
Amid a sharp decline in commuters using them, NJ Transit raises parking fees on parking lots that are slated to be redeveloped into housing. (Click to read)
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April 13th @ 7am
RED BANK: BORO TRUCK DRIVER STRIKES PEDESTRIAN
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Pedestrian struck by driver of a Borough of Red Bank DPU truck. (Click to read)
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April 9th @ 5pm
RED BANK: RESTAURANT PLAN OK’D FOR DEAD GAS STATION SITE
Red Bank Planning Board approves Victor Rallo's plan to remake a longtime eyesore property. (Click to read)
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April 9th @ 12pm
RED BANK: COP WED TO EX-CHIEF SUES BOROUGH FOR BIAS
Her police chief husband resigned after an ethics scandal stemming from their affair. Now, police officer Kristen McConnell has filed a sexually explicit lawsuit against top Red Bank officials. (Click to read)
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April 6th @ 12pm
RED BANK: “CRAZY” HEALTH COSTS DRIVE 8 PERCENT BORO TAX HIKE PLAN
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Municipal portion of the average Red Bank property tax bill would rise 7.7 percent under a 2026 budget unveiled Thursday. (click to read)
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April 3rd @ 2pm
AFTER 40 YEARS, SALON ZOOMS OUT OF RED BANK; JAMIAN’S HITS 25 YEARS
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A Monmouth Street hair studio is moving out of Red Bank after 40 years. Two doors down a bar celebrates its 25th anniversary. (Click to read)
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March 27th @ 1pm
RED BANK: BILLBOARD LAWSUIT SETTLED WITH SWAP
Ad company will drop its bid to build a digital billboard at the Red Bank's northern gateway - if it can build one on the southern border instead. (Click to read)
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March 26th @ 7am
RED BANK SCHOOLS EYE 9.5 PERCENT TAX LEVY HIKE
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Statewide school funding crunch hits Red Bank as district seeks 9.5 percent tax levy hike. (Click to read)
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March 24th @ 3pm
RED BANK: EAST SIDE PARK CLOSES FOR LEAD CLEANUP
Most of East Side Park is closed while the NJ DEP works to remove lead-contaminated soil. (click to read)
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March 17th @ 3pm
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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.