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RED BANK: OUTAGES ABOUND AFTER STORM
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RED BANK: Power outages abounded and roadways were barricaded as heavy, wet snow dropped by Wednesday's storm brings down lines.
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March 22nd, 2018 @ 7am
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RED BANK: PRE-SNOW SNOW DAY
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RED BANK: With schools closed and a state of emergency in effect, activity is light on the Greater Green in the pre-storm hours of a snow day.
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March 21st, 2018 @ 11am
RED BANK: RAYRAP PROJECT GETS UNDERWAY
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RED BANK: House fire? Quick demolition? What's Going Here? Here's the scoop about recent activity at Harding and Hudson, the site of RayRap's long-awaited project.
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March 21st, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: CHARTER AID BOOST SLAMMED
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RED BANK: School board and parents slam increased transfer of funds to charter school, which wipes out state aid increase.
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March 20th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: SPRING ARRIVES AS WINTER STORM
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RED BANK: A brewing storm threatens to dump a foot of more of heavy, wet snow on the Greater Green over the first two days of spring, 2018.
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March 20th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: TWO NEW HOME LOTS APPROVED
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RED BANK: Zoning board approves creation of two new homes on West Side riverfront estate where attorney says owner could theoretically build nine.
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March 19th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: VACANT SHOP TO GET FACELIFT
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RED BANK: A Shrewsbury Avenue retail space that's been vacant since the departure of a seafood shop decades ago is approved for a facelift.
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March 16th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: CHAMPION HOOPSTERS HONORED
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RED BANK: Middle school girls' basketball team cited for "Cinderella" 13-2 season and first Shore Athletic League championship in 24 years.
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March 15th, 2018 @ 3pm
RBR SUPERINTENDENT: ADDRESS GUN ACCESS
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RED BANK REGIONAL: Before starting an 'arms race' in schools by arming teachers, let's address gun access, says Superintendent Louis Moore.
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March 14th, 2018 @ 5am
RED BANK: SIDEWALK CAFÉ, STAND ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Agenda for Wednesday's council meeting includes tweak to sidewalk café law, designation of new ice cream vendor in Riverside Gardens Park.
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March 13th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: RAIN, THEN SNOW IN FORECAST
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RED BANK: Rain turning to snow Monday afternoon could leave up to three inches on the Greater Green by Tuesday morning, forecasters say.
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March 12th, 2018 @ 5am
RED BANK: In contrast to a blizzard that prompted a record number of parking tickets earlier this year, cops went light on ticketing in this week's storm.
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March 9th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: Judge rejects JCP&L power line plan along 10 miles of rail, citing "overwhelming' adverse impacts and unproven need.
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March 8th, 2018 @ 5pm
RED BANK: CARLO’S STAYING PUT; PHO LE OUT
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RED BANK: Retail Churn includes news about Carlo's Bake Shop, owned by 'Cake Boss' Buddy Valastro, plus some changes in the restaurant scene.
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March 8th, 2018 @ 10am
ON THE GREEN: OUTAGES & DELAYED OPENINGS
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ON THE GREEN: A post-storm rundown of outages and delayed school starts in the Red Bank area.
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March 8th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: EX-REC HEAD ALLEGES RACISM
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RED BANK: Former parks & rec head Memone Crystian files suit against borough alleging racial discrimination by former administrator and councilman.
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March 7th, 2018 @ 11am
RED BANK: SNOW AND SLEET IN FORECAST
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RED BANK: A late-winter storm could drop seven inches of snow and sleet on Green Wednesday. Governor declares state of emergency.
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March 7th, 2018 @ 5am
RED BANK: MARINE PARK MAKEOVER KICKS OFF
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RED BANK: What does Marine Park need? Borough schedules first in a series of public input sessions on concept plan for a possible makeover.
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March 6th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: Borough cop charged with driving while intoxicated and other offenses following off-duty accident in Middletown, chief says.
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March 2nd, 2018 @ 5pm
RED BANK: A borough cop arrested was arrested in Middletown a week ago, but no charges or details have yet been disclosed.
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March 2nd, 2018 @ 3pm
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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 ...
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 ...