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Category Archives: Green Living

RED BANK: NEW RULES, NEW GARDEN HELP NATIVE PLANT EFFORTS BLOOM
A new native plant garden and an ordinance requiring native plants in major developments could boost butterfly fortunes in Red Bank. (click to read)
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June 24th @ 2pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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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: BOROUGH SEEKS INPUT ON JOHNNY JAZZ PARK REMAKE
Borough of Red Bank plans a makeover for Johnny Jazz Park. (Click to read)
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February 12th @ 10am
REDBANKGREEN PODCAST: RED BANK’S DEVELOPMENT BOOM
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Podcast: discussing Red Bank's development boom with Planning Board Chairman Dan Mancuso. (Click to listen)
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October 28th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK THROWBACK: BORO BUYS THEATER TO CREATE MARINE PARK
100 years ago this week, the Borough of Red Bank made one of the best moves in its history: buying land to create Marine Park. (click to read)
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September 24th, 2025 @ 9am
RED BANK: GALLERIA OWNER SEEKS OK FOR 40 APARTMENTS ON RIVERFRONT
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
‘DUMB BOXES’ AND ‘TEXAS DONUTS’: TRAIN STATION PROJECT BRINGS DESIGN DEBATE TO RED BANK
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As Red Bank prepares to join the ranks of towns redeveloping around train stations we ask, "Why do all these buildings look like that?" (click to read)
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February 26th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK GOES BIG WITH MARINE PARK PLAYGROUND PLANS
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Red Bank plans new playground for Marine Park, with a wheelchair-accessible pirate ship, 40-foot zipline and more. (click to read)
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January 24th, 2025 @ 9am
RED BANK: NEW BIKE LANE ROLLED OUT
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A fresh coat of green paint and new parking restrictions mark the creation a new bike lane on Harrison Avenue. (click to read)
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October 16th, 2024 @ 4pm
RED BANK: MARINE PARK LOT PROCEEDS WHILE PARKLET PAUSES
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New parking lot at Marine Park completed, while Monmouth Street "parklet" hits a snag. (click to read)
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September 16th, 2024 @ 10am
RED BANK: COUNCIL HATCHES BIKE/PEDESTRIAN POLICY
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With resident fears over pedestrian and cycling dangers riding high, council plans a new committee and new law to create safer streets. (click to read)
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July 24th, 2024 @ 6am
COFFEE & WILDLIFE
RED BANK: The best wildlife show in town can be taken in from a waterfront bench outside the public library, and it's totally free.
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June 13th, 2024 @ 5am
PEAK COLOR ON BROAD
RED BANK: A year after they were installed, downtown mini gardens have added to "transformational" improvements, says business owner.
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June 11th, 2024 @ 5am
RED BANK: BROADWALK BOLLARDS BLOOM
The springtime emergence of the red bollards from their underground lair marks the closure of Broad Street between White and Front Streets until Sept. 30. Broadwalk is back.
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May 13th, 2024 @ 5pm
RED BANK: PLASTIC UTENSIL LAW KICKS IN, GENTLY
RED BANK: Enforcement won't start until July. But many eateries are already following a new "by request only" plastic utensil law.
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April 30th, 2024 @ 11am
GREEN MINDED RED BANKERS CONVERGE AT FAIR
A crocodile made out of discarded egg cartons.
RED BANK: From a "trashion show" of dresses made of garbage to displays on how to save a school from sea level rise, photos from the Earth Day Green Fair.
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April 23rd, 2024 @ 10am
RED BANK: DANDELION DISPLAY CONTEST
RED BANK: Earth Day contest offers prize and bragging rights for the lawn with the best dandelion display.
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April 22nd, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: COUNCIL WEIGHS PLASTIC UTENSIL CURBS
Red Bank Borough Council looks to ban plastic utensils in takeout orders - unless the customer asks for them.
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February 7th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: LEAD PIPES, SIDEWALKS TOP AGENDA
RED BANK: Council mulls borrowing for train station sidewalks and replacing lead water lines.
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January 23rd, 2024 @ 2pm
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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.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.