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RED BANK: A BRIEF BOUT OF ANGLOMANIA
RED BANK: Eighty years ago today, the Greater Red Bank Green was seized by Anglomania as British King George VI and Queen Elizabeth paid a quick visit.
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RED BANK: UNUSUAL INTERSECTION EXPLAINED
RED BANK: Officials gathered at Drs. Parker and Bridge Avenue to explain, and defend, the mysterious, eye-popping image painted on the asphalt last month.
RED BANK: JAZZ BAR/OPEN MARKET PLAN OK’D
RED BANK: A combo food market/basement jazz club proposed for Broad Street wins praise from business owners and zoning board approval.
RED BANK: POWER OUT AFTER POLES SNAP
RED BANK: Power is out for up to 100 customers in the area of Maple Avenue following an incident in which two utility poles snapped.
RED BANK: BOROUGH SHOWS ITS LGBTQ PRIDE
RED BANK: The borough shows its Pride this week with a repainting of a downtown crosswalk and special event in Riverside Gardens Park Saturday.
RED BANK: NJDOT OBSTRUCTION REMOVED
RED BANK: NJDOT quickly removes traffic signal activator it had placed in the middle of a sidewalk. Borough awaiting similar action on another.
RED BANK: Almost a year after it began, a bumpy, dusty rebuilding of East Bergen Place is expected to be completed this week, officials said.
RED BANK: SPEAKEASY ON ZONING AGENDA
RED BANK: Zoning board agenda Thursday includes downtown speakeasy/ food market; changes to theater plaza; and new home where last one burned down.
RED BANK: DOT POLE BLOCKS SIDEWALK
RED BANK: NJDOT recently installed a traffic signal activator in the middle of a sidewalk – in front of a senior living complex. What's Going On Here?
RED BANK: TAXES ON WORKSHOP AGENDA
RED BANK: The 2019 municipal budget, with a 2.2-percent tax increase, is among the topics up for discussion at Wednesday's council workshop session.
RED BANK: CHARTER SCHOOL NAMES NEW HEAD
RED BANK: Charter school names new head, who left her last job under pressure over changes she implemented, according to news reports.
RED BANK: DOWNTOWN APARTMENTS DEBUT
RED BANK: After 12 years, two development plans and a pitched zoning battle, a vacant downtown lot yields 35 new luxury apartments.
RED BANK: DIAMOND SHOP HIT AGAIN
RED BANK: Seven years after it was the target of a smash-and-grab burglary, a downtown jewelry shop was hit again Monday, police said.
RED BANK: DRIVER CHARGED IN CAR V. POLE
RED BANK: Driver charged after early-morning accident shears utility pole.
RED BANK: PARADE MARCHES BACK TO LIFE
RED BANK: After a long absence, the Memorial Day parade marches back to life under brilliant spring skies. Check out redbankgreen's 50-photo slideshow.
RED BANK: SPEAKEASY & MARKET PLANNED
RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn: downtown speakeasy planned, women's dress shop opens, building sells for fourth time in 11 years, and more.
RED BANK: FORTUNE CULTURAL CENTER OPENS
RED BANK: With a mission of promoting civil rights, T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center opens in house that came perilously close to being bulldozed.
RED BANK: COUNCIL LAUDS PRINCIPAL CLAY
RED BANK: Borough council and former superintendent lead dozens of in a sendoff for Risa Clay on her retirement as Red Bank Regional principal.
RED BANK: PARKING, NEWS RACKS AND MORE
RED BANK: A new alternate-side parking law is up for introduction. Also on the council agenda: honors for retiring RBR principal Risa Clay.
RED BANK: SHREWSBURY AVENUE TO GET $1M
RED BANK: Long a subject of pedestrian complaints about safety, Shrewsbury Avenue will get $1 million in upgrades under a grant awarded to the borough.
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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 ...
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 ...