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RED BANK: FIRE RIPS THROUGH CHESTNUT STREET HOME
Two families were displaced after firefighters battled an early morning blaze on Chestnut Street in Red BankThursday. (Click to read)
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ICE SAYS IT TARGETED ASSAULT SUSPECT. RED BANK ARRESTS CONTINUE
ICE breaks silence on June 28 arrests, detains more as Red Bank operations continue. (Click to read)
SEE THE PLANS FOR RED BANK TRAIN STATION PROJECT
175 units and a woonerf: A look at the plans for The Rail North, the first phase of Red Bank's totally yooj train station redevelopment. (Click to read)
RED BANK: DENHOLTZ SEEKS OK FOR TRAIN STATION PROJECT PHASE 1
Planning Board to hold public hearing on proposed 175-unit apartment building, parking garage and public plaza near historic Red Bank train station.(Click to read)
OBITUARY: WILLIAM HENRY “SKIP” SMITH JR., 93-YEAR RED BANK RESIDENT
Obituary: William Henry "Skip" Smith Jr., 93-year-Red Bank resident and longtime crossing guard. (Click to read)
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 questionably legal fireworks displays that lit up the sky over Red Bank before a line of thunderstorms shut things down at about 10 pm.
RED BANK: STORM KNOCKS OUT POWER
Red Bank residents in several pockets of town remained without power Saturday morning after a severe thunderstorm downed trees and power lines across the state Friday evening. (click to read)
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Do you know where this photo was taken? Play the weekly "Where Have I Seen This?" and get the answer to last week's photo.
RED BANK: 30 YEARS LATER, MURDER REMAINS UNSOLVED
Thirty years after a Red Bank shop owner was found brutally murdered in her store, her killing remains unsolved. (click to read)
YOUR GPS SAYS TURN LEFT ON ROUTE 520. DO YOU LISTEN?
Here's one of those small signs indicating our robot overlords are trying kill us all off: Google maps telling drivers to make a left from Leighton Avenue onto route 520. (Click to read)
RED BANK ADDS WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY FOR BIG USA MATCH
Red Bank adds a fourth World Cup watch party for Wednesday's United States vs. Bosnia Herzogovina match. (Click to read)
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival Sunday.
MASKED ICE AGENTS ARREST MEN IN RED BANK
Teams of masked federal agents in unmarked cars arrested an unknown number of people in Red Bank Sunday morning. Video shows men fleeing from agents on Shrewsbury Avenue before one is caught and detained. (Click to read)
VIDEO: TOUR THE DRAMATIC REMAKE OF RED BANK’S MARINE PARK
A video walk-through of Red Bank's dramatically remade Marine Park on the Navesink River. (Click to read)
INSIDE THE FAIR HAVEN/RED BANK REGIONAL PARKING SPAT
Ninety pages of emails reveal a long simmering dispute that led to Fair Haven's controversial decision to ban on street parking for Red Bank Regional High School graduation. (Click to read)
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)
“DROOLING PIANOS” SHOW LATEST IN RED BANK COMIC’S 25-YEAR RUN
Red Bank comedian Chris Covert discusses a 25-year-career, why he still works in a deli, and his upcoming show at The Vogel. (Click to read)
RED BANK: OWNER SEEKS TO CONNECT TWO HOMES, BUILD SIX APARTMENTS
Owner of two lower Broad Street Victorians seeks to build a bridge connecting them and a six-unit apartment building behind them. (Click to read)
RED BANK GRAFFITI JAM FILLS PARK WITH ART AND COLOR
Photos from Red Bank's first ever graffiti jam event. (click to read)
RED BANK: FIVE DWI ARRESTS, $700 DRESS SHOPLIFTED IN MAY POLICE BLOTTER
RED BANK: Police blotter for May includes five people arrested for DWI, including two police say refused tests.
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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 ...
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.