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TRAFFIC ALERT: RED BANK ROAD CLOSURE FRIDAY
Drs. James Parker Boulevard will be closed Friday between Shrewsbury Avenue and Bridge Avenue for roadwork (click for more)
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February 6th, 2025 @ 5pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK READIES FOR “ICY MESS” THURSDAY MORNING
National Weather Service warns of possible "icy mess" Thursday morning. (click to read)
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February 5th, 2025 @ 5pm
RED BANK TRAIN STATION REDEVELOPMENT PLAN ADDS…TRAIN STATION
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Red Bank is seeking to add six properties to its train station redevelopment plan, including the train station platform area and a rail yard. (click to read)
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February 5th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: CHURCH SELLS 70-YEAR HOME FOR $977K AND GOES “VIRTUAL”
After 70 years in Red Bank, Mount Zion House of Prayer sells its home for nearly $1 million as pastor says church is "virtual" for now and a new congregation breathes new life into the storied address. (click to read)
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February 4th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: SOUTH BANK CONDOS FIND BUYERS WILLING TO SPLURGE
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Peek inside a few $1.3 million to $2.8 million Navesink River view condos in Red Bank that are selling fast. (click to read)
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February 3rd, 2025 @ 4pm
FEAR AND FALSEHOODS OVER TRUMP DEPORTATION PLAN RATTLE RED BANK COMMUNITY
Rumors, lies and raids in other cities fuel fear in Red Bank over Trump deportation sweeps. (click to read)
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January 31st, 2025 @ 2pm
RBR BOARD TO RED BANK: DON’T STIFF SCHOOL ON TRAIN STATION PILOT MONEY
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With developer expected to ask for a tax break for train station area, Red Bank's public high school wants a piece of the PILOT pie. (click to read)
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January 29th, 2025 @ 5pm
RED BANK EX POLICE CHIEF’S $176K PAYOUT IN PRESS SPOTLIGHT
Former Red Bank Police Chief Darren McConnell received a $176,000 payout for unused sick and vacation time, Asbury Park Press reports. (click for more)
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January 28th, 2025 @ 4pm
DOCUMENTARY KEEPS STORIES OF RED BANK’S “UNCLE FUNZI” ALIVE
Now streaming on Youtube: the colorful life story of Alphonso Tomaino, aka "Uncle Funzi" aka "Red Bank hillbilly" who died at age 101. (click to read)
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January 27th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK’S FROZEN RIVER, FROM ABOVE
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Video and photos from high above a frozen Navesink River.
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January 25th, 2025 @ 10pm
RED BANK: GLEEFUL ICE BOATERS RETURN – AND PLEA FOR A LITTLE SPACE
Ice boats on the Navesink River. It's a Red Bank thing, and it's finally back. (click to read)
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January 24th, 2025 @ 4pm
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 RETAIL CHURN: FOOD MARKET TAKES SHAPE, TOY SHOP AND LIQUOR STORE ON THE MOVE
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Kiosks selling fish, meat, cheese, noodles and more planned for former Sickles market site. And a toy shop, liquor store and convenience store all eye in-town moves. Red Bank's retail churn continues. (click to read)
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January 22nd, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: HOSPITAL AGREES TO PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENT, PARKING LOT GETS OK
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Employee parking lots gets ok after hospital officials agree to an easement along the Navesink River in Red Bank. (click to read)
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January 21st, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: PRESCHOOL REGISTRATION OPEN
There's a lot of great things about living in Red Bank. But the full day pre-school program for three and four-year olds is way up there on the list. Registration is underway now. (click to read)
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January 21st, 2025 @ 10am
RED BANK: MLK ESSAY WINNER RECOUNTS FIRST STING OF BIAS
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In elementary school, she wasn't invited to a classmate's sleepover party and wondered why. Read MLK essay award winner's tale of turning the sting of bias into cultural pride. (click to read)
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January 20th, 2025 @ 8am
SNOW CONES, PLOWS AND SNOWBALL FIGHTS: A SNOWY STROLL THROUGH RED BANK IN PHOTOS
A snowball fight, a bowl of snow for dinner, a roller blader following the plow. Photos from a stroll across Red Bank on a snowy night. (click for more)
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January 19th, 2025 @ 11pm
RED BANK WEATHER ALERT: FORECAST SHIFTS, SO MOVE THOSE CARS!
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With snow on the way but the forecast amounts uncertain, officials urge Red Bankers to be alert. (click to read)
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January 18th, 2025 @ 6pm
RED BANK: BALD EAGLES BATTLE OVER BROAD STREET
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Just removed from the state endangered species list, a pair of juvenile bad eagles mark the occasion by apparently trying to kill each other the air over Dunkin' Donuts in Red Bank. (click for story and photos)
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January 17th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK TEACHERS LAG IN PAY, SLEDGER BREAKDOWN SHOWS
Red Bank Charter school median teacher pay is nearly lowest in the state. Other Red Bank schools also fall below the median, newspaper breakdown shows.
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January 16th, 2025 @ 8am
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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.
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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.