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FAIR HAVEN BANS PARKING FOR RED BANK REGIONAL GRADUATION
Fair Haven bans parking on streets near Red Bank Regional High School for graduation day. The school superintendent calls it "retribution." (Click to read)
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June 17th @ 9pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: MARINE PARK MAKEOVER DEBUT SLATED
RED BANK: Years in the works, an overhaul of Marine Park is set to make its public debut later this month, borough officials said last week.
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June 16th @ 8am
RED BANK: COUNCIL OK’S ADUs, SMALL HOTELS. DATA CENTERS, VAPE SHOPS BANNED
In: backyard cottages and boutique hotels. Out: data centers, vape shops and strict parking rules for small businesses. Red Bank Council revamps planning laws. (Click to read)
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June 13th @ 1pm
RED BANK: BORO LAUNCHES WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY SERIES
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First of three World Cup watch parties in Red Bank set for Thursday's Mexico vs. South Africa matchup. (Click to read)
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June 10th @ 2pm
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.
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June 4th @ 12pm
RED BANK: BORO MANAGER GANT GETS ANOTHER 3 YEARS
Red Bank Borough Manager Jim Gant gets a new three-year contract. (Click to read)
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June 4th @ 11am
GRANNY FLATS COMING? RED BANK COUNCIL LOOKS TO LEGALIZE ADUs
Red Bank council moves to legalize backyard cottages, garage apartments and other forms accessory dwelling units. (Click to read)
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June 3rd @ 10am
PODCAST: REDBANKGREEN, FEISTY LOCAL NEWS SITE, TURNS 20
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redbankgreen marks its 20th anniversary with a podcast discussion about how it started, the crazy day-to-day and what the future holds. (Click to read)
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June 1st @ 5pm
PHOTOS/VIDEO: ARTISTS PAINT RED BANK
PHOTOS/VIDEO: 26 plein air artists fan out across Red Bank to create a rich display of local scenes. (Click to read/watch)
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June 1st @ 1pm
HUBBARD OR KYRILLOS? SIGN BATTLE ON RED BANK-MIDDLETOWN BRIDGE
Two signs reading "Hubbard's Bridge" appear - and then disappear - on a bridge renamed in 2018 for a former state senator. (Click to read)
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May 31st @ 8pm
RED BANK: RIVER STREET ASSAULT, SIX DWI’S ON APRIL POLICE BLOTTER
RED BANK: Police blotter for April includes six DWI arrests and an aggravated assault arrest on River Street.
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May 29th @ 11am
RED BANK: SERVICES SLATED FOR TEEN KILLED IN TRAIN ACCIDENT
Services will be held Friday and Saturday for Terry Haupt Jr., the Red Bank teen killed by a NJ Transit train on May 13. (Click to read)
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May 28th @ 4pm
RED BANK: WHY SO MANY PLANES?
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Why are the skies over Red Bank so busy sometimes and so quiet other times? A local aviation nerdsplainer from redbankgreen.
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May 27th @ 12pm
BASIE CENTER ADDS MURAL, BASIE BAND BLOCK PARTY TO 100TH ANNIVERSARY
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A block party and two concerts with the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra along with a new mural project are added to Count Basie theater centennial celebration. (Click to read)
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May 26th @ 8am
“WE BUILT THAT.” RED BANK FIREFIGHTERS MARK MONUMENT’S 100 YEARS
As the 100-year-anniversary of Red Bank's War Memorial monument neared, firefighters made an illuminating discovery. (click to read)
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May 22nd @ 5pm
RED BANK: CHARTER SCHOOL STUDENTS NET HONORS FOR FINANCE SAAVY
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Four Red Bank Charter School students managed a mock $100,000 investment portfolio that out-performed thousands of other entries in a national competition. (Click to read)
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May 22nd @ 10am
RED BANK: ATLANTIC CLUB SAYS IT WILL MOVE TO FOODTOWN LOCATION
Hours after Super Foodtown announces closure, Atlantic Club announces a plan to move the health club to the supermarket location. (Click to read)
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May 20th @ 6pm
RED BANK FOODTOWN SHUTTING DOWN
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Workers clear the shelves as a source tells redbankgreen that Circus Super Foodtown's closure is imminent. (click to read)
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May 20th @ 11am
RED BANK: STILL VACANT, DOWNTOWN LANDMARK IS SOLD – AGAIN.
Meximodo owner buys two buildings in downtown Red Bank with plans to open restaurants in both. (Click to read)
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May 19th @ 5pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL OK’S 8 PERCENT TAX HIKE; BONDS FOR ROADS, PARKS, WATER
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Red Bank Borough Council passes budget with 8 percent tax hike, ok's borrowing for streets, parks and water projects. (Click to read)
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May 18th @ 4pm
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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.