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RED BANK: ASSAULTS AND WEAPONS ARRESTS IN SEPTEMBER POLICE REPORTS
RED BANK: Police blotter for September includes weapons arrests, aggravated assault and stolen Halloween decorations. (click to read)
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WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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RED BANK: RESIDENTS SEEK (FOUR WAY) STOP TO SPEEDING
Concerns over speeding and pedestrian safety spur a campaign to create a new four-way stop on the route to the Red Bank Primary School. (click to read)
RED BANK: NEW BIKE LANE ROLLED OUT
A fresh coat of green paint and new parking restrictions mark the creation a new bike lane on Harrison Avenue. (click to read)
RED BANK THROWBACK: 5,000 CAPED MARCHERS LIGHT UP THE NIGHT
Imagine 5,000 dudes dressed like this carrying torches and battle axes through downtown Red Bank. Well, it happened, and you can read about in the latest Red Bank Throwback. (click to read)
RED BANK: TRUCK STRIKES W. FRONT STREET BRIDGE…AGAIN
RED BANK: Truck hits railroad overpass. Again.
RED BANK: ENVIROS SEEK TO QUELL GAS LEAF BLOWERS
The war on gas powered leaf blowers is coming to Red Bank. But unlike the battles over them in communities across the US – and the machines themselves – the approach for now is hoped to be quiet and gentle.
RED BANK SWEARS IN NEW POLICE CHIEF
Michael Frazee, 28-year veteran of the Red Bank Police Department who rose from dispatcher and drew praise while leading the department through recent turmoil, was officially sworn in as chief of police Friday.
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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RED BANKERS CRANE NECKS FOR GLIMPSE OF NORTHERN LIGHTS
Red Bank woman has travelled across five countries to see the northern lights. Thursday she was one of a group of skywatchers looking for the spectacle over the Navesink River. Did she finally see it? (click to read)
RED BANK: NEW APARTMENTS FILL IN A FLASH
A new apartment building at Allen Place and Riverside Avenue opens and fills quick. One bedrooms rent for $3,150. Two beds? $3,700. (click to read)
RED BANK MAN PLEADS GUILTY IN PERV VIDEO CASE
Red Bank man pleads guilty in "upskirting" case, with prosecutors alleging 27 victims including children. (click to read)
RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN STRUCK, KILLED BY TRAIN
For the second time in less than a month, a pedestrian was struck and killed by a New Jersey Transit train at the Monmouth Street crossing, police said.
RED BANK: POLICE FOOT CHASE ON COOPER’S BRIDGE ENDS IN GUN/DRUG ARREST
Red Bank police chase suspect on foot across the Route 35 bridge and find him allegedly carrying a .22 caliber handgun. (click to read)
DOWNTOWN RED BANK BUILDING PRICE JUMPS $900K IN 18 MONTHS
RED BANK: Monmouth Street building value soars $900k in 18 months as developer pulls off another successful flip. (click to read)
THE redbankgreen PODCAST: STORMIN’ NORMAN SELDIN
Stormin' Norman Seldin, dyed in the wool Red Banker and 60-year music industry veteran regales you with amazing stories on the redbankgreen podcast. (click for more)
RED BANK PORCHFEST RETURNS FOR THIRD YEAR
Who knew your neighbor down the street could sing so well? Celebrating the many marvels of Red Bank Porchfest, which returns Saturday with more than 90 acts performing across town. (click to read)
SEASON OF PICKLEBALL MADNESS WRAPS UP AT NEW RED BANK COURTS
The first season of Red Bank's new pickleball courts drew big turnouts and huge demand. Next season might see some new rules to manage it all. (click to read)
RED BANK: “PURE JOY” AS PARKER CENTER UNVEILS EXPANSION
The Parker Family Health Center in Red Bank, which provides free medical care to uninsured poor, unveils its newly renovated and expanded facility. (click to read)
RED BANK CHURN: VINTAGE SHOP SPLITS FOR ASBURY; RUG SHOP IN LIMBO
A vintage/consignment shop leaves to find more funk in Asbury and an eight-decade run for a family-owned rug shop is in limbo. The latest in Red Bank's retail churn. (click to read)
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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.
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 ...
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.