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RED BANK: SEWAGE SPILL THREATENS RIVER
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RED BANK: Contractors for a train station redevelopment project hit a major sewer line, sending sewage into the storm drains, officials said. Click for more.
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July 11th, 2024 @ 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: POLICE PROBE HOMICIDE
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Police say an early morning shooting left a man dead on the sidewalk and another injured. (click to read)
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July 10th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: PIANO MAN MOVES ON, CAFE OPENS, TWINS OPEN HANDBAG SHOP
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a new Italian cafe opens, twin sisters from Tanzania open a clothing/handbag shop and a longtime Piano biz moves out.
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July 10th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: FED UP AIRBNB OWNER PACKS IT IN
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RED BANK: Neighbors complained of loud parties. Code enforcement wrote tickets. The Borough Council re-wrote the laws. Now, an Airbnb owner is selling his home out of frustration. (click for more)
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July 9th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: PERSISTENT PUDDLE
RED BANK: It's pool of water that never really goes away. What's Going On Here? Fifteen months in the life of a downtown puddle, in photos.
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July 8th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: EX MAYOR MICHAEL ARNONE DIES
RED BANK: Former mayor and longtime Republican Assemblyman Michael Arnone has died. (click to read)
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July 5th, 2024 @ 12pm
WEEKEND PICKS: WOMEN’S SOCCER, JAZZ VIOLIN AND MORE
From Jazz to soccer, Redbankgreen's picks of things do for the (sort of) Fourth of July weekend.
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July 5th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK THROWBACK: 1983’s “WORST FIREWORKS EVER”
Throwbacks feature looks back at 1983, when a fireworks barge exploded in the Navesink River mid display. (click to read)
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July 4th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: FAMILY DISPLACED BY CONDO FIRE
RED BANK: Family displaced and pet cat is killed as fire breaks out in their Ambassador Drive home. (click to read)
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July 3rd, 2024 @ 12am
CONDO FIRE FOUGHT
RED BANK: Volunteer firefighters were on the scene of a condo fire in the Elkridge complex on Ambassador Drive Tuesday night. (Click for more.)
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July 2nd, 2024 @ 10pm
RED BANK: MARINE PARK REMAKE BEGINS
RED BANK: Workers have begun a long awaited remake of Marine Park on the Navesink River.
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July 2nd, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: DENHOLTZ AIMS FOR ‘DENSE’ TRANSIT VILLAGE
RED BANK: As the town plans a public workshop on transit village, developer says "it needs to be dense" with housing.
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July 1st, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: SYMPHONY AND CACOPHONY ON THE RIVER
RED BANK: The NJ Symphony Orchestra performs in one park, while pro-Palestine protesters march in another, Presidential security blanketing it all. (click to read)
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June 30th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: VOGEL RUNWAY GETS PUNKED
RED BANK: Two downtown clothing boutiques fill the Vogel with eye popping sustainable punk fashions and their screaming fans.
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June 29th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: COUNCIL SWALLOWS “HARD TRUTH” ON WATER RATES
Red Bank council members call water rate hike painful but necessary - and better than privatization. (click to read)
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June 28th, 2024 @ 8am
WEEKEND PICKS: SUMMER SYMPHONY GLORY
The NJ Symphony Orchestra's free performance in Marine Park tops redbankgreen's weekend picks. (click for more)
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June 28th, 2024 @ 6am
CAR CRACKS BUILDING
RED BANK: A medical office building on Maple Avenue was evacuated after a car struck it Thursday afternoon. Click for more.
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June 27th, 2024 @ 4pm
RED BANK: FORMER MIDDLE SCHOOLERS EXCEL
RED BANK: Former borough middle school students garner a diverse mix of awards and scholarships upon graduation from Red Bank Regional.
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June 27th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: TV DOC CAPTURES TEENS TACKLING SHAKESPEARE
Teen actors producing a Shakespeare play amid the pandemic are the subject of a documentary making its TV debut on NJ PBS Wednesday. (click for more)
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June 26th, 2024 @ 3pm
RED BANK: INDIAN FOOD, JEWELRY AND MORE IN CHURN
RED BANK: Retail Churn includes opening of an Indian restaurant, two women's clothing boutiques, a jewelry store and a shop that aims to stimulate your senses.
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June 25th, 2024 @ 7am
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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.