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RED BANK: SELF-CLEANING OVEN PROMPTS ALARM
RED BANK: Firefighters find smoking, self-cleaning oven in uninhabited Manor Drive condo unit. (Click for details)
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May 11th, 2024 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: ‘YAPPY HOUR’ SET FOR BROADWALK
RED BANK: Broadwalk is slated to return next week. And it will quickly go to the dogs, event organizers hope. (Click for more.)
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May 10th, 2024 @ 2pm
RED BANK: SHORT TERM RENTAL LAW GETS AIRING, BUDGET GETS OK
RED BANK: Debate over an Airbnb style rental law overhaul and property taxes nudge past the $10k average. A busy night as the council conducts the people's business.
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May 10th, 2024 @ 1pm
RECORDS SKIP INTO TOWN
RED BANK: Devotees of vinyl records expected to drop needle at Broad and Mechanic Saturday. Here's why.
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May 10th, 2024 @ 11am
RED BANK: RESTAURATEUR DANNY MURPHY DIES
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RED BANK: Danny Murphy, a longtime restaurateur and fierce champion of the town's small businesses, died Thursday at age 80.
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May 9th, 2024 @ 7pm
RED BANK: LAUNDROMAT TO WEED SHOP BID BURNS ON
RED BANK: Only three pot shops are allowed by law, but a fifth is now seeking, building approvals. What gives? (click to read more)
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May 9th, 2024 @ 1pm
RED BANK: CRIME & ARREST REPORTS
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RED BANK: April police blotter includes reported thefts of pricey booze from two liquor stores, an off-season egging and more than 30 arrests.
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May 9th, 2024 @ 1pm
GOING UP?
RED BANK: Public Library will be closed Friday for the start of elevator construction. (Click for more.)
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May 8th, 2024 @ 3pm
RED BANK: SHORT TERM RENTALS COULD MAKE COMEBACK
Want to rent your home out using Airbnb? Red Bank Council looks to reverse a 2023 clampdown and let more residents do it again.
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May 8th, 2024 @ 1pm
TREEBIRTH
RED BANK: Replacement of nine trees gets underway on South Street, where a wholesale removal angered residents last September. (Click for more.)
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May 8th, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BOOZE AND A MOVIE, ANYONE?
Basie Center Cinemas is now serving beer, wine and cocktails for moviegoers. What a time to be alive.
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May 8th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: POT SHOP, RESTAURANT ON AGENDA
RED BANK: Hearing on plan to turn laundromat into cannabis shop to resume. Also on agenda: restaurant for (most of) former Coco Pari spot on Broad.
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May 7th, 2024 @ 10am
RED BANK: BIRD BONANZA BEGINS
RED BANK: A morning visit to a little known birding hotspot along the Swimming River reveals an explosion of sound and color.
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May 7th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: HENS GET MORE ROOM TO CLUCK AROUND
RED BANK: On Thursday's agenda: council expected to ease restrictions on backyard chickens. Roosters, however, still won't be permitted.
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May 6th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: UNDERAGE SMOKE SALES CHARGED
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RED BANK: Employees at three downtown smoke shops charged with illegal sales to under-21 buyer following special police investigation.
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May 3rd, 2024 @ 3pm
THROWBACK: LOUD PARKING DEBATE, EVEN LOUDER PANTS
RED BANK THROWBACK: Still common today, debates over parking raged even 50 years ago. But there was no debate over the coolness of plaid seersucker pants.
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May 3rd, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: DEP TARGETS VAPORS AT CONDO COMPLEX
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RED BANK: "Vapor mitigation systems" installed at Marion Street condo complex built on former dry cleaner site.
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May 2nd, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: COPS ARREST MAN WITH HANDGUN
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RED BANK: Police arrest man with loaded handgun outside Windmill restaurant. Weapon was reported stolen in Ohio, Frazee said.
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May 1st, 2024 @ 10pm
RIVERSIDE FLOW
New Jersey Flow Arts brings together jugglers, poi spinners, hoopers and more weekly in Riverside Gardens Park.
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May 1st, 2024 @ 2pm
RED BANK: ‘COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT’ JOB CREATED
RED BANK: New position of community engagement coordinator created to create "funnels" for info into and out of borough hall, says Gant.
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May 1st, 2024 @ 11am
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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.