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Northbound Maple Avenue traffic was backed up approaching the intersection of West Front Street Tuesday afternoon. More than two months later than expected, work got underway this week on an effort to smooth the flow of traffic past a key...
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May 20th, 2009 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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The Oceanic Bridge as seen from the Navesink last summer. Nighttime users of the Oceanic Bridge between Middletown and Rumson are in for a doozie of detour this week. Monmouth County last night began closing the bridge for repairs between...
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May 19th, 2009 @ 6am
George Lynch and Rich Hardy of DPW do the honors, above. Below, Hardy paints a new stop line and Nick Piscitelli shows off one of the new lenses for the blinking traffic light. (Click to enlarge) It's official: there's now...
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April 2nd, 2009 @ 3pm
Passengers arriving at Red Bank in 2006. Service on the North Jersey Coast Line rail line that serves the Red Bank area was second-to-worst among seven New Jersey Transit lines for on-time arrivals, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The coast...
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March 16th, 2009 @ 6am
Work on a $1.54 million state Department of Transportation project to improve traffic flow and safety conditions at a key Red Bank intersection is now scheduled to begin March 16, a week later than previously announced. The job, which is...
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March 4th, 2009 @ 3pm
From NJTransit at 6:41a: Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast Line and MidTOWN DIRECT train service has resumed operating into and out of New York Penn Station. Email this story
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March 4th, 2009 @ 7am
Notice from New Jersey Transit this morning: Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast Line and MidTOWN DIRECT trains service into and out of New York Penn Station is temporarily suspended. Email this story
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March 4th, 2009 @ 6am
The view north along Bridge Avenue at Chestnut Street. Soon, motorists on Bridge will have to come to a full stop, as those on Chestnut already do. A couple of updates on traffic matters here in hububby Red Bank: Capt....
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February 24th, 2009 @ 11am
From top, as Elizabeth Schwartz tries to cross Broad Street, both a northbound black Jeep and a southbound white pickup truck continue through the crosswalk. The silver pickup was waiting to turn when she entered the crosswalk. (Click to enlarge)...
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February 18th, 2009 @ 7am
By SUE MORGAN They're a little large, and tend to crowd the sidewalk. Mayor Mike Halfacre says he lost a "$1.79 cup of coffee" when he accidentally collided with one. The six vivid yellow pedestrian-crossing signs recently installed on Fair...
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February 18th, 2009 @ 6am
Government watchdog Steve Fitzpatrick says public inattention could lead to more traffic and parking problems in Red Bank. A recommendation to let developers build 40 units where they're now limited to 16 is one of several that Red Bank residents...
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February 17th, 2009 @ 9am
Mayor Menna wants the borough to hand off signmaking, health inspections and other tasks to Monmouth County. Should Red Bank job out to Monmouth County services now provided by borough employees or contractors? Coming off a recent deal with the...
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February 11th, 2009 @ 7am
Matthew Brown of the Red Bank public utilities lays down some magnesium-treated salt at the corner of Broad and Monmouth at lunchtime today. As forecast, the Coastal Monmouth area is getting hit with a persistent snow this afternoon. The National...
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February 3rd, 2009 @ 2pm
Today's the last chance for motorists to cash in their Garden State Parkway tokens. Today's Asbury Park Press reports that token holders have brought 180,000 tokens into the New Jersey Turnpike Authority offices in Woodbridge to redeem them, at 33...
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December 31st, 2008 @ 7am
In a show of hands, cab drivers signal their opposition to a proposed increase in the number of taxi licenses. A proposed ordinance that would have boosted the number of taxi licenses in Red Bank to 55, from 45, was...
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December 9th, 2008 @ 7am
Long-awaited increases in the cost of traveling the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike went into effect at 12:01a today. From the Asbury Park Press, regarding Parkway tolls: At most booths the price will rise from their current...
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December 1st, 2008 @ 5am
Driveway docking of boats would be prohibited in winter months in Fair Haven. By SUE MORGAN Peter and Patricia O’Such say that what they see as over-regulation in Fair Haven is leaving the town's residents feeling disaffected, alienated, and bullied....
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November 12th, 2008 @ 8am
About 20 kids on a school bus making its way through the Society Hill development in Tinton Falls got a scare yesterday when the driver of the slow-moving vehicle passed out. The bus jumped a curb and struck a fire...
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October 2nd, 2008 @ 1pm
Little Silver firefighters at the scene of last night's propane leak on Branch Avenue. Behind the Winnebago and supply tank are the tracks of the North Jersey Coast Line. The propane leak that shut down NJ Transit rail service south...
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October 2nd, 2008 @ 5am
Bridge Avenue in Red Bank at 5:35p. Trains were moving through the station and traffic was clearing after a brief downpour. We'll post further updates on the Little Silver propane situation and the resulting rail and traffic tie-ups here. 5:12p:...
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October 1st, 2008 @ 6pm
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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.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
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.