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RED BANK: TOWNWIDE GARAGE SALE, OKTOBERFEST ON TAP
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Eighty sellers lined up for town-wide yard sale, with Oktoberfest to follow. Details on a big Red Bank weekend here. (click to read)
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September 20th, 2024 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: AS NEIGHBORS OBJECT, HISTORIC DISTRICT IS TABLED
Preservation commission taps the brakes on plan to create a new historic districts after homeowners object. (click to read).
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September 19th, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FILM SHOOT BRINGS “BEAST” TO WEST FRONT STREET
Film and TV superstar Claire Danes' new Netflix series filming on the street in Red Bank (click to read).
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September 17th, 2024 @ 2pm
RED BANK: FLAGS FLY FOR MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY
It's Mexican Independence Day and Red Bank residents of Mexican descent are flying the flag from cars, homes and more. redbankgreen has photos galore.
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September 16th, 2024 @ 3pm
RED BANK: MARINE PARK LOT PROCEEDS WHILE PARKLET PAUSES
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New parking lot at Marine Park completed, while Monmouth Street "parklet" hits a snag. (click to read)
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September 16th, 2024 @ 10am
RED BANK: WEST FRONT STREET TRAFFIC ALERT
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West Front Street will be closed intermittently Tuesday between Broad Street and Maple Avenue for a film production (click to read)
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September 15th, 2024 @ 12pm
REDBANKGREEN FOUNDER GETS PROCLAIMED
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"It's made us a better town." Newly retired redbankgreen founder gets borough recognition for 18 years of tireless journalism. (click to read)
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September 13th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: BACKHOES ROLL IN PARKING LOT DO-OVER
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RED BANK: Work is underway on a borough parking lot to correct an oversight by the borough that blocked a business's access easement. (click to read)
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September 12th, 2024 @ 7pm
AS RED BANK REMEMBERS 9/11 NEW STORIES STILL POUR FORTH
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As Red Bank honors the fallen of Sept. 11, 2001, Rotary Club president tells her family's 9/11 story for the first time. (click to read)
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September 11th, 2024 @ 2pm
RED BANK: ONE LAST WORKOUT AT JERSEY STRONG
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Jersey Strong gym's Red Bank location hauled away the treadmills this week. (click to read)
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September 10th, 2024 @ 6pm
RED BANK TOWNWIDE YARD SALE APPROACHES
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You have ten days to get ready: the Red Bank town wide garage sale is approaching.
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September 10th, 2024 @ 12pm
MEET THE RED BANK REGIONAL TEACHER NAMED MONMOUTH COUNTY TEACHER OF THE YEAR
Teachers, students and parents could all use some inspiration as school starts. redbankgreen chatted with the Red Bank Regional High School teacher chosen as Monmouth County Teacher of the Year to see what makes her tick. (click to read)
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September 9th, 2024 @ 1pm
REDBANKGREEN WINS NATIONAL JOURNALISM AWARD
redbankgreen receives national journalism award for coverage of "historic election."
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September 8th, 2024 @ 8pm
DOGGO FEST, VINYL HOUNDS AND THE WAG: RED BANK WEEKEND PICKS
RED BANK WEEKEND PICKS: Dog Days event, street fair, record fest and more. (click to read)
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September 6th, 2024 @ 5pm
RED BANK: JEWELRY STORE SLEDGEHAMMER HEIST THWARTED
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VIDEO: Two people carrying sledgehammers were about to rob a Red Bank jewelry shop when a security officer sent them running, police said. (click to read)
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September 4th, 2024 @ 12am
RED BANK: AFFORDABLE CONDOS’ MONEY WOES SHUT OUT BUYERS
Vacant units. Sellers unable to find buyers. Money woes have buyers shut out of Cedar Crossing affordable housing condo complex.
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September 3rd, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: MIDDLE SCHOOL GRADS REUNITE AT HARVARD
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Friends since kindergarten, two Red Bank Middle School students join Harvard University's class of 2028. (click to read)
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August 28th, 2024 @ 7pm
RED BANK: “DIRTY JOBS KING” HONORED FOR SEWAGE SPILL HUSTLE
Contractor honored by Red Bank Mayor and Council for quickly fixing broken sewer main and "preventing environmental disaster."
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August 26th, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: COPS ARE BACK ON BIKES
Fifteen years after bike patrols were ended, Red Bank Police are patrolling the town on two wheels again. (click to read)
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August 26th, 2024 @ 10am
RED BANK: BALLOON MISHAP CAUSES POWER OUTAGE
About 1,200 customer were out of power and traffic snarled in Red Bank after balloons hit power lines by a substation.
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August 25th, 2024 @ 3pm
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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.
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 ...