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RED BANK: FRIGGIN’ BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT
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Already mulling higher fees for scofflaws, Red Bank officials warn residents about snowstorm parking ban as a blizzard brews offshore. (Click to read)
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February 21st @ 5pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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ELECTION DAY: CANDIDATE Q&A’S, WHERE TO VOTE AND MORE
Election Day voter info from redbankgreen, including Q&A's with Board of Ed and Borough Council candidates. (click to read)
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November 3rd, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK COUNCIL CANDIDATES: KRISTINA BONATAKIS Q&A
See where Red Bank Borough Council member Kristina Bonatakis stands on the big issues facing the town as she seeks re-election. (Click to read)
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October 27th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK COUNCIL CANDIDATES: BEN FOREST Q&A
See where Red Bank Borough Council member Ben Forest stands on the big issues facing the town as he seeks re-election. (Click to read)
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October 27th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK COUNCIL CANDIDATES: LAURA JANNONE Q&A
See where Red Bank Borough Council member Laura Jannone stands on the big issues facing the town as she seeks re-election. (Click to read)
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October 27th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK COUNCIL CANDIDATES: BEN YURO Q&A
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See where Red Bank Borough Council candidate Ben Yuro stands on the big issues facing the town. (Click to read)
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October 27th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: BORO INKS HOSPITAL WATERFRONT ACCESS EASEMENTS
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Borough of Red Bank moves to secure public waterfront access behind two Riverview Medical Center buildings. (click to read)
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October 24th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FOUR WILL RUN UNOPPOSED FOR COUNCIL
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November snoozefest on tap: Two years after a hotly contested race for Mayor and all six council seats, four allies of Mayor Billy Portman will run unopposed in November. (click to read)
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August 25th, 2025 @ 9am
RED BANK: TRAIN STATION, LOCUST LANDING PLANS SAIL THROUGH COUNCIL
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Two big votes on an emotional night as Red Bank council approves a pair of major housing initiatives: Locust Landing rehab plan and 400-apartment train station redevelopment plan. (click to read)
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July 11th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL MOVES COUNT BASIE PARK WORK & TRAIN STATION PLAN
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Red Bank Borough Council advance plan to fix up Count Basie Park and redevelop train station area. (click to read)
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June 27th, 2025 @ 6pm
RED BANK: MR. FOREST GOES TO THE MASONIC LODGE
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A mixup or miscommunication leaves an affable councilman alone in the hot seat at a community meeting. (click to read)
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June 3rd, 2025 @ 5pm
RED BANK: SCHOOL TAX HIKE TRIMMED TO 10 PERCENT
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A planned 13 percent hike in Red Bank school taxes is whittled down to ten percent by a last minute curveball from Trenton. (click to read)
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April 30th, 2025 @ 1pm
“RED BANK’S READY” TEAM ANNOUNCES COUNCIL SLATE
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The team of candidates that swept Borough Council elections in 2023 announces who will run for four open seats in November. (click to read)
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April 29th, 2025 @ 1pm
FACING NEW HOUSING QUOTA, RED BANK EYES ADDING UNITS TO COMPLEX
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The State of NJ says Red Bank needs 154 new affordable housing units. Could a long-planned remake of two subsidized complexes help meet the quota? (click to read)
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October 29th, 2024 @ 5pm
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.
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October 14th, 2024 @ 10pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL OK’S SECURITY CAMS
Vandals and miscreants, get ready for your close up. Cameras are coming to Red Bank parks and parking lots. (click to read)
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September 27th, 2024 @ 11am
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: 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
RED BANK: BIG-TRUCK PARKING BAN PENDING
RED BANK: Truck owners may need to take their vehicles off street as council mulls five-ton limit for those parked overnight.
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May 30th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: COUNCIL AVOIDS ISRAEL-HAMAS DEBATE
RED BANK: Opposing advocates for Israel and Palestine argue over a non-existent ceasefire resolution as council stays out of it.
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February 23rd, 2024 @ 7am
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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 ...