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RED BANK: BROADWALK, NOW “SETTLED LAW” SEEKS TO MOVE PAST CONTROVERSY
Red Bank's seasonal pedestrian plaza returns, with officials hoping opponents will get on board. (Click to read)
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May 11th @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: COP WED TO EX-CHIEF SUES BOROUGH FOR BIAS
Her police chief husband resigned after an ethics scandal stemming from their affair. Now, police officer Kristen McConnell has filed a sexually explicit lawsuit against top Red Bank officials. (Click to read)
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April 6th @ 12pm
RED BANK: BORO RELEASES PLAN FOR 40-UNIT “NAVESINK CROSSING”
A rendering of the proposed project for 26-28 Shrewbury Avenue included in the the rehabilitation plan by borough planner BFJ Planning.
Five stories with a waterfront walkway: Borough planner issues a report with development guidelines for a proposed 40 unit building on the Navesink River. (Click to read.)
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March 10th @ 2pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL, POLICE CHIEF ADDRESS ICE RAIDS
Red Bank Police, borough and school officials look to assure residents amid ICE raids that have left a community rattled. (Click to read)
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January 23rd @ 3pm
RED BANK: MORE ICE ARRESTS, AS MAYOR (AND SPRINGSTEEN) DENOUNCE RAIDS
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ICE arrests continue in Red Bank as officials - and Bruce Springsteen - denounce immigration sweeps.(Click to read)
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January 19th @ 4pm
RED BANK: RIVERFRONT CONDO PLAN GETS AIRING
26-28 Shrewsbury Avenue courtyard GAted investments
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Forty condos are proposed for a riverfront parking lot in Red Bank. The nascent plan got a vibe check at a special public meeting Monday night. (click to read)
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December 2nd, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: TOWNHOMES PLAN GETS SPLASH OF COLD WATER
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A "concept plan" for townhomes on the Wells Fargo tract gets some cold water from Red Bank's mayor. (click to read)
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October 13th, 2025 @ 10am
RED BANK: VISCOMI SUES MAYOR/COUNCIL FOR “POLITICAL HIT JOB”
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Lies, defamation and a "political hit job." Board of Ed prez Sue Viscomi sues Red Bank borough officials over her library board ouster. (click to read)
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October 10th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: PETITION CALLS FOR BOROUGH TO END “BROADWALK”
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Reps of three dozen Red Bank businesses sign a petition calling for an immediate end to "Broadwalk" the downtown pedestrian plaza. (click to read)
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August 19th, 2025 @ 9am
RED BANK: VISCOMI REPLACEMENT NAMED, ACCUSER STAYS MUM
Red Bank Mayor names replacement for library board member ousted for alleged deportation comment. (click to read)
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August 18th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK: EATERY OWNERS ROAST BROADWALK
A group of Red Bank restaurant owners tell the Borough Council that turning Broad Street into a seasonal pedestrian plaza is killing their business. (click to read)
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August 15th, 2025 @ 5pm
THE BUTCHER, THE DENTIST, THE METER READER: RED BANK HONORS STALWART TRIO
Red Bank honors a trio of fabric-of-the-community stalwarts: a beloved dentist, a popular butcher an omnipresent meter reader. (click to read)
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July 28th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK: MAYOR OUSTS VISCOMI FROM LIBRARY BOARD FOR DEPORTATION COMMENT
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Red Bank Mayor removes election rival and Board of Education President Suzanne Viscomi from library board amid investigation into 18-month old deportation comment. (click to read)
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July 25th, 2025 @ 12am
RED BANK: AS BLAZE VICTIM DIES, FIRE CHIEF PLEADS FOR HELP
Red Bank man burned in house fire dies, as fire chief appeals for more volunteers and smoke alarms programs. (Click to read)
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July 14th, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK: WEED FARMERS TRY AGAIN AFTER BIZ FALLOUT
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An indoor cannabis farm that lost its license re-emerges and gets a crucial Borough Council nod as owner tries to make another go at it. (click to read)
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June 13th, 2025 @ 1pm
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’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
RED BANK: BORO RAKES IN SOME GREEN WITH CANNABIS TAX, BUT HOW MUCH?
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Red Bank's recreational weed market just completed its first quarter operating a full capacity. How much did the the town make in taxes? (click to read)
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February 12th, 2025 @ 8am
RBR BOARD TO RED BANK: DON’T STIFF SCHOOL ON TRAIN STATION PILOT MONEY
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With developer expected to ask for a tax break for train station area, Red Bank's public high school wants a piece of the PILOT pie. (click to read)
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January 29th, 2025 @ 5pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL OK’S HOSPITAL TAX SPAT DEAL, EYES MARINE PARK & DPW REMAKES
Council OK's $1.2 million settlement of hospital tax dispute, hires architect to redesign decrepit public works facility and more. Read the roundup here. (click to read)
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November 15th, 2024 @ 11am
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
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.