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VIDEO: IS THERE A GHOST HAUNTING RED BANK’S TOWER HILL?
VIDEO: Does the ghost of the irascible owner of the NY Giants baseball team who died in 1915 haunt Red Bank's water works atop Tower Hill? Watch the video and decide for yourself.
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October 29th, 2025 @ 5pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: HOMETOWN HEROES, WAR DEAD TO BE HONORED MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
Red Bank: Hometown heroes barbecue and Memorial Day ceremony on tap for holiday weekend. (click to read)
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May 23rd, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: HOLIDAY, “HOMETOWN HERO” EASES INTO RETIREMENT
Bobby Holiday knows Red Bank like no one else. In fact, he's probably been in your home. The longtime firefighter and recently retired water and sewer boss will be honored as a "Hometown Hero" this Saturday. (click to read)  
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May 19th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: AS DROUGHT DEEPENS, BRUSH FIRE AND WATER RESTRICTIONS
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Amid a record setting dry spell, firefighters battle brush fire and water restrictions kick in. (click to read)
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November 16th, 2024 @ 11am
RED BANK: DUCKLING RESCUED FROM SEWER
RED BANK: The best 90 seconds of video you'll see today: firefighters rescue duckling from 100-foot-long storm sewer pipe.
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May 30th, 2024 @ 2pm
RED BANK: PORTMAN PAINTS ROSY OUTLOOK
RED BANK: Mayor outlines plans for "amazing" makeover of Marine Park and other "long overdue" projects for 2024.
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January 2nd, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: FIRE DAMAGES APARTMENT
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RED BANK: Smoky fire in third-floor unit briefly empties seven-story Colony House Apartments. No injuries reported, says Chief Hartman.
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March 9th, 2023 @ 7pm
RED BANK: THIRD TIME AS CHIEF FOR HARTMAN
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RED BANK: Hartman returning for third term as fire chief as department "recycles" ex-officers, with new generation nearing eligibility.
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December 30th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: YASSIN MOVES TO COUNCIL FORE
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RED BANK: After a year of butting heads with fellow Dems, Ballard loses seat on finance committee as Yassin moves to the fore. Reorganization wrap.
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January 4th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: MENNA OFFERS PROTOCOL FIX
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RED BANK: Menna proposes workaround to comments protocol as Horgan, Yngstrom and fire chiefs begin new terms. Reorganization wrap.
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January 2nd, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: WIRE SNIP SNAPS UTILITY POLE
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RED BANK: A snip of a dormant wire atop a utility pole causes another to snap and fall downtown.
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September 12th, 2019 @ 2pm
RED BANK: DEMS GLIDE INTO NEW YEAR
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RED BANK: Democrats glide into New Year with unfettered control as Menna begins fourth term as mayor. Highlights from the reorganization meeting.
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January 2nd, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: DOC HOLIDAY CAR SHOW SHINES
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RED BANK: There wasn't enough room for "one more Volkswagen" at the 15th annual Doc Holiday Classic Car Show Sunday. Pix.
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July 10th, 2017 @ 6am
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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 ...