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FAIR HAVEN: PURCHASE PLAN SCRAPPED
FAIR HAVEN: Borough scraps proposed $3.4M purchase of River Road site, explores building new police station at current location.
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RED BANK: LION IN WAIT… FOR A VACCINE?
RED BANK: River Road homeowner finds an opportunity for humor in increasingly politicized debate over masks to slow spread of COVID-19.
VIRUS UPDATE: ‘MASK UP,’ MURPHY ORDERS
VIRUS UPDATE: Citing 'backsliding' in COVID-19 transmission rate, Murphy issues outdoor mask order where social distancing isn't practicable.
ON THE GREEN: ONE POLLING PLACE PER TOWN
ON THE GREEN: Pandemic transforms primary voting to mail-in affair, with just one live poling place per town in Red Bank, Fair Haven and Little Silver.
RED BANK: SUNSHINE AND STORMS FORECAST
RED BANK: New work week kicks off with sunshine, followed by possible evening thunderstorms. Here's the extended forecast for the Greater Green.
VIRUS UPDATE: MONMOUTH DEATH TOLL AT 700
VIRUS UPDATE: One-hundred days after its first death in the pandemic, Monmouth County records its 700th, as state total nears 13,000.
ON THE GREEN: ECSTATIC LEAPS INTO SUMMER
ON THE GREEN: If these pix of folks leaping into summer don't make you giggle, have someone check you for a pulse.
RED BANK: FOG, SUN, RAIN & BAGPIPES
RED BANK: The fog-cutting sound of bagpipes seems apt for this weekend. Here's video, plus the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
FAIR HAVEN: NO DUNKIN’ ON OVER EASY
FAIR HAVEN: Proposed Over Easy restaurant has a far easier time of it than its prospective neighbor, a Dunkin' shop that triggered heated arguments.
VIRUS UPDATE: SANDY HOOK FEES RETURN
SANDY HOOK: Lifeguards and entry fees set to return to Gateway National Recreation Area, along with end of 50-percent capacity limit.
VIRUS UPDATE: STATE’S DEATH TOLL AT 12,049
VIRUS UPDATE: State's death toll tops 12,000 as Murphy praises efforts to "beat the crap out of this virus" going into stage two of his restart plan.
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FAIR HAVEN: BRUSH GRINDING SITE GRATES
FAIR HAVEN: Neighbors say they've had it with a noisy brush-grinding operation that jams narrow streets with 18-wheelers, endangering kids.
FAIR HAVEN: KNOLLWOOD’S ROLLING SEND-OFF
FAIR HAVEN: With a police vehicle supplying sirens and flashing lights, school officials hold rolling graduations at homes of Knollwood eighth-graders.
VIRUS UPDATE: RED BANK CASES LEVELING
VIRUS UPDATE: Red Bank's COVID-19 caseload appears to flatten for first time since March 30 as longterm care facility sees another resident fatality.
VIRUS UPDATE: COUNTY SEES 97 NEW CASES
VIRUS UPDATE: Monmouth County COVID-19 case growth continues, but well below pace of late April, as Murphy focuses on new hospitalizations.
VIRUS UPDATE: GUV SIGNALS FURTHER EASING
VIRUS UPDATE: As Monmouth COVID-19 cases top 8,000, Murphy says relaxed limits on horse racing, religious services coming "sooner rather than later."
VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy clears outdoor graduations to resume July 6 as key measures of COID-19 pandemic show continued improvement over holiday weekend.
VIRUS UPDATE: FACILITY CASELOAD UP BY 11
VIRUS UPDATE: Another 10 residents and 1 more staffer at a Red Bank longterm care facility have confirmed COVID-19 cases, for a total of 83, state reports.
VIRUS UPDATE: RED BANK CASE TOTAL RISES
VIRUS UPDATE: Red Bank's COVID-19 case total spikes as it continues rise, while Little Silver and Fair Haven hold relatively steady.
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CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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 ...