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WITCHES, JACK O’ LANTERNS TO TAKE OVER PARK
Get to carving, witches. The borough launches a new Jack O' Lantern contest with lighted gourds on display through Halloween. (click for more)
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October 21st, 2024 @ 3pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: MIDDLE SCHOOL GROUNDS GET MAKEOVER
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RED BANK: Work begins on a running/walking track, pickleball courts, basketball courts and a gazebo behind the Red Bank Middle School. (click to read)
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July 15th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK: AS BLEACHERS PROJECT ADVANCES, QUESTIONS LINGER
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RED BANK: Count Basie Fields bleachers replacement sails toward a final council vote, but questions about cost and state funding linger.
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June 5th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: TENNIS/PICKLEBALL COURTS SIGNUPS LAUNCHED
RED BANK: Online reservation system launched for fresh new pickleball courts.
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March 5th, 2024 @ 4pm
RED BANK: PICKLEBALL, ANYONE?
RED BANK: With completion of Eastside Park project, borough has its first pickleball courts, to share space with tennis.
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November 27th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: PARK WORK STARTS WITH MISHAP
RED BANK: Backhoe en route to start of Eastside Park makeover project tipped off a flatbed truck Wednesday morning.
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September 7th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: PARK TO GET PICKLEBALL COURTS
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RED BANK: Tennis courts in Eastside Park will be remade into "hybrid" tennis and pickleball surfaces under plans that advanced last week. 
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February 13th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: Borough reschedules public hearing on plans for upgrades to the basketball and tennis/pickleball courts in Eastside Park.
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February 1st, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: EASTSIDE PARK UPGRADES SLATED
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RED BANK: Plans for upgrades to the basketball and tennis/pickleball courts in Eastside Park will be aired for public comment this week.
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January 16th, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: DPU HEAD OUSTED
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RED BANK: Unlisted on agenda, no terms revealed, no discussion: council fires DPU director, brings back his predecessor at $16,500 a month.
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January 12th, 2023 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: STORYWALK DEBUTS
LITTLE SILVER: Borough public library and recreation department team up for the grand opening of StoryWalk at the Markham Playground.
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August 3rd, 2021 @ 4pm
RED BANK: DALPRA TO HEAD PARKS & REC
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RED BANK: Quickly filling vacancy left by Charlie Hoffmann, council hires former RBR athletic director Louis 'Del' DalPra to run parks & rec department.
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April 15th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: HOFFMANN LEAVING REC JOB
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RED BANK: Leaving borough hall for new job, parks and rec director Charlie Hoffmann gets a 'pile-on' of love from officials.
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March 25th, 2021 @ 1pm
RED BANK: VALENTINE’S DAY EVENTS
RED BANK: Parks & Recreation plans Valentine's Day activities, including cards for kids and seniors, a scavenger hunt and a video contest.
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January 29th, 2021 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER: RBR REWORKS HEARING PLAN
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LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional board scraps plan for "live, in-person" meeting after questions about whether it violated Murphy's "stay home" order.
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April 29th, 2020 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER: RBR SETS IN-PERSON HEARING
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LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional High board plans a "live, in-person" meeting Wednesday night, despite Governor Murphy's "stay home" order.
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April 28th, 2020 @ 10pm
RED BANK: Monmouth County reports two more COVID-19 cases. Little Silver reports additional person 'symptomatic.' Red Bank mayor declines to address.
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March 16th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: DISTRICT, CHARTER NOW CLOSED
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RED BANK: After short holdouts, district and charter schools will close indefinitely Monday, joining the home instruction wave prompted by COVID-19.
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March 13th, 2020 @ 5pm
RED BANK: SCHOOLS AT ‘LOW RISK,’ STAY OPEN
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RED BANK: While neighboring districts close over COVID-19 virus threat, borough schools are "low risk" and will be open Friday, Rumage says.
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March 12th, 2020 @ 8pm
LITTLE SILVER: District abandons plan announced Wednesday and closes school over COVID-19 concerns after reported "parent response."
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March 12th, 2020 @ 11am
Partyline
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 ...