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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.
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SHREWSBURY: Y OFFERS WATER SAFETY TIPS
SHREWSBURY: With in-person water safety programs halted by the pandemic, YMCA offers tips for parents to help keep children safe while swimming.
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.
RED BANK: MENNA ADMITS FOOD TRUCK ERROR
RED BANK: Following redbankgreen questions about conflict of interest, Menna acknowledges he should not have participated in council food truck discussion.
RED BANK: FOOD TRUCK EYES VACANT SITE
RED BANK: A year after it appeared dead, a move to end the ban on food trucks rolls back into the spotlight, led by a mother-daughter venture called Your Sister's Balls.
RED BANK: MURPHY, BON JOVI BREAK B2 BREAD
RED BANK: Closely watched for his own behavior under COVID-19 rules he imposed, Murphy dines outdoors at B2 with Bon Jovi.
RED BANK: YMCA PIVOTS TO HELP IN CRISIS
RED BANK: Shuttered by the COVID-19 crisis, the YMCA of Greater Monmouth County pivoted to helping out with food, child care and more.
RED BANK: GIRL SCOUTS OFFER COOKIE RELIEF
RED BANK: Girl Scouts and Investors Bank team up to provide thousands of boxes of Thin Mints, Samoas and other cookie favorites to Lunch Break.
RED BANK: MURPHY ‘PAUSES’ INDOOR DINING
RED BANK: Murphy indefinitely delays restart of indoor dining amid concerns over "complete disregard" of social distancing at some bars.
RED BANK: WHITE STREET GAS LINE RUPTURED
RED BANK: Underground utility work for the White Street makeover project ruptures natural gas line downtown, prompting store evacuations.
RED BANK: NEARLY NEW CALLS IT QUITS
RED BANK: In Retail Churn, Nearly New Shop, started by an former Pan Am stewardess in 1993, joins parade of closings downtown.
RED BANK: PLAZAS RETURN FOR WEEK TWO
RED BANK: After a widely praised first week, downtown pedestrian shopping and dining plazas return for round two starting Thursday night.
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.
RED BANK: AWFUL INTERSECTION FIXED
RED BANK: After years of talk and a prolonged construction project, Monmouth County finalizes makeover of pothole-plagued intersection.
RED BANK: SALONS REOPEN
RED BANK: Hair growers finally get back to the barbers and stylists as Murphy's staged reopening plan advances, with further capacity increases.
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: PLAZA LIGHTS UP BROAD STREET
RED BANK: New pedestrian plaza lights up Broad Street as restaurants take it to the street in an effort to jump-start an economic recovery downtown.
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.
RED BANK: Dreamer 'thrilled' by SCOTUS decision thwarting Trump effort to kill DACA protections, plans a Facebook live discussion.
RED BANK: COVID-19 pandemic claims Alfonso's Pastry Shoppe after just 17 months of operation on Broad Street.
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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 ...
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 ...