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RED BANK: EMINENT DOMAIN FOE BUYS MI LUPITA’S TRACT, FORGES AHEAD WITH CONDOS
A developer who got approval for a 20-unit condo building near the Red Bank train station instead sold the land for $4.3 million. The new owner says she plans to go ahead with the project, even as she fights to save her own property in Perth Amboy from eminent domain. (click to read)
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RED BANK: MEMORIES TAKE FLIGHT WITH AIRPORT MURAL
Red Bank's newest mural is based on a photo from the Dorn family collection of historic photos. It left the son of the man who took the photo almost speechless. (click to read)
RED BANK: INSOMNIA COOKIES, “STREET” EATS AND MORE FILL BIZ VACANCIES
RED BANK: Mexican eatery Toro Rojo closes, while Insomnia cookies and a flurry of other new arrivals are filling fill a string of vacant storefronts along Broad Street. The latest in Retail Churn. (click to read)
RED BANK POLICE: SMOKE SHOP OWNER WAS SELLING WEED
Owner, employee of Red Bank smoke shop charged with illegal marijuana sales. (click to read)
RED BANK: THE CURIOUS CASE OF AN ALLEGED STEAMROLLER-DRIVING FIG THIEF
Reports of a steamroller-driving fig thief caused a hullaballoo on one Red Bank street. (click to read)
RED BANK: GRAFFITI, DUI’S KEEP POLICE BUSY IN AUGUST
RED BANK: Police blotter for August includes two DUI arrests and 11 incidents of vandalism.
RED BANK: FEST GIVES COMIC/GEEK CULTURE A MOMENT IN THE SUN
With stormtroopers, pokemon and board games, festival celebrate Red Bank's pop culture cred. (click to read)
RED BANK MEGA WEEKEND: POP CULTURE FEST, RECORD RIOT, YARD SALE, HISPANIC HERITAGE
A perfect forecast and a jam packed weekend calendar in Red Bank: yard sales, the bat mobile, record fair and a Hispanic heritage fest. Whew. (click to read)
RED BANK REMEMBERS SEPT. 11, 2001 ATTACKS
"We gather to remember all those who are still grieving." Scenes from Red Bank's annual Septmber 11 memorial ceremony. (click to read)
RED BANK: FUND DRIVE FOR FAMILY IN BOUT WITH CANCER
Red Bank family starts GoFundMe to keep them in their home while a husband and father battles brain cancer. (click to read)
RED BANK: IN MEMORY OF THOSE KILLED ON SEPT. 11, 2001
RED BANK: Locals to gather at Riverside Gardens Park to remember those who lost their lives in the horrific September 11, 2001 attacks. Monmouth County also has a slate of remembrance events.
FILLING UP? RED BANK GAS STATION’S “GIVING PUMP” FUELS SCHOOL CHARITY
Red Bank gas station's "giving pump" will donate portion of sales to Red Bank Education Foundation this fall. (click to read)
COPS RAID RED BANK SMOKE SHOP
State special agents, Red Bank police raid Monmouth Street smoke shop. (click to read)
RED BANK’S ANDERSON MARKET OPENS: TAKE A TOUR
From Nashville-Pakistani hot chicken to seafood caught by clammers right up the road, a video and photo tour of the offerings at the new Anderson Market. (click to read)
RED BANK: RECTOR PLACE, FRONT STREET ROAD CLOSURES ON TAP
Overnight roadwork near Red Bank's northern gateway could cause some detours for motorists over the next two weeks, according to a notice sent out by the borough.(click to read)
RED BANK: BUILDER PLANS TOWNHOMES FOR ATLANTIC CLUB TRACT
Developer says he's under contract to buy Red Bank's Atlantic Club and 13 other properties with a plan to build new townhomes on the site.(click to read)
RED BANK: COPS NAB GRAFFITI SUSPECTS
Using video, Red Bank police nab alleged scrawlers they say are responsible for incidents of summertime graffiti. (click to read)
MEET RED BANK’S TRAILBLAZING “NO MOW” GARDENERS
A dozen Red Bank gardeners are lauded for their ambition - and lack of it - by a program aimed at creating swaths of native habitat, one yard at a time. (click to read)
RED BANK: BORO HOPES TO SPUR WALKWAY, CLEANUP ON RIVERFRONT SITES
Red Bank Borough Council advances plan aimed at spurring development - and a public river walk - on two prominent waterfront properties. (click to read)
RED BANK: BORO EYES REHAB TAG FOR TWO RIVERFRONT TRACTS
Should two prominent riverfront properties in Red Bank be declared areas "in need of rehabilitation?' The council will vote Thursday. (click to read)
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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 ...