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RED BANK: KEEP THE COAT HANDY
RED BANK: The Greater Green got a taste of coat-free weather Tuesday. But just a taste. Things get back to normal weatherwise on Wednesday. Local forecast.
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RED BANK: CRIMES AND ARRESTS
RED BANK: A month's worth of crime and arrest reports includes the theft of a tip jar and a smattering of DWI and contempt charges.
RED BANK: COPS CHARGE ROBBERS & VICTIMS
RED BANK: Attempted street robbery by two men leads to altercation and charges against alleged robbers and victims alike.
RED BANK: Rejecting pleas that it be saved, planning board approves demolition of hospital-owned Victorian home on East Front Street.
RED BANK: WARMER DAYS RETURN
RED BANK: Bone-chilling cold ends as warmer temperatures return. Here's the extended weather forecast for the Greater Green.
RED BANK: PASTRY, PIZZA AND MORE
RED BANK: A new pastry shop has opened in the space vacated by Carlo's Bakery, of 'Cake Boss' fame. This one offers some savory along with the sweet.
RED BANK: VORTEX BRINGS BITTER COLD
RED BANK: Polar vortex brings snow squall and bitter cold to the Greater Green. Here's the forecast along with some safety tips.
RED BANK: CHARTER SCHOOL HEAD TO RETIRE
RED BANK: Meredith Pennotti, who led the charter school through most of its first two, and highly fraught, decades, announces plan to retire.
RED BANK: FRESH FASHION ON THE RUNWAY
RED BANK: Young fashion designers show off their creations at a red runway event, the culmination of a three-week Parks & Rec class.
RED BANK: To wean, or not to wean? Mayor and council walk back characterization of key parking study recommendation Menna had said was potentially "catastrophic."
RED BANK: VICTORIAN IN CROSSHAIRS
RED BANK: A prominent Victorian home on East Front Street is on the next planning board agenda. What's Going On Here? Answer here.
RED BANK: ‘SNO BIG DEAL
RED BANK: Snow is forecast for the Greater Green this week, but not the 'empty the store shelves' kind of snow. Details here.
RED BANK: ‘WEANING’ FROM METERS UNLIKELY
RED BANK: Council appears unlikely to adopt a key recommendation of bombshell parking report: 'weaning' itself of using meter revenue to keep taxes down.
RED BANK: Swaying perilously with lines that cross the NJ Transit rail, damaged utility pole forces closure of Chestnut Street block. Video.
RED BANK: TODDLER SCORES AT CEREMONY
RED BANK: Toddler steals show as middle school boys' soccer team is honored by council for third straight championship season.
RED BANK: COUNCIL AGENDA
RED BANK: Affordable housing, snow shoveling and what was said at the CFO's firing are on the council's agenda Wednesday night.
RED BANK: HOPE CONCERT RAISED $224,000
RED BANK: Bobby Bandiera's 10th and final Hope Concert at the Basie last month raised $224,000 for two charities, bringing the series total to nearly $3M.
RED BANK: First cold snap of 2019 loosens its grip on the Greater Green as temperatures climb back to high 20s, and almost feel that, um, warm. Here's the forecast.
RED BANK: SNOW TOSSERS TO FACE TICKETS
RED BANK: Under a proposed law, property owners who shovel or plow snow into the street would face tickets. Shehady wants "zero tolerance."
RBR: FORUM ADDRESSES IMMIGRATION CRISIS
LITTLE SILVER: Today's young people, who overwhelmingly support immigration, will solve an issue that Americans are now torn over, RBR forum speaker says.
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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 ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...