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GRANNY FLATS COMING? RED BANK COUNCIL LOOKS TO LEGALIZE ADUs
Red Bank council moves to legalize backyard cottages, garage apartments and other forms accessory dwelling units. (Click to read)
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PODCAST: REDBANKGREEN, FEISTY LOCAL NEWS SITE, TURNS 20
redbankgreen marks its 20th anniversary with a podcast discussion about how it started, the crazy day-to-day and what the future holds. (Click to read)
PHOTOS/VIDEO: ARTISTS PAINT RED BANK
PHOTOS/VIDEO: 26 plein air artists fan out across Red Bank to create a rich display of local scenes. (Click to read/watch)
HUBBARD OR KYRILLOS? SIGN BATTLE ON RED BANK-MIDDLETOWN BRIDGE
Two signs reading "Hubbard's Bridge" appear - and then disappear - on a bridge renamed in 2018 for a former state senator. (Click to read)
RED BANK: RIVER STREET ASSAULT, SIX DWI’S ON APRIL POLICE BLOTTER
RED BANK: Police blotter for April includes six DWI arrests and an aggravated assault arrest on River Street.
RED BANK: SERVICES SLATED FOR TEEN KILLED IN TRAIN ACCIDENT
Services will be held Friday and Saturday for Terry Haupt Jr., the Red Bank teen killed by a NJ Transit train on May 13. (Click to read)
VIDEO: RED BANK FIRE CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Red Bank Fire Department sends off departed former Chief Robert Talerico with fire truck funeral procession. (Click to read)
RED BANK: WHY SO MANY PLANES?
Why are the skies over Red Bank so busy sometimes and so quiet other times? A local aviation nerdsplainer from redbankgreen.
BASIE CENTER ADDS MURAL, BASIE BAND BLOCK PARTY TO 100TH ANNIVERSARY
A block party and two concerts with the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra along with a new mural project are added to Count Basie theater centennial celebration. (Click to read)
“WE BUILT THAT.” RED BANK FIREFIGHTERS MARK MONUMENT’S 100 YEARS
As the 100-year-anniversary of Red Bank's War Memorial monument neared, firefighters made an illuminating discovery. (click to read)
RED BANK: ATLANTIC CLUB SAYS IT WILL MOVE TO FOODTOWN LOCATION
Hours after Super Foodtown announces closure, Atlantic Club announces a plan to move the health club to the supermarket location. (Click to read)
RED BANK FOODTOWN SHUTTING DOWN
Workers clear the shelves as a source tells redbankgreen that Circus Super Foodtown's closure is imminent. (click to read)
RED BANK: STILL VACANT, DOWNTOWN LANDMARK IS SOLD – AGAIN.
Meximodo owner buys two buildings in downtown Red Bank with plans to open restaurants in both. (Click to read)
RED BANK: COUNCIL OK’S 8 PERCENT TAX HIKE; BONDS FOR ROADS, PARKS, WATER
Red Bank Borough Council passes budget with 8 percent tax hike, ok's borrowing for streets, parks and water projects. (Click to read)
RED BANK: CROWD PACKS PARK TO HONOR TEEN KILLED BY TRAIN
Hundreds gathered to celebrate the life of a teen killed by a train in Red Bank last week. (Click to read)
RED BANK: PLANNING BOARD OK’S PARKING LOT EXPANSION
An office building on Drs. James Parker Building will have a bigger parking lot under a plan approved by the Red Bank Planning Board. (Click to read)
RED BANK: COMMUNITY MOURNS STUDENT KILLED IN TRAIN STRIKE
Hundreds gathered to honor and mourn a student killed in what school officials called an accident Wednesday. (Click to read)
FATAL TRAIN STRIKE NEAR RED BANK STATION
A 16-year-old Red Bank student was killed by a train after walking onto the track in Red Bank Wednesday. (Click to read)
OLD GLORY STORIES: RED BANK STORE GATHERS FLAGS FOR AMERICA 250
Red Bank shop is asking community members to share heirloom flags for an America 250 exhibit. (click to read)
RED BANK: BROADWALK, NOW “SETTLED LAW” SEEKS TO MOVE PAST CONTROVERSY
Red Bank's seasonal pedestrian plaza returns, with officials hoping opponents will get on board. (Click to read)
Partyline
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 ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.