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Monthly Archives: July 2025

RED BANK: EYE POPPING TRASH SCULPTURE AT ANDERSON BUILDING
Lisa Bagwell Anderson Building gallery 072025
An exhibit of whimsical, jaw-dropping (and yet unsettling) creations made of trash at the Anderson Building in Red Bank. (click to read)
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July 31st, 2025 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: “THRIVE” APARTMENT BUILDING BREAKS GROUND
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Groundbreaking ceremony for a groundbreaking project: work begins on a 32-unit apartment building on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank for neurodivergent residents. (click to read)
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July 30th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK: VISCOMI ACCUSER TO SEEK BOARD OF ED SEAT
Julie Flores-Castillo
Julie Flores-Castillo
Immigrant rights advocate enters race to unseat Red Bank Board of Education president accused of saying she should be deported. (click to read)
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July 29th, 2025 @ 4pm
495 CRASHES AND COUNTING…
A crash on Drs. James Parker Boulevard, days after police chief reports drivers crashing more than twice day so far in 2025.
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July 29th, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK: LEAK, SINKHOLE CAUSE ROAD CLOSURE
"Not a major rupture" but a headache nonetheless: small sinkhole cause road closure in Red Bank. (click to read)
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July 29th, 2025 @ 10am
WE NEED YOUR “RED BANK BOOGIE” VIDEOS!
It's boogie time, Red Bank! redbankgreen seeks video clips of residents dancing for an epic celebration honoring jazz icon William "Count" Basie.
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July 28th, 2025 @ 6pm
THE BUTCHER, THE DENTIST, THE METER READER: RED BANK HONORS STALWART TRIO
Red Bank honors a trio of fabric-of-the-community stalwarts: a beloved dentist, a popular butcher an omnipresent meter reader. (click to read)
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July 28th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK SKETCHBOOK CLUB SCRIBBLES AND SIPS
Sketchbook Club Red Bank at their monthly meeting at Five Dimes Brewery Thursday night. The group gathers once a month to draw pictures based on a selected theme. (photo byContinue reading "RED BANK SKETCHBOOK CLUB SCRIBBLES AND SIPS"
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July 28th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK MAN KILLS TWO IN DWI CRASH, COPS SAY
Photo courtesy of The Lakewood Scoop.
A drunk driver from Red Bank killed a woman and an eleven year old child in a Lakewood crash Saturday, police say. (photo by The Lakewood Scoop. Click to read more)
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July 28th, 2025 @ 8am
Stunning Sun Rays Light Up Marine Park Before Incoming Storm
Very cool sun rays as the storms were approaching Friday evening. Shot from Marine Park. (photo by Partyline contributor Thomas Doremus)  
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July 26th, 2025 @ 10am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Do you know where this photo was taken? Play the weekly "Where Have I Seen This?" and get the answer to last week's photo.
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July 25th, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: MAYOR OUSTS VISCOMI FROM LIBRARY BOARD FOR DEPORTATION COMMENT
Sue Viscomi
Red Bank Mayor removes election rival and Board of Education President Suzanne Viscomi from library board amid investigation into 18-month old deportation comment. (click to read)
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July 25th, 2025 @ 12am
RED BANK: FREE ROWING PROGRAM SATURDAY
Navesink River Rowing youth program 07162024
Navesink River Rowing youth program 07162024
Free rowing program for teens on the Navesink River Saturday. Click for the deets and link to register.
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July 23rd, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK THROWBACK: “SCROUNGING” DPW WORKERS BUILD NEW GARAGE ON THE CHEAP
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As Red Bank officials prepare to borrow $4.8 million for a new DPW facility, a look back at how it was done very differently exactly 50 years ago this week. (click to read)
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July 22nd, 2025 @ 2pm
RED BANK: INDIE STREET FILM FEST ANNOUNCES 2025 LINEUP
Red Bank's Indie Street Film Festival marks its tenth year in August. Check out the newly unveiled list of more than 80 films in this year's lineup. (click to read)
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July 22nd, 2025 @ 7am
ELMO SWEATS IT OUT ON BROADWALK
A group of teenagers riding their bikes around town stop for selfies and photos with a costumed Elmo character on the Broadwalk pedestrian plaza on Broad Street Monday evening. BroadwalkContinue reading "ELMO SWEATS IT OUT ON BROADWALK"
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July 21st, 2025 @ 5pm
RED BANK COPS REWARD KIDS’ GOOD DEEDS WITH FREE PIZZA
Red Bank Police launch new program giving free pizza to kids caught "doing the right thing." (click to read)
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July 21st, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: INTERSECTION GETS EYE-POPPING MAKEOVER TO SLOW TRAFFIC
River Street and Leighton Avenue tactical urbanism 072025
A Red Bank intersection where residents have demanded action on pedestrian safety for years is transformed with bollards and a Dating Game paint job. What's going on here? (click to read)
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July 21st, 2025 @ 6am
SO UNCOOL
One South Street resident awoke to a discarded kegerator at their curb on Friday morning. Video surveillance from nearby doorbell cameras could not be obtained, and the suspect is currentlyContinue reading "SO UNCOOL"
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July 18th, 2025 @ 4pm
BURGLARY, GRAFFITTI ON JUNE POLICE BLOTTER
RED BANK: Police blotter for June includes a graffiti spree, a burglary and the capture of a fugitive from justice.
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July 18th, 2025 @ 12pm
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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 ...
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 ...