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Monthly Archives: August 2025

RED BANK: BORO HOPES TO SPUR WALKWAY, CLEANUP ON RIVERFRONT SITES
14 townhomes and two cottages on the block bounded by Harding and Hudson Avenues and Clay Street.
Red Bank Borough Council advances plan aimed at spurring development - and a public river walk - on two prominent waterfront properties. (click to read)
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August 29th, 2025 @ 1pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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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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August 29th, 2025 @ 6am
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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August 27th, 2025 @ 5pm
VIDEO: REDBANKGREEN – FOR THE LOVE OF RED BANK
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Video: As redbankgreen enters its 20th year, a short video about the joy of it all. (click to read)
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August 26th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: FOUR WILL RUN UNOPPOSED FOR COUNCIL
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November snoozefest on tap: Two years after a hotly contested race for Mayor and all six council seats, four allies of Mayor Billy Portman will run unopposed in November. (click to read)
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August 25th, 2025 @ 9am
Where there’s smoke…
There is not always necessarily a fire, apparently. Firefighters with the Red Bank volunteer fire department were on the scene of what was reported as a brush fire behind 150Continue reading "Where there’s smoke…"
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August 24th, 2025 @ 10pm
RED BANK GATEWAY TIED UP AFTER CRASH
Traffic light down at Navesink River Rd & Rt 35 in Middletown Friday evening. (photo by Partyline contributor Karly Swaim)
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August 23rd, 2025 @ 12pm
VIDEO: COUNT BASIE BIRTHDAY BOOGIE TAKES OVER DOWNTOWN
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VIDEO: Watch dancers lead a procession through downtown Red Bank to the sounds of William "Count" Basie's "Red Bank Boogie" to celebrate the jazz icon's birthday. (click to read)
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August 22nd, 2025 @ 1pm
ERIN PUSHES TIDE OVER NAVESINK BANKS
Stacked tides from days of hard onshore winds surrounding Hurricane Erin offshore finally pushed the Navesink River over the bulkhead at Marine Park Thursday night. (photo and caption by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)
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August 22nd, 2025 @ 12pm
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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August 22nd, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK CRUSADER DUO GETS FILM FEST CLOSEUP
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A film about the lives and work of two Red Bank immigration advocates takes the spotlight at tenth annual Indie Street Festival Friday. (click to read)
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August 21st, 2025 @ 12pm
STORMY STROLL
Red Bankers Bob and Patricia Heyer have Marine Park all to themselves for a stroll under gray Hurricane Erin skies Thursday morning.
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August 21st, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK: COUNT BASIE BIRTHDAY “BOOGIE” PROCESSION ON TAP
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On the birthday of late jazz icon William "Count" Basie Thursday, dancers will lead procession of through downtown streets to "Red Bank Boogie", Basie's 1944 tribute to his hometown. (click to read)
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August 20th, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK REGIONAL TO START YEAR WITH INTERIM PRINCIPAL
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Red Bank Regional High School prepares to start school year with a veteran educator as interim principal. (click to read)
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August 19th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK: PETITION CALLS FOR BOROUGH TO END “BROADWALK”
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Reps of three dozen Red Bank businesses sign a petition calling for an immediate end to "Broadwalk" the downtown pedestrian plaza. (click to read)
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August 19th, 2025 @ 9am
RED BANK: VISCOMI REPLACEMENT NAMED, ACCUSER STAYS MUM
Red Bank Mayor names replacement for library board member ousted for alleged deportation comment. (click to read)
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August 18th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK TOWN WIDE YARD SALE DATE SET
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Round up the bric-a-brac! Red Bank sets 2025 townwide yard sale date for September 13. (click to read)
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August 18th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: VANDALISM FILLS JULY POLICE BLOTTER
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RED BANK: A graffiti spree dominated the crime report for July. (click to read)
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August 18th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: EATERY OWNERS ROAST BROADWALK
A group of Red Bank restaurant owners tell the Borough Council that turning Broad Street into a seasonal pedestrian plaza is killing their business. (click to read)
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August 15th, 2025 @ 5pm
BRUSH PICKUP GOES WRONG
Driver says her car was struck by a Red Bank Department of Public Works front end loader doing scheduled brush pickup on Drs. James Parker Boulevard Wednesday.
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August 15th, 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 ...