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Monthly Archives: August 2025

WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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August 15th, 2025 @ 6am
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JUDGE TO RED BANK CHARTER SCHOOL: FORK OVER YOUR WAITING LIST
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Red Bank Charter School says it stopped turning over its waiting list because Red Bank Borough schools were using it to intimidate families. A judge ruled they need to hand it over. (click to read)
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August 13th, 2025 @ 8pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL SEEKS TO BORROW $4.6M FOR DPU REBUILD
Vanlife may be popular on Instagram, but Red Bank DPU workers would prefer not to be working in decades-old trailers. The borough is finally moving forward to build a new multimillion dollar facility. (click to read)
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August 12th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FATAL CRASH SUSPECT HAD TWO PRIOR DUIS. HOW WAS HE ALLOWED TO DRIVE?
Photo courtesy of The Lakewood Scoop.
A Red Bank man had been charged with DWI twice before police say he killed a mother and daughter while driving drunk. But those two cases were among thousands of DUI cases statewide put on hold amid a review of a new breathalyzer machine.
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August 11th, 2025 @ 9pm
HOLD ON TO YOUR HAT
An adventurous duo take a ride on the Tornado Twister ride at the 16 annual Red Bank Community Block Party on Drs. James Parker Boulevard Saturday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
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August 11th, 2025 @ 10am
RED BANK: FILMMAKER “DADDY LOVE” COMES HOME FOR BIRTHDAY PREMIERE
It's a homecoming, birthday party and film premiere all in one as Red Bank filmmaker "Daddy Love" premieres his latest feature at Basie Center Cinemas. (click to read)
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August 8th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK SIDEWALK SALE UNDERWAY
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Sunny skies and a busy start for Red Bank's 71st annual Sidewalk Sale, which runs from Friday to Sunday. (click to read)
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August 8th, 2025 @ 12pm
NEW WHEELS FOR COACH MARK
A successful fundraising effort by Red Bank American Youth Football and Cheer landed Coach Mark Williams a new set of wheels he needed to make it to the practices andContinue reading "NEW WHEELS FOR COACH MARK"
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August 8th, 2025 @ 11am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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August 8th, 2025 @ 5am
RED BANK: EAGLE SCOUT PROJECT SPRUCES UP EASTSIDE PARK
Red Bank's East Side Park looking a bit more spiffy thanks to a local Eagle Scout. (click to read)
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August 7th, 2025 @ 6pm
DEMOLITION BEGINS AT “THRIVE”
Demolition begins to make way for "Thrive Red Bank" as the apartment building for special needs adults gets its TV News close-up.
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August 7th, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK : PROJECT REMAKES RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL GROUNDS
Work is underway to improve drainage and upgrade the grounds and offices of the Red Bank Primary School. (click to read)
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August 6th, 2025 @ 4pm
BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER AND 8 FT DANCING DRAGONFLY AT RED BANK NIGHT OUT
Photos of sandwich-tossing cops, a US Army Black Hawk helicopter landing at Count Basie Park and more from National Night Out. (click to read)
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August 6th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: RESIDENT SAYS TRUCKS VANDALIZED WITH “NO PARKING” SIGNS
A Red Bank man who has waged a decades-long legal war with the borough over junk-filled vehicles he parks outside his house claims two of them were recently vandalized. (click to read)
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August 5th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: AS SUMMER CAMP NEARS END, RITA’S ICES TO CELEBRATE
A celebration of the last week of Red Bank Recration summer camp with Rita's ices turns smiles technicolor. (click to read)
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August 5th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: EMERGENCY REPAIRS ON RIVER STREET
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Temporary water main shutdown on River Street in Red Bank for emergency repairs. (click to read)
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August 5th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
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Summer and community spirit in all their glory: Red Bank Police host National Night Out celebration Tuesday night at Count Basie Park. (click to read)
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August 4th, 2025 @ 10pm
RED BANK: FATAL DWI SUSPECT DRAWS TRUMP ADMIN IRE
Photo courtesy of The Lakewood Scoop.
Citing his three earlier arrests, a Trump administration official holds up Red Bank man's fatal DWI crash as proof of Gov. Phil Murphy's failed immigration policy. (click to read)
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August 3rd, 2025 @ 10pm
RED BANK WEEKEND: WEST SIDE JAZZ, BROADWALK CORNHOLE ON TAP
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A cornhole tournament on Broadwalk and the start of the Westside Jazz Concert series this weekend. RBG has the deets. (click to read)
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August 1st, 2025 @ 11am
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August 1st, 2025 @ 6am
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PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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.
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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.