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Monthly Archives: December 2025

RED BANK: CLEANUP AT “GATEWAY” GAS STATION
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With environmental cleanup underway (and new Christmas wreaths hung) Victor Rallo seems to be wasting no time in rehabbing the former gas station property he just purchased at Red Bank's northern gateway. (Click to read)
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December 8th, 2025 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: JAZZ ARTS PROJECT UNVEILS SWINGIN’ NEW DIGS
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Red Bank's Jazz Arts Project christens new digs and unveils the coolest door in Red Bank. (click to read)
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December 8th, 2025 @ 7am
SANTA WOWS ‘EM AT RED BANK WEST SIDE TREE LIGHTING
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Wide-eyed kids got some facetime with the big man himself Friday night at the annual Red Bank West Side tree lighting ceremony. Santa arrived, as usual on a Red BankContinue reading "SANTA WOWS ‘EM AT RED BANK WEST SIDE TREE LIGHTING"
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December 6th, 2025 @ 8am
SEVEN RBR SENIORS GO D1: DECEMBER SPORTS UPDATE
News Red Bank Regional HighSchool athletics update 12052025
Seven Red Bank Regional senior class athletes commit to Division one schools. A monthly sports update from RBR. (Click to read)
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December 5th, 2025 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BASIE CENTER & OCEANFIRST INK MOVIE HOUSE DEAL
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Red Bank's art house movie theater gets a new name and facelift under Basie Center/OceanFirst Bank partnership. (Click to read.)
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December 5th, 2025 @ 10am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
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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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December 5th, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: WEST SIDE TREE LIGHTING, TROLLEY RIDES, WAGS SHOW ON TAP
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West Side Tree lighting, trolley rides and a Wag concert on tap Friday-Sunday. (click to read)
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December 4th, 2025 @ 5pm
MOONRISE OVER RED BANK
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Moonrise over Red Bank Wednesday evening.  
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December 4th, 2025 @ 4pm
A SCOOTER IN YOUR STOCKING? HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE SCORE
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A new seasonal feature from redbankgreen featuring holiday gift ideas from local Red Bank shops and businesses. (click to read)
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December 4th, 2025 @ 7am
ZIP LINE? CHECK.
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Marine Park remake continues apace with zip line installation.
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December 3rd, 2025 @ 12pm
PIPE WORK CLOSES MONMOUTH STREET
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Monmouth Street closed for pipe work.
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December 2nd, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: RIVERFRONT CONDO PLAN GETS AIRING
News 26-28 Shrewsbury Avenue courtyard GAted investments
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Forty condos are proposed for a riverfront parking lot in Red Bank. The nascent plan got a vibe check at a special public meeting Monday night. (click to read)
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December 2nd, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: FUND DRIVES FOR FIRE VICTIMS
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Fund drives are underway to assist two Red Bank familles who lost their homes to fire last week. (Click to read)
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December 2nd, 2025 @ 11am
HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: ‘RED BANK TWIST’ CHOCOLATES
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A new seasonal feature from redbankgreen featuring holiday gift ideas from local Red Bank shops and businesses. (click to read)
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December 2nd, 2025 @ 7am
NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE
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…Needs a bassist. Old skool flyer posted on a doorway on West Front Street. Submitted by Brian Donohue
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December 1st, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK: PUBLIC MEETING FOR WATERFRONT SITE PLAN
News 14 townhomes and two cottages on the block bounded by Harding and Hudson Avenues and Clay Street.
A special public meeting Monday on a plan that would pave the way for 40 apartments on the Navesink River. (Click to read.)
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December 1st, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: EVIL CLOWN GEAR!
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A new seasonal feature from redbankgreen featuring holiday gift ideas from local Red Bank shops and businesses. (click to read)
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December 1st, 2025 @ 6am
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EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
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 ...