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Red Bank Welcomes First Sunrise of 2025!
First sunrise of 2025! (photo by Partyline contributor Thomas Doremus)
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January 1st, 2025 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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STUNNING RED BANK SUNSET TO END 2024
New Year’s Eve sunset shot from Shrewsbury Ave. (Photo by Partyline contributor Thomas Doremus)    
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December 31st, 2024 @ 9pm
🥂 A NEW YEAR MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE FROM REDBANKGREEN
Dear Red Bank, Years ago, I was sitting, beer in hand, in my backyard on South Street. I had this sudden compulsion to get up and peek through an openingContinue reading "🥂 A NEW YEAR MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE FROM REDBANKGREEN"
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December 31st, 2024 @ 2pm
MENORAH LIGHTING
Red Bank Mayor Billy Portman lighting the menorah Monday night at the annual Hanukkah ceremony at Riverside Gardens Park. (photo by Brian Donohue)
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December 31st, 2024 @ 7am
TRAINSPOTTING WEATHER
As temperatures soared well into the 50’s again, railroad enthusiast and photographer Eric Kreszel photographs the southbound NJ Transit North Jersey Coast Line train Monday morning near the East BergenContinue reading "TRAINSPOTTING WEATHER"
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December 30th, 2024 @ 10am
WATCH SLAM DUNK VID AS BUCS REACH FINALS IN BUC CLASSIC HOOPS TOURNEY
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Video of slam dunk highlight in Red Bank Regional boys hoops win as team advances to finals of annual Buc Classic holiday tournament.
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December 29th, 2024 @ 2pm
HELLO OLD MOVIE HOUSE!
Basie Center Cinemas on White Street is particularly busy, owing to its showing of A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic released on Christmas. More info and showtimes here.
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December 28th, 2024 @ 1pm
LEAF..ER, SALT BLOWER?
Worker uses leaf blower to clear salt from sidewalks.
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December 26th, 2024 @ 10am
HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS — AND THE RED BANK FIRE DEPARTMENT
Santa Claus came to town courtesy of Red Bank Fire Department Monday, beginning a trip around Red Bank at roughly 5 pm. Braving the freezing temperatures, young Red Bankers patientlyContinue reading "HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS — AND THE RED BANK FIRE DEPARTMENT"
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December 23rd, 2024 @ 9pm
BROAD AND FRONT AT CHRISTMAS
Christmasy scene at Broad and Front Friday night. (photo by Brian Donohue)
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December 23rd, 2024 @ 2pm
ICE SCULPTING DELIGHTS CHILLED RED BANKERS
Ice sculptures warm hearts on a frigid day in Red Bank. Check out the photos.
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December 22nd, 2024 @ 8pm
FIRST SNOW BRIGHTENS THE GREEN
Christmas/Holiday Vibes on Grant Place Saturday morning after the first (almost) significant snow of the season. Two intertwined trees (is that two trees or one?)  accentuated by a coat ofContinue reading "FIRST SNOW BRIGHTENS THE GREEN"
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December 21st, 2024 @ 1pm
RBMS SINGERS BRING THE JOY
  The Red Bank Middle School chorus brought the joy at their holiday concert Wednesday night. Turn on your sound and click their Instagram post below to listen.   ViewContinue reading "RBMS SINGERS BRING THE JOY"
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December 19th, 2024 @ 11am
NATIONAL CHAMPS!
The St. James Royals, based at St. James school and parish in Red Bank won the national Pop Warner 14U championship in their first year as an organization last weekend.Continue reading "NATIONAL CHAMPS!"
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December 18th, 2024 @ 2pm
Enchanting ‘Child Moon’ Shines Over Navesink River
Beautiful “Child Moon” reflecting on the Navesink last night. (photo by Partyline contributor Anna Cruz)  
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December 18th, 2024 @ 10am
LIGHTS UP AT TWO RIVER
With a near full moon adding to the light display, Two River Theatre worker Tony Christopher puts up the Christmas lights outside the theater Friday night. (photo by Brian Donohue)
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December 16th, 2024 @ 8am
DELICIOUSNESS ALERT: FREDDY’S COOKING RIBS!
While most of us were still having morning coffee or lingering in bed Sunday morning, Freddy Boynton was starting the low and slow smoking process for the barbecue ribs beingContinue reading "DELICIOUSNESS ALERT: FREDDY’S COOKING RIBS!"
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December 15th, 2024 @ 9am
GOOD NIGHT, GOOD NIGHT, DRONES IN FLIGHT
South Street resident Katie Katzgrau looks to the stars for inspiration, having authored a new bedtime story for her boys.
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December 14th, 2024 @ 8am
MANNEQUIN EYE VIEW
The view from Pearl Street Consignment a few weeks before Christmas. (photo by Partyline contributor Jeff Frieri)
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December 12th, 2024 @ 9pm
COOPER’S BRIDGE FOG
A fog covered Cooper’s Bridge Tuesday morning.(photo by Partyline contributor Karly Swaim)  
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December 10th, 2024 @ 7am
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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.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
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.
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 ...