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RED BANK: CLEANUP AT “GATEWAY” GAS STATION
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
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
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
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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
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?
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
Moonrise over Red Bank Wednesday evening.  
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December 4th, 2025 @ 4pm
A SCOOTER IN YOUR STOCKING? HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE SCORE
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.
Marine Park remake continues apace with zip line installation.
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December 3rd, 2025 @ 12pm
PIPE WORK CLOSES MONMOUTH STREET
Monmouth Street closed for pipe work.
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December 2nd, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: RIVERFRONT CONDO PLAN GETS AIRING
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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
…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
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
A MOST WONDERFUL NIGHT: RED BANK TOWN LIGHTING DELIGHTS (VIDEO)
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Thousands dance away the wind chills for Red Bank's annual Town Lighting. (Video and photos)
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November 29th, 2025 @ 7am
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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November 28th, 2025 @ 5am
WHEN DUTY CALLS
Still soaked from hose water and covered in soot, Red Bank firefighter Jim Erving walk his dog Dusty, who had to wait in the car while Erving and other firefighters battled a house fire Monday. (Click for more.)
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November 25th, 2025 @ 5pm
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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 ...