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RED BANK: HOLIDAYS KICK OFF WITH BLIZZARD OF EVENTS
Red Bank kicks off the holiday season with the annual town lighting, an open art studio event and more. (Click for all the details)
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November 25th, 2025 @ 4pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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“DINNER CHURCH” HOSTS THANKSGIVING FEAST
The Feast at First Baptist Church held their annual Thanksgiving meal for the community Sunday, with more than 30 volunteers serving a feast for 150 people.
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November 25th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK CAMEOS IN NETFLIX THRILLER
Actor Claire Danes tosses a brick through the window of a Red Bank storefront in a scene from the new Netflix thriller “The Beast in Me.” As we reported lastContinue reading "RED BANK CAMEOS IN NETFLIX THRILLER"
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November 24th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: FIRE RIPS THROUGH TWO FAMILY HOME
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Two families are displaced as fire tears through a Red Bank duplex. (Click to read)
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November 24th, 2025 @ 2pm
“JOHN POO” FOR RED BANK COUNCIL? SOME VOTERS WROTE IN OTHER OPTIONS
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Various Red Bank residents, celebrities and cartoon characters garnered more than two percent of the vote in the recent council election. Take a look at the write-in tally. (click to read)
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November 24th, 2025 @ 8am
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 21st, 2025 @ 8am
WITH 28 STRAIGHT WINS, RED BANK’S 9U FOOTBALL TEAM SEEKS TITLE
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A Red Bank 9U football team that has not lost in three years is one win away from a prestigious national tourney bid. (Click to read)
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November 20th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK: ICE, FBI RAMP UP ARRESTS
Federal agents have arrested several people over three straight weekends in Red Bank. Details on who and how many people have been detained are scarce. (Click to read)
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November 20th, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK: ZONERS TO CONSIDER PLAN FOR 14 APARTMENTS
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A Holmdel builder will ask the Red Bank Zoning board for variances to build 14 apartments on the site of a former funeral home. (click to read)
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November 19th, 2025 @ 7pm
REDBANKGREEN NAMED “LOCAL NEWS BRIGHT SPOT”
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redbankgreen is named one of twelve "Local News Bright Spots" in the U.S. by Northwestern University's journalism school. (click to read)
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November 18th, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK: BOOKSTORE AND SMOOTHIE SHOP COMING TO MONMOUTH STREET
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A new book store and smoothie shop could be coming to two dramatically refurbished storefronts on Monmouth Street. (click to read)
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November 17th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: ROAD CLOSURES CAUSE DELAYS
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A pair of week-long road closures in Red Bank cause delays and kooky driver behavior. (Click to read)
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November 17th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: TRAIN TRACK FIX TO CLOSE PARKER BLVD.
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RED BANK TRAFFIC ALERT: Repairs on the train tracks will shut down a portion of Drs. James Parker Boulevard for a week. (Click to read)
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November 15th, 2025 @ 6am
STREET KITCHEN PUB OPENS ITS DOORS
"Soft opening" for the new Street Kitchen Pub at 5 Broad Street this weekend.
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November 14th, 2025 @ 5pm
RED BANK: KUDOS FOR PILLARS, AND SOME GRIPES, AS COUNCIL PACKS ‘EM IN
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A joyful packed house at the Red Bank council meeting watches cop promotions and honors bestowed upon beloved school nurse and undefeated soccer team. Oh, and a Bodman Place resident has totally had it with the huge construction project over there. (Click to read)
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November 14th, 2025 @ 3pm
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 14th, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: RIVERFRONT COTTAGE CLEARED FOR BIG NEW HOME
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A small cottage on a Navesink River bluff is demolished to make way for a new five-bedroom home. (click to read)
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November 13th, 2025 @ 12pm
CLASSIC FILMS, BIG SCREEN
A classic film series kicks off with "Sunset Boulevard" at the Basie Center Cinemas. (Click to read)
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November 12th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: WHEN ARE THEY PICKING UP MY LEAVES?
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Red Bank leaf pickup resumed this week with another round in December. Click for all the leafy deets.
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November 12th, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK VETS DAY KEYNOTE LAMENTS: “WE ARE STILL FALLING SHORT”
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A moving thank-you for veterans, musical tributes, and a pointed speech from a US Navy veteran at Red Bank's Veteran's Day ceremony. (Click to read)
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November 11th, 2025 @ 6pm
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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 ...