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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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September 26th, 2025 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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COUNT BASIE, BON JOVI HONORED AT BASIE CENTER WALK OF FAME
William "Count" Basie and Jon Bon Jovi honored as first inductees of the 100-year-old Red Bank theater's new "Walk of Fame." (click to read)
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September 25th, 2025 @ 4pm
BIG BASIE DAY
The Count Basie Center for the Arts holds a big day as part of its year long 100th anniversary celebration. The first two engraved sidewalk plaques will be unveiled honoringContinue reading "BIG BASIE DAY"
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September 25th, 2025 @ 10am
RED BANK POLICE: COP “MISAPPROPRIATED” MONEY FROM FELLOW OFFICER
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A Red Bank police officer was docked 114 days of sick and vacation time for misappropriating money belonging to a fellow cop. (click to read)
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September 25th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK GUNMAN FIRED INTO RUMSON HOME, COPS SAY
Red Bank man fired a rifle through the window of a home in Rumson in Broad Daylight Monday, police say. (click to read)
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September 24th, 2025 @ 5pm
MARINE PARK JUNGLE GYM MEETS SLEDGE HAMMER
Workers Wednesday took down the playground at Marine Park as part of the recently begun phase two of the park's $4 million overhaul. A new playground will be built in the same spot, according to the plans.
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September 24th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK THROWBACK: BORO BUYS THEATER TO CREATE MARINE PARK
100 years ago this week, the Borough of Red Bank made one of the best moves in its history: buying land to create Marine Park. (click to read)
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September 24th, 2025 @ 9am
RED BANK: EMINENT DOMAIN FOE BUYS MI LUPITA’S TRACT, FORGES AHEAD WITH CONDOS
A developer who got approval for a 20-unit condo building near the Red Bank train station instead sold the land for $4.3 million. The new owner says she plans to go ahead with the project, even as she fights to save her own property in Perth Amboy from eminent domain. (click to read)
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September 22nd, 2025 @ 8pm
CONSTITUTION DAY RALLY ON COOPER’S BRIDGE
Constitution Day rally on Cooper's Bridge draws crowd to Route 35 span in Red Bank. (click to read)
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September 20th, 2025 @ 8am
BACK TO TATER TOTS
A sign outside Red Bank Regional High School delivers the news that the one-year experiment conducted last year in which students could order lunch from online delivery services will notContinue reading "BACK TO TATER TOTS"
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September 20th, 2025 @ 7am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Do you know where in Red Bank 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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September 19th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: MEMORIES TAKE FLIGHT WITH AIRPORT MURAL
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Red Bank's newest mural is based on a photo from the Dorn family collection of historic photos. It left the son of the man who took the photo almost speechless. (click to read)
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September 18th, 2025 @ 2pm
RED BANK POLICE: SMOKE SHOP OWNER WAS SELLING WEED
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Owner, employee of Red Bank smoke shop charged with illegal marijuana sales. (click to read)
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September 17th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: THE CURIOUS CASE OF AN ALLEGED STEAMROLLER-DRIVING FIG THIEF
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Reports of a steamroller-driving fig thief caused a hullaballoo on one Red Bank street. (click to read)
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September 16th, 2025 @ 5pm
MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY
Residents gathered near the Red Bank train station late Monday to usher in Mexican Independence Day, September 16. The gathering included the traditional “El Grito” call and response delivered byContinue reading "MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY"
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September 16th, 2025 @ 9am
RIVER SEARCH
A police search drone scans the Swimming River while the Red Bank Fire Department dive team pulls up to the dock at Swimming River Park in Middletown Sunday night. TheContinue reading "RIVER SEARCH"
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September 15th, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK: FEST GIVES COMIC/GEEK CULTURE A MOMENT IN THE SUN
Red Bank Pop Culture Fest 2025
With stormtroopers, pokemon and board games, festival celebrate Red Bank's pop culture cred. (click to read)
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September 15th, 2025 @ 7am
YARD SALE SCORE
Sometimes, you just get lucky. redbankgreen scored a free rubber chicken at the townwide yard sale Saturday morning. More than 50 households participated, raising funds for the Red Bank PublicContinue reading "YARD SALE SCORE"
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September 14th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK MEGA WEEKEND: POP CULTURE FEST, RECORD RIOT, YARD SALE, HISPANIC HERITAGE
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A perfect forecast and a jam packed weekend calendar in Red Bank: yard sales, the bat mobile, record fair and a Hispanic heritage fest. Whew. (click to read)
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September 12th, 2025 @ 8am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Do you know where in Red Bank 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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September 12th, 2025 @ 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 ...