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RED BANK: MAYOR OUSTS VISCOMI FROM LIBRARY BOARD FOR DEPORTATION COMMENT
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Red Bank Mayor removes election rival and Board of Education President Suzanne Viscomi from library board amid investigation into 18-month old deportation comment. (click to read)
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July 25th, 2025 @ 12am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: FREE ROWING PROGRAM SATURDAY
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Navesink River Rowing youth program 07162024
Free rowing program for teens on the Navesink River Saturday. Click for the deets and link to register.
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July 23rd, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK THROWBACK: “SCROUNGING” DPW WORKERS BUILD NEW GARAGE ON THE CHEAP
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As Red Bank officials prepare to borrow $4.8 million for a new DPW facility, a look back at how it was done very differently exactly 50 years ago this week. (click to read)
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July 22nd, 2025 @ 2pm
RED BANK: INDIE STREET FILM FEST ANNOUNCES 2025 LINEUP
Red Bank's Indie Street Film Festival marks its tenth year in August. Check out the newly unveiled list of more than 80 films in this year's lineup. (click to read)
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July 22nd, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK COPS REWARD KIDS’ GOOD DEEDS WITH FREE PIZZA
Red Bank Police launch new program giving free pizza to kids caught "doing the right thing." (click to read)
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July 21st, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: INTERSECTION GETS EYE-POPPING MAKEOVER TO SLOW TRAFFIC
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A Red Bank intersection where residents have demanded action on pedestrian safety for years is transformed with bollards and a Dating Game paint job. What's going on here? (click to read)
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July 21st, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: GARDEN TOUR, TINY PORCH JAZZ ON TAP FOR WEEKEND
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Bumble bee flowers 072025 McClaren Street garden
Red Bank's First Annual Garden Tour and a Tiny Porch Jazz Concert top the list of things to do this weekend. (click to read)
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July 18th, 2025 @ 12pm
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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July 18th, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: ATLANTIC CLUB PARTNERS SQUARE OFF IN LAWSUIT OVER $20 MILLION SALE
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Investor sues Atlantic Club owners saying he was shut out of the proceeds from last year's $20 million sale of the club to a fitness industry giant. (click to read)
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July 16th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: BASIE ARTS CENTER UNVEILS 100TH BIRTHDAY BASH PLANS
The Count Basie Center for the Arts announces a 16-month celebration to mark the 100 anniversary of Red Bank's crown jewel theater. (click to read)
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July 14th, 2025 @ 5pm
RED BANK: AS BLAZE VICTIM DIES, FIRE CHIEF PLEADS FOR HELP
Red Bank man burned in house fire dies, as fire chief appeals for more volunteers and smoke alarms programs. (Click to read)
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July 14th, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK WEEKEND: CAR SHOW, MEDITERRANEAN NIGHT ON TAP THIS WEEKEND
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Annual Doc Holiday car show Sunday and a Mediterranean Themed night on Broadwalk Friday night. (click for the details)
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July 11th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: TRAIN STATION, LOCUST LANDING PLANS SAIL THROUGH COUNCIL
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Two big votes on an emotional night as Red Bank council approves a pair of major housing initiatives: Locust Landing rehab plan and 400-apartment train station redevelopment plan. (click to read)
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July 11th, 2025 @ 12pm
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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July 11th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: COUNCIL TO VOTE ON TRAIN STATION REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
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Final council vote on massive Red Bank train station redevelopment plan set for Thursday. (click to read)
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July 9th, 2025 @ 2pm
TIM CRONIN, BELOVED RED BANK ROCK ‘N ROLLER DIES
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Tim Cronin, who achieved local legend status as the affable face behind the counter at Jack's Music Shoppe in Red Bank and global cult hero notoriety as a founding member of the band Monster Magnet, has died. 
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July 8th, 2025 @ 6pm
RED BANK: FIRE VICTIM ON LIFE SUPPORT
Red Bank fire victim remains on life support with burns over 90 percent of his body. (click to read)
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July 8th, 2025 @ 3pm
VIDEO: TESTING RED BANK TRAFFIC DURING “BROADWALK”
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VIDEO: redbankgreen hits the road to test Red Bank traffic with Broad Street closed for the "Broadwalk" pedestrian plaza.
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July 7th, 2025 @ 12pm
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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July 4th, 2025 @ 6am
UP IS DOWN: LUKOIL UPENDS RED BANK’S GAS PRICES REALITY
Up is down: a Lukoil gas station whose high prices have long been a local mystery suddenly starts selling the cheapest gas in town. (click to read)
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July 2nd, 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 ...