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RED BANK CONCERTS, MOVIES, & FITNESS IN THE PARK RETURNS
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Red Bank Summer Series at Riverside Gardens Park, with fitness, movies and concerts begins this week.
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July 1st, 2025 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK LOOKS TO ELEVATE & REHAB AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMPLEX
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Red Bank officials work with owner of 40-unit Locust Landing apartment complex to renovate, elevate and preserve affordable housing. (click to read)
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June 30th, 2025 @ 2pm
RED BANK: “JAWS” & GARDEN OF EDEN ART SHOWS TOP WEEKEND PICKS
For lovers of film, art and free cheese: Simultaneous art openings marking the 50th anniversary of the film "Jaws" and the natural world on tap Saturday in Red Bank. (click to read)
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June 27th, 2025 @ 7pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL MOVES COUNT BASIE PARK WORK & TRAIN STATION PLAN
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Red Bank Borough Council advance plan to fix up Count Basie Park and redevelop train station area. (click to read)
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June 27th, 2025 @ 6pm
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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June 27th, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: VICTIM SUFFERS “SEVERE BURNS”, FIREFIGHTER HOSPITALIZED IN HOUSE FIRE
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Fire victim trapped in second-story bedroom sustains severe burns before Red Bank firefighters perform dramatic rescue. (click to read)
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June 24th, 2025 @ 2pm
RED BANK: HOUSE FIRE ON SHREWSBURY AVENUE
At least one person injured in house fire on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank. (click to read)
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June 24th, 2025 @ 10am
RED BANK: BUTCHER PASSES THE CLEAVER TO NEW OWNER
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Monmouth Meats owner retires and sells butcher shop to a familiar face you may know from the old Citarella's Market. (click to read)
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June 23rd, 2025 @ 2pm
JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION
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Performers at Red Bank’s Juneteenth community celebration Sunday at Johnny Jazz Park. (photo by Brian Donohue)      
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June 23rd, 2025 @ 8am
VIDEO: DRIVER TOPPLES TREE IN RED BANK
Doorbell camera captures SUV driver toppling tree with head-on crash in Red Bank. (click to read)
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June 23rd, 2025 @ 8am
BENEFIT FOR RED BANK ROCKER FIGHTING ALS
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Benefit concert Sunday for Red Bank rock 'n roller and local legend Tim Cronin. (Photo by Sara Stadtmiller. Click to read)
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June 21st, 2025 @ 1pm
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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June 20th, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: STORM LEAVES HUNDREDS WITHOUT POWER
Thunderstorm bearing high winds brings down tree limbs and leaves hundreds in Red Bank without power. (click to read)
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June 20th, 2025 @ 12am
RED BANK: FULL SLATE OF JUNETEENTH EVENTS THIS WEEK
A benefit jazz brunch, a march and community celebration and author talk top a full slate of Juneteenth events in Red Bank. (click to read)
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June 18th, 2025 @ 10am
RED BANK: CAR BURGLARIES SPARK POLICE WARNING
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Red Bank police issue a warning amid an uptick in recent car burglaries. (click to read)
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June 17th, 2025 @ 6pm
RED BANK: BILLBOARD COMPANY SUES OVER SIGN DENIAL
A billboard company whose plan to build a 25-foot LED sign at the entrance to Red Bank was nixed is now suing the zoning board to get it built. Will the court case put a wrench in hopes of redevelop the site? (click to read)
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June 17th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: AS SOGGINESS DRAGS ON, SYMPHONY CONCERT MOVED TO BASIE
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Red Bank's free New Jersey Symphony concert is moved indoors amid rainy forecast. (click to read)
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June 16th, 2025 @ 5pm
WATCH: RED BANK CLASSIC’S 1,110TH PLACE CHAMPION
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Watch the moving video of the very end of the Red Bank Classic 5k race.
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June 15th, 2025 @ 9am
RED BANK: WEED FARMERS TRY AGAIN AFTER BIZ FALLOUT
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An indoor cannabis farm that lost its license re-emerges and gets a crucial Borough Council nod as owner tries to make another go at it. (click to read)
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June 13th, 2025 @ 1pm
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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June 13th, 2025 @ 6am
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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.
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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
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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 ...