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RED BANK GETS GRANT FOR WORLD CUP CELEBRATION
Red Bank scores a $50,000 state grant to hold World Cup soccer watch parties and other events in June and July. (Click to read)
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May 7th @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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NEW RED BANK EATERIES: KOREAN, PIZZA, VENEZUELAN, AND MONSTER SUNDAES
Red Bank retail Churn: Korean BBQ, Scoop N Scootery ice cream set up shop, with new Venezuelan and pizza spots preparing to open.
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May 5th @ 3pm
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE WELCOMES MELBA MOORE
Disco, soul pioneer and Tony Award winner Melba Moore comes to Red Bank for a pre-Mother's Day meet and greet. (click to read)
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May 4th @ 1pm
RED BANK: BOARD OF ED NIXES BID TO OUST MEMBER FOR ABSENCES
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Should a Red Bank Board of Education member be removed for missing three meetings? Board members split on bid to consider ouster. (Click to read)
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May 4th @ 8am
RED BANK DOG CHOSEN FOR LOTTERY GAME CARD
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Arlo, a pit bull from Red Bank, is chosen as one of 18 dogs featured on NJ Lottery scratch off game cards. (click to read)
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May 1st @ 4pm
RED BANK: HISTORIC SITES OPEN FOR FREE “WEEKEND IN OLD MONMOUTH”
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Historic Red Bank sites throw doors open to visitors for annual "Weekend in Old Monmouth."(Click to read)
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May 1st @ 11am
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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May 1st @ 8am
RED BANK: BOROUGH INKS NEW BASIE FIELDS DEAL WITH RBC
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Red Bank Catholic will pay the Borough of Red Bank $185,000 a year to use Count Basie Park under a new 10-year deal.(Click to read)
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April 30th @ 7am
RED BANK: BOARD OF ED OK’S 9.5 PERCENT SCHOOL TAX HIKE
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Red Bank taxpayers will shell out 9.5 percent more to run the two district schools as officials cite skyrocketing health care costs. (click to read)
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April 29th @ 10am
RED BANK: CONDO PROJECT STALLS, THEN STARTS – AGAIN
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The on-again off-again construction of a ten-unit luxury condo building on Red Bank's waterfront is..on again. (Click to read)
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April 27th @ 2pm
RED BANK’S “DOCTOR PENIS” DRAWS NY TIMES SCRUTINY FOR BREAST SURGERY PAYOUTS
Newspaper expose on eye-popping insurance payments focuses on Red Bank plastic surgeon. (Click to read)
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April 27th @ 7am
RED BANK: BUSY SUNDAY ON TAP WITH STREET FAIR, GRAFFITI FEST
Street fair and Graffiti Fest on tap Sunday in Red Bank. (click to read)
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April 24th @ 4pm
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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April 24th @ 8am
RED BANK EARTH DAY GREEN FAIR
Partyline Photos: Red Bank marks Earth Day with Green Fair.
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April 23rd @ 7am
AS ENROLLMENT DROPS, CHARTER SCHOOL RECRUITS OUTSIDE RED BANK
With ten percent of its seats empty and once-long wait list shrunken, Red Bank Charter School enrolls more children from out of town. (Click to read)
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April 21st @ 3pm
THE REGULARS
Partyline photo: Coffee Corral regulars Clayton Stocks and his mother, Annie Smith in the Corral on Friday afternoon.
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April 21st @ 9am
RED BANK: NEW LIBRARY MURAL SHINES
Red Bank Public Library mural depicts fauna featured in literature, the local landscape, and one Red Bank student's cherished memories. (Click to read.)
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April 20th @ 8am
RED BANK VENUES CELEBRATE GARDEN STATE ART WEEKEND
Five Red Bank venues will throw their doors open with special events and extended hours this weekend as part of Garden State Art Weekend, described by organizers as "a statewide celebration of art in New Jersey." (Click to read)
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April 17th @ 4pm
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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April 17th @ 8am
COASTAL ART ON DISPLAY
Oil paintings by artist John Troisi adorn the walls behind the front desk at the Red Bank Public Library. On an 87-degree day in April, it felt appropriate to takeContinue reading "COASTAL ART ON DISPLAY"
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April 16th @ 2pm
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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 ...