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The YMCA New Jersey Youth and Government Program will be sponsoring statewide service opportunities for high school students on December 14, 2013. Participants will be given the chance to volunteerContinue reading "Y PROGRAM CREATES A DAY OF SERVICE"
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December 3rd, 2013 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RFH ANNOUNCES STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS
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RFH staff and students recently welcomed visitors from Hanzhou Entel Foreign Language School in Hanzhou, China. Pictured from left to right are RFH Chinese Teacher Matthew Yang, RFH Supervisor ofContinue reading "RFH ANNOUNCES STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS"
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December 2nd, 2013 @ 6am
Press release from Red Bank Flavour Culinary Alliance Red Bank Flavour, a culinary campaign driven by the borough’s top chefs, restaurateurs and proprietors, will tempt foodies to flirt with theirContinue reading "RB FLAVOUR ANNOUNCES HOLIDAY EVENT"
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December 2nd, 2013 @ 6am
WEEKEND: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, AND MORE
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Above: Juke Joint Jonny brings the real-deal folk blues to a season-ending Steamy Night at the Woman’s Club…while below, the real live author Dave Cicirelli brings his FAKEBOOK saga homeContinue reading "WEEKEND: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, AND MORE"
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November 29th, 2013 @ 12pm
LS HISTORIC SITE BEGINS RESTORATION
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Committee member Keith Wells is pictured at an 18th century fireplace, recently rediscovered inside Little Silver’s historic Parker Homestead. By KAREN J. IRVINE, Press contact for Parker Homestead It hasContinue reading "LS HISTORIC SITE BEGINS RESTORATION"
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November 29th, 2013 @ 6am
Press release from Red Bank Charter School In November, the students and faculty of the Red Bank Charter School (RBCS) participated in a clothing fundraiser to support the nonprofit One SimpleContinue reading "RB CHARTER SCHOOL SUPPORTS A CNN HERO"
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November 29th, 2013 @ 6am
BIG FINISH FOR RFH GIRLS TEAMS’ SEASON
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The Girls Cross Country Team at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School finished third in the state the Meet of Champions on November 23…while the RFH Girls’ Soccer squad clinched theContinue reading "BIG FINISH FOR RFH GIRLS TEAMS’ SEASON"
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November 28th, 2013 @ 6am
RED BANK: EXPRESS TO THE SEASON OF LIGHTS
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The Christmas-capital crossroads of Broad and Canal streets is the place to be on Friday night, when Holiday Express presides over the annual concert and town lighting ceremony. (File photos.Continue reading "RED BANK: EXPRESS TO THE SEASON OF LIGHTS"
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November 27th, 2013 @ 3pm
TEAM HOBBYMASTERS GOBBLES UP THE TRACK
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A team of Radio Control race car drivers from Hobbymasters of Red Bank ruled the roost during the 2013 Turkey Race, held November 24 at South Jersey RC Raceway inContinue reading "TEAM HOBBYMASTERS GOBBLES UP THE TRACK"
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November 27th, 2013 @ 6am
BCC PROF EARNS NAT’L HONOR, AS TOPS IN NJ
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Brookdale Community College math professor Linda Wang (right) has been named 2013 NJ Professor of the Year, in an awards luncheon held recently in Washington, DC. Press release from BrookdaleContinue reading "BCC PROF EARNS NAT’L HONOR, AS TOPS IN NJ"
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November 27th, 2013 @ 6am
Press release from Brookdale Community College In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the event known as Kindertransport, survivor Manny Lindenbaum, his daughter, and granddaughter will share the generational impact ofContinue reading "GENERATIONS SHARE STORIES, AT BCC EVENT"
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November 27th, 2013 @ 6am
EXCELLENCE ALL AROUND, FOR RFH MIDFIELDER
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From press materials furnished by Rumson-Fair Haven Regional HS The Shore Soccer Officials Association announced that Rumson-Fair Haven Regional HS senior Schuyler DeBree (pictured) has been selected as the 2013Continue reading "EXCELLENCE ALL AROUND, FOR RFH MIDFIELDER"
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November 26th, 2013 @ 6am
RBR SENIORS TAKE TOP VOCAL HONORS
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RBR VPA seniors Shurmila Dhar, Little Silver, and Katie Robinson, Shrewsbury, took second and third place, respectively, in the upper level classical voice category at the NJ NATS Doris LenzContinue reading "RBR SENIORS TAKE TOP VOCAL HONORS"
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November 26th, 2013 @ 6am
DAWGS STEP UP FOR DOGS (AND OTHER PETS)
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Senior Matt Halfacre displays a few of the items collected as a result of the “Dawgs for Dogs … and Other Pets Too,” an initiative now taking place at RFH.Continue reading "DAWGS STEP UP FOR DOGS (AND OTHER PETS)"
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November 25th, 2013 @ 6am
SAVING A FORTUNE, IN RB REAL ESTATE
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Red Bank’s T. Thomas Fortune House, pictured in a 2011 file photo, is the subject of an ongoing effort to rescue and preserve the property as a community cultural center.Continue reading "SAVING A FORTUNE, IN RB REAL ESTATE"
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November 25th, 2013 @ 6am
WEEKEND: FIRST NIGHTERS, FARE-THEE-WELLS
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Lisa Sherman and Sandy Mack bring their all-new Sherman Mack project to the Walt Street Pub Friday night. Below: painter Martin Kammler has the floor at BCC, for a close-up lookContinue reading "WEEKEND: FIRST NIGHTERS, FARE-THEE-WELLS"
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November 22nd, 2013 @ 7am
A FOOTBALL FOOD DRIVE FOR RBR BUCS
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RBR sophomores Hannah Christensen, Devon Barnes, Billy Lynch and Kyra Soldo collect donations for this Wednesday’s Football Food Drive at the school’s home field. By CASSANDRA DORN, Red Bank RegionalContinue reading "A FOOTBALL FOOD DRIVE FOR RBR BUCS"
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November 22nd, 2013 @ 6am
ARCADE FIRED UP FOR RBFD FIRE CADETS
While the masterful manipulation of pinball flippers and the deft blasting of pixelated perils aren’t generally listed as required skills for firefighter applicants, they may come in handy during aContinue reading "ARCADE FIRED UP FOR RBFD FIRE CADETS"
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November 22nd, 2013 @ 6am
CLEARWATER: CLEANUPS, PLANTINGS, PARTIES
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Tony MacDonald, director of Monmouth University’s Urban Coast Institute, is the guest speaker at a November 25 event hosted at Brookdale Community College, by Red Bank-based NJ Friends of Clearwater.Continue reading "CLEARWATER: CLEANUPS, PLANTINGS, PARTIES"
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November 21st, 2013 @ 6am
RFH MAKES IT TO THE HONOR ROLL, AGAIN
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Press release from Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School Expanding access to Advanced Placement (AP) classes while improving student performance on end-of-course AP exams is a difficult balancing act. By achieving thisContinue reading "RFH MAKES IT TO THE HONOR ROLL, AGAIN"
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November 20th, 2013 @ 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 ...