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RED BANK: ALL’S FAIR AT SPRING EVENT
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RED BANK: The spring edition of Street Fair returns Sunday as a downtown-filling party of food and crafts to benefit the local PBA
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April 7th, 2017 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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YA AUTHOR VISITS FAIR HAVEN SCHOOL
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FAIR HAVEN: Knollwood School students enjoy a special appearance by famed Young Adult author Jordan Sonnenblick.
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April 7th, 2017 @ 5am
RUMSON: GATOR DEBATERS MAKE THEIR CASE
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RUMSON: Students from the RCDS Debate Team move on to Eastern Regional Tournament in May.
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April 7th, 2017 @ 5am
LINCROFT: A NOVEL SETTING FOR FOLK FANS
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LINCROFT: Toronto's Young Novelists take the stage as Earth Room Concerts resume Saturday night at the Unitarian Meetinghouse.
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April 6th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: The Community YMCA helps kids "Soar to New Heights" during a launch event for its annual campaign.
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April 6th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: EIGHT WOMEN, A WAR AND LOVE
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RED BANK: Two River Theater hosts the world premiere of THE WOMEN OF PADILLA, going up in previews this Saturday.
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April 5th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK PRIMARY HOSTS SOME FRESH VIPs
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RED BANK: Primary school gets state Agriculture Department award for "exceptional job at promoting fruits and vegetables and healthy lifestyles."
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April 4th, 2017 @ 9am
RBR CODERS SCORE HIGH AT STOCKTON
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LITTLE SILVER: Coders from RBR's Academy of Information Tech take three of the six prizes in a recent competition at Stockton U.
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April 4th, 2017 @ 5am
LINCROFT: THEY’RE SPEAKING HIS LANGUAGES
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LINCROFT: Ever wonder where those unearthly languages spoken in 'Game of Thrones' come from? Meet their originator this Thursday night in a free event at Brookdale.
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April 3rd, 2017 @ 10am
RED BANK: The borough PD hosts an informal "Coffee with a Cop" session, Tuesday morning at Readie's.
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April 3rd, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: WORDS AND JAZZ ON MONMOUTH
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RED BANK: Basie-era greats and young artists mingle as the Talkin' Jazz series returns for a 10th annual edition this Monday.
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March 31st, 2017 @ 2pm
SHREWSBURY: LEARN FIRST AID FOR PETS
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SHREWSBURY: Pet owners and caregivers can learn Pet CPR and other lifesaving skills, during an April 23 class at the borough firehouse.
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March 31st, 2017 @ 5am
SANDY HOOK: GRASS PLANTERS WANTED
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SANDY HOOK: The Littoral Society seeks volunteers to plant beach-saving dune grass this Saturday, April 1st.
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March 30th, 2017 @ 3am
MIDDLETOWN: DAZE OF THEIR ‘PRIVATE LIVES’
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MIDDLETOWN: Monmouth Players stage an elegantly acid-tipped Coward comedy, plus a sober spoken-word Holocaust remembrance.
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March 29th, 2017 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: EARTH DAY VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT
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FAIR HAVEN: The borough seeks volunteers around the greater Green, for an Earth Day spruce-up of Fair Haven Fields.
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March 29th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK SMILES ON RBR FAMILIES
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RED BANK: The team at a local dentistry center offers dental care services to students (and their families) of Red Bank Regional's SOURCE program.
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March 28th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: TWO RIVER INTROS NEW SEASON
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RED BANK: Wilde and Wilder, Lughnasa and Luna C, as Two River Theater unveils its 2017-2018 slate of shows.
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March 27th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: A busy April 29 finds the Monmouth Civic Chorus conducting scholarship auditions, AND hosting its annual gala fundraiser.
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March 27th, 2017 @ 5am
ON THE GREEN: ART, LIGHT AND INSPIRATION
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ON THE GREEN: Award-winning local lenspeople, painters, illustrators and more, during a full weekend's worth of art-minded activities.
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March 24th, 2017 @ 10am
RED BANK ROTARY EVENT TO BENEFIT CYMCA
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RED BANK: A Rotary Club-hosted fundraiser and an Annual Campaign launch add up to an active April for The Community YMCA.
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March 24th, 2017 @ 5am
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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 ...