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MIDDLETOWN: The Monmouth Players continue a Season of Classics with no less than DEATH OF A SALESMAN, beginning Saturday night.
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November 4th, 2016 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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MIDDLETOWN LIBRARY HOSTS JOB FAIR
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MIDDLETOWN: The Public Library hosts a November 19 Community Employment Fair, sponsored by The Community YMCA. 
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November 4th, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: A GRAMMER LESSON AT UUCMC
LINCROFT: Modern folk icon Tracy Grammer shares new songs, and stories of her years with the late Dave Carter, Saturday night at the Unitarian Meetinghouse.
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November 3rd, 2016 @ 12pm
RED BANK CHARTER DANCES FOR KINDNESS
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RED BANK: The Charter School joins the world in preparing for the fifth annual Dance for Kindness, with a November 13 flash-mob event on Broad Street.
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November 3rd, 2016 @ 5am
RBR FEMALE STUDENTS EXPLORE ENGINEERING
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LITTLE SILVER: RBR's Academy of Engineering has attracted several female students to its S.T.E.M.-based curriculum.
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November 3rd, 2016 @ 5am
ON THE GREEN: AN ABUNDANCE OF ART SHOWS
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RED BANK: From metalwork to paintings made to be destroyed, art shows abound on the Greater Red Bank Green through the weekend.
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November 2nd, 2016 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SEEKING MERRY WIVES, AND MORE
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RED BANK: Two River Theater puts a call out to high school age performers, to be part of the annual "A Little Shakespeare" production.
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November 2nd, 2016 @ 5am
RUMSON SCHOOLS HOST EDUCATION EXPERT
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RUMSON: Nurturing each student (and challenging top learners) was the theme of a special teachers' session with author and educator Dr. Bertie Kingore.
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November 2nd, 2016 @ 5am
SHREWSBURY: A CREATIVE WAY TO FUNDRAISE
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SHREWSBURY: An artist's unusual exhibit involves the fundraiser "sale" of temporary works that will be dismantled after the show that opens on Sunday.
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November 1st, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: CYMCA HOSTS TALK ON JERUSALEM
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RED BANK: Positive relations between Israeli and Palestinian communities is the topic of two special guest speakers, November 11 at the Community YMCA.
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November 1st, 2016 @ 5am
LITTLE SILVER: LET’S TALK GENDER AT RBR
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LITTLE SILVER: Author and activist Sam Killermann visits Red Bank Regional for a well-received talk on the issue of Gender Identity in American society.
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October 31st, 2016 @ 5am
TINTON FALLS: INTRO TO JUDAISM STARTS 11/2
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TINTON FALLS: Rabbi Kline of Monmouth Reform Temple invites the public to a free, 8-week course on the fundamentals of Jewish thought and practice.
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October 31st, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: DEAD ON LIVE AT THE BASIE
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RED BANK: The Dead walk the earth, or at least the Count Basie boards, in the personae of Marc Muller's meticulous tribute band, Dead On Live.
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October 27th, 2016 @ 12pm
ON THE GREEN: SPOOKY WALKS AND TALKS
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SANDY HOOK: A "ghost tour" of Fort Hancock, plus a pair of lectures on ghosthunting and the Jersey Devil creep onto this week's calendar.
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October 26th, 2016 @ 2pm
RED BANK: MORGAN PICKS UP THE PIECES
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RED BANK: Back on the road after a limo crash that killed a friend and seriously injured him, Tracy Morgan is slated to do two shows at the Basie Friday.
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October 26th, 2016 @ 9am
MIDDLETOWN: The 16th annual Navesink Challenge races are set to kick up donations for worthy causes, on the morning of November 27.
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October 26th, 2016 @ 5am
RUMSON: The Tower Players take to the RFH stage with the merry medieval farce "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
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October 25th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: YES MEN RETURN, BUT NOT AS YES
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RED BANK: The music of prog-rockers Yes comes to the Basie Wednesday, courtesy of veteran Yes men Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman — aka ARW.
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October 24th, 2016 @ 6am
RUMSON STUDENTS WALK, BIKE TO IGNITE
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RUMSON: Kids got themselves to school on foot or on bikes, as part of a safety campaign promoted by the police and PTO.
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October 24th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: A HALLOWED TRADITION TURNS 69
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The annual Red Bank Halloween Parade takes to the pavement this Sunday for another colorful display of cosplay and community pride.
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October 21st, 2016 @ 2pm
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(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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.