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LINCROFT: BCC TO HOST FALL OPEN HOUSE
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LINCROFT: The Collins Arena at BCC is the setting for the school's annual Fall Open House, Sunday November 6.
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October 21st, 2016 @ 5am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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MONMOUTH CANDIDATES FORUM SET FOR 10/26
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MANALAPAN: The League of Women Voters hosts a forum of candidates for Freeholder, Sheriff, and Surrogate, Oct. 26 at the County Library.
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October 21st, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: Emmy winning music authority David Dubal returns to Monmouth Conservatory this Sunday for an illuminating intro to Sergei Rachmaninoff.
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October 20th, 2016 @ 12pm
M’TOWN: NUT SWAMP GOES GOLD VS. CANCER
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MIDDLETOWN: Staff, students and parents at Nut Swamp School team up to fight pediatric cancer during a weeklong fundraising and awareness drive.
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October 20th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK HOSTS DRUG TURN-IN ON OCT. 22
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RED BANK: Bring unused and expired prescription drugs to the police station this Saturday, as part of the DEA's nationwide Take Back Day.
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October 20th, 2016 @ 5am
SHREWSBURY: A GUILDED AGE FOR CREATIVES
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SHREWSBURY: The winners of the 24th Annual Open Juried Show remain on display for one more week at the Guild of Creative Art.
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October 19th, 2016 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BIDS START ON GALA AUCTIONS
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RED BANK: Jets tickets, Colbert tickets, TODAY tickets and a private Antiques Roadshow are just some of the prizes to be bid on Friday, during the annual Lunch Break gala event.
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October 19th, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: The Fathers' Club at CBA raises over $35K in financial support to students, at this year's Brother Andrew Fall Outing.
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October 19th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK, RBR TEAM TO TUTOR
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RED BANK: Red Bank Regional faculty partner with two borough-based facilities for an innovative evening tutoring program.
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October 18th, 2016 @ 5am
RBR SEEKS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI FOR 2017
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LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional is calling for nominations to its 2017 class of Distinguished Alumni, with deadline November 11.
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October 18th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: FRAMPTON COMES UNPLUGGED
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RED BANK: Peter Frampton does it in the raw with an acoustic career retrospective from the Count Basie stage Tuesday night.
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October 17th, 2016 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN KIDS EMBRACE ‘THE OTHER R’
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FAIR HAVEN: The Sickles School hosts a Week of Respect that reinforces the theme "It's OK to Be Different."
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October 17th, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: A FINE DAY IN THOMPSON PARK
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LINCROFT: The annual Thompson Park Day offers up a family-friendly Fall festival of activities, contests, rides and entertainment this Sunday.
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October 14th, 2016 @ 9am
RED BANK: The Business Alliance hosts its first-ever Holiday Soiree (benefitting two local nonprofits), Nov. 17 at the Molly.
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October 14th, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: CBA NAMES 2016 HALL OF FAMERS
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LINCROFT: The CBA Hall of Fame inducts a pro soccer player, a Madison Avenue CEO and more, at a November 19 gala.
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October 14th, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: HAUNTED HOUSE CREAKS OPEN
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LINCROFT: An eek-spanded edition of Brookdale's Haunted Theater goes up for the first of three big weekends starting Friday night.
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October 13th, 2016 @ 11am
LITTLE SILVER: Teens and parents are invited to view 'Audrie & Daisy,' a documentary about cyberbullying, sexual assault and suicide.
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October 13th, 2016 @ 7am
MIDDLETOWN: PLANTING SEEDS OF PRAISE
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MIDDLETOWN: The annual Field of Flags tribute takes root once more at Westminster Presbyterian, with a Saturday morning ceremony.
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October 13th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: Pilgrim Baptist Church is collecting donations of dollars and needed items, to aid Hurricane Matthew's victims in the U.S. and Haiti.
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October 13th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: YOK-TOBERFEST IS ON AT BASIE’S
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RED BANK: Humorist David Sedaris and improv aces Mochrie + Sherwood explore the many faces of comedy at the Count Basie, this Thursday and Saturday.
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October 12th, 2016 @ 12pm
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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.
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
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SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.