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LITTLE SILVER’S DYNAMIC DUO PLAYS VIENNA
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LITTLE SILVER: Two RBR seniors lived the dream this past summer, when they performed at the International Gold Key Music Festival in Vienna.
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September 29th, 2016 @ 5am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RUMSON: The Children's Auxiliary of VNA Health Group presents its 25th annual Halloween Fest, October 9 at Scothigh Farm.
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September 29th, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: BCC HOSTS FOOD TRUCK FEST
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LINCROFT: Live music, zany games and a bumper to bumper banquet, during an Oct. 15 Food Truck Fest fundraiser for Brookdale Public Radio.
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September 28th, 2016 @ 5am
TINTON FALLS: HELPING FROM INSIDE THE BOX
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TINTON FALLS: Spend the night experiencing what it's like to be homeless...when Family Promise hosts its annual Cardboard Box City "friend and fund raiser" on October 14.
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September 27th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: FORTUNE SMILES ON “LET’S TALK”
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RED BANK: An update on the plan to rescue and restore the historic Fortune House is the focus of this month's "Let's Talk About Race" forum, Wednesday night at the Public Library.
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September 26th, 2016 @ 12pm
RUMSON: Test your chili recipe (or taste the town's best), during a Chili Cook Off at the Fire Station on October 22.
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September 26th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK NAMES NEW TRUSTEES
RED BANK: Little Silver's Rick Brandt is the newest and youngest trustee of the nonprofit Lunch Break.
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September 26th, 2016 @ 5am
RUMSON: The annual Fall Showcase Concert at RFH offers up an eclectic classical/ jazz/ pop program on October 20.
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September 26th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: OYSTERFEST IS A PEARL OF A PARTY
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RED BANK: Oysterfest returns to the White Street lot Sunday with a strolling smorgasbord of food, beverage and top-shelf tunes.
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September 23rd, 2016 @ 9am
LITTLE SILVER: A HISTORIC RIBBON-CUTTING
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LITTLE SILVER: The historic Parker Homestead re-dedicates a trio of antique barns, in an all-welcome ceremony on October 16.
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September 23rd, 2016 @ 5am
FAIR HAVEN: "Starve a Vampire, Feed Your Neighbor," when the KofC and FH Business Association host a Blood Drive on October 22.
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September 23rd, 2016 @ 5am
ON THE GREEN: TOUCH A TRUCK — OR COPTER
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ON THE GREEN: Kids can get up close and hands-on with fire trucks, tractors and more, at events in Red Bank and Middletown this Saturday.
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September 22nd, 2016 @ 12pm
A SWEET ASSIST FROM RUMSON-FAIR HAVEN
RUMSON: Students in the RFH French Honor Society whip up a variety of ways to help out a flood-ravaged Louisiana school district.
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September 22nd, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: SISTERS, MOMS, FELLOW FOLKIES
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LINCROFT: The Nields alight for a retrospective acoustic show.
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September 21st, 2016 @ 1pm
RUMSON: The R-FH High School Foundation hosts its first Ladies Night Out event, September 29 at the Country Club.
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September 20th, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: A major grant from the National Science Foundation will help create new interactive content for BCC students.
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September 20th, 2016 @ 5am
ON THE GREEN: BORN TO MAKE A BOOK RUN
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ON THE GREEN: A kids' book author who specializes in explaining bodily functions (and a Gothic thriller writer who might just scare it all out of you) are coming to a local venue near you.
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September 19th, 2016 @ 2pm
RED BANK: CASINO NIGHT PICKS UP STEAM
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RED BANK: The borough's schools are the big winners, when the Education Foundation hosts its annual Casino Night fundraiser, October 23 at the Elks Lodge.
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September 19th, 2016 @ 5am
ON THE GREEN: MUSIC, ART, WIND AND SEA
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ON THE GREEN: A second annual Wind and Sea Festival, a first-ever Zero Waste Arts Fest, and an inaugural Concert for the Kids...all happening out of doors and by our local waterways this weekend.
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September 16th, 2016 @ 2pm
RUMSON: SPOTLIGHT ON THE NAVESINK RIVER
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RUMSON: Two R-FH seniors will be part of a special community forum on the state of the Navesink River, September 22 at Oceanic Library.
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September 16th, 2016 @ 4am
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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.