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RUMSON KIDS MOVIN’ ON UP TO FOURTH
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RUMSON: Third grade grads from Deane Porter School make the symbolic journey to their new fourth grade home at Forrestdale, during the annual "Movin' On Up" ceremony.
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June 16th, 2016 @ 5am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: SPIRITS AND SOULS ARE WILLING
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RED BANK: A spiritual author-lecturer, and a communicator with spirits, visit the Count Basie Theatre on back-to-back Thursdays.
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June 15th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK BUCS’ DEL PRA NAMED A.D. OF YEAR
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LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional athletic director Del Dal Pra is honored as A.D. of the Year by Jersey Sporting News.
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June 15th, 2016 @ 4am
RED BANK CHARTER OFFERS SUMMER PROGRAM
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RED BANK: Students and non-students of the Charter School are invited to sign up for a Summer Institute that offers science-based fun learning activities in the great outdoors.
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June 14th, 2016 @ 5am
SANDY HOOK CONCERTS RETURN TO THE BEACH
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SANDY HOOK: The Nerds keynote a new season's schedule of free concerts, Wednesday at Beach Area E.
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June 13th, 2016 @ 11am
LITTLE SILVER: OLD-STYLE BASEBALL RETURNS
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LITTLE SILVER: A game of 19th century-style baseball is the star event at the Parker Homestead this Sunday.
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June 10th, 2016 @ 6am
RUMSON MUSIC MAKERS STAR IN SPRING SHOW
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RUMSON: Voices and spirits soar at Deane-Porter School, as grades 2 and 3 present a patriotic Spring Concert.
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June 10th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: THE ‘WILD THINGS’ ARE US
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RED BANK: Two River Theater is WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE this Thursday through Sunday, when the all-ages audience gets into the act in a big way.
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June 9th, 2016 @ 8am
LITTLE SILVER: PLAYING IT SAFE AT PROM TIME
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LITTLE SILVER: A mock crash site, drunk-driving simulations and special guest speakers are on the scene at RBR, as responders from several local towns alert students to the dangers of bad choices during Project Prom.
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June 9th, 2016 @ 5am
LITTLE SILVER: A DISPLAY OF SCHERER TALENT
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LITTLE SILVER: A familiar name from the Red Bank area art scene returns with the new solo show ATMOSPHERES, opening Thursday evening.
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June 7th, 2016 @ 6am
SHREWSBURY: RBR’S PIERCE SCORES A FIRST
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SHREWSBURY: RBR senior Jon Pierce scores an unprecedented 1,000 saves in two sports; an NJ school sports first.
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June 7th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: A ‘PHOTOWALK’ IN MOCO-MOTION
RED BANK: Take an evening "Photowalk" tour of the borough's parks and architectural landmarks tonight, brought to you by the Monmouth County Arts Council.
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June 6th, 2016 @ 9am
RED BANK: BRINGING MEMORIES TO THE TABLE
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RED BANK: Create a keepsake placemat from cherished family photos, in a free June 11 workshop hosted by Gilda Rogers of "Backward Glances."
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June 6th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: GIFTS FOR RBR ‘A’ STUDENTS
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RED BANK: Graduating RBR students are gifted — with laptops, TVs, cameras and more — as the Encourage an A Program celebrates great grades.
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June 6th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: REINVENTING MAMA, AT TWO RIVER
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RED BANK: Going up in previews this weekend at Two River Theater, a reimagined "I Remember Mama."
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June 3rd, 2016 @ 12pm
RED BANK: RIVERFEST RISES FOR 3-DAY STAND
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RED BANK: Marine Park offers a strolling smorgasbord of tastes and sounds as Riverfest pitches its tent for a sixth annual stay.
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June 2nd, 2016 @ 2pm
RUMSON: ART AND MUSIC IN THE HALLS
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RUMSON: The visual, vocal and instrumental artistry of Forrestdale School students was on display, during the annual Evening of Fine Arts showcase.
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June 2nd, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: BCC HOSTS CYBERSECURITY CAMP
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LINCROFT: High schoolers are encouraged to apply by June 17, for free two-week cybersecurity training camps in July and August at BCC.
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June 1st, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: GET IN THE SAFE SWIM FOR SUMMER
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Promoting safe swimtime and preventing drownings are the ticket for summer, as The Community YMCA introduces a Learn to Swim Week program of safety training classes for kids and adults.
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June 1st, 2016 @ 5am
FAIR HAVEN: MIMI CROSS THE SHINING SEA
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FAIR HAVEN: Singer-songwriter turned author Mimi Cross returns to River Road Books to launch her newest novel, "Shining Sea."
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May 31st, 2016 @ 5am
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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
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.