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LINCROFT: CBA MEN EXCEL IN LATIN
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Latin students at Christian Brothers Academy display stellar results — including more than 30 gold and silver medals — in the National Latin Exam.
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May 10th, 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: AXE THE EXPERTS
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Five fretmeister aces converge on the Basie stage this evening, with the arrival of GENERATION AXE: A Night of Guitars.
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May 9th, 2016 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER: TWO NIGHTS AT THE OPERA
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The vocal majors at Red Bank Regional present a double feature of short operas in Italian and English, May 20 and 21 at RBR.
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May 9th, 2016 @ 5am
Students at Rumson borough schools go without their electronic devices for a week, taking part in community activities as part of a nationwide initiative.
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May 9th, 2016 @ 5am
MIDDLETOWN: JOHNNY & JUNE CASH LIVE ON
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The music of The Man in Black Lives Again, as Michael Patrick's Ring of Fire band channels the magic of Johnny Cash and June Carter with a Saturday concert at Middletown Arts Center.
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May 6th, 2016 @ 8am
RBR FREE PRE-SCHOOL ADDS AFTERNOONS
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Applications are being accepted, as the tuition-free Little Bucs Preschool Program at Red Bank Regional HS expands into an afternoon session next fall.
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May 6th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: PAINTING THE WOMAN CARD
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A group of talented WOMEN PAINT WOMEN, as Ellen Martin curates a new art exhibit with an opening reception this evening at the Oyster Point.
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May 5th, 2016 @ 12pm
A SHOE-IN FOR MIDDLETOWN SOUTH ARTISTS?
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Students from Middletown South vie to bring $50k to their school's art program, by entering shoe designs in the Vans Custom Culture competition.
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May 5th, 2016 @ 5am
RBR STUDENT ATHLETES SIGN FOR FUTURE
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Twelve more student athletes from Red Bank Regional HS sign on the dotted line, to continue their education and athletic careers.
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May 5th, 2016 @ 4am
RED BANK: CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME
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A Mayor's Ball, a school carnival, award dinners, food and wine tastings and more — all going on around Red Bank in the days and nights ahead, and all for the benefit of some hard-working local charities and nonprofits.
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May 4th, 2016 @ 12pm
RUMSON SCHOOLS CELEBRATE ARBOR DAY
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Students from two Rumson schools celebrate Arbor Day with a project, a planting and a poem, accompanied by local dignitaries and neighbors.
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May 4th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK NAMED ‘TREE CITY’ FOR 10th YEAR
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For the tenth time, the borough of Red Bank has been recognized for its tree-friendly policies by the Arbor Day Foundation.
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May 4th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: A WALK WITH LIFE AND ART
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Behind the scenes looks at two big stage productions, a Cinco de Mayo dance celebration and MORE, as the Monmouth County Arts Council hosts an Artwalk tour in their Red Bank neighborhood.
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May 3rd, 2016 @ 12pm
MIDDLETOWN: HELPERS BEE QUILTING
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Handcrafted quilts and wall hangings are on display, on sale, and on the raffle block this weekend, as Rebecca's Reel Quilt Guild presents a two-day benefit show at Poricy Park.
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May 3rd, 2016 @ 5am
LITTLE SILVER: RBR WRITERS WIN MEDALS
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Four Creative Writing students at Red Bank Regional will be going to Carnegie Hall to receive the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards they won recently.
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May 3rd, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: A STAR-STUDDED NIGHT @BASIE
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Science Meets Comedy, as affable astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson joins Eugene Mirman for a live version of StarTalk, tonight at the Basie.
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May 2nd, 2016 @ 9am
RUMSON-FAIR HAVEN STAR SIGNS WITH IVY
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Brendan Barry, the all-time point scorer for Rumson-Fair Haven Regional basketball, signs to play Division 1 hoops with Dartmouth.
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May 2nd, 2016 @ 5am
RUMSON SCHOOLS HOST KID’S LIT STARS
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Six authors of popular books for young readers visit two schools in Rumson, when the Scholastic Summer Reading Road Trip RV rolls into town on Wednesday.
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May 2nd, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: PARK IT HERE, FOR MUSIC ‘N ART
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Live tunes on two stages, a strolling expo of artists and crafters, and a Plein Air Painting Competition for attendees...all free of charge during the two-day Creative Arts and Music Festival, this Saturday and Sunday at Thompson Park.
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April 29th, 2016 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER: MILESTONE FOR RELAY EVENT
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The tenth annual Two Rivers Relay for Life event brings the signature fundraiser for the American Cancer Society back to the track at Red Bank Regional, on May 20.
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April 29th, 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.
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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.