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Brookdale Community College hosts a March 29 info session for residents interested in qualifying for the school's massage therapy certification program.
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March 18th, 2016 @ 5am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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St. Anthony's Church and Monmouth Reform Temple team up for a second annual "Shine a Light" event, installing free bike safety lights on April 4.
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March 18th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: MILLION $ MARCH ON MONMOUTH
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Elvis, Jerry Lee, Johnny (Mathis) and more, as the Count Basie springs into action with vintage jukebox hits done live.
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March 17th, 2016 @ 5pm
SHREWSBURY: Y SWIMMERS ARE STATE CHAMPS
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The girls and boys of the Aquarockets swim team from The Community YMCA win their first state Y championship, at last week's competition in Pennsylvania.
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March 17th, 2016 @ 5am
RUMSON: NJ HALL OF FAME ROLLS INTO TOWN
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Forrestdale School students got hands-on with the state's people-powered history, during a visit from the NJ Hall of Fame Mobile Museum.
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March 17th, 2016 @ 5am
RBR TECH STUDENTS WIN TOP HONORS
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Information Technology students from Red Bank Regional score a first-place finish and other big wins at the state Future Business Leaders tech competitions; moving on to the national finals this summer.
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March 16th, 2016 @ 6am
RED BANK: MEGASTARS TO LIGHT UP BASIE
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Screen siren Sophia Loren and Broadway bombshell Patti LuPone up the star-power ante at the Count Basie, Thursday and Friday nights.
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March 16th, 2016 @ 6am
RED BANK: OFFICIALS DO LUNCH AT DAY CARE
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Monmouth Day Care Center hosts special guest officials from the U.S. and N.J. Departments of Agriculture, in observance of Child and Adult Care Food Program Week.
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March 16th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: KEEPING THE SHORELINE ALIVE
"Living Shorelines" as a solution for protecting waterfronts is the subject at hand, as the Red Bank Public Library hosts a free presentation by the American Littoral Society.
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March 15th, 2016 @ 10am
RUMSON: HOOPS EVENT BRINGS FUTURE BUCS
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Teams of girls, boys and young men from Red Bank took part in the 15th annual Albert E. Martin Jr. Hoops for Horizons tournament at Rumson Country Day School, to benefit the summer academic and recreation program for at-risk youth in the Red Bank community.
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March 15th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: OPEN DOORS AT STEPHY’S PLACE
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Left to right:  Red Bank Councilwoman Linda Schwabenbauer, Assemblyman Eric Houghtaling, Freeholder John Curley, Stephy’s Place Director Sheila Martello and Congressman Chris Smith cut the ribbon on the new Stephy’sContinue reading "RED BANK: OPEN DOORS AT STEPHY’S PLACE"
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March 15th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK REC HOSTS FUN FOR TATERS, TOTS
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A series of running classes for adult couch taters...and a family bus trip to Turtle Back Zoo for the tots...are among the easter-eggs offered for the finding by Red Bank Parks and Rec.
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March 14th, 2016 @ 4pm
RFH ‘EMPTY BOWLS’ FILLS FOODBANK COFFERS
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Nearly 9,000 meals were funded for the Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, during the annual Empty Bowls event at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional.
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March 14th, 2016 @ 5am
RBR BOARD HONORS COMMENDED SCHOLARS
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Two Red Bank Regional seniors are honored by the RBR Board of Ed for their academic commendations on the national level.
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March 14th, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: FIVE DAYS OF DEALS
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The Collins Arena on the Brookdale campus is the setting for the spring edition of the New 2 You Kids Consignment Sale, open to the public for five big days, March 15-19.
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March 11th, 2016 @ 1pm
RED BANK: A BRIDGE TO YOUR INNER WRITER
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Brookdale professor Laura McCullough discusses "How to Publish in Literary Magazines," during the first in a new series of helpful seminars at the Bridge Avenue studio space of Project Write Now.
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March 11th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: BRAIN TUMOR WALK A FIRST FOR NJ
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A Red Bank resident is contact person for the first ever Central Jersey Brain Tumor Walk on April 2, organized by a young friend who's battling a tumor herself.
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March 11th, 2016 @ 5am
RUMSON: A TRADITION MINTED ON THE GREEN
The Rumson St. Patrick's Day Parade marches again this Sunday, in a fourth annual fleadh of marching bands, floats, step dancers, classic cars and community organizations.
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March 10th, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: FREE WELDING TRAINING FROM BCC
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Brookdale Community College teams with Ocean County College for a new training program in welding, free to unemployed area residents.
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March 10th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: TEACHING MR. SHAKESPEARE
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Forty teachers from Monmouth and other NJ counties gathered for a how-to on teaching the works of William Shakespeare, in a workshop hosted at Two River Theater.
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March 10th, 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
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.