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RED BANK: THAT’S SOME ENCHANTED EVENING
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Khadijah Mohammed is among the guest vocalists joining Joe Muccioli and the Red Bank Jazz Orchestra at Two River Theater, during Saturday's third annual Enchanted Evening of Song fundraiser for youth music education.
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March 9th, 2016 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RBR AWARDS LETTERS TO ACADEMIC STARS
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Fifty students at Red Bank Regional were honored by the Board of Ed with Varsity Letters for academic achievement and all-around excellence.
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March 9th, 2016 @ 5am
RUMSON: GET YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW
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Decoys and demos, auctions and appraisals, paintings and drawings and more, as the Two Rivers Exhibition of Sporting Collectible Art returns to Forrestdale School on Saturday.
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March 8th, 2016 @ 12pm
RUMSON STUDENT HEADS TO STATE GEO BEE
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A Forrestdale School 7th grader has qualified for both the state Geographic Bee semifinals, as well as the regional finals of the National History Bee.
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March 8th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: AMAZING GRACE AND JOAN
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Folk legend Joan Baez returns to the Count Basie stage for a Tuesday night concert on March 8.
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March 7th, 2016 @ 12pm
RBR’S SOURCE ROLLS WITH CASINO NIGHT
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The Oyster Point is the place, as The SOURCE Foundation of Red Bank Regional holds its sixth annual Casino Night fundraiser for its school-based community youth programs, March 19.
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March 7th, 2016 @ 5am
SHREWSBURY: TALKING OUTSIDE THE ZONE
The Eastern Branch Library is the setting, and the public is invited, as the local League of Women Voters host a March 30 discussion on race relations in our age.
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March 7th, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: A LATE-WINTER’S LAP
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The Brookdale campus is the start/finish point...and the streets of Lincroft, Holmdel and Colts Neck are the course...as the 40th annual E. Murray Todd Half Marathon runs this Sunday morning, March 6.
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March 4th, 2016 @ 8am
KESHIA THOMAS TO SPEAK IN TINTON FALLS
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Noted social activist Keshia Thomas is special guest speaker at Monmouth Reform Temple, during the Shabbat evening service on March 11.
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March 4th, 2016 @ 5am
The local Boys & Girls Clubs receive a generous grant from the Horizon Foundation, to fund a program on asthma education and management. 
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March 4th, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: PLAY WRINGS HUMOR FROM PHONE
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The students of Brookdale's performing arts program present the comic stage thriller DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE, going up in a one-weekend engagement this Friday night.
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March 3rd, 2016 @ 6am
RFH DRAMA STUDENTS TO PERFORM AT NYU
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RFH teacher Suzanne Sweeney's anti-bullying play THE BYSTANDER will be performed by students this April in NYC, as part of New York University's Forum on Educational Theatre.
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March 3rd, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: STANDUP, DOO-WOP & ST. PAT’S
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Gentlemanly comedy, streetcorner doo-wop, and a musical Irish history lesson...all on the Count Basie stage this week.
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March 2nd, 2016 @ 6am
LINCROFT: GET IN THE SHUFFLE FOR 3-20
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Registration's still open for the Monmouth Rugby Club's annual Shamrock Shuffle run/walk and Fun Run, March 20 at Thompson Park.
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March 2nd, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: MAGIC, CARING ON THE NAVESINK
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HABcore presents A Magical Luncheon for Children and Adults, during a March 13 fundraiser at the Oyster Point.
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March 2nd, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: HOTCAKES FOR SEA SCOUTS
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Monmouth Boat Club is the scene of a Sunday morning breakfast fundraiser, to benefit the BSA's local Sea Scouts program for young men and women.
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March 1st, 2016 @ 5am
LITTLE SILVER: BIG TENT, BIG ST. PAT’S PARTY
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It's a St. Patrick's Day tradition, as the Little Silver Fire Company hosts its 8th annual fundraiser on March 12.
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March 1st, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: A MOVIE THAT’LL EAT YOU ALIVE
Bow Tie Cinemas hosts a one-time screening of a dramatic thriller that takes on the GMO food industry, this Wednesday night.
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February 29th, 2016 @ 11am
RBR CELEBRATES CHINESE NEW YEAR
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The Year of the Monkey is welcomed in colorful style, in a special Chinese New Year celebration at Red Bank Regional.
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February 29th, 2016 @ 5am
RUMSON-FAIR HAVEN SKIER WINS 2X GOLD
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RFH high school senior Alex Perkins scores back-to-back wins at a major regional ski championship in Vermont.
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February 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.
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.