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RED BANK: WALKING, WINING AND DINING
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Boondocks Fishery at Marine Park is just one of nearly 30 stops on and off the beaten path as the Food and Wine Walk events return for a new season.Continue reading "RED BANK: WALKING, WINING AND DINING"
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July 17th, 2015 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: PUNNINGLY PAINTED, BY GEORGE
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PIANO DIVE and other paintings by George Severini are the subject of both a book signing and a gallery exhibit that opens Friday evening at McKay Imaging. (Click to enlarge) TakenContinue reading "RED BANK: PUNNINGLY PAINTED, BY GEORGE"
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July 16th, 2015 @ 6am
RBR SENIORS ACHIEVE EAGLE SCOUT HONORS
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Red Bank Regional High School rising seniors Andrew Noglows and Sam Gregg were celebrated for their attainment of Eagle Scout at their June 28 Court of Honor for Troop 126Continue reading "RBR SENIORS ACHIEVE EAGLE SCOUT HONORS"
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July 15th, 2015 @ 6am
Press release from Brookdale Community College In response to the recent tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Education (Chhange) at Brookdale Community CollegeContinue reading "LINCROFT: A COMMUNITY DIALOGUE ON RACISM"
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July 15th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: LADIES SING THE JAZZ
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Eryn Shewell, above, leads the Whiskey Devils to the water at Riverside Gardens Thursday night. Charenee Wade, below, channels the late great “Lady Day” Billie Holiday Friday and Saturday atContinue reading "RED BANK: LADIES SING THE JAZZ"
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July 15th, 2015 @ 5am
RED BANK: WOODY ALLEN FILM TO DEBUT HERE
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Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix pair up in IRRATIONAL MAN, the latest feature from writer-director Woody Allen, and the latest sneak-peek screening from the folks at the borough-based Monmouth ArtsContinue reading "RED BANK: WOODY ALLEN FILM TO DEBUT HERE"
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July 14th, 2015 @ 7am
RED BANK: GO SET YOUR WATCHES
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The 1962 film version of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ screens for free at the Count Basie Theatre Tuesday as River Road Books celebrates the July 14 publication of Harper Lee’s long-awaitedContinue reading "RED BANK: GO SET YOUR WATCHES"
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July 13th, 2015 @ 5am
RED BANK: SHOWDOWN AT THE OL’ CAR CORRAL
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More than a year after a bittersweet move from their hundred-year old firehouse, the members of Liberty Hose Fire Company return to White Street once more this Sunday, for theContinue reading "RED BANK: SHOWDOWN AT THE OL’ CAR CORRAL"
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July 10th, 2015 @ 7am
RED BANK: POPPINS FRESH AS A BASIE
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Katherine Le Fevre sails into the title role as the stage adaptation of the Disney classic MARY POPPINS takes to the Basie stage over the next two weekends. (Click toContinue reading "RED BANK: POPPINS FRESH AS A BASIE"
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July 9th, 2015 @ 10am
RED BANK: YOGA AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE
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The artistic team of singer/songwriter Allison LaRochelle and Yoga instructor Eleonora Zampatti take their unique healing powers of music and movement on the road in the Ode to the MoonContinue reading "RED BANK: YOGA AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE"
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July 9th, 2015 @ 5am
RED BANK: JAZZ IS ALIVE AND KICKING
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Saxman Bruce Williams kicks off a summer schedule of free Jazz in the Park sessions Thursday night at Riverside Gardens… while Friday and Saturday find Café-society crooner Tony DeSare playingContinue reading "RED BANK: JAZZ IS ALIVE AND KICKING"
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July 8th, 2015 @ 9am
LEGISLATURE HONORS RBR ADMINISTRATOR
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Peter Grandinetti, long-time supervisor of Red Bank Regional High School’s Four-Year Academies, retired in June with many accolades including a proclamation from the New Jersey State Legislature. Press release fromContinue reading "LEGISLATURE HONORS RBR ADMINISTRATOR"
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July 8th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK ROTARY INSTALLS NEW LEADERS
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Newly installed president Michael DeNofa accepts the Charter for the Rotary Club of Red Bank from Past President Denise Benbrook, at the organization’s recent officer installation luncheon. Press release fromContinue reading "RED BANK ROTARY INSTALLS NEW LEADERS"
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July 7th, 2015 @ 6am
LINCROFT: A BLOODY GOOD BIT OF BARD
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The annual Shakespeare on the Lawn (represented here by last year’s production of  WINTER’S TALE) returns to Brookdale Community College this Thursday with the tragical history tour that is TITUSContinue reading "LINCROFT: A BLOODY GOOD BIT OF BARD"
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July 7th, 2015 @ 5am
MIDDLETOWN: WINNERS, SINNERS AND LOSERS
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Melissa McCarthy and Bill Murray are neighbors thrown together by necessity in ST. VINCENT, one of the free movies screening in July at Middletown Library.  The free Movie Mondays (andContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: WINNERS, SINNERS AND LOSERS"
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July 6th, 2015 @ 6am
SHREWSBURY: CYMCA ANNOUNCES BENEFIT
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Press release from The Community YMCA On the evening of Saturday, September 26, The Community YMCA will be hosting its Y Cares Annual Benefit, an event dedicated to the Y’sContinue reading "SHREWSBURY: CYMCA ANNOUNCES BENEFIT"
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July 6th, 2015 @ 6am
RFH STUDENTS HONORED BY BOARD OF ED
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RFH junior Andrew J. (A.J.) Kelly (third from left, with his father Phillip, mother Melissa, and grandfather James) received the Dwight D. Eisenhower Outstanding Leader of Character Award and theContinue reading "RFH STUDENTS HONORED BY BOARD OF ED"
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July 3rd, 2015 @ 6am
RUMSON: FORRESTDALE HONORS CLASS OF 2015
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Press release from Rumson School District The graduation ceremony for Forrestdale School’s Class of 2015 was held at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School on the evening of June 17, duringContinue reading "RUMSON: FORRESTDALE HONORS CLASS OF 2015"
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July 3rd, 2015 @ 6am
TRADITIONS, TRANSITIONS FOR FAIR HAVEN
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Graduating third graders from Sickles School made the transition to incoming fourth graders at Knollwood School, in a ceremonial ride to their new school on June 11. Then on JuneContinue reading "TRADITIONS, TRANSITIONS FOR FAIR HAVEN"
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July 2nd, 2015 @ 6am
Press release from Fair Haven School District The Fair Haven Board of Education honored the achievements of Knollwood School students with a pizza party and ceremony held at the schoolContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN BOARD HONORS KNOLLWOOD STARS"
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July 2nd, 2015 @ 6am
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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.