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A KEY EVENT FOR RBR PIANO PROGRAM
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LITTLE SILVER: The piano program at Red Bank Regional celebrates 25 years with a special public Piano and Harp Concert on May 24.
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May 10th, 2017 @ 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: ‘PARIS’ IN THE SPRING
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RED BANK: Sneak a peek at PARIS CAN WAIT, screening this Thursday as a feature-length fundraiser for Monmouth Arts.
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May 9th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: HABITAT EVENT RETURNS FOR 2017
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RED BANK: The Oyster Point is the scene of a second annual Taste for Homes fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity, on May 15.
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May 9th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: The Curchin Group accounting firm seeks pitches from would-be beneficiaries its annual indoor-golf fundraiser.
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May 8th, 2017 @ 10am
RUMSON-FH STUDENT TEENS COMMIT TO NCAA
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RUMSON: Three student athletes at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional ink commitments to college athletics on National Signing Day.
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May 8th, 2017 @ 5am
LITTLE SILVER: SIGNING TIME AT RBR
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LITTLE SILVER: Twenty student athletes at Red Bank Regional commit to college sports programs next fall.
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May 8th, 2017 @ 5am
ON THE GREEN: A TIME-TRIPPING WEEKEND
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GREATER RED BANK GREEN: The annual Weekend in Old Monmouth offers time-traveler tourists an expanded slate of historic sites to tour, sans fees.
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May 5th, 2017 @ 6am
RUMSON: RUTTY GO-KARTS TO FUTURE
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RUMSON: Fifth-grader Christian Rutty has taken the fast track to stardom on the F1 Go Kart circuit.
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May 5th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: JAZZED AND ENCHANTED
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RED BANK: Jazz Arts Project presents its annual Enchanted Evening of Song fundraiser, Saturday at Two River Theater.
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May 4th, 2017 @ 12pm
LINCROFT: Brookdale CC offers career training in the building and construction trades, through a new program that starts May 30.
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May 4th, 2017 @ 5am
FAIR HAVEN: A GALLERY OF FUTURE ARTISTS
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FAIR HAVEN: Budding artists shine during the borough's annual student art show on April 25.
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May 4th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: A FORTUNE HAPPY HOUR
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RED BANK: The historic T. Thomas Fortune House committee toasts its good fortune while bolstering its coffers with a Happy Hour fundraiser later this month.
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May 3rd, 2017 @ 11am
LINCROFT: ROOM FOR TWO MORE, AT UUCMC
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LINCROFT: The Earth Room Concert Series continues Saturday with acclaimed folkies Joe Crookston and Mike Agranoff at Unitarian Universalist Congregation.
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May 3rd, 2017 @ 6am
RED BANK: A REFILL FOR EMPTY BOWLS
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RED BANK: The JBJ Soul Kitchen hosts the annual Empty Bowls Project charity event, on the weekend of May 20-21.
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May 3rd, 2017 @ 5am
RBR TEENS SWEEP TOP HONORS IN CONTEST
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LITTLE SILVER: Ms. Cesaretti's Italian language students at RBR take all three top prizes at a state competition.
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May 3rd, 2017 @ 5am
LINCROFT: ART AND MUSIC FEST IS A BIG TENT
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LINCROFT: Artist demos, artisanal crafts and savvy sounds abound as the Creative Arts and Music Fest returns to Thompson Park Saturday.
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May 2nd, 2017 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BASIE SEEKS TEEN OPERA VOICES
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RED BANK: A famed opera director joins the Count Basie in seeking young voices for an August opera camp program.
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May 2nd, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: The deadline for submitting entries to this year's Indie Street FilmFest is this Sunday, May 7.
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May 2nd, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: ART, ABANDONED AND SEDUCTIVE
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RED BANK: Man-made desolation and natural splendor are among the attractions on the gallery walls in the days and nights ahead.
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May 1st, 2017 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER: The annual Relay For Life overnight event returns to Red Bank Regional on May 19 to raise awareness about, and funds to combat, cancer.
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May 1st, 2017 @ 11am
Partyline
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.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...