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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
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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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: 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
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
RED BANK: SHEEHAN RACE LEAVING TOWN
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Runners cooling down on Broad Street after last year’s race. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Red Bank, it seems, has hosted its final George Sheehan Classic, the road race named forContinue reading "RED BANK: SHEEHAN RACE LEAVING TOWN"
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March 14th, 2016 @ 1pm
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
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
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
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
RED BANK: BLOCKING AND TACKLING IN CHINA
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Mario Williams demonstrating a block to football newbies in China, above. Below, Williams at the Danish Cafe in Red Bank last November. (Photo below by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)Continue reading "RED BANK: BLOCKING AND TACKLING IN CHINA"
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March 8th, 2016 @ 8am
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
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
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
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...