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RED BANK: CROWD PACKS PARK TO HONOR TEEN KILLED BY TRAIN
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Hundreds gathered to celebrate the life of a teen killed by a train in Red Bank last week. (Click to read)
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May 18th @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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PODCAST: GILDA ROGERS ON RED BANK’S BLACK HISTORY – AND FUTURE
New episode of the redbankgreen podcast! An illuminating sit down with Gilda Rogers, executive director of the T. Thomas Fortune House Cultural Center. (Click to read.)
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February 13th @ 12pm
RED BANK: JAZZ ARTS PROJECT UNVEILS SWINGIN’ NEW DIGS
Red Bank's Jazz Arts Project christens new digs and unveils the coolest door in Red Bank. (click to read)
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December 8th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: BASIE CENTER & OCEANFIRST INK MOVIE HOUSE DEAL
Red Bank's art house movie theater gets a new name and facelift under Basie Center/OceanFirst Bank partnership. (Click to read.)
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December 5th, 2025 @ 10am
MEET RED BANK’S TRAILBLAZING “NO MOW” GARDENERS
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A dozen Red Bank gardeners are lauded for their ambition - and lack of it - by a program aimed at creating swaths of native habitat, one yard at a time. (click to read)
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September 1st, 2025 @ 10pm
RED BANK TOWN WIDE YARD SALE DATE SET
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Round up the bric-a-brac! Red Bank sets 2025 townwide yard sale date for September 13. (click to read)
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August 18th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: EAGLE SCOUT PROJECT SPRUCES UP EASTSIDE PARK
Red Bank's East Side Park looking a bit more spiffy thanks to a local Eagle Scout. (click to read)
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August 7th, 2025 @ 6pm
RED BANK: “THRIVE” APARTMENT BUILDING BREAKS GROUND
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Groundbreaking ceremony for a groundbreaking project: work begins on a 32-unit apartment building on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank for neurodivergent residents. (click to read)
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July 30th, 2025 @ 4pm
WE NEED YOUR “RED BANK BOOGIE” VIDEOS!
It's boogie time, Red Bank! redbankgreen seeks video clips of residents dancing for an epic celebration honoring jazz icon William "Count" Basie.
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July 28th, 2025 @ 6pm
RED BANK LOOKS TO ELEVATE & REHAB AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMPLEX
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Red Bank officials work with owner of 40-unit Locust Landing apartment complex to renovate, elevate and preserve affordable housing. (click to read)
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June 30th, 2025 @ 2pm
WATCH: RED BANK CLASSIC’S 1,110TH PLACE CHAMPION
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Watch the moving video of the very end of the Red Bank Classic 5k race.
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June 15th, 2025 @ 9am
RED BANK: MONMOUTH BOAT CLUB ON “MOST ENDANGERED” LIST
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Red Bank's 145- year-old Monmouth Boat Club has been put on Preservations NJ's annual "Ten Most Endangered" historic places. (click to read)
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May 6th, 2025 @ 10am
RED BANK: GET SET TO BOOGIE FOR COUNT BASIE
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It's boogie time, Red Bank! redbankgreen seeks video clips of residents dancing for an epic celebration honoring jazz icon William "Count" Basie.
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April 30th, 2025 @ 6am
COMMUNITY RALLIES FOR RED BANK ROCKER WITH ALS
The Red Bank community, along with the rock 'n roll and comedy worlds, are rallying to support frontman and Jack's Music Shoppe clerk Tim Cronin's battle with ALS. (click to read)
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April 3rd, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: CRINGEFEST TO MARK SEVEN MORTIFYING YEARS
Spit your drink out, cry with laughter, snort, chuckle, smile. Seventh annual Cringefest brings embarassing tales to the stage in Red Bank. (click to read)
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March 24th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: WEST SIDE TREE LIGHTING, SANTA FIRE TRUCK VISITS ON TAP
Deadline approaches to schedule a Santa fire truck visit, the West Side tree lighting, and more. (click to read)
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December 5th, 2024 @ 2pm
RED BANK RIVERCENTER NAMES NEW LEADER
Red Bank RiverCenter taps the head of Toms River's special improvement district to lead the organization. (click to read)
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December 2nd, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK HOLIDAY SEASON BEGINS WITH HUGE WEEKEND
The 32nd annual town holiday lighting celebration, Santa leading a parade, models posing as mannequins, gift card giveaways, an art gallery walking tour and more. The Holiday Season begins with a blizzard of things to do this weekend - oh, and FREE PARKING! (click to read)
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November 29th, 2024 @ 6am
RED BANK/RIVERVIEW SETTLEMENT: WINDFALL OR TAXPAYER HOSING?
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Nine years. 54 tax appeals. $1.2 million plus. Did Red Bank get a good deal when it settled tax appeals with Riverview Medical Center?
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November 21st, 2024 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FAIRIES MOVE IN ON WHITE STREET
Red Bank: Girl scouts turns tiny parking lot plot of dirt into a "magical girls sparkle garden."
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June 10th, 2024 @ 3pm
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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 ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.