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SEA BRIGHT RISING TO HELP REBUILD HOMES
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Sea Bright homes being elevated last June. Officials estimate 80 percent of the town’s homes are still vacant. Below, Chris Wood, flanked by Pete Forlenza and Zack Rosenburg, addresses aContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT RISING TO HELP REBUILD HOMES"
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February 26th, 2014 @ 1pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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CHURN: POOL CUES, THRIFT & CRAFTS EXIT
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•Tuns out Lucky Break could not survive its lengthy shutdown over BYOB issues, its owner says. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD This edition of Retail Churn reports onContinue reading "CHURN: POOL CUES, THRIFT & CRAFTS EXIT"
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February 25th, 2014 @ 8am
RFH STUDENTS VS. FACULTY ON FEB. 27
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Participants await their turn to take the court during last year’s Students vs. Faculty Volleyball Game in support of “Charley’s Fund” and the fight against Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. This year’sContinue reading "RFH STUDENTS VS. FACULTY ON FEB. 27"
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February 25th, 2014 @ 6am
By JOHN T. WARD A Sea Bright man pleaded guilty to ripping off the Federal Emergency Management Administration via hotel charges he didn’t deserve, authorities announced Tuesday. Bill Nagle, 52,Continue reading "SEA BRIGHT MAN GUILTY OF SANDY FRAUD"
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February 18th, 2014 @ 6pm
The Knights of Columbus Council 3187 has announced that they will be holding their third annual Special Needs Social on Thursday, February 20th, hosted by special needs ambassadors from the Center for Vocational RehabilitationContinue reading "K of C HOSTS SPECIAL NEEDS SOCIAL"
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February 17th, 2014 @ 6am
RBR SERVES UP HOPE AT SOUL KITCHEN
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The RBR Culinary Club debuts as Guest Chefs for a special fundraiser dinner to support the JBJ Soul Community Kitchen today, February 12. Press release from Red Bank Regional HighContinue reading "RBR SERVES UP HOPE AT SOUL KITCHEN"
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February 11th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: EFFU EYES MEADOWLANDS TOURNEY
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Stephen Dunne hauls in a touchdown pass, above, and a runner heads upfield, below, during the season-ending game for Red Bank’s Eastside Flag Football Union, played at Count Basie FieldContinue reading "RED BANK: EFFU EYES MEADOWLANDS TOURNEY"
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February 3rd, 2014 @ 7am
PORTER, M’TOWN TEEN HONORED AT MLK EVENT
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At left, Pilgrim Baptist Pastor Terrence K. Porter (center) accepts a proclamation from Red Bank Council members Kathleen Horgan and Edward Zipprich. At right, Middletown HS South senior Aisha BooriContinue reading "PORTER, M’TOWN TEEN HONORED AT MLK EVENT"
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January 28th, 2014 @ 6am
The Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders,in conjunction with Pilgrim Baptist Church and JBJ Soul Kitchen, will host its Annual Project Homeless Connect event on Wednesday, January 29, 2014. The event will provide free medical screenings,Continue reading "HELP FOR THE HOMELESS, IN RED BA ...
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January 22nd, 2014 @ 5am
SEA BRIGHT LIBRARY RAZING SPARKS DEBATE
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On Sunday, a backhoe sat on the slab where the library had stood until it was demolished a day earlier. Below, an architect’s rendering of a proposed combination library andContinue reading "SEA BRIGHT LIBRARY RAZING SPARKS DEBATE"
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January 14th, 2014 @ 1pm
SALON CONCRETE HOSTS ‘HELP FOR HAIYAN’
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Christine Zilinski of Salon Concrete styles the hair of Maritza Soler of Port Monmouth, in a file photo from 2012. From press materials furnished by J Jems Communications When theContinue reading "SALON CONCRETE HOSTS ‘HELP FOR HAIYAN’"
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January 10th, 2014 @ 6am
A NIGHT OF HOPE TO FEED THE SOUL, IN RB
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The cover band Almost Easy is among the featured entertainment during a January 16 fundraiser event at The Downtown, to benefit Red Bank’s Jon Bon Jovi Soul Kitchen. While JonContinue reading "A NIGHT OF HOPE TO FEED THE SOUL, IN RB"
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January 3rd, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: A CALENDAR ABOUT, AND FOR, KIDS
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The cover of the 2014 Prown’s calendar features a shot of the attendees on the 1964 Police Athletic League bus trip.  (Click to enlarge) For five years now, two venerableContinue reading "RED BANK: A CALENDAR ABOUT, AND FOR, KIDS"
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December 23rd, 2013 @ 10am
A SEASON OF SERVICE FOR RBR TEENS, STAFF
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Red Bank Regional students delivered dozens of home-made cookies to Lunch Break to sweeten their holiday meals. Pictured (left to right) are: RBR culinary club students Paolo Repetto, Union Beach;Continue reading "A SEASON OF SERVICE FOR RBR TEENS, STAFF"
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December 23rd, 2013 @ 6am
WEEKEND: A HOMECOMING FOR NJ SUPERSTARS
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It’s a Count Basie Homecoming for JACQUIE LEE — seen here performing at a 2012 Rockit! concert in Red Bank — when the VOICE runner-up who wowed everyone from JenniferContinue reading "WEEKEND: A HOMECOMING FOR NJ SUPERSTARS"
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December 19th, 2013 @ 5pm
RED BANK ELKS HOST PARTY FOR THE ARC
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Nearly 100 children and adults with developmental disabilities attended the Red Bank Elks’ holiday party on Decemmber 15, an annual tradition featuring clowns, balloons, singing, food and Santa himself.  TheContinue reading "RED BANK ELKS HOST PARTY FOR THE ARC"
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December 19th, 2013 @ 6am
FIVE-STAR SERVICE, AT JBJ SOUL KITCHEN
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Jon Bon Jovi’s JBJ Soul Kitchen is the site of a local initiative in the YMCA New Jersey Youth and Government Day of Service program, on Saturday, December 14. From pressContinue reading "FIVE-STAR SERVICE, AT JBJ SOUL KITCHEN"
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December 13th, 2013 @ 6am
RED BANK: LIGHTS ON
[slideshow_deploy id=’86173′]It was a night of jolly good cheer as Santa and Mrs. Claus and thousands of revelers in fun hats thronged downtown Red Bank for the annual town light-upContinue reading "RED BANK: LIGHTS ON"
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December 2nd, 2013 @ 6am
Press release from Red Bank Charter School In November, the students and faculty of the Red Bank Charter School (RBCS) participated in a clothing fundraiser to support the nonprofit One SimpleContinue reading "RB CHARTER SCHOOL SUPPORTS A CNN HERO"
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November 29th, 2013 @ 6am
RED BANK: EXPRESS TO THE SEASON OF LIGHTS
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The Christmas-capital crossroads of Broad and Canal streets is the place to be on Friday night, when Holiday Express presides over the annual concert and town lighting ceremony. (File photos.Continue reading "RED BANK: EXPRESS TO THE SEASON OF LIGHTS"
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November 27th, 2013 @ 3pm
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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
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.