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RED BANK SCHOOLS SEEK TAX HIKE TO COVER STATE AID CUTS
Squeezed by state aid cuts and skyrocketing costs, Red Bank Borough schools ask state to allow a 13 percent tax levy hike. (click to read)
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RED BANK: CHARTER SCHOOL SCRAPS GYM PLAN, SELLING BUILDING
The Red Bank Charter School is selling a building it had hoped to convert into a gym. (click to read)
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)
RED BANK MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS HOOPS CROWNED CHAMPS IN NAIL BITER
Red Bank Middle School girls basketball wins championship. redbankgreen has photos and video of the on court celebration.
RBR HOOPS, TRACK & SWIM RACK UP WINS AND RECORDS
Red Bank Regional High School boys and girls hoops coaches hit 700 and 450 career wins as teams go combined 33-9. Girls swim team captures division title and track athletes shatter school records. Read your RBR sports roundup here. (click to read)
RED BANK GOES BIG WITH MARINE PARK PLAYGROUND PLANS
Red Bank plans new playground for Marine Park, with a wheelchair-accessible pirate ship, 40-foot zipline and more. (click to read)
RED BANK: PRESCHOOL REGISTRATION OPEN
There's a lot of great things about living in Red Bank. But the full day pre-school program for three and four-year olds is way up there on the list. Registration is underway now. (click to read)
RED BANK TEACHERS LAG IN PAY, SLEDGER BREAKDOWN SHOWS
Red Bank Charter school median teacher pay is nearly lowest in the state. Other Red Bank schools also fall below the median, newspaper breakdown shows.
RED BANK SCHOOLS HONOR FIVE TEACHERS
Five Red Bank teachers honored for going above and beyond. (click to read)
RED BANK: MUSIC ACADEMY FINDS NEW HOME IN LANDMARK BUILDING
Asbury Park based Lakehouse Music Academy cut the ribbon on its new facility inside the 142-year-old former Red Bank borough hall. (click to read)
MEET THE RED BANK REGIONAL TEACHER NAMED MONMOUTH COUNTY TEACHER OF THE YEAR
Teachers, students and parents could all use some inspiration as school starts. redbankgreen chatted with the Red Bank Regional High School teacher chosen as Monmouth County Teacher of the Year to see what makes her tick. (click to read)
RED BANK: MIDDLE SCHOOL GRADS REUNITE AT HARVARD
Friends since kindergarten, two Red Bank Middle School students join Harvard University's class of 2028. (click to read)
RED BANK: BOROUGH KEEPS IT LOCAL WITH LIAISON HIRE
A community worker with deep ties to Red Bank is chosen to fill a new liaison position at Borough Hall. (click to read)
RED BANK: MIDDLE SCHOOL GROUNDS GET MAKEOVER
RED BANK: Work begins on a running/walking track, pickleball courts, basketball courts and a gazebo behind the Red Bank Middle School. (click to read)
RED BANK: FORMER MIDDLE SCHOOLERS EXCEL
RED BANK: Former borough middle school students garner a diverse mix of awards and scholarships upon graduation from Red Bank Regional.
RED BANK: “LIFE CHANGING” GYM FLEXES BODIES AND SOULS
Red Bank: a team of 15 athletes in this year's Red Bank Classic 5k train at an "inclusive fitness" gym clients say is changing lives. (Click for more.)
VIDEO: MONMOUTH BOAT CLUB PLANS TO GO HIGHER
Video: The Monmouth Boat Club has stood on the banks of the Navesink River in Red Bank for 145-years. But the pilings that hold it up are rotting away. A plan is being hatched to lift the historic structure and build a higher foundation. (Click to read/watch)
STOP. JUST STOP.
RED BANK: For those who don't get the meaning of a stop sign, crossing guard Diane Johnson amplifies the message with some colorful outfits. (Click for more)
PHOTOG FINDS HEALING WITH SUICIDE SURVIVOR DOC
RED BANK: Photographer Danny Sanchez had to do something to honor his late wife. He found his mission in the stories of other suicide survivors. (click to read)
THREE ON TOUR
RED BANK: Three borough sites will participate in a weekend of self-guided tours of 52 historic locations in Monmouth County May 4 & 5.
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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 ...