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RED BANK: STEWART SELLS ONE MANSION
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RED BANK: Comedian Jon Stewart has a deal to sell one of his two adjoining homes overlooking the Navesink River, according to a recent filing.
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September 9th, 2021 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: BOARD TAPS BOWERS-CRADER
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RED BANK: RiverCenter names Samantha Bowers-Crader board chairperson, a position held by her father three decades ago.
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June 30th, 2021 @ 11am
RED BANK: CARTER TO LEAD RIVERCENTER
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RED BANK: RiverCenter names former borough planning director Glenn Carter as executive director, succeeding Laura Kirkpatrick.
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May 26th, 2021 @ 3pm
RED BANK: Kirkpatrick resigns RiverCenter, leaving downtown promo agency looking for a new executive director for the second time in 17 months.
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May 11th, 2021 @ 4pm
LINCROFT: TUNING UP, ‘CARBERSHOP’-STYLE
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LINCROFT: Unable to sing in person, and frustrated by Zoom, the Chorus of the Atlantic finds a workaround: 'carbershop' rehearsals in a church parking lot.
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April 21st, 2021 @ 12pm
RED BANK: DALPRA TO HEAD PARKS & REC
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RED BANK: Quickly filling vacancy left by Charlie Hoffmann, council hires former RBR athletic director Louis 'Del' DalPra to run parks & rec department.
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April 15th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: HOFFMANN LEAVING REC JOB
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RED BANK: Leaving borough hall for new job, parks and rec director Charlie Hoffmann gets a 'pile-on' of love from officials.
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March 25th, 2021 @ 1pm
SANDY HOOK: SPRINGSTEEN BUSTED FOR DWI
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SANDY HOOK: Springsteen facing DWI and other charges from November arrest that came to light three days after his Super Bowl commercial for Jeep.
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February 10th, 2021 @ 1pm
RED BANK: Council agenda includes bonds, hirings, event date approvals for a post-pandemic world... but still no movement on commenting protocol.
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January 26th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: BON JOVI SPOTLIGHTS PORTER
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RED BANK: Rock star Jon Bon Jovi spoke with Pastor Terrence Porter of Pilgrim Baptist Church for a Christmas Eve segment on NBC's Today Show.
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December 28th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: HOLIDAY DELIGHTS A-POPPING
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RED BANK: The holiday season is popping as organizations adapt the retail 'pop-up' concept to entertain and engage patrons.
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December 11th, 2020 @ 5pm
RED BANK: SECRET STASH TO RELOCATE
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RED BANK: Kevin Smith's downtown comics shop, Secret Stash, plans to relocate to a new Broad Street location, the filmmaker said Wednesday.
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November 25th, 2020 @ 7pm
RED BANK: LOW-KEY TREE LIGHTING
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RED BANK: Traditional Holiday Express concert/Town Light-Up is cancelled. Even the Christmas tree lighting will be a quiet affair.
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November 25th, 2020 @ 5pm
FAIR HAVEN: WITCHES’ WHIMSY ON THE WATER
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FAIR HAVEN: A coven of witches trade their brooms for paddleboards and kayaks in a whimsical outing on the Navesink. Check out the photos.
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October 26th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: BASIE DEBUTS NEW STAGE
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RED BANK: With temperature checks at the door and well-spaced tables, Basie reopens and debuts new theater, a "small step" toward recovery, says CEO.
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October 22nd, 2020 @ 8pm
RED BANK: DiNIZIO SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE
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RED BANK: Basie announces details of 2021 musical scholarship in memory of late Smithereens lead singer and New Jersey son Pat DiNizio.
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October 12th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: DEBUT VOGEL LINEUP SLATED
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RED BANK: Singer Grace Potter kicks things off at the Basie Center's new Vogel performance space. Here's the initial lineup of acts.
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October 5th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BASIE TO OPEN NEW VENUE
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RED BANK: After seven months of darkness, Basie Center plans to debut new performance space, seating just 150 in a room built for 800.
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September 29th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: Two weeks after they were announced, six paid-admission concerts over two Saturdays in Riverside Gardens Park have been cancelled.
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September 24th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: GRUNIN TO CHAIR BASIE BOARD
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RED BANK: Count Basie Center for the Arts names Jeremy Grunin chairman of board of trustees during "a time of recovery and resilience."
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September 17th, 2020 @ 7am
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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 ...