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RED BANK: WHY SO MANY PLANES?
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Why are the skies over Red Bank so busy sometimes and so quiet other times? A local aviation nerdsplainer from redbankgreen.
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May 27th @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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BASIE CENTER ADDS MURAL, BASIE BAND BLOCK PARTY TO 100TH ANNIVERSARY
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A block party and two concerts with the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra along with a new mural project are added to Count Basie theater centennial celebration. (Click to read)
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May 26th @ 8am
“WE BUILT THAT.” RED BANK FIREFIGHTERS MARK MONUMENT’S 100 YEARS
As the 100-year-anniversary of Red Bank's War Memorial monument neared, firefighters made an illuminating discovery. (click to read)
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May 22nd @ 5pm
RED BANK FOODTOWN SHUTTING DOWN
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Workers clear the shelves as a source tells redbankgreen that Circus Super Foodtown's closure is imminent. (click to read)
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May 20th @ 11am
RED BANK: STILL VACANT, DOWNTOWN LANDMARK IS SOLD – AGAIN.
Meximodo owner buys two buildings in downtown Red Bank with plans to open restaurants in both. (Click to read)
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May 19th @ 5pm
RED BANK: COMMUNITY MOURNS STUDENT KILLED IN TRAIN STRIKE
Hundreds gathered to honor and mourn a student killed in what school officials called an accident Wednesday. (Click to read)
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May 14th @ 9am
RED BANK: BROADWALK, NOW “SETTLED LAW” SEEKS TO MOVE PAST CONTROVERSY
Red Bank's seasonal pedestrian plaza returns, with officials hoping opponents will get on board. (Click to read)
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May 11th @ 6am
RED BANK GETS GRANT FOR WORLD CUP CELEBRATION
Red Bank scores a $50,000 state grant to hold World Cup soccer watch parties and other events in June and July. (Click to read)
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May 7th @ 7am
NEW RED BANK EATERIES: KOREAN, PIZZA, VENEZUELAN, AND MONSTER SUNDAES
Red Bank retail Churn: Korean BBQ, Scoop N Scootery ice cream set up shop, with new Venezuelan and pizza spots preparing to open.
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May 5th @ 3pm
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE WELCOMES MELBA MOORE
Disco, soul pioneer and Tony Award winner Melba Moore comes to Red Bank for a pre-Mother's Day meet and greet. (click to read)
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May 4th @ 1pm
RED BANK: BOARD OF ED NIXES BID TO OUST MEMBER FOR ABSENCES
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Should a Red Bank Board of Education member be removed for missing three meetings? Board members split on bid to consider ouster. (Click to read)
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May 4th @ 8am
RED BANK DOG CHOSEN FOR LOTTERY GAME CARD
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Arlo, a pit bull from Red Bank, is chosen as one of 18 dogs featured on NJ Lottery scratch off game cards. (click to read)
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May 1st @ 4pm
HAVANA ON THE NAVESINK
The Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project went big with its annual gala at Triumph Brewing Wednesday, hosting a 1940's-50's Cuba-themed classic car show and concert to benefit its jazz education programs. 
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April 30th @ 8am
RED BANK: CONDO PROJECT STALLS, THEN STARTS – AGAIN
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The on-again off-again construction of a ten-unit luxury condo building on Red Bank's waterfront is..on again. (Click to read)
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April 27th @ 2pm
RED BANK’S “DOCTOR PENIS” DRAWS NY TIMES SCRUTINY FOR BREAST SURGERY PAYOUTS
Newspaper expose on eye-popping insurance payments focuses on Red Bank plastic surgeon. (Click to read)
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April 27th @ 7am
RED BANK: BUSY SUNDAY ON TAP WITH STREET FAIR, GRAFFITI FEST
Street fair and Graffiti Fest on tap Sunday in Red Bank. (click to read)
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April 24th @ 4pm
RED BANK: NEW LIBRARY MURAL SHINES
Red Bank Public Library mural depicts fauna featured in literature, the local landscape, and one Red Bank student's cherished memories. (Click to read.)
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April 20th @ 8am
RED BANK: LONG LIST OF ARRESTS IN MARCH POLICE BLOTTER
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RED BANK: A man charged with assaulting and taking an officer's weapon is among a long list of arrests by police in the month of March.
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April 17th @ 5pm
RED BANK CHURN: PINBALL LOUNGE, PRE-MADE MEALS SPOT OPEN
Red Bank Retail Churn: A pinball speakeasy and a $10 premade meals spot open. All the details and more news of comings and goings in Churn.
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April 15th @ 7am
RED BANK: LOCALS TO SHARE TALES OF CRINGE
The annual celebration of embarassment known as Cringefest returns with a lineup of storytellers from Red Bank organizations. (Click to read)
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April 14th @ 6am
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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.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.
CARPY DIEM
From the redbankgreen Partyline: A pair of large carp cruise the shallows under Hubbard's Bridge (Senator Kyrillos Bridge) on Front Street T ...
BIBS ON FOR OPENING DAY
Partyline: Two longtime neighbors re-unite for lobsters on the Boondocks Fishery opening day.