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RED BANK: MEMORIES TAKE FLIGHT WITH AIRPORT MURAL
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Red Bank's newest mural is based on a photo from the Dorn family collection of historic photos. It left the son of the man who took the photo almost speechless. (click to read)
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September 18th, 2025 @ 2pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: INSOMNIA COOKIES, “STREET” EATS AND MORE FILL BIZ VACANCIES
RED BANK: Mexican eatery Toro Rojo closes, while Insomnia cookies and a flurry of other new arrivals are filling fill a string of vacant storefronts along Broad Street. The latest in Retail Churn. (click to read)
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September 18th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: GRAFFITI, DUI’S KEEP POLICE BUSY IN AUGUST
RED BANK: Police blotter for August includes two DUI arrests and 11 incidents of vandalism.
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September 15th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK: IN MEMORY OF THOSE KILLED ON SEPT. 11, 2001
RED BANK: Locals to gather at Riverside Gardens Park to remember those who lost their lives in the horrific September 11, 2001 attacks. Monmouth County also has a slate of remembrance events.
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September 10th, 2025 @ 2pm
RED BANK: COPS NAB GRAFFITI SUSPECTS
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Using video, Red Bank police nab alleged scrawlers they say are responsible for incidents of summertime graffiti. (click to read)
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September 2nd, 2025 @ 11am
VIDEO: REDBANKGREEN – FOR THE LOVE OF RED BANK
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Video: As redbankgreen enters its 20th year, a short video about the joy of it all. (click to read)
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August 26th, 2025 @ 1pm
RED BANK: VANDALISM FILLS JULY POLICE BLOTTER
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RED BANK: A graffiti spree dominated the crime report for July. (click to read)
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August 18th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK SIDEWALK SALE UNDERWAY
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Sunny skies and a busy start for Red Bank's 71st annual Sidewalk Sale, which runs from Friday to Sunday. (click to read)
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August 8th, 2025 @ 12pm
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
BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER AND 8 FT DANCING DRAGONFLY AT RED BANK NIGHT OUT
Photos of sandwich-tossing cops, a US Army Black Hawk helicopter landing at Count Basie Park and more from National Night Out. (click to read)
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August 6th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: FREE ROWING PROGRAM SATURDAY
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Free rowing program for teens on the Navesink River Saturday. Click for the deets and link to register.
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July 23rd, 2025 @ 4pm
BURGLARY, GRAFFITTI ON JUNE POLICE BLOTTER
RED BANK: Police blotter for June includes a graffiti spree, a burglary and the capture of a fugitive from justice.
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July 18th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BASIE ARTS CENTER UNVEILS 100TH BIRTHDAY BASH PLANS
The Count Basie Center for the Arts announces a 16-month celebration to mark the 100 anniversary of Red Bank's crown jewel theater. (click to read)
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July 14th, 2025 @ 5pm
TIM CRONIN, BELOVED RED BANK ROCK ‘N ROLLER DIES
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Tim Cronin, who achieved local legend status as the affable face behind the counter at Jack's Music Shoppe in Red Bank and global cult hero notoriety as a founding member of the band Monster Magnet, has died. 
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July 8th, 2025 @ 6pm
RED BANK CONCERTS, MOVIES, & FITNESS IN THE PARK RETURNS
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Red Bank Summer Series at Riverside Gardens Park, with fitness, movies and concerts begins this week.
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July 1st, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: COUNCIL MOVES COUNT BASIE PARK WORK & TRAIN STATION PLAN
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Red Bank Borough Council advance plan to fix up Count Basie Park and redevelop train station area. (click to read)
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June 27th, 2025 @ 6pm
RED BANK CHURN: LIQUOR STORE PLANS BROAD STREET OPENING
RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a liquor store plans to open inside long vacant shop on Broad Street, and Nashville-Pakistani chicken and make-your-own candles spots prep to open. (click to read)
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June 25th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: UBER DRIVER THEFT; SIX BIKES AND COOKING OIL STOLEN IN MAY POLICE BLOTTER
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RED BANK: Red Bank man arrested three times in 17 days. Six bikes and a $500 vat of used cooking stolen. A rundown of crimes and arrests for May.
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June 20th, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK: BILLBOARD COMPANY SUES OVER SIGN DENIAL
A billboard company whose plan to build a 25-foot LED sign at the entrance to Red Bank was nixed is now suing the zoning board to get it built. Will the court case put a wrench in hopes of redevelop the site? (click to read)
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June 17th, 2025 @ 8am
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
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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 ...