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Category Archives: Festivals

By LINDA G. RASTELLI To celebrate Independence Day, Rumson borough typically closes off part of the Oceanic Bridge to enable spectators to view Red Bank's fireworks, opening the span periodically for boats to get through. This year, though, the town...
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June 29th, 2007 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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You can almost picture the scene: the folks at the ad agency for 7-11 gathered in a midtown Manhattan conference room, hashing out ways to promote the company's Red Bank store at a time when the biggest crowd of the...
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June 26th, 2007 @ 4pm
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June 14th, 2007 @ 4pm
Buried in today's Asbury Park Press account of Rumson's centennial parade Saturday is word of a bizarre accident that injured a spectator. From the story: At approximately 2 p.m. near the parade's end at Victory Park, a streamer shot from...
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June 11th, 2007 @ 6am
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June 6th, 2007 @ 9am
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June 4th, 2007 @ 8pm
The Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival kicked off to a terrific start Friday night before a light rain rolled in at about 9p during Billy Hector's headline show. Red Bank's own Chuck Lambert Band, above, stirred the festival to...
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June 2nd, 2007 @ 11am
The Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival might be forgiven for having one monster case of the blues. In recent years, it's been battered financially and encountered its fair share of literally stormy weather. Yet the people who pull it...
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June 1st, 2007 @ 11am
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May 31st, 2007 @ 7am
The Freedom Film Society screened 'Deliver Us From Evil' for a couple of dozen moviegoers last night as part of a once-a-month series at the Clearview Cinemas on White Street. The film, an Oscar-nominated documentary by CNN producer Amy Berg,...
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May 10th, 2007 @ 12am
It's turning into a break-out-the-Champagne kind of week for downtown Red Bank. First came news last week that Tiffany & Co plans to open one of its high-end emporiums on Broad Street. Now there's a poll released Monday by Monmouth...
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March 27th, 2007 @ 10am
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November 27th, 2006 @ 11am
Final figures aren't yet in, but the sixth annual Red Bank International Film Festival, held last weekend, attracted a record number of moviegoers from all over the tri-state region, says Marc Leckstein, president of the Freedom Film Society, the festival...
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October 18th, 2006 @ 9am
First, if you want to eat—and you probably will—it’ll cost you $35. The food promises to be terrific, and the money goes to a worthy organization. But if you can’t swing the $35, or have other gustatory plans, don’t let...
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August 16th, 2006 @ 10am
Steve Forbert played in Riverside Gardens Park last night as part of the Songwriters in the Park series. Yeah, he did "Goin' Down to Laurel," the breakout tune from his debut 1978 album 'Alive on Arrival,' and it sounded like......
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July 29th, 2006 @ 6am
Today's Star-Ledger has an eight-page pullout guide to Red Bank in its "Ticket" section, and a more extensive version at its website. The section doesn't aim for depth (thus we're reminded, repeatedly, that 20 years ago the town was known...
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July 21st, 2006 @ 1pm
While tens of thousands of visitors sought out unobstructed views of the KaBoom Fireworks Monday night, hundreds of others chose to stand in or near the intersection of Broad and Front streets to watch the action from behind a scrim...
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July 5th, 2006 @ 11pm
Say goodbye to another Red Bank landmark. Shrewsbury Manor, an idyllic cluster of 59 apartments located next door to the Molly Pitcher Inn, is gradually being cleared out and will fall to the bulldozer sometime after the last tenants have...
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July 5th, 2006 @ 11pm
The fireworks display over the Navesink on Monday was just one part of the street theater that played out on the throng-choked thoroughfares of Red Bank on July 3. Our roving photographer asked some folks in town to show off...
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July 4th, 2006 @ 5pm
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SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.