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RED BANK: BOROUGH WEB SITE GETS NEW LOOK
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Borough of Red Bank redesigns its notoriously clunky web site. (click to read)
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March 5th, 2025 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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redbankgreen FOUNDER SIGNS OFF
RED BANK: Some parting thoughts as redbankgreen founder John T. Ward calls it quits after 18 years and 15,000 posts.
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August 1st, 2024 @ 11pm
RED BANK: MUSIC PHOTOG BREATHES LIFE INTO SICKLES SPACE
RED BANK: Renowned music photographer Danny Clinch brings photos of Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and H.E.R. to fill the void created by the closure of Sickles Market. (click to read)
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May 16th, 2024 @ 12pm
HOMEBOUND? READ ON…
RED BANK: Can't get to the public library? It's now offering free delivery and pickups for homebound borough residents.
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February 20th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: DONOHUE JOINS REDBANKGREEN
RED BANK: Video journalist Brian Donohue, known statewide for his Positively New Jersey features, has joined the staff of redbankgreen.
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December 22nd, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: NEW ART GALLERY OPENS
RED BANK: Art enthusiasts can pin another location on the map with the opening last week of a new downtown gallery.
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November 16th, 2023 @ 11am
RED BANK: LIBRARY KICKS OFF CENTENNIAL
RED BANK: Dozens of supporters gather to kick off the Red Bank Public Library's centennial as a "public" institution.
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November 13th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: ‘FORTUNE TELLERS’ GUIDE VISITORS
RED BANK: Student guides dubbed 'Fortune Tellers' lead visitors through new exhibit on Black journalism at T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center.
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November 2nd, 2023 @ 8am
REDBANKGREEN’S PUBLISHER: ABOUT THE NEW LOOK
PUBLISHER'S MESSAGE: The new-look redbankgreen is kind of like an airport in rebuild mode. The goal is to still be operating in 2106.
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October 26th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: LIBRARY TO MARK A CENTENNIAL
RED BANK: Library to mark centennial of vote that changed it from a struggling membership organization to one that's free and open to all.
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October 12th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: NURTURING FORTUNE’S LEGACY
RED BANK: Opening this month, exhibit honoring editor and activist T. Thomas Fortune looks at his life, work and legacy.
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October 9th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: ‘FORTUNE TELLERS’ GET READY
RED BANK: Ahead of an October exhibit on the history of the Black press, students learn docent skills at T. Thomas Fortune Center.
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August 1st, 2023 @ 7pm
RED BANK: ARTS CHAMPION TOM CHESEK DIES
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RED BANK: Tom Chesek, who for decades spotlighted unheralded local artists with distinctive prose, has died at age 64.
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July 7th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: REPORTER GOES ALL ‘MR. ROGERS’
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RED BANK: Hoping to better connect with neighbors, borough resident and TV reporter dons Fred Rogers cardigan and chats first with Henry Tindal.
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April 10th, 2023 @ 8am
REDBANKGREEN’S NEW PARTNER: 83 YEARS TO GO
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RED BANK: Some news about redbankgreen itself.
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February 17th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: TWO NEWSLETTERS LAUNCHED
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RED BANK: Borough government and RiverCenter launch digital newsletters, giving residents and business owners more ways to stay informed.
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September 26th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: A LENS ON A LITTLE SHAKESPEARE
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RED BANK: 'Here's the Story' explores A Little Shakespeare's creation of 'Much Ado About Nothing' this spring in a film to air on NJ PBS.
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August 2nd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: CHROMEBOOKS ON LOAN AT LIBRARY
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RED BANK: Borough library has added Chromebooks to the technology available for take-home borrowing by patrons.
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July 26th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: LIBRARY PHOTO CONTEST RETURNS
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RED BANK: Library accepting submissions for third annual "Red Bank: Always Beautiful" photo and video contest. Here's how to enter.
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July 6th, 2022 @ 7am
redbankgreen: NEW COMMENTS POLICY
RED BANK: redbankgreen rolls out new commenting policy that requires use of real names, which will be individually verified.
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July 4th, 2022 @ 5pm
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
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.