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RED BANK HONORS THE FALLEN
Red Bank Borough Memorial Day ceremony 2025
Several hundred gathered to honor the nation's war dead at Red Bank's annual Memorial Day ceremony. (click to read)
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May 26th, 2025 @ 8pm
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RED BANK: MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY HONORS THE FALLEN
RED BANK: Local Girl and Boy Scout troops, the Red Bank Fire Department, The Elk and Rotary Clubs, local clergy and military along with elected officials and a strong showing of citizens all paid their respects.
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May 28th, 2024 @ 7am
RED BANK: FLAG FIELD SET FOR VETERANS DAY
RED BANK: A 'Field of Heroes' flag display stands at the ready for for Saturday's Veterans Day ceremony in Riverside Garden Park.
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November 9th, 2023 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BOROUGH MARKS MEMORIAL DAY
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RED BANK: "Remember those who gave all so you could have the life you have," a says speaker at Memorial Day ceremony. Check out the photos.
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May 30th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: COPS + KIDS + COPTER = FUN
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RED BANK: Black Hawk helicopter is again the star attraction for kids as police host National Night Out at Count Basie Park. Photos galore.
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August 3rd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: ANI ART OFFERS SCHOLARSHIPS
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RED BANK: Previously limited to military veterans, Ani Art Academy is now open to all adults, and has 12 scholarships to offer to beginners.
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July 19th, 2022 @ 6am
RED BANK: BUILDING SOLD, PHARMACY CLOSED
RED BANK: Building changes hands and pharmacy shuts its doors. What's Going On Here? redbankgreen answers.
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April 26th, 2022 @ 2pm
RED BANK: KIDS HONOR VETERANS
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RED BANK: After a pandemic interruption, school children return to annual Veterans Day commemoration at the borough Veterans Monument.
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November 11th, 2021 @ 4pm
RED BANK: SCOUTS HELP RETIRE FLAGS
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RED BANK: Members of Tower Hill Boy Scout Troop 67 provide service in a flag-folding ceremony at Elks Club #233.
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October 5th, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: LOCALS HONOR VETERANS
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RED BANK: Middle school student, Elks Lodge official and Marine Corps vet among those who participated in borough's annual Veterans Day service.
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November 12th, 2020 @ 6am
ON THE GREEN: Two towns plan Veterans Day ceremonies, one virtual and the other curtailed to limit the spread of COVID-19.
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November 10th, 2020 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: VETERAN LAUDED FOR HIS 100TH
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FAIR HAVEN: Mayor and council honor Henry Stevens, a Navy veteran of World War II, in advance of his 100th birthday.
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January 15th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: MARKING VETERANS DAY
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RED BANK: Borough pauses to remember American veterans of wars past and present.
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November 11th, 2019 @ 12pm
ON THE GREEN: Towns plan community Veterans Day ceremonies.
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November 10th, 2019 @ 11am
LINCROFT: MESSAGES TO MILITARY PERSONNEL
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LINCROFT: Monmouth Museum invites all to create holiday messages to U.S. military personnel serving all over the world.
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November 6th, 2019 @ 10am
RED BANK: CARRYING THE FLAG TO REMEMBER
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RED BANK: Veterans' activist Mark Otto, AKA 'the flag man,' carries flag bearing names of September 11, 2001 victims 11 miles in their honor.
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September 11th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: VETERANS’ ART TO GET SPOTLIGHT
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RED BANK: Free art school for veterans has been 'serendipitous' for a 71-year-old who'll have his works in the studio's first show next month.
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March 15th, 2019 @ 3pm
RED BANK & FAIR HAVEN: SOLDIER HONORED
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RED BANK & FAIR HAVEN: Residents mourn Pfc. Jamie Riley, a 21-year-old soldier killed in a crash involving two military vehicles in New Mexico last month.
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February 4th, 2019 @ 10am
FAIR HAVEN: A 21-year-old borough man was one of two soldiers killed in a crash involving two military vehicles in New Mexico Tuesday night.
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January 25th, 2019 @ 12pm
RED BANK: CENTENARY OF ARMISTICE MARKED
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RED BANK: On the centenary of the Armistice that ended the first World War, the borough pauses to remember all American veterans.
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November 12th, 2018 @ 8am
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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.