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Category Archives: Recreation

RED BANK: SOAP SHOP BECOMES CREATIVE HUB
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A family run Red Bank shop sellling handmade soaps and plants becomes a creative hub for live music and comedy. (click to read)
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September 2nd @ 3pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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VIDEO: TOUR THE DRAMATIC REMAKE OF RED BANK’S MARINE PARK
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A video walk-through of Red Bank's dramatically remade Marine Park on the Navesink River. (Click to read)
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June 27th @ 6pm
RED BANK: NEW RULES, NEW GARDEN HELP NATIVE PLANT EFFORTS BLOOM
A new native plant garden and an ordinance requiring native plants in major developments could boost butterfly fortunes in Red Bank. (click to read)
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June 24th @ 2pm
RED BANK: MARINE PARK MAKEOVER DEBUT SLATED
RED BANK: Years in the works, an overhaul of Marine Park is set to make its public debut later this month, borough officials said last week.
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June 16th @ 8am
RED BANK: BORO LAUNCHES WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY SERIES
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First of three World Cup watch parties in Red Bank set for Thursday's Mexico vs. South Africa matchup. (Click to read)
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June 10th @ 2pm
RED BANK: BOROUGH INKS NEW BASIE FIELDS DEAL WITH RBC
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Red Bank Catholic will pay the Borough of Red Bank $185,000 a year to use Count Basie Park under a new 10-year deal.(Click to read)
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April 30th @ 7am
PODCAST: GILDA ROGERS ON RED BANK’S BLACK HISTORY – AND FUTURE
New episode of the redbankgreen podcast! An illuminating sit down with Gilda Rogers, executive director of the T. Thomas Fortune House Cultural Center. (Click to read.)
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February 13th @ 12pm
RED BANK: BOROUGH SEEKS INPUT ON JOHNNY JAZZ PARK REMAKE
Borough of Red Bank plans a makeover for Johnny Jazz Park. (Click to read)
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February 12th @ 10am
RED BANK COUNCIL: NEW FIRE CHIEF, NEW COUNCILMAN MEMBER, SAME OLD HARMONY
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Red Bank council swears in new member and new fire chiefs at annual reorganization meeting. (click to read)
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January 2nd @ 12pm
RED BANK: HOLIDAYS KICK OFF WITH BLIZZARD OF EVENTS
Red Bank kicks off the holiday season with the annual town lighting, an open art studio event and more. (Click for all the details)
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November 25th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK: RIVERFRONT COTTAGE CLEARED FOR BIG NEW HOME
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A small cottage on a Navesink River bluff is demolished to make way for a new five-bedroom home. (click to read)
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November 13th, 2025 @ 12pm
REDBANKGREEN PODCAST: RED BANK’S DEVELOPMENT BOOM
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Podcast: discussing Red Bank's development boom with Planning Board Chairman Dan Mancuso. (Click to listen)
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October 28th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: GAME SHOP LEVELS UP WITH MOVE TO BIGGER DIGS
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Red Bank board game shop Shore Gamers will double in size with a move Broad Street. (click to read)
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October 14th, 2025 @ 4pm
COUNT BASIE, BON JOVI HONORED AT BASIE CENTER WALK OF FAME
William "Count" Basie and Jon Bon Jovi honored as first inductees of the 100-year-old Red Bank theater's new "Walk of Fame." (click to read)
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September 25th, 2025 @ 4pm
RED BANK THROWBACK: BORO BUYS THEATER TO CREATE MARINE PARK
100 years ago this week, the Borough of Red Bank made one of the best moves in its history: buying land to create Marine Park. (click to read)
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September 24th, 2025 @ 9am
RED BANK TOWN WIDE YARD SALE DATE SET
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Round up the bric-a-brac! Red Bank sets 2025 townwide yard sale date for September 13. (click to read)
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August 18th, 2025 @ 3pm
RED BANK: EATERY OWNERS ROAST BROADWALK
A group of Red Bank restaurant owners tell the Borough Council that turning Broad Street into a seasonal pedestrian plaza is killing their business. (click to read)
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August 15th, 2025 @ 5pm
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
RED BANK: EYE POPPING TRASH SCULPTURE AT ANDERSON BUILDING
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An exhibit of whimsical, jaw-dropping (and yet unsettling) creations made of trash at the Anderson Building in Red Bank. (click to read)
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July 31st, 2025 @ 11am
WE NEED YOUR “RED BANK BOOGIE” VIDEOS!
It's boogie time, Red Bank! redbankgreen seeks video clips of residents dancing for an epic celebration honoring jazz icon William "Count" Basie.
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July 28th, 2025 @ 6pm
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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.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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 ...