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Category Archives: Recreation

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
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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HOME RUNS EQUAL HEADACHES FOR RED BANK AUTO SHOP
From dingers to dings: Red Bank auto shop says home runs are wreaking havoc on cars parked on its lot. (click to read)
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June 11th, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: CONDO BUILD PAUSES, BUT JUST FOR QUALITY, BUILDER SAYS
West Front Street condo project pauses construction, but developer promises Shore's "most luxurious" building will soon be done. (click to read)
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May 21st, 2025 @ 5pm
RED BANK: MONMOUTH BOAT CLUB ON “MOST ENDANGERED” LIST
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Red Bank's 145- year-old Monmouth Boat Club has been put on Preservations NJ's annual "Ten Most Endangered" historic places. (click to read)
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May 6th, 2025 @ 10am
AFTER CLEANUP GAINS, NAVESINK RIVER POLLUTION PERSISTS
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Efforts to reduce human and animal waste pollution in the Navesink River pollution were making headway. The pandemic was a major setback. (click to read).
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May 6th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK: GET SET TO BOOGIE FOR COUNT BASIE
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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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April 30th, 2025 @ 6am
RED BANK: NJ TRANSIT HAS BIG PLANS BUT FEWER RIDERS
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NJ Transit is planning a massive redevelopment of the Red Bank train station area amid a new reality few saw coming: 65 percent fewer train riders. (click to read)
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April 8th, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: MARINE PARK REMAKE ZIPS FORWARD
Sunset corn hole by the Navesink, anyone? More details - from a hammock hangout to a food truck area - emerge in the plan to remake Red Bank's Marine Park. (click to read).
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March 27th, 2025 @ 8pm
5K ORGANIZERS SHOW MERCY WITH NEW FLATTER COURSE FOR ’25
Red Bank Classic 5k organizers announce June 14 race date and a new flatter course. (click to read)
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March 12th, 2025 @ 11am
RED BANK: BORO RAKES IN SOME GREEN WITH CANNABIS TAX, BUT HOW MUCH?
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Red Bank's recreational weed market just completed its first quarter operating a full capacity. How much did the the town make in taxes? (click to read)
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February 12th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK GOES BIG WITH MARINE PARK PLAYGROUND PLANS
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Red Bank plans new playground for Marine Park, with a wheelchair-accessible pirate ship, 40-foot zipline and more. (click to read)
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January 24th, 2025 @ 9am
RED BANK: HOSPITAL AGREES TO PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENT, PARKING LOT GETS OK
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Employee parking lots gets ok after hospital officials agree to an easement along the Navesink River in Red Bank. (click to read)
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January 21st, 2025 @ 12pm
RED BANK: HOSPITAL BALKS AT RIVERFRONT ACCESS LAW
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Riverview Medical Center plans a new parking lot overlooking the Navesink River but doesn't want to include a public access easement required by Red Bank ordinance. (click to read)
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January 6th, 2025 @ 8am
RED BANK MENORAH LIGHTING MONDAY
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Red Bank's annual menorah lighting scheduled for Monday night.
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December 30th, 2024 @ 10am
KEVIN SMITH’S “SECRET STASH” HOLIDAY
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Filmmaker Kevin Smith greets fans and offers photos with "Santa Bob" at his Red Bank comic book shop. (click for more)
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December 9th, 2024 @ 1pm
RED BANK: ARTIST AND BUTCHER JAZZ UP WALL WITH COUNT BASIE MURAL
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A new mural honoring Red Bank's favorite son William "Count" Basie is turning heads on Monmouth Street. (click to read)
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November 18th, 2024 @ 8am
PHEONIX BRINGS “THE COLOR PURPLE” TO BASIE STAGE
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Community theater group Phoenix Productions presents "The Color Purple" at the Basie Center this weekend (click for more)
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November 14th, 2024 @ 5pm
GIFTED BIKE RACKS, RED BANK ASKS: “WHERE DO YOU WANT ‘EM?”
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Red Bank was gifted two dozen bike racks. Officials want your input on where to install them. (click to read)
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October 30th, 2024 @ 3pm
VIDEO: RED BANK’S SPOOKIEST HALLOWEEN HOMES
Take a tour of Red Bank's most spooky home Halloween displays without leaving your lair. (click for more)
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October 28th, 2024 @ 5pm
SPRINGSTEEN DOC PUTS RED BANK AT CENTER STAGE
Hulu's new Bruce Springsteen documentary follows him across the globe, but keeps Red Bank rehearsals sessions front and center. (click to read)
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October 28th, 2024 @ 12pm
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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.