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RED BANK: FOOD FESTS OUT, CONCERTS IN
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RED BANK: With its signature food fests cancelled by pandemic, RiverCenter will host six paid-admission concerts over two Saturdays in Riverside Gardens Park.
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September 11th, 2020 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: EX-GYMNAST BRINGS THE JUICE
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RED BANK: A Romanian gymnast-turned-life coach adds energy-drink retailer to her résumé today with the opening of a shop on West Front Street.
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August 19th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: PROBE, METERS & MORE ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Busy council agenda includes authorization of Zipprich email leak probe; longer parking enforcement; budget; and six police promotions.
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August 17th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: LATIN-FLAVORED CAFÉ OPENS
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RED BANK: Hit hard by the pandemic a father and two sons finally open their new restaurant, one that includes a "Latin touch" on its menu.
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July 8th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: NEARLY NEW CALLS IT QUITS
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RED BANK: In Retail Churn, Nearly New Shop, started by an former Pan Am stewardess in 1993, joins parade of closings downtown.
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June 29th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: COVID-19 pandemic claims Alfonso's Pastry Shoppe after just 17 months of operation on Broad Street.
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June 18th, 2020 @ 1pm
LITTLE SILVER: RBR SENIORS GET THEIR DAY
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LITTLE SILVER: With commencement ceremony postponed by the pandemic, Red Bank Regional finds an interim way to celebrate the Class of 2020.
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June 15th, 2020 @ 4pm
RED BANK: YMCA OFFERS COVID-19 TESTING
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RED BANK: YMCA and Visiting Nurse Association team up to offer drive-thru and walk-up saliva-based testing for COVID-19.
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June 15th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: WALK-THRU MARKET TO RESUME
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RED BANK: After three weeks as a drive-thru, the Galleria's farm market resumes walk-thru shopping Sunday, with masks and social distancing required.
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June 9th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: RETAIL DAMAGE, BUT HOPE, TOO
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RED BANK: As the dust settles, business closings are on the rise downtown, but there are also a few glimmers of optimism.
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June 8th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: STEWART TO HOST FUNDRAISER
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RED BANK: Comedian Jon Stewart, whose farm is helping feed Lunch Break clients, will host a virtual fundraiser for the nonprofit in late August.
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June 1st, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BASIE PLANS DRIVE-IN CONCERT
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RED BANK: Its stage darkened by the pandemic, Count Basie Center plans a drive-in concert by Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes at Monmouth Park.
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June 1st, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: TWO FALL FESTIVALS? MAYBE…
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RED BANK: With calendar scrambled by pandemic, two major food festivals could be held within three weeks in early fall. Here's a lookahead at summer events.
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May 29th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: STUDENTS LEAD FOOD NONPROFIT
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FAIR HAVEN: R-FH students create nonprofit, team up with RBR's The Source to help feed Red Bank hungry during COVID-19 pandemic.
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May 26th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: QUICK PARADE, SMALL DELIGHTS
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RED BANK: The pandemic edition of the Memorial Day parade was a quick, scaled-down swing through town that delighted smatterings of residents. Photos.
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May 26th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: MORE EATERIES BACK FOR TAKEOUT
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RED BANK: More restaurants come back online for takeout-only business. Here's which ones, and a reminder to support all this Memorial Day weekend and beyond.
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May 22nd, 2020 @ 10am
LITTLE SILVER: FIRST RESPONDERS CHEERED
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LITTLE SILVER: Town bangs pots and pans to thank frontline COVID-19 first responders and help raise funds for volunteer squads.
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May 22nd, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: STEWARTS DONATE YEAR’S HARVEST
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RED BANK: Comedian Jon Stewart and wife Tracey Stewart donate harvest from their farm to Lunch Break to help out in COVID-19 crisis.
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May 15th, 2020 @ 7pm
RED BANK: FEEDING NURSES IN APPRECIATION
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RED BANK: Restaurants donate cartloads of meals for frontline healthcare worker at Riverview Medical Center in recognition of Nurse Appreciation Week.
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May 8th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: FRESH TAKE ON FOOD INSECURITY
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RED BANK: With food insecurity rising in the COVID-19 crisis, Kitch Organic rolls out way to donate fresh vegetables and fruits to hungry families.
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May 7th, 2020 @ 9am
Partyline
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 ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
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 ...