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RED BANK: A COLORFUL TRADITION CONTINUES
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Turnout was noticeably down from recent years, but the 68th annual Red Bank Halloween Parade held Sunday still drew a large, creative and colorful array of costumed marchers. Take it aroundContinue reading "RED BANK: A COLORFUL TRADITION CONTINUES"
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October 18th, 2015 @ 4pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW
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Red Bank Middle School students proudly display the notebooks that have helped them grow academically and personally, as part of Project Write Now’s Literacy Outreach Program. The nonprofit has announcedContinue reading "RED BANK: WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW"
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October 16th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: A HALLOWED TRADITION RETURNS
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Classic goblins, licensed characters and some fanciful floats take over downtown Red Bank Sunday, when the Halloween Parade returns for its 68th annual edition. (Photo by John T.Ward. Click toContinue reading "RED BANK: A HALLOWED TRADITION RETURNS"
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October 16th, 2015 @ 5am
RED BANK: RAISE A CROP OF AWARENESS
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The annual CROP walk takes participants through downtown Red Bank. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)  Peanut butter, rice and beans. Together they make up the big three “MostContinue reading "RED BANK: RAISE A CROP OF AWARENESS"
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October 15th, 2015 @ 6am
LINCROFT: A MINI “PGA” FOR CPA’s
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Just another day at the office? For the tenth consecutive year, the certified public accounting firm Curchin Group transforms its Schultz Drive office suite into a nine-hole miniature golf course,Continue reading "LINCROFT: A MINI “PGA” FOR CPA’s"
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October 14th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK “FUTURE BUCS” BIG ON MU CAMPUS
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Press release from Red Bank Charter School This past week, the Monmouth University Womensʼ Basketball team hosted a group of 6th, 7th and 8th grade girls from Red Bank CharterContinue reading "RED BANK “FUTURE BUCS” BIG ON MU CAMPUS"
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October 14th, 2015 @ 5am
RED BANK: A G.N.O. WITH BFF’s
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Girls of most ages are invited to gather in downtown Red Bank this Thursday for the latest in a series of Girls Night Out events designed to spotlight the town’sContinue reading "RED BANK: A G.N.O. WITH BFF’s"
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October 12th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK CHARTER HOSTS UGANDAN GUESTS
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Father Lawrence Kizito Kimbowa (left) of the nonprofit Change a Life Uganda meets with Red Bank Charter School principal Meredith Pennotti (second from left), during his visit to the schoolContinue reading "RED BANK CHARTER HOSTS UGANDAN GUESTS"
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October 12th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: BASIE OPENS PROJECT FX 2.0
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Press release from Count Basie Theatre They come from communities all over New Jersey; from high schools and colleges with a campus anywhere in the Garden State. And on AprilContinue reading "RED BANK: BASIE OPENS PROJECT FX 2.0"
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October 12th, 2015 @ 5am
Collectibles can be appraised, and records preserved, during a daylong event at the library. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) History and nostalgia will mix and mingle at the RedContinue reading "RED BANK: ANTIQUES & DIGITIZATION @RBPL"
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October 9th, 2015 @ 2pm
RED BANK: LONG-STALLED CONDOS STARTED
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Builder Charlie Farkouh on the Bank Street portion of the project earlier this week. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A planned condo complex with aContinue reading "RED BANK: LONG-STALLED CONDOS STARTED"
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October 9th, 2015 @ 9am
RED BANK: BASIE’S ECLECTIC JUGGLING ACT
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Madcap jugglers the Flying Karamazov Brothers, above, return in coming days to the Count Basie stage, as does frequent Red Bank guest Lyle Lovett, this time with John Hiatt, below.  Continue reading "RED BANK: BASIE’S ECLECTIC JUGGLING ACT"
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October 9th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: VAN ZANDTS NEW TO BASIE BOARD
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Middletown’s own local guy made good, musician-actor-producer-activist Steven Van Zandt, is pictured outside the Count Basie Theatre in a 2008 file photo. Van Zandt, his wife Maureen and five otherContinue reading "RED BANK: VAN ZANDTS NEW TO BASIE BOARD"
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October 7th, 2015 @ 5am
RED BANK: SMOOTHING THE MIDWEEK HUMP
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Comic tunesmith Bo Burnham makes a Count Basie Theatre debut Tuesday, and Engelbert Humperdinck makes a triumphal Red Bank return Wednesday. A tantrum-throwing tempest named Joaquin may have blown past theContinue reading "RED BANK: SMOOTHING THE MIDWEEK HUMP"
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October 5th, 2015 @ 11am
RED BANK: ANOTHER DANCE FOR KINDNESS
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Over 200 orange-teed residents of the greater Green took part in the 2014 Red Bank ‘Dance for Kindness,’ part of a synchronized worldwide campaign to support random acts of kindnessContinue reading "RED BANK: ANOTHER DANCE FOR KINDNESS"
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October 5th, 2015 @ 6am
Press release from Lunch Break of Red Bank On the evening of Monday, October 19, the Red Bank-based nonprofit Lunch Break will host its sixth annual gala, “Under One Roof,”Continue reading "A GALA ‘LUNCH’ FOR RED BANK NONPROFIT"
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October 5th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: MCC ANNOUNCES NEW SEASON
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Press release from Monmouth Civic Chorus The Monmouth Civic Chorus, the award-winning vocal ensemble under the artistic direction of Dr. Ryan James Brandau (pictured), has announced a 2015-2016 season thatContinue reading "RED BANK: MCC ANNOUNCES NEW SEASON"
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September 29th, 2015 @ 6am
RED BANK: WELCOME TO YOUR (1980s) LIFE
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Everybody wants to rule the charts…but few did it with greater consistency during the 1980s than Tears For Fears, the British duo who make their Red Bank debut on theContinue reading "RED BANK: WELCOME TO YOUR (1980s) LIFE"
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September 28th, 2015 @ 12pm
RED BANK CHARTER KIDS GO TO WASHINGTON
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Red Bank Charter School students listen as U.S. Congressman Chris Smith addresses a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, as part of a school trip to the nation’s capital. Press releaseContinue reading "RED BANK CHARTER KIDS GO TO WASHINGTON"
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September 28th, 2015 @ 4am
RED BANK: THE WORLD’S OUR OYSTER SUNDAY
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The Guinness Oyster Festival returns to the White Street lot in Red Bank Sunday. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) Consider the oyster: a fabled food-of-love aphrodisiac to many,Continue reading "RED BANK: THE WORLD’S OUR OYSTER SUNDAY"
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September 25th, 2015 @ 6am
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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
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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 ...