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RED BANK: SANTA BRINGS JOY TO JOHNNY JAZZ
RED BANK: Amid music and merriment, Santa Claus arrives at Johnny Jazz Park, and the kids lose their minds with glee. Pix.
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December 11th, 2023 @ 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: TREE LIGHTS UP CORNER & SPIRITS
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RED BANK: Amid flashing lights and blaring horns, Santa Claus arrives by firetruck to cap the annual tree lighting at Johnny Jazz Park. Photos galore.
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December 4th, 2018 @ 7am
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RED BANK: Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!
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December 22nd, 2017 @ 5pm
RED BANK: SNOW ADDS MAGIC TO LIGHT-UP
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RED BANK: The first snowfall of the season adds magic to tree lighting at Johnny Jazz Park. Check our redbankgreen's photos.
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December 11th, 2017 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER: CAROLS FOR THE SEASON
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Students from the Markham Place and Point Road Schools in Little Silver caroled through six holiday songs – including “Little Drummer Boy,” “African Noel” and “The Spirit of Hanukah” –Continue reading "LITTLE SILVER: CAROLS FOR THE SEASON"
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December 8th, 2014 @ 1pm
FAIR HAVEN: WAITING FOR SANTA
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There was no shortage of pizza as kids awaited Santa, who arrived with an assist by the Fair Haven Volunteer Fire Department. (Photos by Susan Ericson. Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: WAITING FOR SANTA"
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December 8th, 2014 @ 1pm
AROUND THE GREEN: WHERE’S SANTA?
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Above, Tuba Christmas toots exclusively at Middletown Arts Center on  the evening of December 7 — while below, Santa (seen in a past appearance at Red Bank’s West Side TreeContinue reading "AROUND THE GREEN: WHERE’S SANTA?"
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November 28th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: LIGHT THERAPY FOR BLACK FRIDAY
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Tim McLoone keynotes the season of lights in downtown Red Bank with the traditional Holiday Express outdoor concert on Black Friday. Charlie Brown, Ralphie, Rudolph – not a one ever concernedContinue reading "RED BANK: LIGHT THERAPY FOR BLACK FRIDAY"
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November 26th, 2014 @ 3pm
RED BANK: LIGHTS ON
[slideshow_deploy id=’86173′]It was a night of jolly good cheer as Santa and Mrs. Claus and thousands of revelers in fun hats thronged downtown Red Bank for the annual town light-upContinue reading "RED BANK: LIGHTS ON"
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December 2nd, 2013 @ 6am
RED BANK: EXPRESS TO THE SEASON OF LIGHTS
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The Christmas-capital crossroads of Broad and Canal streets is the place to be on Friday night, when Holiday Express presides over the annual concert and town lighting ceremony. (File photos.Continue reading "RED BANK: EXPRESS TO THE SEASON OF LIGHTS"
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November 27th, 2013 @ 3pm
It was a festive night of high spirits, bright lights and rides on big shoulders as Red Bank welcomed in the Christmas holiday season Friday night. (Photo by Rebecca Desfosse.Continue reading "WINTER WONDERLAND ON BROAD STREET"
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November 26th, 2012 @ 8am
A ROCKIN’ START TO THE SEASON
Thousands of celebrants are expected to pack Broad Street in Red Bank for the Holiday Express concert and tree lighting Friday night. (Click to enlarge) By REBECCA DESFOSSE Just asContinue reading "A ROCKIN’ START TO THE SEASON"
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November 22nd, 2012 @ 11am
LIGHT IT UP, LET IT SNOW IN M’TOWN
Those of us old enough to remember the days when the official Middletown holiday “tree” was little more than a light-stringed pole (a precursor to Festivus?) across from the R&SContinue reading "LIGHT IT UP, LET IT SNOW IN M’TOWN"
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December 2nd, 2011 @ 11am
It’s a full-on sight-and-sound spectacular: the annual night-after-Thanksgiving Santa Claus train ride into Red Bank followed by the parade to Broad Street, the downtown light-up and the Holiday Express concert.Continue reading "SEASON OPENER"
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November 28th, 2011 @ 7am
As in years past, Tim McLoone’s rolling, feel-good music extravaganza, Holiday Express, kicked off the Christmas season in Red Bank Friday night with a concert for several thousand visitors whoContinue reading "‘TIS THE SEASON"
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November 29th, 2010 @ 3pm
THE EXPRESS TRACK TO HOLIDAY TIME
As usual, several thousand people are expected to pack Red Bank’s Broad Street for a Holiday Express concert and overall merriment Friday night. These pix are from 2009. (Click toContinue reading "THE EXPRESS TRACK TO HOLIDAY TIME"
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November 25th, 2010 @ 11am
GOT AN EXTRA TREE LYING AROUND?
Yes, folks, it’s that time of year. The book is closed on Halloween. Jim Bruno’s crew from Powerhouse Signworks has started stringing lights in trees downtown. And the event plannersContinue reading "GOT AN EXTRA TREE LYING AROUND?"
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November 3rd, 2010 @ 1pm
Because of a weather forecast calling for rain, Fair Haven has postponed its Tree Lighting and Open House scheduled for tomorrow until Saturday, December 12.
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December 4th, 2009 @ 4pm
Here’s a video of the Holiday Express concert and downtown lighting event in Red Bank Friday night. Thanks to Jeff Linkous of Art-Linked Letters, who shot and edited this babyContinue reading "SIGHTS & SOUNDS FROM HOLIDAY LIGHT-UP"
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November 30th, 2009 @ 7am
DOWNTOWN READY FOR ITS CLOSE-UP
Unadorned, but not for long, this year’s holiday tree awaits its big moment in the courtyard of the Dublin House restaurant on Monmouth Street earlier this week. One of theContinue reading "DOWNTOWN READY FOR ITS CLOSE-UP"
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November 26th, 2009 @ 10am
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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.