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Category Archives: History

LINCROFT: The late Dr. Sy Siegler of Red Bank is honored during a Holocaust Day program at Brookdale CC.
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January 26th, 2017 @ 5am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RUMSON: A HISTORY LESSON FOR RCDS KIDS
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RUMSON: Students at Rumson Country Day School take part in special events on the history of the civil rights struggle, and their own school's anniversary.
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January 26th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: NO LEAD IN WATER, OFFICIAL SAYS
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RED BANK: Utilities director says there's "no indication" of lead in drinking water after resident shows off an extricated pipe with a lead connector.
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January 12th, 2017 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: ACME CENTER TO GET MAKEOVER
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FAIR HAVEN: As another tenant departs, the new owners of the Acme shopping center file renovation plans amid buzz about store turnover.
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December 22nd, 2016 @ 3pm
RED BANK: SPRUCING UP A VICTORIAN
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RED BANK: The latest in our 'What's Going On Here'?' series checks in on renovations to a Victorian structure in the historic district.
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December 22nd, 2016 @ 8am
SANDY HOOK: BACKERS RALLY TO SAVE HOUSE
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SANDY HOOK: Preservationists hope to save the last remnant of a long-forgotten beach club from demolition in order to create a museum and cultural center.
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November 16th, 2016 @ 11am
LITTLE SILVER: MU PROF JOINS PARKER BOARD
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LITTLE SILVER: The organization dedicated to the historic Parker Homestead names Monmouth U's Melissa Ziobro to its Board of Trustees.
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November 15th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: VAN ZANDT LINEUP TO ROCK BASIE
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RED BANK: Steven Van Zandt to pick bands for four concerts to raise funds for a massive $20 million Count Basie Theatre expansion.
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November 14th, 2016 @ 1pm
ON THE GREEN: AUTHOR! AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
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ON THE GREEN: A highly lauded nonfiction writer and two novelists read and answer questions at events in Fair Haven, Shrewsbury and Lincroft in coming days.
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November 11th, 2016 @ 1pm
RUMSON: SIGN OF CHANGE
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RUMSON: The outcry over the changes at What's Your Beef overlook the fact that the place hasn't always been What's Your Beef.
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November 7th, 2016 @ 6am
RED BANK: GHOSTLY, AND PARTLY TRUE, TALES
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RED BANK: New book, "13 Ghostly Tales and Yarns of the Navesink River," mines newspaper archives and local lore for stories of hubris and eerie comeuppance.
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October 28th, 2016 @ 4pm
ON THE GREEN: SPOOKY WALKS AND TALKS
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SANDY HOOK: A "ghost tour" of Fort Hancock, plus a pair of lectures on ghosthunting and the Jersey Devil creep onto this week's calendar.
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October 26th, 2016 @ 2pm
LITTLE SILVER: A BARNYARD CELEBRATION
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LITTLE SILVER: Restoration work on three barns, one of them dating back to around 1790, is completed, and the town celebrates.
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October 18th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: TRACING FAMILY TREE ROOTS
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RED BANK: The life and family tree of pioneering African American journalist T. Thomas Fortune is examined, in a free Saturday program at Calvary Baptist.
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October 14th, 2016 @ 6am
ON THE GREEN: A FORTUNE IN HISTORIC VALUE
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SHREWSBURY: The Eastern Branch Library hosts an October 19 panel and an ongoing exhibit about the fight to rescue and restore Red Bank's historic Fortune House.
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October 12th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: A BOATLOAD OF WOOD & HISTORY
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RED BANK: A gleaming wooden yacht that has hosted American presidents, and that a borough man bought cheap at auction, will be on display Saturday.
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October 11th, 2016 @ 9am
RUMSON: DELI COUNTERMAN TO DISH HERE
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RUMSON: Mark Russ Federman, who ran Russ & Daughters for three decades, pays a visit to talk about the iconic deli on New York's Lower East Side.
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October 3rd, 2016 @ 8am
LITTLE SILVER: A HISTORIC RIBBON-CUTTING
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LITTLE SILVER: The historic Parker Homestead re-dedicates a trio of antique barns, in an all-welcome ceremony on October 16.
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September 23rd, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: TRACING FORTUNE’S FAMILY TREE
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RED BANK: The life and family tree of pioneering African American journalist T. Thomas Fortune is examined, in a free Saturday program at Calvary Baptist.
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September 13th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 REMEMBERED
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RED BANK: Remembering the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks is essential to vigilance, mayor says at memorial event.
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September 11th, 2016 @ 10am
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 ...