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FAIR HAVEN: PARK OPENS ON OLD HOUSE SITE
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FAIR HAVEN: After more than a decade of work, borough opens passive park where generations of an African-American family lived overlooking the Navesink.
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October 16th, 2019 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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FAIR HAVEN: CLUB LANDS HISTORIC LISTINGS
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FAIR HAVEN: A genteel yacht club with unlikely roots in the bawdy days of vaudeville is now on the New Jersey and National Historic registers.
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August 7th, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: Journalists spotlight former home of one of their predecessors, T. Thomas Fortune, as a story "that needs to be told.''
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July 30th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: HPC AIMS TO SAVE DOOMED HOUSE
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RED BANK: Five months after planning board OKs demolition of hospital-owned Victorian house, historic commission proposes an alternative.
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July 18th, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: FORTUNE CULTURAL CENTER OPENS
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RED BANK: With a mission of promoting civil rights, T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center opens in house that came perilously close to being bulldozed.
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May 24th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: FORTUNE ‘MIRACLE’ COMPLETED
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RED BANK: Once facing demolition, the onetime home of pioneering civil rights journalist T. Thomas Fortune has now been restored. You can tour it this weekend.
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February 21st, 2019 @ 11am
RED BANK: Rejecting pleas that it be saved, planning board approves demolition of hospital-owned Victorian home on East Front Street.
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February 5th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: VICTORIAN IN CROSSHAIRS
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RED BANK: A prominent Victorian home on East Front Street is on the next planning board agenda. What's Going On Here? Answer here.
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January 29th, 2019 @ 5am
MIDDLETOWN: Longtime Red Bank resident and volunteer Gladys Bowden, injured by a fire in her Shadow Lake condo last month, has died. She was 88.
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January 14th, 2019 @ 7am
MIDDLETOWN: FUNDRAISER FOR BOWDENS
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MIDDLETOWN: A GoFundMe account seeks to help an elderly couple, former Red Bank volunteers, who were injured by a fire in their home earlier this month.
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December 24th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: HISTORIC YACHT LIGHTS UP RIVER
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RED BANK: Borough resident Joe Ruffini and his history-rich naval yacht bring a boatload of Christmas sparkle upriver. Photos.
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December 17th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: FINAL FADEOUT FOR GUITAR PLANT
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RED BANK: A chapter of rock 'n roll history comes to an end with the demolition of the former Danelectro guitar plant to make way for townhouses.
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July 27th, 2018 @ 5am
RED BANK: WORDS AND MUSIC IN THE PARK
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RED BANK: Words of civil rights journalist T. Thomas Fortune to greet attendees to New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's sunset concert in Marine Park Sunday.
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June 27th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK Governor Phil Murphy and and First Lady Tammy Murphy set to run Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday along with about 1,000 others.
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June 15th, 2018 @ 1pm
RED BANK: OLDEST FIRE COMPANY RETIRED
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RED BANK: Relief Engine Company, the town's oldest firefighting unit, is to be retired and reconstituted as historic preservation outfit.
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March 1st, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: THREE HONORED FOR LONGEVITY
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RED BANK: The theme was longevity as the borough council and state legislators honored a centenarian and two others Wednesday night.
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March 1st, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: DEVELOPER CLARIFIES PLAN STATUS
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RED BANK: Developer comments on report about plans corner of Maple Avenue and West Front Street, where he hopes to erect office building.
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November 30th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: PRESERVATIONISTS CONCERNED
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RED BANK: Preservationists concerned as historic buildings change hands and buyer hints at replacing them with office building.
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November 29th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: NEW HISTORY IN FORTUNE HOUSE
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RED BANK: Builder finds new history, and a lot of rot, in effort to restore Fortune House, onetime home of pioneering civil rights journalist.
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November 14th, 2017 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: PRESERVATION GOALS CURBED
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FAIR HAVEN: Newly found deterioration in 150-year-old River Road building prompts changes to Forefront's preservation plan.
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October 18th, 2017 @ 7am
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 ...