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Tag Archives: History

FAIR HAVEN: BACK TO THE FOREFRONT
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FAIR HAVEN: A 150-year-old River Road building was moved to a new foundation last week. What's Going On Here? redbankgreen answers.
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October 2nd, 2017 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: MURPHY TOUTS ‘SENSE’ ON GUNS
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RED BANK: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy comes to town to pitch his platform on guns, which includes signing bills Christie vetoed.
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September 22nd, 2017 @ 3pm
RED BANK: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy is slated to appear at Riverside Gardens Park today to speak about gun violence.
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September 22nd, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: BROWNSTONES PROJECT APPROVED
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RED BANK: Developer Roger Mumford's 22-unit brownstone townhouse plan wins praise from neighbors along with zoning board approval.
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September 8th, 2017 @ 9am
RED BANK: UP NEXT: MUMFORD TOWNHOUSES
RED BANK: While vying for the White Street project, developer Roger Mumford goes before zoning board this week with a West Side townhouse plan.
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September 5th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION
RED BANK: The Historic Preservation Commission meets on the third Wednesday of each month.
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June 3rd, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: RACIAL ROOTS OF MEMORIAL DAY
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RED BANK: As part of a series called "Let's Talk About Race," the library hosts a lecture Wednesday night on "The Surprising Origins of Memorial Day."
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May 31st, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: MURPHY POUNDS PAVEMENT
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RED BANK: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy takes a break from the campaign trail with a run through downtown.
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May 19th, 2017 @ 10am
RED BANK: HOMEBUILDER EYES FACTORIES
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RED BANK: Homebuilder plans to raze West Side buildings, including millworks and former guitar factory, to replace them with townhouses.
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April 25th, 2017 @ 2pm
FAIR HAVEN: MOVE IT ON OVER
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FAIR HAVEN: What's up with the old building that's now up on blocks in the historic business downtown? What's Going On Here answers.
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April 14th, 2017 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: FOREFRONT PROJECT BEGINS
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FAIR HAVEN: What's with the pile of rubble in the historic downtown? redbankgreen has an update on an architecturally bold project.
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March 27th, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: RESTORING LIFE TO ‘THE VAULT’?
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RED BANK: What's happening at the long-vacant former bank building at Broad and Wallace streets? Answer here.
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February 28th, 2017 @ 12pm
LINCROFT: PLANS IN WORKS FOR HISTORIC INN
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LINCROFT: The Lincroft Inn, which closed after three centuries in September, has new owners, and a local restaurateur is planning something new.
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December 27th, 2016 @ 4am
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
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
SEA BRIGHT: NEW HOME FLOATS INTO VIEW
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SEA BRIGHT: Rising alongside the Shrewsbury River is an ultra-modern new home that appears to float in the air, and features an unusual tunnel.
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October 26th, 2016 @ 10am
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
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
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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
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 ...