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RED BANK: NURTURING FORTUNE’S LEGACY
RED BANK: Opening this month, exhibit honoring editor and activist T. Thomas Fortune looks at his life, work and legacy.
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RED BANK: FORTUNE TO HONOR PARKERS
RED BANK: Fortune Center to unveil exhibit honoring three history-making African-American men of medicine with the shared name of James Parker.
RED BANK: FORTUNE TO HOST VIEWING PARTY
RED BANK: Fortune Center to host viewing party for debut of 'The Gilded Age,' a new HBO series featuring the center's namesake, T. Thomas Fortune.
RED BANK: FORTUNE TO HOST PARKER ROOM
RED BANK: T. Thomas Fortune Center to host permanent exhibit on father-and-son physicians Drs. James Parker Sr. and Jr. under Monmouth Medical Center sponsorship.
RED BANK: JAZZMAN VISITS FORTUNE CENTER
RED BANK: Before taking the stage at the Basie Wednesday night, Branford Marsalis paid a pre-concert visit to the T. Thomas Fortune Center.
RED BANK: FIREHOUSE GETS MORE TIME
RED BANK: What's Going On Here at the former firehouse on White Street, which was supposed to become a craft brewery? We've got the latest.
RED BANK: FORTUNE SETS ‘BASIE 2020’ SKED
RED BANK: T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center sets 'Basie 2020' slate of events to commemorate 85th anniversary of the Count Basie Orchestra.
LITTLE SILVER: SERVICE SUSPECTED IN FIRE
LITTLE SILVER: Electrical service suspected in small fire that burned a power strip in a Seven Bridges Road residence Tuesday.
RED BANK: FORTUNE CULTURAL CENTER OPENS
RED BANK: With a mission of promoting civil rights, T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center opens in house that came perilously close to being bulldozed.
RED BANK: FORTUNE ‘MIRACLE’ COMPLETED
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.
RED BANK: NEW HISTORY IN FORTUNE HOUSE
RED BANK: Builder finds new history, and a lot of rot, in effort to restore Fortune House, onetime home of pioneering civil rights journalist.
LITTLE SILVER: WIRING BLAMED IN ATTIC FIRE
LITTLE SILVER: Volunteer firefighters quickly doused an attic fire said to have been caused by faulty wiring Sunday evening.
RED BANK: CRAFT BREWERY LEASES FIREHOUSE
RED BANK: In another sign of a possible tsunami of craft beer coming to downtown, the former firehouse on White Street has been leased to a startup brewery,
LITTLE SILVER: A QUICK STOP TO A FAST FIRE
LITTLE SILVER: Quick action on a fast-moving fire on the hottest day of the year limits loss to a one unit in a four-condo building.
LITTLE SILVER: BLAZE DESTROYS CONDO UNIT
LITTLE SILVER: A fire first seen coming from an outdoor wall fixture destroyed a condo on Birch Avenue. No injuries were reported.
RED BANK: RACIAL ROOTS OF MEMORIAL DAY
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."
RED BANK: HOMEBUILDER EYES FACTORIES
RED BANK: Homebuilder plans to raze West Side buildings, including millworks and former guitar factory, to replace them with townhouses.
RED BANK: The new owner of a River Street home damaged in a March, 2015 fire seeks zoning board OK to rebuild it as a two-family.
FAIR HAVEN: FALLING TREE CRUSHES ROOF
FAIR HAVEN: No one was injured, but a home's roof was crushed by a tree that fell early Wednesday morning, and the homeowner's cat was missing.
RED BANK: BASIE PARKING DEAL YIELDS GAIN
RED BANK: It's not a huge amount, but a deal with the Basie that Whelan says should have happened years ago could put $20k in borough coffers this year.
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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 ...
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.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.
CARPY DIEM
From the redbankgreen Partyline: A pair of large carp cruise the shallows under Hubbard's Bridge (Senator Kyrillos Bridge) on Front Street T ...
BIBS ON FOR OPENING DAY
Partyline: Two longtime neighbors re-unite for lobsters on the Boondocks Fishery opening day.