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REDBANKGREEN NAMED “LOCAL NEWS BRIGHT SPOT”
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redbankgreen is named one of twelve "Local News Bright Spots" in the U.S. by Northwestern University's journalism school. (click to read)
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November 18th, 2025 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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redbankgreen FOUNDER SIGNS OFF
RED BANK: Some parting thoughts as redbankgreen founder John T. Ward calls it quits after 18 years and 15,000 posts.
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August 1st, 2024 @ 11pm
RED BANK: DONOHUE JOINS REDBANKGREEN
RED BANK: Video journalist Brian Donohue, known statewide for his Positively New Jersey features, has joined the staff of redbankgreen.
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December 22nd, 2023 @ 7am
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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October 9th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: FORTUNE TO HONOR PARKERS
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RED BANK: Fortune Center to unveil exhibit honoring three history-making African-American men of medicine with the shared name of James Parker.
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May 17th, 2022 @ 9am
RED BANK: Library and Fortune Center to display soil from the Eatontown site of the 1886 lynching of Samuel “Mingo” Jack Johnson as a way of bearing witness.
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May 3rd, 2022 @ 2pm
RED BANK: FORTUNE TO HOST VIEWING PARTY
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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.
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December 20th, 2021 @ 3pm
RED BANK: FORTUNE TO HOST PARKER ROOM
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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.
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June 23rd, 2021 @ 9am
RED BANK: JOURNALIST JOHN F. BURTON DIES
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RED BANK: Tributes flow following death of John Burton, longtime chronicler of local politics, government and more for weekly newspapers.
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February 9th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: JAZZMAN VISITS FORTUNE CENTER
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RED BANK: Before taking the stage at the Basie Wednesday night, Branford Marsalis paid a pre-concert visit to the T. Thomas Fortune Center.
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February 27th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: FORTUNE SETS ‘BASIE 2020’ SKED
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RED BANK: T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center sets 'Basie 2020' slate of events to commemorate 85th anniversary of the Count Basie Orchestra.
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February 18th, 2020 @ 7am
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: 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
RED BANK: HUMANISTS TAKE UP ‘FAKE’ NEWS
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RED BANK: Rutgers media studies professor John Pavlik talks about fake news and its impact on democracy at a meeting of Red Bank Humanists Sunday.
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July 6th, 2017 @ 8am
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: 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
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE’S GOOD FORTUNE
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RED BANK: The crumbling Fortune House gives journalism students a taste of what it's planned to become: a cultural and educational center.
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July 28th, 2016 @ 10am
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE RESCUE PLAN OK’D
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RED BANK: A plan to save the Fortune House, and build 31 apartments out back, wins zoning board approval..
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July 22nd, 2016 @ 1am
RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE PLAN SCHEDULED
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RED BANK: A developer's plan to preserve the Fortune House, and build 32 apartments, goes to the zoning board this week.
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July 18th, 2016 @ 9am
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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.