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RED BANK: HISTORIC SITES OPEN FOR FREE “WEEKEND IN OLD MONMOUTH”

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Historic Red Bank sites throw doors open to visitors for annual "Weekend in Old Monmouth."(Click to read)

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May 1st @ 11am

Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"

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2025 RED BANK PORCHFEST: YOUR ULTIMATE GUIDE

Red Bank Porchfest 2025: Get your schedule, map, livestream info and more all right here. (click to read)

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October 2nd, 2025 @ 2pm

RED BANK: TOWNWIDE GARAGE SALE, OKTOBERFEST ON TAP

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Eighty sellers lined up for town-wide yard sale, with Oktoberfest to follow. Details on a big Red Bank weekend here. (click to read)

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September 20th, 2024 @ 12pm

JAZZ ON THE PORCH

The T. Thomas Fortune Foundation and Cultural Center at 94 Drs. James Parker Boulevard, hosts the latest in their Tiny Porch series concerts with a West African Jazz Fusion performance Continue reading

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August 5th, 2024 @ 8am

RED BANK: FORTUNE HOUSE LAUDS VOLUNTEER

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RED BANK: The committee seeking to preserve the historic T. Thomas Fortune House honored a young volunteer at a fundraiser held earlier this month.

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October 24th, 2017 @ 12pm

RED BANK: A FORTUNE HAPPY HOUR

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RED BANK: The historic T. Thomas Fortune House committee toasts its good fortune while bolstering its coffers with a Happy Hour fundraiser later this month.

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May 3rd, 2017 @ 11am

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: FORTUNE SMILES ON “LET’S TALK”

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RED BANK: An update on the plan to rescue and restore the historic Fortune House is the focus of this month's "Let's Talk About Race" forum, Wednesday night at the Public Library.

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September 26th, 2016 @ 12pm

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

RBR FRESHMEN DISCUSS HISTORY, HARMONY

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LITTLE SILVER: Students of Red Bank Regional's Summer Slam program are treated to special guest presentations on racial tolerance, and the legacy of Red Bank's T. Thomas Fortune.

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August 22nd, 2016 @ 5am

RED BANK: GILDA IN THE HERE AND NOW

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RED BANK: Gilda Rogers shares her thoughts on personal stories and public causes, in upcoming talks at the Library and Project Write Now.

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July 11th, 2016 @ 12pm

RED BANK: FILM, FOOD, FORTUNE AND FIRSTIES

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The documentary feature AUGUST WILSON: THE GROUND ON WHICH I STAND receives a free public-welcome screening on August 19 at Two River Theater. The 7:30 pm event is just part Continue reading

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August 17th, 2015 @ 6am

RED BANK: HOW TO RAISE A FORTUNE

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The onetime home of journalist T. Thomas Fortune is a National Historic Landmark. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) The T. Thomas Fortune Project Committee is reminding all Continue reading

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June 10th, 2015 @ 6am

RED BANK: FINDING FORTUNE IN HISTORY

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On the evening of Friday, June 12, Two River Theater is the scene as The T. Thomas Fortune Project Committee presents another in a series of fundraiser events. Scheduled for Continue reading

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May 11th, 2015 @ 6am

RED BANK AND THE GREEN: HOUSE ADVANTAGE

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The 17th-century Parker Homestead in Little Silver is just one of the historic homes on the greater Green taking center stage this weekend. The T. Thomas Fortune House, below, is Continue reading

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October 23rd, 2014 @ 5am

Star-Ledger journalist Mark DiIonno is the guest speaker for a Wednesday evening reception “Celebrating Past, Present and Future,” at the county Park System’s Thompson Park headquarters. “Celebrating Past, Present and Continue reading

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June 3rd, 2014 @ 12pm

At their first working session on January 8, 2014, the members of the Red Bank Borough Council unanimously passed a resolution declaring February to be T. Thomas Fortune month in Continue reading

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January 31st, 2014 @ 6am

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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 ...