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RED BANK: LEGAL POT MARKET OPENS WITH CHURN
The interior of Monteverde NJ on its first full day of recreational marijuana sales. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Call it the highs – and the lows – of Red Bank’s budding marijuana marketplace. As one licensed cannabis seller excitedly opened its doors and became...
HEARTY FAREWELL FOR HARDY
At its semimonthly meeting Thursday night, the Red Bank council is slated to honor public utilities department supervisor Rich Hardy, who retired three weeks ago. Hardy, who was often on the scene for middle-of-the-night repairs to broken water lines, worked for the borough almost 39 years, “frequently going above and beyond to ensure needed vehicular and equipment repairs were completed with meticulous attention to detail,” says a proclamation on the council’s agenda.
HOMEBOUND? READ ON…
Can’t get to the Red Bank Public Library? The Iibrary now offers a free delivery and pickup service for homebound borough residents. Those who cannot visit the West Front Street facility, either temporarily or permanently, can borrow everything from books, magazines, CDs and DVDs to cake pans and Launchpad Play Away tablets, which will be both delivered and picked up.
RED BANK: BOOSKERDOO STAYS PUT, AND EXPANDS
The Bridge Avenue side of the former Anderson building, where Booskerdoo is keeping the kiosk it had within a Sickles Market. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) The Red Bank Booskerdoo coffee shop will continue to operate, even though the Sickles Market that it nested within closed down last week, its owner told redbankgreen Monday.
TAMING A BEAST OF A WEEK
Red Bank residents Andrew, Molly and Meghan Deming had fun repurposing Saturday’s snowfall, the second of last week: they made a Godzilla sculpture in front of their Rector Place home. This week, starting with Monday’s Presidents Day, the Greater Red Bank Green is in for at least three days...
RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN STRUCK BY TRAIN
Police near the cancelled train that NJ Transit officials say struck a pedestrian. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) A pedestrian was able to walk away after being struck by a train pulling into Red Bank’s NJ Transit rail station Sunday afternoon, according to police and several people on the scene.
RED BANK: WHAT, AGAIN WITH THE SNOW?
Ice-melting brine on East Bergen Place in Red Bank Thursday. (Click to enlarge) You’d think it was mid-winter or something, what with more snow in the forecast. Yes, just three days after a school-closing snowstorm, the Greater Red Bank Green could get another four inches or more starting Friday night, according to the National Weather Service.
RED BANK: STORE CLOSING A SAD SURPRISE
(Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) “Shocking.” “Total bummer.” “Holy moly.”. These were just a few of the reactions of shoppers on hearing about the abrupt closing of the Red Bank Sickles Market Thursday. Sickles Market in Red Bank on its final day of business....
RED BANK: SICKLES CLOSING STORE HERE
The grocer has operated a grab-and-go market in the refurbished Anderson Building since August, 2020. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) After four years of operation, Sickles Market is closing its Red Bank store immediately, the Little Silver grocer announced Thursday. Booskerdoo, which operates a kiosk within the...
RED BANK: CARDS, BOOZE AND BAD LUCK
The front page of the February 13, 1924 Red Bank Register. Who winds up in the clink: the guy who may have marked the cards in a poker game, or the one who came back the next day waving a gun to collect the money he lost?. An ad for...
RED BANK: SILENCE CONTINUES ON PBA V. CHIEF
Chief Darren McConnell with Councilwoman Nancy Facey-Blackwood at an event in November. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Seven months after a union took action to block his possible hire as borough manager, Chief Darren McConnell remains in his post at the Red Bank police department, awaiting a decision that will allow him to retire.
RED BANK: LIBRARY CLOSED, BUT THE HILL’S OPEN
Though the Red Bank Public Library was closed by a snowstorm, kids got to enjoy the riverfront property’s steep slope Tuesday. Partyline is an experimental way to let readers text message news stories to redbankgreen to get posted (after editorial review) — for all of the things that are important but would otherwise get missed. More to come when it's ready. Invented at redbankgreen.
RED BANK: SCENES FROM A SNOWSTORM
A worker heads through Johnny Jazz Park, shovel over shoulder as snow continues to fall. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) A fast moving, tricky-to-predict storm hit the Red Bank area with a blast of snow beginning just before dawn Tuesday, dumping several inches of wet slushiness. redbankgreen put...
RED BANK: UNPLANNED BID DRIVES AUCTION
At stake in the auction were 11 borough-owned parking spaces on Morford Place. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) A peeved Red Bank resident may have saved homeowners a few pennies each on their tax bill – and cost a local cannabis shop thousands of dollars a year – with a gambit that seemed to surprise even herself at last week’s meeting of the borough council.
RED BANK: NO SCHOOL AS STORM SHIFTS
UPDATE 8:53 AM: Red Bank issues alret reminding residents to remove all vehicles from streets to allow snowplowing. Free parking allowed in municipal lots. Red Bank-area schools cancelled classes Tuesday as the expected track of a Northeast storm edged eastward, according to the National Weather Service. Red Bank borough schools,...
RED BANK: PEDESTRIAN STRUCK
A Red Bank pedestrian suffered “relatively minor” injuries when she was struck by a vehicle last week, police said Monday. The victim, a 60-year-old borough resident, was hit by a 2010 Subaru at about 10:25 a.m. Wednesday as the intersection of Chestnut Street and Shrewsbury Avenue, said police Chief Darren McConnell.
LIGHT(HOUSE) MAKEOVER
The annual reopening of Strollo’s Lighthouse in Red Bank is a sure sign of warm weather to come. But that day is still weeks away. First, this year: owner Kevin Valerio and crew are doing some midwinter work to give the Italian ice shop a new look, including a peaked roof to replace the flat one and new signage, as approved earlier this month by the borough zoning board.
RED BANK: BROADWALK HERE TO STAY
Diners on Broadwalk last August. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Broadwalk, the seasonal downtown pedestrian plaza that has delighted restaurant diners and visitors while frustrating some residents and business owners, is officially a recurring fixture of life in Red Bank. Traffic bollards keep traffic out to protect...
TODAY: LOCAL PUPPY COMPETES ON ANIMAL PLANET’S “PUPPY BOWL”
Red Bank’s very own rescue puppy, Biscuit, is set to compete in Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl this Sunday, February 11, at 2 PM. The Puppy Bowl is an annual television event that airs on Animal Planet on Super Bowl Sunday, a few hours before the NFL’s Super Bowl. It features puppies playing in a miniature stadium designed to mimic a football game, complete with a football-shaped toy.
RED BANK: DEMS NEUTRAL AS RACE ROILS PARTY
Councilwoman Kate Triggiano and Governor Phil Murphy in Red Bank last July. (Photo by John T. Ward Click to enlarge.) As Monmouth County Democrats convene this weekend amid a wild primary race to replace indicted United States Senator Robert Menendez, Red Bank’s Democratic leadership has staked out perhaps the trickiest position of all: Switzerland.
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