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RED BANK: TINY-LOT HOUSE PLAN DROPPED
The lot at 1 Berry Street, with Rose-Marie Jackson’s house at right. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) A would-be builder dropped his plans to erect a house on a postage-stamp-sized Red Bank lot last week after selling it to a neighbor who had objected to the plan.
RED BANK: BILLBOARD SWAP PROPOSED
After 11 months of silence, an advertising company seeking approval of a digital billboard at Red Bank’s northern gateway proposed some horse-trading Thursday night. At the first zoning board meeting of the new year, planning and engineering experts for Outfront Media LLC detailed changes to the original application for 187 Riverside Avenue, a long-disused gas station facing the Route 35 Cooper’s Bridge.
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN SCRAPPED
A proposed 32-unit apartment building at Red Bank’s train station that drew flak over its size has been scrapped. But he will be back with another proposal, developer Warren Diamond tells redbankgreen. At its first meeting of 2024 Thursday night, the borough zoning board approved a resolution to dismiss...
RED BANK: FOR ICELESS ICEBOATERS, ‘IT’S COMING’
It’s been a half-dozen years or more since the members of Red Bank’s North Shrewsbury Ice Boat & Yacht Club had a decent run of home ice on w. hat’s now called the Navesink River. But hope springs annual for iceboaters. Iceboaters enjoying hard water in 2018....
RED BANK: ROMCOM FILMED HERE SET TO ROLL
Sixteen months after filming in and around Red Bank, an indie romantic comedy called “Which Brings Me to You” is set for release later this month. The production included scenes shot in Riverside Gardens Park and on private property around town in September, 2022, then-interim borough Administrator Darren McConnell told redbankgreen at the time.
RED BANK: BILLBOARD, BREWERY PLANS RETURN
After months of silence, a proposal for a giant digital billboard at Red Bank’s northern gateway is scheduled to return to the borough zoning board Thursday night. Also on the agenda: a proposal to scrap a plan for an approved but never-built microbrewery downtown. The former Famebilia space at...
RED BANK: PORTMAN PAINTS ROSY OUTLOOK
Amanda Gant pins a boutonnière to the jacket of her husband, Jim, prior to his swearing-in as borough manager Monday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Red Bank Mayor Billy Portman sketched out plans for an “amazing” makeover of Marine Park at the annual borough government reorganization Monday.
RED BANK: BIG MAN’S BITES THE DUST
A Red Bank building that once housed a rock club owned by saxophonist Clarence Clemons was razed to make way for new apartments this week. Clarence Clemons playing at Big Man’s West in an undated photo courtesy of Lewis Bloom Photo, and the former club as seen in 2021.
RED BANK: GAMERS GET A SPOT AT THE TABLE
Shore Gamers opened recently at 15 Monmouth Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) In this end-of-2023 edition of Retail Churn: a man with a lifelong passion for tabletop games opens a “board game lounge” in downtown Red Bank. Among his aims: to get teens and...
RED BANK: BAGEL OVEN CHURNS BACK TO LIFE
Karl Herwig and his fianceé, Paige Taylor, in the shop Wednesday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Seven months after it closed, Red Bank’s Bagel Oven has Churned back to life. The restart of the shop marks the beginning of a new career for Karl Herwig,...
RED BANK: DAMP, GRAY DAYS TO CLOSE OUT YEAR
Fog obscured the Middletown side of the Navesink River, as seen from the Red Bank Public Library at midday Tuesday. The fog continued Wednesday morning, with rain showers expected after 3 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. There’s not a lot of sunshine expected between now and Sunday, New...
SANTA CLAUS COMES TO TOWN, WITH THE HELP OF RBFD
Red Bank Fire Department’s Navesink Hook & Ladder annual Santa present drop took place on Saturday, beginning at roughly 4:30 pm. Deputy Mayor (and West Side Hose Firefighter) Kate Triggiano reported that 132 families received a visit from Santa this year. Members from West Side Hose, Liberty Hose, Auxiliary/Rehabilitation...
RED BANK: DONOHUE JOINS REDBANKGREEN
With an assist from a cop and an angel, reporter Brian Donohue finds a new purpose in life, right here in Bedford Falls, er, Red Bank. Award-winning journalist Brian Donohue, known statewide for his Positively New Jersey videos, has joined the staff of redbankgreen. Kenny Katzgrau, CEO of Red Bank-based...
RED BANK: BASIE BLEACHER PLAN ADVANCES
Red Bank will move forward with an application for state money to replace the grandstand at Count Basie Fields, following unanimous council action last week. New Jersey Green Acres funding would enable the borough to replace the stadium’s home-side bleachers, locker rooms and storage space at an estimated cost of $1.16 million, then-interim borough Manager Darren McConnell told the council.
RED BANK: COUNCIL HONORS SOCCER CHAMPS
Mayor Billy Portman and the Red Bank council honored the middle school boys’ soccer squad for a championship season last week. At the final council meeting of 2023 on Thursday night, the governing body celebrated the team’s Shore Athletic League Championship. “This just keeps getting better,” Portman said...
RED BANK: POT SHOP OK’D, MINUS LEFT TURNS
The driveway of the former Exxon station will be configured to prevent left turns into and out of the Route 35 site, the applicant agreed. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Designs for a cannabis shop at Red Bank’s northern gateway won planning board approval Monday night, minus...
RED BANK: DONATIONS SOUGHT FOR FIRE VICTIMS
Each year the Navesink Hook & Ladder Fire Company in Red Bank holds a Santa Run to help bring joy and Christmas cheer to children across Red Bank. This year the tradition continues, but with a little different purpose. Santa Run volunteers at the firehouse Sunday. (Click to enlarge) As...
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