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Participants in the Monmouth Boat Club‘s weekly racing series found tranquil conditions on the Navesink River Tuesday evening. “Typically, the race committee runs as many races as they can between the first start at 6:30 and the approach of sundown,” the MBC says on its website. “The wind has usually quieted to a gentle breeze by this time of day, so novice sailors find this a good opportunity to try their hands at racing.”
RED BANK: SHREWSBURY AVE BUILDING PLAN BACK ON TRACK
(Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) A Shrewsbury Avenue construction project which has sat as a big quiet hole in the ground for almost a year is moving again after the builder says he addressed officials’ concerns that it could cave in. Howell-based developer Bekim Kosovrasti is erecting...
PEAK COLOR ON BROAD
One of the mini gardens on Broad Street in Red Bank getting some TLC last week. Funded by Red Bank RiverCenter, the gardens were planted a year ago in a handful of beds between White Street and Linden Place, adding vibrant colors to the downtown streetscape. In fact, the business...
RED BANK: FAIRIES MOVE IN ON WHITE STREET
Few passersby notice the tiny inhabitants of the magical sparkly girls garden made by Girl Scout Troop 625. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) All those girl scout cookies you bought recently may have made your waistline a little larger, but here’s some good news: you may have also helped make the world a bit more flowery and sparkly.
TRAINING UNDER FIRE
Firefighters with Red Bank’s Navesink Hook & Ladder Company went in for some training with live fire at the Monmouth County Fire Academy in Howell Township last week. The session was focused on “pitched-roof cut and ventilation” tactics. The all-volunteer fire department “does hands-on training with live...
PRIDE FEST, FARMERS MARKET, STREET MUSIC TOP RED BANK WEEKEND PICKS
Drag bingo? A saxophone quartet? As usual, there’s a myriad, a cornucopia, a plethora of things to do in Red Bank this weekend. Here’s a rundown:. Saturday from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Red Bank Parks & Recreation hosts Pride in the Park, featuring music, family activities and more in celebration of LGBTQ pride.
RED BANK: VACANT DOWNTOWN GEM GETS RESTAURANT OK
The Doremus building has been vacant since 2012. Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Red Bank’s zoning board of adjustment gave its final, formal stamp of approval to a plan for a three-story restaurant with a rooftop deck in a long vacant downtown Red Bank building – although the applicant conceded the restaurant is “hypothetical’ because there is no actual tenant as of yet.
RED BANK THROWBACK: PRAYERS, WEEPING AND NEWS OF WAR DEAD ON D-DAY
A story on page 1 of the first edition published after D-Day and (below) and ad sponsored by local businesses encouraging readers to buy war bonds. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Thousands gathered in churches and synagogues. Factory floors quieted as workers paused in prayer and “wept unashamedly.”...
VOTE FOR RED BANK’S “SUPERMOM”
Business owner. Dyed in the wool, lifelong Red Banker. Mother of six. Yup, seems like Anita Pierce does it all. In other words, she’s kind of a supermom. And she’s actually in the running for the official title. Pierce is competing in Women’s World Magazine Super Mom Contest,...
SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS
Work began on the Pride in the Park lawn art in Red Bank’s Riverside Gardens Park Wednesday morning. This will be the 10th annual lawn art design (below) by public works supervisor and fire Chief Bobby Holiday (above center), who also designs in-grass displays for the annual 9/11 commemoration and other events.
MOVIES VIA LIBRARY
The Red Bank Public Library is now offering members home access to streaming movies via Kanopy. The service carries some 30,000 titles, plus Kanopy Kids – movies, TV shows, and learning videos made for children. Partyline is an experimental way to let readers text message news stories to redbankgreen...
RED BANK: AS BLEACHERS PROJECT ADVANCES, QUESTIONS LINGER
The home-side grandstand at Count Basie Fields. (Photo by John Ward. Click to enlarge.) A $1.1 million plan to replace the depression-era bleachers at Count Basie Fields sailed through introduction at the Borough Council last month, but state officials and members of a borough recreation committee continue to raise questions about the project.
INSIDE RED BANK’S TINIEST HOUSES
A rear view of the cottages and, below, a grand video tour. (Photos by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) They’re the tiniest houses in Red Bank. They’d likely violate modern zoning laws if you tried to build them today. And for three people willing to live small, they’re about as (relatively) cheap as it gets in today’s insane real estate market.
NEW RAINBOW CROSSWALK ON BROWN PLACE
Kicking off pride month, some Brown Place and Spring Street residents, ages 5 to 11, constructed a rainbow crosswalk with chalk over the weekend. Two of the families, having previously lived in San Francisco, were inspired by their former city’s tradition of painting crosswalks as an embrace to the LGBTQ community.
RED BANK: NEW POLLING PLACES IN TWO DISTRICTS
Calvary Baptist Church. If you used to vote here, take note. Your polling place has changed to the Red Bank Senior Center. Voters in two Red Bank districts heading to the polls for the New Jersey primaries tomorrow – and again in November’s presidential election – will have to break years of hard worn habits due a change in polling locations.
WHAT TO WEAR?
Dressmakers’ mannequins appeared to mull the question of how to dress for the weather as they looked down on Monmouth Street in Red Bank from the Monmouth Street Emporium last week. FWIW, the National Weather Service says Monday will be mostly sunny, with a high of about 83 degrees...
WEEKEND: SOCCER, MORE SOCCER, MUSIC AND ART
FC Monmouth brings semipro men’s and women’s soccer to Count Basie Fields Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Semipro soccer; an outdoor benefit concert; bands in bars; an art opening. Here are some of the amusements and delights on tap in Red Bank this weekend:. The Pat Roddy Band gets...
SYMPHONY RETURNS JUNE 29
One of Red Bank’s most anticipated annual events will return Saturday, June 29 when the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra plays a free concert in Marine Park, Red Bank RiverCenter announced Thursday. The event, held overlooking our incomparably beautiful Navesink River, typically draws thousands of music lovers, who soak in...
RED BANK: DUCKLING RESCUED FROM SEWER
Rescuers flushing the duckling from the sewer on Combs Alley. (Video by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) After more than an hour’s work, Red Bank volunteer firefighters and an animal control officer rescued a duckling from the borough’s storm sewer Thursday morning. The effort involved opening a...
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