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The Red Bank Public Library will be closed Friday for the start of elevator construction. The facility will reopen Saturday at 10 a.m, the library said in an announcement Wednesday. It also advised patrons to “keep an eye on our calendar this month for additional cancellations or closures.”
RED BANK: SHORT TERM RENTALS COULD MAKE COMEBACK
Red Bank Borough Hall. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Fifteen months after Red Bank’s council all but banned residents from renting out their own homes through services like Airbnb, a new administration is poised to allow the practice on a wider basis once again. An ordinance slated...
TREEBIRTH
Replacements for nine trees cut down last September in advance of a road repaving went into the ground on South Street in Red Bank Wednesday morning. Last year’s tree slaughter caught residents by surprise. But it was needed, said the chair of the Shade Tree Committee, because the trees were “either hazardous or causing significant sidewalk lift.”
RED BANK: BOOZE AND A MOVIE, ANYONE?
Basie Center Cinemas on White Street (Photo by John T. Ward Click to enlarge.) For anyone who has ever scoffed at movie theater staples like popcorn and soda while wishing they could sip a beer or a cocktail during a flick, Red Bank is about become a place where dreams comes true.
RED BANK: POT SHOP, RESTAURANT ON AGENDA
Two River Green hopes to convert the laundromat behind Strollo’s Lighthouse Italian Ice to a cannabis store. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) A proposal to turn a Red Bank laundromat into a pot shop is slated to return to the borough planning board for review Wednesday night.
RED BANK: BIRD BONANZA BEGINS
A common yellowthroat (above) and a Baltimore Oriole (below) both photographed elsewhere were among the nearly two dozen species spotted. (Photos courtesy of Steven Michaels) It’s a Red Bank bird nerd’s best-kept secret. With the spring migration in full swing and the World Series of Birding set for...
RED BANK: EMERGENCY CLOSES ROAD
Traffic on Branch Avenue in Red Bank was detoured Monday afternoon for emergency utility repairs, police said. The street was closed between Spring Street and East Bergen Place due to a sewer line collapse at East Bergen, said Captain Mike Frazee. Repair work was expected to continue into late evening,...
RED BANK: HENS GET MORE ROOM TO CLUCK AROUND
Chickens in the yard of Red Bank resident Kate Okeson. (Photos by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Halfway through the April 25 meeting of the Red Bank Borough Council, Mayor Billy Portman leaned into his microphone and made the most fowl pronouncement of his tenure to date. “The chickens are...
RED BANK: UNDERAGE SMOKE SALES CHARGED
An employee of Mr. Vape Shop, opened last August, was one of three retailers charged. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) An employee of Dynasty Smoke was also charged. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Arrested were:. • Muhammad A. Nawaz, 35 years old, of Moonachie,...
THROWBACK: LOUD PARKING DEBATE, EVEN LOUDER PANTS
Same as it ever was… a headline in the May 7, 1974 Daily Register (Click to enlarge.) A look back a half-century ago this week provides a some stark examples of how some things constantly change (like clothing styles) and other things never change at all (debates about parking in Red Bank).
RED BANK: DEP TARGETS VAPORS AT CONDO COMPLEX
Trucks for an environmental remediation contractor hired by the NJDEP sit outside the Marion Courts condo complex last week. The parking lot was closed due to an unrelated roof replacement project. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has installed a mitigation system...
RED BANK: COPS ARREST MAN WITH HANDGUN
Red Bank police arrested a borough man for possession of a loaded handgun outside a popular restaurant Monday evening. According to Frazee, a caller “described witnessing the male subject remove a black semi-automatic handgun from his right pants pocket as he sat near the Windmill.”. On arrival at the...
RIVERSIDE FLOW
A view from the New Jersey Flow Arts meetup in Red Bank’s Riverside Gardens Park last Friday. The informal group brings together practitioners and admirers of juggling, poi spinning, hooping and other activities weekly. Partyline is an experimental way to let readers text message news stories to redbankgreen to...
RED BANK: ‘COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT’ JOB CREATED
Your local government at work. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) When Jim Gant took the position of Red Bank borough manager in January, he was surprised to find the town had no single point person for various departments to communicate back and forth with the public. And when...
RED BANK: SICKLES LIQUOR STORE FILES BANKRUPTCY
Bottles by Sickles was shut down following an eviction action last week. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) TST Beverages, a limited liability company that operated the Bottles by Sickles shop in Red Bank, sought chapter 11 federal bankruptcy coverage from vendors with claims of more than $5.2 million, according to an April 23 court document.
RED BANK: BORO MAN CHARGED IN FATAL AUGUST CRASH
A Red Bank man and another driver from Long Branch were both charged with vehicular homicide in a crash that took the life of a mother whose two children were also in the car last summer. Police say the drivers of both cars involved in the crash were intoxicated and ran red lights.
RED BANK: PLASTIC UTENSIL LAW KICKS IN, GENTLY
Samantha Flores-Castillo and Paulo Rodriguez Heyman talk about the new law with Tino’s Restaurant owner. Tina Vera. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) If you ordered takeout in the past week from a Red Bank eatery and they put condiments and plastic utensils in the bag without you asking, that restaurant has, officially, broken the law. But unofficially? That’s kind of ok – for now.
Honeybee swarm carted away
Beekeeper Tanya Ptak of Ptak’s Apiary inspects a swarm of honeybees that chose a flower pot in the courtyard of Red Bank Primary School to spend the night Monday. Bee swarms are common and occur when a colony has outgrown its hive and is in search of a new home. An attempt to get the bees to move into a box placed nearby earlier in the day did not pan out, so Ptak carted away the flower pot to the apiary, the hundreds of bees peacefully going along for the ride on the back of her truck.
RED BANK: COWORK FIRM SETTING UP DOWNTOWN
Denholtz Properties recently completed a makeover of 140-148 Broad Street, at the intersection of Reckless Place. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) A floor plan of the space leased to Regus. Regus, a unit of Britain’s International Workplace Group, will will occupy about 8,400 square feet at 140-148...
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