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BELOVED POISONED DOG PHOTO SURFACES
Bum hits the river. (Photo courtesy of Mary White. Click to enlarge.) Last month redbankgreen published a Throwback feature that told the story of a rash of dogs being found poisoned to death in Red Bank in March 1923. Among them was “Bum” a beloved St. Bernard known around town for saving a boy’s life and attending meetings of the borough council.
RED BANK: CONDO PROJECT BEGINS AT LAST
After more than three years of inactivity, a prominent Red Bank corner came alive with construction work last week. An architect’s rendition of the planned structure, with Maple Avenue at left and West Front Street at right. (Rendering by Michael James Monroe. Photo by John T. Ward. Click to...
RUGBY AND TRADITION AT THE WILDE ROVER
Here’s your chance to peek inside without having to play a game of rugby first. (Video by Brian Donohue.) For years, I have walked by the Wilde Rover on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank wondering what it’s like inside the mysterious former neighborhood pub that’s home to the Monmouth Rugby Football Club.
RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK CELEBRATES NEW HOME
The crowd outside Lunch Break for the grand opening celebration. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Gwendolyn Love, whose very last name tells the story of the place before which she was standing, could barely keep her voice from cracking. At a grand opening celebration for the expanded and...
RED BANK: DANDELION CHAMP CROWNED
Dandelion contest winner Brian Ramirez triumphantly dons his prize: a redbankgreen hoodie sweatshirt. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Red Bank, meet your dandelion champions. Bryan Ramirez and Christian Bruno of Elm Place took the title for finest dandelion display, proud victors in redbankgreen‘s Earth Day dandelion display contest.
THREE ON TOUR
The Woman’s Club of Red Bank is one of three borough sites that will participate in ‘A Weekend in Old Monmouth,’ self-guided tours of 52 historic locations in Monmouth County next week. The others are the Monmouth Boat Club, above right, and T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center,...
RED BANK: BOTTLES BY SICKLES EVICTED
Bottles by Sickles at the Anderson Building on Monmouth Street Wednesday morning. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Bottles by Sickles opened along with a grab-and-go Sickles Market in the refurbished Anderson Building in August, 2020. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) The shutdown followed an April...
RED BANK: POLICE LAUNCH CRACKDOWN ON TRAILERS
Police inspecting an unhitched trailer on Tilton Avenue as part of a recent crackdown. The trailer was gone the next day. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Red Bank’s crackdown on work trailers left parked on the street has begun in earnest. After sending written warnings first, police have issued more than a dozen summonses and one arrest warrant to owners of trailers violating a new 48-hour rule.
GREEN MINDED RED BANKERS CONVERGE AT FAIR
A crocodile made out of discarded egg cartons by Middle School fifth grader Jayden Carreon Ramirez at Monday’s Earth Day Green Fair. (Photos by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) A crocodile made out of a discarded egg carton. A series of gowns and outfits crafted from Doritos bags and...
RED BANK: MORE GREENERY & TWINKLY LIGHTS COMING
One of the curbside gardens created on Broad Street a year ago. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Downtown promotion agency Red Bank RiverCenter will have some extra green to spend on greenery and other improvements this year, thanks to a $150,000 grant announced Monday. Also coming: more...
RED BANK: DANDELION DISPLAY CONTEST
A beautiful dandelion in the Red Bank sun. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) At redbankgreen we love dandelions. As any toddler knows instinctively, they’re beautiful. And no amount of up-is-down marketing from the lawn industrial complex will ever convince us they’re a menace that must be eradicated with herbicides or even a tiny smidge of elbow grease. And so, for Earth Day, we are launching a contest to celebrate those little bursts of sunshine and the lawn (non) tenders who aren’t buying what Big Lawn is selling. Introducing Red Bank’s first dandelion display contest.
VOLUNTEERS GET INTO THE WEEDS
Toting plastic trash bags, 51 volunteers conducted a walking litter cleanup on Red Bank’s West Side Saturday. Beginning at Johnny Jazz Park on Shrewsbury Avenue, four teams of volunteers spread out to pluck trash from streets and sidewalks, said Selena Martinez-Santiago, treasurer of the Red Bank Regional High School Dreamers Club, which organized the effort.
“IT’S A PARTY AT WAWA!”
You wish you could vibe like Brian, who lives on the other side of Hubbard’s Bridge. He caught redbankgreen’s attention in Red Bank’s best parking lot for people watching, outside of Crate Liquors and WaWa, while representing it quite well. Simply enjoying the nice weather and psytrance,...
POPE OKS ORATORY
Pope Francis has canonically established the Oratory of St. Philip Neri at Red Bank’s Church of St. Anthony of Padua, parish pastor Father Alberto Tamayo announced Saturday. The Oratory is “a place of prayer,” a community of priests and brothers who live, pray and work in the spirit and rule of St. Philip Neri and the first Oratorians in Rome, Tamayo told Trenton Monitor, the newspaper of the Diocese of Trenton.
RED BANK: WEEKEND PICKS FOR BODY & SOUL
Kathleen Beausoleil’s “Summer Reading” is among the paintings in a new show of contemporary realists opening at Galeria Lucida Friday night. Another spring weekend is upon us. With the opening of the 2024 edition of the Broadwalk pedestrian plaza still three weeks away, this one’s a good one to check out local galleries and theaters.
RED BANK: GOING ALL-IN WITH TWO RESTAURANTS
Activity at Bakers on Broad during last Sunday’s StreetFair. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) Joe Generoso’s trying to pull off the feat in a new building at the train station, and in a storefront in the heart of downtown. Joe Generoso at Bakers on Broad...
RED BANK: CRIME & ARREST REPORTS
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for March, 2024. This information is unedited; see below for additional information. Theft: On 03/15/2024 a patrol unit took a report of theft from a motor vehicle. In the area of Monmouth St., the victim reported a green in color JanSport backpack containing rock climbing equipment and $15.00 in loose coins were stolen from a vehicle. The backpack and rock climbing equipment was valued at $190.80. Ptl. Preston Mellaci.
PODCAST DEBUT: ITZEL HERNANDEZ ON “VISUALIZING COMMUNITY”
Today, your hometown hyperlocal juggernaut redbankgreen launches a new way to go deeper into the stories of the people who make Red Bank such a fascinating, vibrant corner of the world: the redbankgreen Podcast. We see it as a way to revive the front-porch conversations that have fallen by the...
RED BANK: MONMOUTH ARTS OPENS NEW SPACE
ArtSpace 99 takes over the storefront previously occupied by the Basie’s Carlton Lounge. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Just doors away from one of America’s most storied marquees, the nonprofit organization Monmouth Arts unveiled a new home for fostering art dubbed ArtSpace 99 Wednesday. Monmouth...
RED BANK: NEW MURAL BRIGHTENS CORNER
The face of the late Lunch Break founder Norma Todd looks out from a mural painted this week on the outside wall of the social service agency she founded. Trenton artist Leon Rainbow started Monday on a scene that Director of Development Jill Gwydir-Govel said in an email “encapsulates all that is Lunch Break, our beginnings, the hope and love we provide to the community and our mission to not only provide for our community, but to help them achieve the ability to provide for themselves.”
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