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THROWBACK: A SUPERSTAR’S FIRST GLIMMER
A clipping from the April 3, 1964 Red Bank Register. Maybe it was dumb luck. Or maybe the photographer sensed something special about the Red Bank High School senior playing guitar in a bank’s parking lot. This week 60 years ago, a photographer for the now-defunct Red Bank Register...
RED BANK: CAMS TO RECORD PAVING AND POTHOLES
A slide from the Vialytics presentation to the Borough Council Thursday. What roads in Red Bank need repaving the most? Where are the worst potholes? The swampiest storm drains?. Borough officials who now reply on eyeball inspections and resident complaints for signs of “pavement distress” and other curbside calamities are...
TREES PROCLAIM SPRING’S ARRIVAL IN GLORIOUS COLOR
In the midst of an extended rainy streak that’s expected to continue into Thursday, Red Bank’s trees are proclaiming the full-on arrival of spring. Feast your eyes on some of arboreal glory captured by redbankgreen‘s cameras in recent days. Bridge Avenue. Maple Avenue at West Front Street.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE DETOUR IN THIRD WEEK
A photo posted on the Borough of Red Bank Facebook page Monday. Detours around a Red Bank sinkhole entered the third week Monday after a work crew excavating the site found more “unanticipated road work” is needed. The intersection of Linden Place and Spring Street Monday afternoon. (Photo...
RED BANK: TEACHING NEW JERSEY DRIVERS TO PUMP THEIR OWN GAS
A Red Bank man has launched a class called “Self Serve University” to teach anxious New Jersey motorists to pump their own gas when travelling out of state. Watch the exclusive redbankgreeen video. Ron Plimpton teaches a class at “Self Serve University” where New Jersey drivers learn how...
SPRINGTIME MEMORIES OF CARL
The Easter Bunny getup and St. Patrick’s Day hat that belonged to longtime Red Bank crossing guard and neighborhood smile-creator Carl Colmorgen on display inside Red Bank Borough Hall. The Oakland Street resident would mark Halloween, Christmas and other special events dressed in silly hats while stopping traffic for school children at various intersections, He died last year at age 81. The exhibit in the lobby of borough hall is a tribute to Colmorgen on loan from the Red Bank Public Library.
RED BANK: JEWELER MOVING TO BROAD STREET
The facade of 73 Broad will be rebranded for Leonardo Jewelers when the business relocates to the space later this year. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Leonardo Jewelers manager Paul Monteiro and owner Leo Zeik in the store’s current showroom on East Front Street. (Photo by...
RED TRUCKS AT RED ROCK
A small dishwasher fire at Red Rock Tap and Grill was put out quickly by firefighters overnight, causing minimal damage. Red Bank Fire Department responded at 5:20 a.m. and put it out with a blast from a 3/4 hose line, according to Chief Bobby Holiday. Employees were on the scene Thursday afternoon cleaning up and employees said they’ll be set to re-open Friday. (Photo courtesy of RBFD)
CREATIVE COVER UP
The windows of Pearl Street Consignment on Monmouth Street were smashed when a driver crashed their car through them injuring an employee last month. The opening is now covered by plywood that have been adorned with colorful cartoon characters assuring folks the store is still open.
RED BANK: STUDY FINDS STATION FIT FOR REDEVELOPMENT
The proposed redevelopment area in a map from the preliminary investigation report. (Click to enlarge.) A plan to redevelop the area around the Red Bank train station as a higher-density “transit village” took another small step forward this month with a study that determined it fits the criteria for an “area in need of redevelopment.”
CHIEF WON COUNCIL PRAISE WHILE SHIELDING GIRLFRIEND
Chief Darren McConnell with then-Mayor Pasquale Menna in December, 2014. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) When Red Bank’s business administrator Ziad Shehady resigned in May 2021, it was a time of political chaos. The members of a bitterly fractious borough council found almost nothing they could agree on.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE FIX COMING, OFFICIAL SAYS
Rainwater filled the budding sinkhole Saturday afternoon. A week after a sinkhole was found developing, two blocks of Spring Street in Red Bank remained closed to traffic Tuesday morning. But a fix is finally on the way, borough Manager Jim Gant told redbankgreen Monday night. A motorist encountered the detour...
RED BANK: SPOTLIGHT ON FASHION’S HISTORIC ROLE
Ebony Fashion Fair styles represented in costumes designed by the Two River Theater. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Two titans of Red Bank’s cultural scene teamed up over the weekend to tell the story – in words and costumes – of a glamorous and crucial aspect of African American history.
RED BANK: SUPER-SOAKER EXPECTED
Daffodils earlier this week on Bank Street in Red Bank. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) The first half of this weekend will be perfect for watching NCAA hoops or streaming those recent all Oscar winners you missed. Just make sure the basement sump pump is working and watch out for sinkholes, especially if you live on or near Spring Street.
THEY’RE BACK!
Ospreys returned to the skies over Red Bank this week for the first time since they migrated to warmer climes in late fall. With temperatures below freezing this morning this one photographed near the Swimming River seemed to be wondering if it should have scheduled a later flight, basking with the morning sun on its back, clearly trying to warm up a bit.
RED BANK: NEW HPC SLATE MULLS EXPANSION, AND SLATE
All homes on Irving Place could be added to the town’s historic inventory. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Red Bank’s newly reconstituted Historic Preservation Commission begun mulling whether to add an entire street of homes to its portfolio Wednesday night. Members also faced a quandary:...
RED BANK: EDITH BLAKE REFLECTS ON 106 YEARS
Edith Blake with her grandson, Erik Perry, and great-granddaughter, Sarah Perry. Below, the park on the former site of her family’s Fair Haven homestead. (Photos by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) By BRIAN DONOHUE. Walk to the foot of DeNormandie Avenue in Fair Haven and you’ll see Williams, Albert...
RED BANK: POSSIBLE SINKHOLE CLOSES ROAD
Two blocks of Spring Street in Red Bank were closed to traffic after signs of a possible sinkhole developing were detected Monday afternoon, police said. Late Tuesday afternoon, orange traffic cones blocked access to Spring Street between Oldfield Place and Linden Place after a notice of the closure was sent to subscribers of the borough alert system, reporting it would be in place “due to utility work.”
RED BANK: SPA FLOODED OUT
A Red Bank spa remained closed Wednesday following flooding of its basement space Monday night. Woodhouse Day Spa, at 73 Broad Street, announced on social media that it was closed until further notice as a result of “an unforeseen flooding incident caused by renovations in the building.”. Spa owner...
SPRING IS SPRUNG
Spring 2024 arrives on the Greater Red Bank Green with the vernal equinox at 11:06 p.m. Tuesday. And this forsythia plant on East Front Street – near Spring Street, of course – is — 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.
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