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RED BANK: LEGAL POT MARKET OPENS WITH CHURN
The interior of Monteverde NJ on its first full day of recreational marijuana sales. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Call it the highs – and the lows – of Red Bank’s budding marijuana marketplace. As one licensed cannabis seller excitedly opened its doors and became...
HEARTY FAREWELL FOR HARDY
At its semimonthly meeting Thursday night, the Red Bank council is slated to honor public utilities department supervisor Rich Hardy, who retired three weeks ago. Hardy, who was often on the scene for middle-of-the-night repairs to broken water lines, worked for the borough almost 39 years, “frequently going above and beyond to ensure needed vehicular and equipment repairs were completed with meticulous attention to detail,” says a proclamation on the council’s agenda.
RED BANK: BOOSKERDOO STAYS PUT, AND EXPANDS
The Bridge Avenue side of the former Anderson building, where Booskerdoo is keeping the kiosk it had within a Sickles Market. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) The Red Bank Booskerdoo coffee shop will continue to operate, even though the Sickles Market that it nested within closed down last week, its owner told redbankgreen Monday.
TAMING A BEAST OF A WEEK
Red Bank residents Andrew, Molly and Meghan Deming had fun repurposing Saturday’s snowfall, the second of last week: they made a Godzilla sculpture in front of their Rector Place home. This week, starting with Monday’s Presidents Day, the Greater Red Bank Green is in for at least three days...
RED BANK: STORE CLOSING A SAD SURPRISE
(Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) “Shocking.” “Total bummer.” “Holy moly.”. These were just a few of the reactions of shoppers on hearing about the abrupt closing of the Red Bank Sickles Market Thursday. Sickles Market in Red Bank on its final day of business....
RED BANK: CARDS, BOOZE AND BAD LUCK
The front page of the February 13, 1924 Red Bank Register. Who winds up in the clink: the guy who may have marked the cards in a poker game, or the one who came back the next day waving a gun to collect the money he lost?. An ad for...
RED BANK: SCENES FROM A SNOWSTORM
A worker heads through Johnny Jazz Park, shovel over shoulder as snow continues to fall. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) A fast moving, tricky-to-predict storm hit the Red Bank area with a blast of snow beginning just before dawn Tuesday, dumping several inches of wet slushiness. redbankgreen put...
RED BANK: NO SCHOOL AS STORM SHIFTS
UPDATE 8:53 AM: Red Bank issues alret reminding residents to remove all vehicles from streets to allow snowplowing. Free parking allowed in municipal lots. Red Bank-area schools cancelled classes Tuesday as the expected track of a Northeast storm edged eastward, according to the National Weather Service. Red Bank borough schools,...
RED BANK: BROADWALK HERE TO STAY
Diners on Broadwalk last August. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Broadwalk, the seasonal downtown pedestrian plaza that has delighted restaurant diners and visitors while frustrating some residents and business owners, is officially a recurring fixture of life in Red Bank. Traffic bollards keep traffic out to protect...
RED BANK: DEMS NEUTRAL AS RACE ROILS PARTY
Councilwoman Kate Triggiano and Governor Phil Murphy in Red Bank last July. (Photo by John T. Ward Click to enlarge.) As Monmouth County Democrats convene this weekend amid a wild primary race to replace indicted United States Senator Robert Menendez, Red Bank’s Democratic leadership has staked out perhaps the trickiest position of all: Switzerland.
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