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RED BANK: WINTER EASES ITS GRIP
After a week marked by two snowstorms and deep cold, weather conditions on the Greater Red Bank Green will edge back to normal this week, according to the National Weather Service. . While blustery winds whipped snow off a Broad Street roof (top photo), a postal worker hoofed it Bermuda...
[GIF] FRIDAY NIGHT SLEDDING DOWN TOWER HILL
Tower Hill was in the right condition for sledding on Friday night, and with forecasted highs to stay below freezing temperature for the weekend, it’s likely to stay that way. Partyline is an experimental way to let readers text message news stories to redbankgreen to get posted (after editorial...
RED BANK: EARLY SCENES FROM THE STORM
A husky or similar-breed dog peered out from a car at a charging station on Monmouth Street in Red Bank as a predicted snowstorm began Friday morning. Snow covered holly berries and leaves on Reckless Place. (Photos by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) A snowstorm that’s forecast to dump between...
RED BANK: ELKS ADD USED-BOOK BIN
Red Bank Elks Lodge #233 now has a Book Bin out front, next to its Flag Drop Box. What’s the Book Bin all about? Under an arrangement with New Legacy Books, a for-profit company launched by two Monmouth University graduates, donated books in good condition are resold, the company says on its website.
RED BANK: GEARING UP FOR ‘HEAVY’ SNOW
A Red Bank public works truck laid down ice-melting brine on roadways for the second time this week as another winter storm bore down on the region Thursday. With snow expected to fall Friday, the borough invoked a townwide ban on street parking, and schools began announcing closures. Late in...
RED BANK: MORE SNOW ON THE WAY
Just two days after its first snowfall in more than year, the Greater Red Bank Green is in for more Friday, a. ccording to the National Weather Service. With “heavy snow and/or sleet accumulation,” the region can expect 3 to 5 inches between 4 a.m. and 10 p.m., the agency said in a forecast early Thursday.
RED BANK: TREE MAP ON AGENDA
This month’s meeting of the Red Bank Shade Tree Committee, originally scheduled for Tuesday night, was canceled because of icy conditions. So the committee will meet next Tuesday night, 7 p.m., at borough hall, 90 Monmouth Street. Here’s the agenda, which includes discussion of the updated tree inventory map...
RED BANK: CRIME & ARREST REPORTS
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for December, 2023. This information is unedited; see below for additional information. Theft: On 12/05/2023 a patrol unit took a report of theft of a bicycle. In the area of Monmouth St., the owner reported that a gray in color 10 speed Trek brand bicycle was stolen. The bicycle was valued at $1500.00. Lt. Beau Broadley.
RED BANK: PRESERVATION LAW ADVANCES
The borough’s Washington Street Historic District, the location of many applications the HPC reviews, was created in 2009. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) A proposed overhaul of Red Bank’s historic preservation ordinance advanced without much resistance Tuesday. The planning board met via Zoom. At at...
RED BANK: KING CELEBRATION GROWS
Rabbi Douglas Sagal, at right, leading a portion of the celebration. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.) Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration has long been an event that makes your heart swell – with pride in community, and with conviction to carry out King’s legacy in whatever ways we can.
RED BANK: SNOW. HOW COULD WE FORGET?
Early morning Red Bank scenes from Broad Street, above, and Shrewsbury Avenue, below. It’s been what, more than a year, since the Greater Red Bank Green had to deal with accumulated snow?. However long, locals reverted to form early Tuesday, pulling on their boots and getting through it, as...
RED BANK: DREAMER REFLECTS ON ADVERSITY
Madelyn Sanchez-Berra volunteering at Red Bank Dog Days in Marine Park last September. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Rallying community support, the so-called ‘Dream Four,’ a quartet of young Red Bank women, drew a large audience to the the board’s next meeting, when a second vote restored the funding.
RBR DREAMER SHARES WINNING ESSAY AT DR KING BREAKFAST HOSTED BY YMCA
Red Bank Regional High School senior Madelyn Sanchez-Berra shared her award-winning essay at the YMCA’s 35th annual Dr. King commemorative breakfast on Friday morning. Sanchez-Berra was one of four members of the RBR student Dreamers Club which regained its status days after following a formal complaint with the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights.
RED BANK: PARTISAN ‘VENGEANCE’ ALLEGED
Memone Crystian at Thursday’s council meeting. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Memone Crystian and her successor at the helm of the autonomous authority also raised questions about the residency and meeting attendance of another member who was reappointed. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
RED BANK: HOLIDAY HONORS
The Cohen family (32 South Street) accepts one of three awards in the borough’s Holiday Home Decorating Contest. Others were the Chippendale family (51 Elm Place) and Lau family (34 East Bergen Place). Partyline is an experimental way to let readers text message news stories to redbankgreen to get...
RED BANK: POWER ISSUES
As JCP&L crews worked to restore power knocked out elsewhere in New Jersey by Tuesday night’s rainstorm, Red Bank volunteer firefighters responded to a report of transformer explosion at the company’s Henry Street substation early Thursday morning. Meanwhile, one block of Spring Street remained closed to traffic as...
RED BANK: BROADWALK MAY RETURN ANNUALLY
Broadwalk on a busy night last September. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Red Bank’s Broadwalk dining and shopping plaza would have a fixed spot on the annual calendar if an ordinance up for introduction Thursday night is adopted. Also on the governing body’s agenda when it...
RED BANK: STORM LARGELY SPARES BOROUGH
As of 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, there were no known power outages in town after a night in which none appeared to have been reported by electricity provider JCP&L/First Energy, police Chief Darren McConnell told redbankgreen. At that hour, almost 9,500 customers elsewhere in Monmouth County were without power, JCP&L reported...
RED BANK: POWERFUL STORM TO HIT REGION
Expected rainfall totals. (National Weather Service image. Click to enlarge.) Heavy, wind-driven rain is expected to soak the Greater Red Bank Green starting Tuesday night, just days after a weekend storm drenched the region. Though the worst effects of the storm are expected to occur west of the Greater Green,...
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