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RED BANK: COUNCIL SALARIES UNCHANGED
The council meets twice monthly at borough hall, 90 Monmouth Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Salaries for Red Bank’s mayor and council, which haven’t risen in at least 15 years, will remain unchanged at least through the remainder of 2023, under an resolution up for a vote Thursday night.
RED BANK: BIKE LANES SET FOR PORCHFEST
Red Bank’s second annual Porchfest townwide music festival is shaping up to be bigger than the first, organizers said last week. To encourage attendees to bike between the more two dozen “stages,” this year’s event will feature temporary bike lanes. Use the interactive map to zoom...
RED BANK: FILM SHOT HERE TO SCREEN
The trailer for “Miranda’s Victim,” which includes scenes shot in at the Count Basie Center for the Arts, below. (Click to enlarge.) Based on historical events, “Miranda’s Victim” tells the story of the 1963 kidnapping and sexual assault of Trish Weir in Phoenix, Arizona, and the subsequent legal battles that led to the legal principles of a suspect’s right to remain silent and the right to san attorney.
RED BANK: WET FORECAST BUMPS EVENTS
Oktoberfest is slated to take place in Edmund Wilson Plaza, between Triumph Brewing Company and the Two River Theater. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) A forecast of rain has prompted reschedulings for two outdoor Red Bank festivals slated for the upcoming weekend. The change means that –...
RED BANK: LIBRARY TO GET $15K FROM BASIE
The funding will be used to boost the library’s Hispanic community outreach efforts. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) The West Front Street library’s support foundation is the latest beneficiary of the Basie’s “Giving Year” program, which donates $1 from every event ticket sold during a specified month to a different charitable organization.
RED BANK: ONBOARDING AT RIVERSIDE
Access to the boardwalk in Red Bank’s Riverside Gardens Park is temporarily closed this week. A view of the boardwalk earlier this month and on Wednesday, below. (redbankgreen photos. Click to enlarge.) A lowest-bid, $165,000 contract for the job was awarded in July to Vulcan Construction Group. In April,...
RED BANK: STATION PROJECT GOES TO BOARD
After months of postponements, the Red Bank zoning board hearing on a plan for a four-story apartment building opposite the train station is scheduled to begin Thursday night. The project would wrap around a building at the corner of Oakland and Bridge and raze two houses on Oakland, above. The star on the map below marks the train station. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
RED BANK: HISPANIC HERITAGE CELEBRATED
Dreamers Club executive committee members Selena Martinez-Santiago, Madelyn Sanchez-Berra and Bethzy Vera Varela looked on as president Edith Lozano Zane addressed the RBR board on September 11. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) UPDATE: Because of rain in the forecast, this Saturday’s Hispanic Heritage Celebration in Riverside Gardens...
RED BANK: OVEN-MITT FIRE STOPPED
Red Bank’s volunteer fire department responded to a report of an oven fire in a unit at the Manor Drive condo complex Sunday afternoon. According to Chief Wayne Hartman, “a couple of oven mitts stored in the drawer underneath” the oven caught fire at 51 Manor Drive around 5:40 p.m.
RED BANK: ENNIO MENNA DIES
Evelina and Ennio Menna at Red Bank borough hall in January, 2017. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Ennio Menna, father of former Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna, died at Riverview Medical Center Friday. He was 94 years old. Ennio Menna at Red Bank borough hall in 2016.
RED BANK: CRIME & ARREST REPORTS
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for August, 2023. This information is unedited; see below for additional information. Theft: A patrol unit took a report of theft in the area of Shrewsbury Av. On 08/02/2023 the owner of a vehicle reported the theft of a catalytic converter which was valued between $1100.00 and $1800.00. Ptl Jeffrey Lewandowski.
RED BANK: TREE REMOVALS AT ISSUE
Residents, though, said they were in the dark about the plan until it was too late to change it. Interim borough manager Darren McConnell, center, meeting with South Street residents on Tuesday. Below, a tree that was spared, even though its roots are lifting the sidewalk. (Photos by Jeff MacPherson,...
RED BANK: ‘PEDESTRIAN’ COPS NAB 30
Red Bank cops posing as pedestrians issued summonses to 30 motorists for safety violations earlier this week, Captain. Mike Frazee announced Thursday. A motorist pulled over on Shrewsbury Avenue. (RBPD photos. Click to enlarge.) Here’s the statement:. On Tuesday, September 12, 2023, members of the Red Bank Police Department...
RED BANK: SALARY BUMPS & MORE ON AGENDA
The council meets twice monthly at borough hall, 90 Monmouth Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) Red Bank’s council would clear the way to give itself its first pay bump in at least 15 years under an ordinance up for introduction Thursday night. It would also...
LITTLE SILVER: RBR DREAMERS REGAIN STATUS
Dreamers Club executive committee member Selena Martinez-Santiago delivers a petition in support of the group to RBR board president Patrick Noble. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) By JOHN T. WARD. Reversing an action that sparked a civil rights complaint and community outrage, Red Bank Regional High School’s...
RED BANK: REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
Red Bank Charter School third-graders sang “Remember You,” and Father John Lock, right, of Trinity Baptist Church spoke about remembering those lost as Red Bank marked the 22nd anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000. On a steamy morning in Riverside Gardens Park, keynote...
RED BANK: PAWSING TO ENJOY ‘DOG DAYS’
Redbankgreen’s photos from the annual sniffathon known as Dog Days, held Saturday in Red Bank’s Marine Park. The gathering, organized by the borough’s Parks and Rec department and Animal Welfare Advisory Committee, drew dozens of canines and dog lovers to the park overlooking. the Navesink River. (Photos...
LITTLE SILVER: DREAMERS FILE BIAS CLAIM
Three of the four members of the Dreamers Club executive committee volunteering at Dog Days on Saturday: from left, Madelyn Sanchez-Berra, Selena Martinez-Santiago and Bethzy Vera-Varela. Below, club president Edith Lozano Zane. (Top photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) By JOHN T. WARD. The allegations of bias are...
RED BANK: IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED
Dozens of residents of the Greater Red Bank Green died in the horrific attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Red Bankers and others will gather at Riverside Gardens Park at 9:30 a.m. Monday to remember those who lost their lives, their families and friends.
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