Category Archives: Schools

THROWBACK: This week in 1964, a photographer serendipitously captured a future pop superstar, Melanie, then a senior at Red Bank High School.

RED BANK: School district again decries double whammy of state funding cuts and forking over millions to charter school.

RED BANK: Borough schools face cutbacks if a proposed massive cut in state aid is not restored.

LITTLE SILVER: The last time Madelyn Sanchez-Bera stood before the RBR board of Ed, she says she blacked out. Things were different Wednesday.

RED BANK: As expected northeast storm shifts eastward with threat of up to six inches of snow, schools take the day off.

RED BANK: Charter School Foundation offers student-deisgned Valentines cards to help raise funds for a gymnasium.

Melanie Safka, Woodstock era singer songwriter and Red Bank Regional High School alumni hall of fame member known simply as "Melanie," has died.

RED BANK: Shovels and plows come out as region gets first snow in more than a year. Some schools delay openings; others take the day off.

RED BANK: In a prizewinning essay, RBR Dreamer Madelyn Sanchez-Berra recounts the effort to save the club that nurtures her dreams.

RED BANK: Mayor Billy Portman and the Red Bank council honored the middle school boys' soccer squad for a championship season last week.

RED BANK: Two intersections near primary school, and one at middle school, would get pedestrian improvements if grant comes through.

LITTLE SILVER: RBR board member winds up with black eye following fight between students at Asbury Park middle school where he works.

RED BANK: Kicking off Hispanic Heritage Month, council lauds "Dream 4" for rallying community around restoration of RBR Dreamers Club.

LITTLE SILVER: Reversing vote that sparked community outrage, RBR board restores funding for a immigrants' advocacy student group.

LITTLE SILVER: Dreamers Club at RBR files discrimination complaint; Moore says he's 'hopeful' board will reinstate club Monday night.

RED BANK: Lunch Break's annual Community Picnic, Softball Classic Tournament & Backpack Giveaway draws 800 for a day of fun.

LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional Superintendent Louis Moore receives Fulbright Leaders for Global Schools Program award.

RED BANK: Inspired by her Ecuadorian grandmother's art collection, an RBC student has curated a show to spotlight her ancestral homeland.

RED BANK: Board of education bids goodbye to longtime member Ben Forest, who joins the council July 1, and welcomes new member.

RED BANK: Dreaming BIG, former borough middle school students find success as members of Red Bank Regional High class of 2023.