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RED BANK ART WALK GETS BACK ON ITS FEET

Works by Kathy Polenberg, above, and other local artists are showcased as part of the rejuvenated Red Bank Art Walk event on Friday.   It looked for a while as if it might never regain its footing — but after sitting out the past couple of years, the Red Bank Art Walk makes its return [...]

WEEKEND: PINKHATSYARDSALEFOODFEST

Red Bank becomes a bargainhunter’s paradise on Saturday. On Sunday: food, acres of food. (Click to enlarge) As the headline suggests, the weekend that awaits is jammed with the potential for good times. We’ve got the fifth Red Bank Townwide Yard Sale, this one making a migration from fall to spring. We’ve got one of [...]

GROCERY SCION DONATES $1M TO RIVERVIEW

The gift puts Riverview’s campaign to pay for a new day-stay surgery center past its $15 million goal. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A Navesink couple is the latest in a string of wealthy donors to write a whopping check to help pay for a new surgical center at Riverview Medical Center in Red [...]

AN OCEAN OF RED IN RED BANK

It’s not just Mother Nature’s recent toying with the thermostat that’s giving us a taste of spring in February. Every year at this time, Red Bank’s temperature rises for a few hours as hundreds of women, most of them bedecked in luscious red, gather for drinks, dancing and a good cause: ‘The Red Dress Event,’ [...]

RUMSON ALSO LIKELY TO SCRUB FIREWORKS

Scenes from the 2011 Rumson fireworks show, which was synched up with the Red Bank display upriver. (Photos by Dustin Racioppi. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD As go Red Bank’s Independence Day fireworks, so go Rumson’s. For five years, the two towns put on simultaneous, mirror-image fireworks displays just miles apart on the [...]

SOUL KITCHEN FINDS ITS FOOTING

Newly recruited general manager Ryan Timmons outside Soul Kitchen earlier this week. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Three months after opening, Soul Kitchen, the pay-what-you-can-or-work-it-off restaurant on Red Bank’s West Side, is  progresssing toward its goal of feeding the haves and have-nots in equal numbers, new manager Ryan Timmons tells redbankgreen. About 30 [...]

POSTERS GIVE ‘TWEENS’ THE STAR TREATMENT

Debbie Mishan, below, with the hundreds of entries from girls seeking to be featured in posters hung each month at her Fair Haven boutique, Skye Blue & BeTween. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The oversized, constantly changing photos of well-dressed young models you may have noticed in the window of Skye Blue & [...]

BRUISING HIPS FOR A CLASS TRIP

The Red Bank Roller Vixens put on an action-packed show for a full house at the the Red Bank Middle School in a fundraiser for the eighth-grade class trip Friday night. The event also featured a bit of hardwood action by the Red Bank Riot Girls, a junior league squad for girls ages 12 to 18; [...]

SHELTER GIVES RED BANK A HANDOUT

[UPDATE: Please see clarification at the bottom of this article] By JOHN T. WARD Heeding the sound of Red Bank’s rattling tin cup, a fifth nonprofit has made a cash contribution to the town lieu of taxes. Habcore Inc., which provides shelter and other services to the homeless and disabled  on South Pearl Street, has [...]

MENNA: GROWING NONPROFITS HURT TOWN

Mayor Pasquale Menna says the loss of taxable property to nonprofits is an unfair burden on taxpayers in regional centers like Red Bank. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD It’s become a familiar refrain of Red Bank officials: the borough is choking on nonprofits that provide services to a wide swath of Monmouth County’s [...]

WOMAN’S CLUB GETS SECRET SETTLEMENT

That little bit of decorative cornice that overhangs the Woman’s Club fire lane cost the Bank of America. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD What’s a couple of inches of historic airspace in downtown Red Bank worth? Officials of the Woman’s Club of Red Bank aren’t saying, following an inadvertent encroachment on their historic [...]

CARDS FEATURE OLD RED BANK BUILDINGS

Line drawings of distinctive structures by Terry McCue, below, are on display at Red Bank’s borough hall. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Here’s a stocking-stuffer idea that’s as local as they come. A series of note cards by Red Bank artist Terry McCue honors the borough’s history by preserving, in pen-and-ink,  some of [...]

A FESTIVE DAY OF SANTAS, EDDIES & A HORSE

It was silly Saturday in Red Bank, as roving bands of Santas and Cousin Eddies did some major barhopping for charity, hitting just about every watering hole in town and shaking their pails for contributions. In the process, they raised some serious cash. SantaCon shook out $1,100 for the Red Bank Middle School Athletics Foundation, [...]

PROWN’S 2012 CALENDAR: A MINOR DISASTER

A bicyclist passes Prown’s Home Improvements on Monmouth Street in Red Bank, where enlargements from the 2012 calendar are on display. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Who among us isn’t a sucker for nostalgia? And who can resist gawking at the consequences of Mother Nature’s fury? David Prown, owner of Prown’s Home Improvement, [...]

AT THE BASIE: A MULTITUDE OF VOICES

Middletown’s Nancy Scharff — and a heavenly host of helpers — present their annual celebration of Christmas in words and music Friday at the Count Basie Theatre. As the founder of Nancy Scharff Ministries, Middletown-based Christian music artist Nancy Scharff is a globe-trotting singer-songwriter, choirmaster, music educator, producer, conductor, facilitator and a shepherdess tending her [...]


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    • 05.20 - Sea Bright Firemen's Fair The annual event takes place at the 'former Peninsula House' parking lot at the center of town; featured are rides, games, live music and carnival food, with 50/50 drawing proceeds to benefit the borough fire department and recreation committee. Tonight's hours 2 to 9pm; call 732.842.0099 x11 for more info.
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