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Monthly Archives: March 2020

RED BANK: HOPEFUL MESSAGES IN CHALK
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RED BANK: Homebound by COVID-19, John Street neighbors decorated their walks and driveways with chalk art and encouraging messages Sunday.
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March 23rd, 2020 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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LITTLE SILVER: SOCIAL DISTANCING WEATHER
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LITTLE SILVER: Whether you're covered in red fur or not, Monday will be a good day to stay inside, with lots of rain in the forecast.
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March 23rd, 2020 @ 6am
VIRUS UPDATE: State's COVID-19 death toll rises by four as patient total climbs by 590, including 66 more in Monmouth County, Murphy Administration says.
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March 22nd, 2020 @ 3pm
VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy announces all New Jersey residents must "stay home" to help flatten spike in COVID-19 cases, which officials said have claimed five more lives.
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March 21st, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BARBER SHOP CLIPPED
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RED BANK: A barber shop that continued operating after an anti-COVID-19 executive order by the governor closed after a visit by police Saturday morning.
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March 21st, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: Borough government reports first confirmed COVID-19 in a resident.
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March 20th, 2020 @ 10pm
VIRUS UPDATE: HOLMDEL TEST SITE TO OPEN
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy announces Monday opening of COVID-19 drive-thru test site in Holmdel as case total rises by 155 and two more die.
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March 20th, 2020 @ 3pm
ON THE GREEN: VIRUS UPDATES
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ON THE GREEN: Latest COVID-19 updates in the Red Bank area include train schedules, a virtual tip jar for restaurant and bar workers, and a scam alert.
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March 20th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: Spring 2020 gets underway with summer-like temperatures Friday. Here's the extended weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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March 20th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: TAKEOUT, ANYONE?
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RED BANK: Pandemic or not, you need to eat, and restaurants need to feed you. RiverCenter has a list of which eateries are open and doing takeout/delivery.
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March 19th, 2020 @ 3pm
VIRUS UPDATE: CASE NUMBER RISES
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VIRUS UPDATE: Monmouth County has 11 more COVID-19 cases and another death as statewide pandemic total climbs again, Murphy Administration reported Thursday.
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March 19th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: SHEHADY COVID-19 POSITIVE
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RED BANK: Borough Business Administrator Ziad Shehady tests positive for COVID-19 and tells redbankgreen his symptoms were no worse than a common cold.
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March 19th, 2020 @ 1pm
LITTLE SILVER: RBR STAFFER VIRUS-POSITIVE
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LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional staffer tests positive for COVID-19. Moore asks community not to "let fear get the better of us."
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March 18th, 2020 @ 10pm
RED BANK: STILL ‘NO CASES,’ OFFICIAL SAYS
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RED BANK: Health official disputes reports of two COVID-19 cases in Grandville Tower and say there are none known of in the borough.
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March 18th, 2020 @ 5pm
RED BANK: Monmouth County adds eight COVID-19 cases as statewide total climbs and two more victims die. Still no 'official' cases in Red Bank, says Shehady.
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March 18th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: Grandville Tower landlord tells tenants two residents self-quarantined with COVID-19 virus, and someone they were in contact with also has virus.
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March 17th, 2020 @ 6pm
RED BANK: Monmouth County has eight more COVID-19 cases as statewide total rises 50 percent, to 267.
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March 17th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: FREE MEALS FOR ALL STUDENTS
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RED BANK: Free grab 'n go breakfast and lunch distribution gets underway for all borough kids under 18 and all RBR students no matter where they live.
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March 17th, 2020 @ 11am
VIRUS IMPACTS: EMPTY STREETS DOWNTOWN
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RED BANK: Downtown streets quiet as Governor Murphy's executive order mandating far-reaching limits on activity takes hold.
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March 17th, 2020 @ 10am
VIRUS IMPACTS: QUIET STREETS AT CURFEW
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RED BANK: Eerie quiet fills streets as 8 p.m. curfew encouraged by governor takes hold. "It's like the zombie apocalypse," says a man out for a walk.
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March 17th, 2020 @ 7am
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SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...