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Monthly Archives: April 2020

RED BANK: WHITE STREET ON COUNCIL AGENDA
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RED BANK: Fiscal impact of COVID-19 looms, but the traditional budget intro won't occur at Wednesday's online council meeting. Here's what's on the agenda.
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April 22nd, 2020 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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VIRUS UPDATE: RECORD DEATHS REPORTED
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VIRUS UPDATE: New Jersey sees greatest loss of life in COVID-19 battle as other signs show pandemic both migrating south and stabilizing, Murphy team says.
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April 21st, 2020 @ 4pm
RED BANK: CHEERING TRINITY HALL SENIORS
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RED BANK: Procession of cars travels to homes of all seniors from Trinity Hall to cheer them on during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 21st, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: GETTING FED, AND HELPING TO FEED
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RED BANK: With food insecurity rising in the COVID-19 crisis, charities are helping keep families fed. Here's where to get food and make cash donations.
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April 21st, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: FIRE DAMAGES HOME
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RED BANK: Firefighters quickly extinguish Madison Avenue house fire that may have started with pipe-soldering in the basement.
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April 20th, 2020 @ 7pm
VIRUS UPDATE: CARE FACILITY DATA RELEASED
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy "seeing some light" in COVID-19 battle as state reports 8 deaths at longterm care facilities in Red Bank.
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April 20th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: POLICE BUST UP CAR RALLY
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RED BANK: Police busted up a car rally in the parking lot of the Molly Pitcher Inn Sunday as a violation of Murphy's "stay home" order.
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April 20th, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: Public school teachers created an upbeat video reminder for students at home. Here's the not-so-upbeat weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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April 20th, 2020 @ 6am
VIRUS UPDATE: DATA SHOWS IMPROVEMENT
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VIRUS UPDATE: Pace of death from COVID-19 shows slowing as other indicators hint at improvement. Nine more deaths in Monmouth longterm care homes reported.
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April 19th, 2020 @ 1pm
VIRUS UPDATE: CARE-HOME DEATHS CONTINUE
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy reports "undeniable" progress in COVID-19 hospitalizations and blasts official calling for unrestricted state reopening.
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April 18th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: FAMILY ‘DODGED BULLET’ OF VIRUS
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RED BANK: Under one roof, a family of five comes through COVID-19 healthy and thankful that tests kept them from further spreading the virus.
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April 17th, 2020 @ 6pm
VIRUS UPDATE: COVID-19 deaths double in one week as longterm care facilities are hit hard with peak still "coming," says health commissioner.
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April 17th, 2020 @ 2pm
LITTLE SILVER: A BACKYARD SWEARING-IN
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LITTLE SILVER: After the first socially distanced backyard swearing-in ceremony in borough history, Keenan joins the council Monday - remotely.
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April 17th, 2020 @ 8am
VIRUS UPDATE: DEATH TOLL UNYIELDING
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VIRUS UPDATE: New COVID-19 deaths continue at or near record pace even as other indicators of the crisis signal improvement.
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April 16th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: FREE MEALS AT BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
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RED BANK: The Boys & Girls Clubs of Monmouth County unit on Drs. Parker Boulevard is helping feed the community's hungry with free meals five nights a week.
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April 16th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: A HEAD-TURNING SIGHT
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RED BANK: Bicyclist does double take when an usual sight catches his eye on Bridge Avenue.
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April 16th, 2020 @ 7am
VIRUS UPDATE: DEATH TOLL SOARS AGAIN
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VIRUS UPDATE: Amid encouraging signs, another near-record death increase pushes New Jersey's COVID-19 toll to 3,156, including 22 more in Monmouth County.
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April 15th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: THEATER CONSIDERS NEXT ACT
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RED BANK: Will theatergoers return to their seats after the COVID-19 pandemic ends? NEWS12 explores the question with Two River Theater's artistic director.
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April 15th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK HELPS FEED PETS
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RED BANK: Lunch Break and the Monmouth County SPCA team up to help feed the pets of area residents hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 15th, 2020 @ 10am
VIRUS UPDATE: ‘WORST CASE’ REVISED DOWN
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VIRUS UPDATE: One-day increase in COVID-19 deaths hits new record as Murphy team revises down "worst-case" crisis peak impact on hospitals.
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April 14th, 2020 @ 3pm
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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 ...