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Monthly Archives: April 2020

RED BANK: GOOD EATING AND SHARING
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RED BANK: Updates on finding good takeout in town (and beyond) and efforts to help support both restaurants and frontline healthcare worker at once.
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April 14th, 2020 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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VIRUS UPDATE: POSITIVE SIGNS AMID BRACING
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VIRUS UPDATE: More encouraging data emerges as state continues bracing for COVID-19 surge and issues guidance for "worst-case" triage of resources.
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April 13th, 2020 @ 4pm
ON THE GREEN: TRANQUIL SCENES ABOUND
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ON THE GREEN: Three weeks into the COVID-19 shutdown of non-essential activity, tranquility abounds on the Greater Red Bank Green. Photos galore.
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April 13th, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: LEAF-BLOWING STORM FORECAST
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ON THE GREEN: Heavy rain, strong winds likely Monday. Here's the extended weather forecast for the Greater Red Bank Green.
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April 13th, 2020 @ 7am
VIRUS UPDATE: Both Monmouth County and New Jersey saw further softening in new COVID-19 positive cases and other encouraging signs in the pandemic.
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April 12th, 2020 @ 2pm
VIRUS UPDATE: COUNTY CASE GROWTH SLOWS
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VIRUS UPDATE: Monmouth County reports smallest increase in COVID-19 positive cases in almost two weeks as Murphy asks holiday celebrants not to gather.
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April 11th, 2020 @ 1pm
RED BANK: CHEERS FOR HOSPITAL STAFFERS
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RED BANK: Firefighters, police and first aiders from 10 towns give a thunderous surprise 'thank you' to Riverview employees on COVID-19 front lines. We've got photos galore.
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April 10th, 2020 @ 10pm
RED BANK: "Combative" Eatontown man charged with trying to spit on officers during arrest for disorderly conduct, chief says. One cop was slightly injured.
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April 10th, 2020 @ 2pm
VIRUS UPDATE: ‘HOPE’ CITED AS PEAK NEARS
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy team sees "glimmers of hope" as COVID-19 patient surge peak nears and state's death toll rises by 233 in one day.
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April 10th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: MIXED BAG FOR HOLIDAY WEEKEND
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RED BANK: Weather for the Easter and Passover weekend is a mixed bag. Here's the extended forecast for the Greater Green.
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April 10th, 2020 @ 7am
VIRUS UPDATE: DEATH & INFECTION TOTALS UP
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VIRUS UPDATE: Bracing for a surge of hospitalizations, Murphy Administration reports growth in COVID-19 infections as New Jersey death toll reaches 1,700.
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April 9th, 2020 @ 3pm
VIRUS UPDATE: ARNONE KNOCKS CLOSINGS
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VIRUS UPDATE: Monmouth County Freeholder Tom Arnone tees up Murphy's order closing parks, which he calls "essential" to physical and mental health.
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April 9th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: PARKS SHUT DOWN & BARRICADED
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RED BANK: Parks shut down and barricaded off as borough implements controversial closure over COVID-19 concerns. Fair Haven's and Little Silver's remain open.
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April 9th, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: ‘BUNNY PARADE’ CHEERS WEST SIDE
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RED BANK: Photos from part one of the 'Bunny Parade,' held in lieu of the traditional Easter Egg Hunt. The parade heads to the East Side Thursday.
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April 9th, 2020 @ 6am
VIRUS UPDATE: DEATHS SOAR AS CASES EASE
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VIRUS UPDATE: New Jersey's death toll soars again as COVID-19 caseload shows continued signs of easing, though Murphy rejects talk of "plateau."
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April 8th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BOROUGH SHUTS DOWN PARKS
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RED BANK: Following Murphy shutdown of state and county parks, borough does same, citing "non-compliance with social distancing directives."
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April 8th, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: ‘BUNNY PARADE’ SCHEDULED
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RED BANK: In lieu of the traditional Easter Egg Hunt, borough parks and rec will host a pair of drive-by "Bunny Parades" this afternoon and Thursday.
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April 8th, 2020 @ 7am
VIRUS UPDATE: ‘FLATTENING’ SIGNS SEEN
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VIRUS UPDATE: New COVID-19 cases show continued signs of plateauing, but they're "still way above" hospital capacity, Murphy says.
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April 7th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: PUBLIC PROJECTS ADVANCING
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RED BANK: What's Going On Here with these borough projects? Updates on Bellhaven Natural Area, Eastside Park and parking meter replacement.
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April 7th, 2020 @ 11am
LITTLE SILVER: DAL PRA WINS PATRICK AWARD
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LITTLE SILVER: Monmouth County Rotarians name Red Bank Regional senior Will Dal Pra the Jay Patrick Unsung Hero Award winner for Monmouth County.
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April 7th, 2020 @ 9am
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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 ...