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Monthly Archives: June 2020

RED BANK: YMCA PIVOTS TO HELP IN CRISIS
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RED BANK: Shuttered by the COVID-19 crisis, the YMCA of Greater Monmouth County pivoted to helping out with food, child care and more.
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June 30th, 2020 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: GIRL SCOUTS OFFER COOKIE RELIEF
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RED BANK: Girl Scouts and Investors Bank team up to provide thousands of boxes of Thin Mints, Samoas and other cookie favorites to Lunch Break.
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June 30th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: MURPHY ‘PAUSES’ INDOOR DINING
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RED BANK: Murphy indefinitely delays restart of indoor dining amid concerns over "complete disregard" of social distancing at some bars.
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June 29th, 2020 @ 5pm
RED BANK: WHITE STREET GAS LINE RUPTURED
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RED BANK: Underground utility work for the White Street makeover project ruptures natural gas line downtown, prompting store evacuations.
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June 29th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: NEARLY NEW CALLS IT QUITS
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RED BANK: In Retail Churn, Nearly New Shop, started by an former Pan Am stewardess in 1993, joins parade of closings downtown.
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June 29th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: PLAZAS RETURN FOR WEEK TWO
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RED BANK: After a widely praised first week, downtown pedestrian shopping and dining plazas return for round two starting Thursday night.
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June 25th, 2020 @ 6am
VIRUS UPDATE: MONMOUTH DEATH TOLL AT 700
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VIRUS UPDATE: One-hundred days after its first death in the pandemic, Monmouth County records its 700th, as state total nears 13,000.
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June 23rd, 2020 @ 4pm
RED BANK: AWFUL INTERSECTION FIXED
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RED BANK: After years of talk and a prolonged construction project, Monmouth County finalizes makeover of pothole-plagued intersection.
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June 23rd, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SALONS REOPEN
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RED BANK: Hair growers finally get back to the barbers and stylists as Murphy's staged reopening plan advances, with further capacity increases.
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June 22nd, 2020 @ 5pm
ON THE GREEN: ECSTATIC LEAPS INTO SUMMER
ON THE GREEN: If these pix of folks leaping into summer don't make you giggle, have someone check you for a pulse.
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June 22nd, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: PLAZA LIGHTS UP BROAD STREET
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RED BANK: New pedestrian plaza lights up Broad Street as restaurants take it to the street in an effort to jump-start an economic recovery downtown.
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June 19th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: FOG, SUN, RAIN & BAGPIPES
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RED BANK: The fog-cutting sound of bagpipes seems apt for this weekend. Here's video, plus the weather forecast for the Greater Green.
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June 19th, 2020 @ 5am
RED BANK: Dreamer 'thrilled' by SCOTUS decision thwarting Trump effort to kill DACA protections, plans a Facebook live discussion.
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June 18th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: COVID-19 pandemic claims Alfonso's Pastry Shoppe after just 17 months of operation on Broad Street.
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June 18th, 2020 @ 1pm
RED BANK: PLAZAS OPEN RAIN OR STARSHINE
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RED BANK: With pedestrian plazas set to debut under an iffy weather forecast, the question arises: what happens if it rains?
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June 18th, 2020 @ 1pm
ON THE GREEN: BUC BRIGADE CHEERS SENIORS
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ON THE GREEN: Homebound RBR seniors get a virtual commencement ceremony followed by a loud, and literally moving, 'Buc Brigade' sendoff.
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June 18th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: Four years after announcing plans for a store in the Anderson Building, Sickles says it will open, with a Booskerdoo inside, in August.
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June 18th, 2020 @ 8am
FAIR HAVEN: NO DUNKIN’ ON OVER EASY
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FAIR HAVEN: Proposed Over Easy restaurant has a far easier time of it than its prospective neighbor, a Dunkin' shop that triggered heated arguments.
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June 17th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: PREPPING FOR PLAZAS
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RED BANK: In-tree uplighting and other prep work underway for launch of downtown dining-and-shopping plazas starting Thursday evening.
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June 17th, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: COPS SAY SESTITO INTERFERED
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RED BANK: Chief sends dashcam video and reports from incident involving Councilman Ballard and his wife to prosecutor for "fair and impartial review."
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June 16th, 2020 @ 5pm
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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 ...