Skip to content
Brian Donohue
Editor Brian Donohue
Long Live Local News
Get "The Blast" Newsletter

A town square for an unsquare town

redbankgreen

Standing for the vitality of Red Bank, its community, and the fun we have together.

Monthly Archives: September 2020

RED BANK: GRUNIN TO CHAIR BASIE BOARD
jeremy-grunin-adam-philipson-500x335-7002595
RED BANK: Count Basie Center for the Arts names Jeremy Grunin chairman of board of trustees during "a time of recovery and resilience."
Post a comment
September 17th, 2020 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
redbankgreen Classics
RED BANK: Historic Preservation Commission to discuss East Front Street Victorian structure slated for demolition by Hackensack Meridian.
Post a comment
September 16th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: COOLER TEMPS ARRIVE
weather-091520-500x361-8787911
RED BANK: With one week of summer left, temperatures shift cooler for the next few days. Here's the extended weather forecast for the Greater Green.
Post a comment
September 15th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: FIRST LESSONS OF NEW YEAR
red-bank-middle-091420-1-220x146-4931795
RED BANK: Borough schools reopened with lessons from the pandemic before children even reached their classrooms Monday morning.
Post a comment
September 14th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: ILLUMINATING THE TOWN’S PAST
red-bank-marjorie-cavalier-082520-2-500x332-6794504
RED BANK: After lobbying successfully for replacement of historical marker, retired teacher turns her attention to app to help illuminate borough's past.
Post a comment
September 14th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: FOOD FESTS OUT, CONCERTS IN
nerds-rbibwff-042218-14-220x165-3142609
RED BANK: With its signature food fests cancelled by pandemic, RiverCenter will host six paid-admission concerts over two Saturdays in Riverside Gardens Park.
Post a comment
September 11th, 2020 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER: FOOTBALL WEATHER COMING?
little-silver-deer-090920-500x375-2897158
LITTLE SILVER: Football weather coming? Here's the extended forecast for the Greater Red Bank Green.
Post a comment
September 11th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: GOP PAIR QUIT COUNCIL RACE
election_2020-220x189-6995934
RED BANK: Both Republicans quit borough council race, leaving incumbent Democrats Ballard and Zipprich on a glide path to re-election.
Post a comment
September 10th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: Boys and Girls Clubs open remote learning centers to provide safe space for children to participate in their schools’ virtual learning programs.
Post a comment
September 10th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: CHANGES EYED AT BASIE FIELDS
mohawk-pond-042117-500x375-9142054
RED BANK: Count Basie Fields playground would be relocated to Mohawk Pond and street closed to traffic under Open Spaces application OK'd by council.
Post a comment
September 10th, 2020 @ 6am
SANDY HOOK: PROPOSED FEE HIKE RETURNS
sandy-hook-072719-2-500x375-5680762
SANDY HOOK: Four years after scrapping a proposed entry fee hike, Gateway National Recreation Area is again seeking a 33-percent increase.
Post a comment
September 9th, 2020 @ 5pm
ON THE GREEN: Memorial events slated to honor to area residents killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America.
Post a comment
September 9th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BIKING LANDSCAPER NEEDS WHEELS
ricardo-paz-landscaping-070320-500x375-6854420
RED BANK: Landscaper who hauls his equipment around by bike needs new set of wheels, so friends launch a Go Fund Me campaign to help.
Post a comment
September 9th, 2020 @ 11am
ON THE GREEN: EARTHQUAKE SHAKES REGION
earthquake-090920-500x268-4840249
RED BANK: A magnitude 3.1 earthquake centered near Freehold shook the Greater Red Bank Green early Wednesday morning. No damage reported.
Post a comment
September 9th, 2020 @ 8am
LITTLE SILVER: RBR REOPENING DELAYED
red-bank-regional-rbr-071820-500x375-6960905
LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional delays start of in-person instruction over lack of walk-thru body temperature scanners, Moore says in announcement.
Post a comment
September 8th, 2020 @ 7pm
RED BANK: Neither of two clashing requests for investigations of leaked emails appears on Wednesday night's council agenda. Here's what is on it.
Post a comment
September 8th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: K9 FINDS SHOPLIFTING SUSPECT
rb-k9-020415-1-220x165-2266319
RED BANK: Tracked by K9 unit, shoplifting suspect found hiding in woods, arrested after reported struggle with police Monday night.
Post a comment
September 8th, 2020 @ 12pm
SHREWSBURY: Crime and arrest reports from borough police for the last two weeks of August, 2020.
Post a comment
September 8th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: SCHOOL SUPPLIES DISTRIBUTED
RED BANK: Volunteers distributed more than 400 backpacks filled with school supplies at Pilgrim Baptist Church Saturday. Giveaway continues Wednesday.
Post a comment
September 8th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: REVEREND HENRY P. DAVIS DEAD
red-bank-naacp-reverend-henry-davis-022819-500x332-1124174
RED BANK: Reverend Henry P. Davis, former pastor of St. Paul's Baptist Church and president of the Greater Red Bank Area NAACP, has died.
Post a comment
September 8th, 2020 @ 6am
Partyline
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 ...