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Monthly Archives: April 2021

RED BANK: BROADWALK RETURNS
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RED BANK: 'Broadwalk' returns for a second year of mid-street dining and shopping, reprising a 2020 effort to bolster businesses in the pandemic.
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April 30th, 2021 @ 11am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: TOWN HALL ON FISH KILL SOUGHT
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RED BANK: Council joins Clean Ocean Action in demand for DEP town hall on fish kill that has littered Navesink and Shrewsbury with reeking carcasses.
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April 30th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: DAMAGING WINDS IN FORECAST
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RED BANK: Damaging winds expected to buffet the Greater Green Friday afternoon, with possible downed trees and power outages. Here's the extended outlook.
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April 30th, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: COUNCIL INITIATES REBUILD
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RED BANK: One day after Redevelopment Agency recommendation, council moves to jumpstart Senior Center repairs, but recriminations fly.
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April 29th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: NEW PLAN FOR CORNER SITE
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RED BANK: Developer seeks OK for retail and apartments at Monmouth and Pearl, just yards from two other pending apartment projects.
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April 28th, 2021 @ 4pm
RED BANK: SENIOR CENTER FIX-UP ADVANCES
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RED BANK: Redevelopment Agency advances repair plan for Senior Center, potentially defusing a hot issue in Democratic primary.
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April 27th, 2021 @ 6pm
RED BANK: LIBRARY REOPENS, WITH LIMITS
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RED BANK: Public library begins easing pandemic restrictions with resumption of in-person services, by appointment, for up to an hour per visit.
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April 27th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: COUNCIL TO HIRE SEARCH FIRM
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RED BANK: On council agenda: police chief to be named interim administrator while search firm seeks permanent replacement. Not on: a charter study.
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April 26th, 2021 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: THREE RIVER PROJECTS SLATED
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FAIR HAVEN: A new floating dock at the municipal boat launch and upgrades to two pocket parks on the Navesink are up for greenlighting Monday night.
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April 26th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: FISH KILL ‘MOST SEVERE’ OF LATE
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RED BANK: Clean Ocean Action reports on meeting with DEP over 'most severe' menhaden die-off in Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers in recent memory.
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April 23rd, 2021 @ 5am
RED BANK: MAN & DOG ESCAPE HOUSE FIRE
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RED BANK: Owner and dog unhurt as fire damages their Bank Street home Thursday afternoon. Mattress heater believed to have been cause.
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April 22nd, 2021 @ 2pm
RED BANK: PICK-IT-UP MARKS EARTH DAY
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RED BANK: Pick-It-Up volunteers mark Earth Day and third anniversary of clearing downtown of litter while spreading message of "responsible consumerism."
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April 22nd, 2021 @ 12pm
LINCROFT: TUNING UP, ‘CARBERSHOP’-STYLE
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LINCROFT: Unable to sing in person, and frustrated by Zoom, the Chorus of the Atlantic finds a workaround: 'carbershop' rehearsals in a church parking lot.
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April 21st, 2021 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: LOADS OF PRAISE FOR DPW PLAN
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FAIR HAVEN: Latest plan for overhauling public works facility gets lots of love, and no thumbs-downs, at planning board capital review.
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April 21st, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: ADULT SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE
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RED BANK: Applications for adult scholarships now being accepted by the Eastern Monmouth Area Chamber of Commerce Educational Foundation.
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April 20th, 2021 @ 4pm
VIRUS UPDATES: STATE VAX TOTAL TOPS 6M
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RED BANK: State tops six million vaccine doses since start of pandemic campaign, with 2.5 million residents now fully vaccinated, Murphy says.
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April 19th, 2021 @ 4pm
RED BANK: MENHADEN DIE-OFF IN SPOTLIGHT
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RED BANK: Clean Ocean Action presses state for a town hall on fish die-off, which scientists attribute to bacterium specific to menhaden.
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April 19th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: A SPRITZ OR TWO OF SPRING
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RED BANK: The Greater Green may get a spritz of rain Monday and again later in the week. Here's the extended weather forecast. 
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April 19th, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: COOKIES, SOAP, TATS, GOLF & MORE
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a cookie bakery, an 'occult' soap shop, a tattoo parlor and a 'golf lounge' plan openings downtown.
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April 16th, 2021 @ 1pm
RED BANK: LIBRARY NIXES LATE FINES
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RED BANK: Late getting that book or DVD back to the public library? Not to worry. Fines for overdue materials are now a relic of the past.
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April 16th, 2021 @ 10am
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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 ...