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Category Archives: COVID-19 Pandemic 2020

RED BANK: MARKET RETURNING AS DRIVE-THRU
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RED BANK: The Galleria's farm market plans to open May 17, with a host of new rules for the COVID-19 era. Rule number one: it'll be drive-thru only.
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May 4th, 2020 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: PARKS SEE COMPLIANCE, IT SEEMS
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RED BANK: Parks reopen without any "significant" social distancing issues, police say. But there was no shortage of possibly maybe sorta questionable behavior...
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May 4th, 2020 @ 9am
VIRUS UPDATE: SIGNS OF EASING IMPACT
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VIRUS UPDATE: Ten more Monmouth County COVID-19 deaths reported as other indicators suggest continued, gradual easing of pandemic's impact.
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May 3rd, 2020 @ 4pm
VIRUS UPDATE: A ‘TOUGH’ WEEK OF DEATHS
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VIRUS UPDATE: After a week with more than 1,800 deaths in the COVID-19 crisis, Murphy says all other "important metrics" are on positive tracks.
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May 2nd, 2020 @ 2pm
VIRUS UPDATE: SANDY HOOK REOPENING MAY 9
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SANDY HOOK: Gateway National Recreation Area plans partial reopening May 9, with capacity limited to 50 percent of parking and ban on swimming and gatherings.
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May 1st, 2020 @ 6pm
RED BANK: ENFORCEMENT PLANNED IN PARKS
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RED BANK: With beautiful spring weather expected, police plan "frequent" foot patrols as parks reopen after three-shutdown Saturday, chief says.
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May 1st, 2020 @ 4pm
VIRUS UPDATE: PARK OPENINGS TOP AGENDA
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VIRUS UPDATE: Facing favorable weather and 9 million cases of cabin fever, Murphy hammers message on social distancing as he prepares to reopen parks.
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May 1st, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: ZOOMING IN ON PARKING & MORE
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RED BANK: For your viewing pleasure, here's a look-ahead at upcoming borough meetings, including a presentation on changes to the White Street parking lot.
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May 1st, 2020 @ 10am
VIRUS UPDATE: ‘SOBERING’ JUMP IN DEATHS
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VIRUS UPDATE: Adjustment to death total yields greatest one-day increase in COVID-19 losses as other indicators improve, Murphy Administration reports.
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April 30th, 2020 @ 5pm
RED BANK: VNA expects to roll out saliva-based test for COVID-19 here next week. Developed at Rutgers, it's now available in Asbury Park, VNA says.
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April 30th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: PARKS TO REOPEN SATURDAY
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RED BANK: Following Murphy's reversal of his shutdown of state and county parks, barricades at borough parks are set to come down at dawn Saturday, too.
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April 30th, 2020 @ 8am
VIRUS UPDATE: MURPHY REOPENING PARKS
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy orders state parks reopened, but threatens another shutdown "if we don't like what we see" in social distancing behavior.
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April 29th, 2020 @ 3pm
LITTLE SILVER: RBR REWORKS HEARING PLAN
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LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional board scraps plan for "live, in-person" meeting after questions about whether it violated Murphy's "stay home" order.
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April 29th, 2020 @ 12pm
LITTLE SILVER: RBR SETS IN-PERSON HEARING
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LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional High board plans a "live, in-person" meeting Wednesday night, despite Governor Murphy's "stay home" order.
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April 28th, 2020 @ 10pm
VIRUS UPDATE: MURPHY PICKS ‘RESTART’ TEAM
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy names "restart and recovery" team but declines to say when state might reopen as data shows continued gains against COVID-19.
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April 28th, 2020 @ 3pm
LITTLE SILVER: RESPONDERS GET SPOTLIGHT
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LITTLE SILVER: Townwide lightup and fundraiser for volunteer fire and first aiders planned as thank-you for first-responders in the COVID-19 crisis.
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April 28th, 2020 @ 8am
VIRUS UPDATE: MURPHY MAPS ‘ROAD BACK’
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy maps out broad "restart and recovery" parameters for reopening state economy, which he expects to begin in "weeks, not months."
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April 27th, 2020 @ 1pm
VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy administration reports lowest new death toll from COVID-19 since April 1 as other indicators also point to improvement.
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April 26th, 2020 @ 9pm
VIRUS UPDATE: MORE PROGRESS REPORTED
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VIRUS UPDATE: Murphy reports continued improvements in COVID-19 fight as he prepares to unveil "broad parameters" for possible eventual reopening.
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April 25th, 2020 @ 3pm
VIRUS UPDATE: CRISIS SHOWS MORE TAPERING
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VIRUS UPDATE: Data from last 10-to-14 days shows tapering ravages of COVID-19, Murphy reports as Persichilli warns against using cleaning agents as treatment.
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April 24th, 2020 @ 4pm
Partyline
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
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 ...