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The Red Bank Board of Education last night ratified a five-year employment contract with Superintendent Laura Morana that will pay her $155,000 this year, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The pact includes annual four-percent raises. It replaces a three-year...
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
redbankgreen chanced up this scrap of paper lying in the grass at Meadow Ridge Park in Rumson over the weekend. Maybe the planet was trying to tell us something? Well, many people are listening, of course. Tonight, at the Red...
Cody Kasselman, as Belle, warms up her pipes for this week's opening. By TOM CHESEK It's a "tale as old as time" in the words of the Oscar-nominated song; an eternal bedtime-story blockbuster that's been adapted many times over —...
Belinda Dark signs in to vote at the Evergreen Terrace Community Room yesterday afternoon. Monmouth County voters approved school budgets in 74 percent of districts in yesterday's board elections, the Asbury Park Press reports today. Out of 54 budgets, 40...
Somebody with a wry appreciation for the so-called Golden Age of television has been throwing anonymous lifelines to Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High students who have both financial need and middling grades, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: Thanks...
Yesterday's lockdown at Rumson-Fair Haven High was prompted by a terroristic threat sent by a 17-year-old Ocean Township boy in an instant message to a 16-year-old female student, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The threat was neither sent to the...
Students at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School spent more than two hours this afternoon locked in classrooms while authorities investigated a security threat, redbankgreen has learned. The Asbury Park Press reported that the school entered into a 2 1/2-hour lockdown...
Stacey Liss, right, clinical supervisor at RBR's the Source, discusses plans for "Surviving the Teen Years" with Source coordinator Gilda Rogers, left, and parent Karen Lloyd, center. They'll go on the Internet, where they may unwittingly subject themselves to the...
For those recent high school and college grads wondering how to catch one last low-pressure summer, or those underemployed everybody-elses pining for a summer gig with lots of fresh air, this just in from deputy borough clerk Pam Borghi: Red...
The tax for the Red Bank Regional High School district will rise for Little Silver and Shrewsbury property owners and decline for those in Red Bank under the proposed $23.3 million budget up for a vote April 15, today's Asbury...
Bailey Taft, left, and Melissa Dominach with just a fraction of the gear they've collected for Red Bank athletic programs. (Photo courtesy of Margie Dominach) Each year, one student from every public middle and high school in Monmouth County is...
Kathi Cronin, Fair Haven schools superintendent and Mets fan. By LINDA G. RASTELLI Kathi Cronin, a Middletown native and Mater Dei grad, has two passions: public education and the New York Mets. "Hope springs eternal," she says, referring to the...
"Regionalization does not work for small communities. Period." That's how an op-ed piece by Sea Bright Mayor Maria Fernandes, writing in today's Asbury Park Press, begins. Her target: state-mandated formulas for apportioning costs among towns joined in regional school districts....
Melissa Dominach and Bailey Taft with Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna, left, and Councilman John Curley. Last month, redbankgreen featured Bailey Taft and Melissa Dominach, seventh-graders from the Knollwood School in Fair Haven who had launched a non-profit enterprise to...
By TOM CHESEK With his luxurious mane of silver hair, his Continental bearing, and his years of training in the most formidable academies of the former Soviet Union, Vladislav Kovalsky could be said to embody the very image of the...
The lawsuit that redbankgreen reported Red Bank officials had authorized over the Children's Cultural Center has not been filed, and the two sides are continuing to talk, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: The fingers of borough officials...
Following the lead of the Red Bank schools, Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School plans to introduce Chinese language study next fall, and will share a teacher in the effort with Red Bank Regional, the Asbury Park Press reports. From the...
Boarding the bus for Friday night's playoff game were, from left, Kerry Wilson and Katie Devin of Shrewsbury and Amanda Kohlbecker of Little Silver. How this story stayed under the media radar we have no idea. But the Red Bank...
Today, redbankgreen introduces 'DONE GOOD,' an occasional feature spotlighting individuals and organizations making a positive impact on their communities through volunteer efforts. For info on submitting items for consideration, see below. TONIGHT: RBR Hosts art auction The third annual charity...
Centennial logo design winner Alexis Holiday is a fourth-generation Red Banker. The winner of a contest for a logo to commemorate Red Bank's first hundred years is a 14-year-old Charter School student who only recently began dabbling in Adobe Photoshop,...
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RIVERSIDE FLOW
New Jersey Flow Arts brings together jugglers, poi spinners, hoopers and more weekly in Riverside Gardens Park.
Honeybee swarm carted away
Beekeeper Tanya Ptak of Ptak’s Apiary inspects a swarm of honeybees that chose a flower pot in the courtyard of Red Bank Primary Schoo ...
BELOVED POISONED DOG PHOTO SURFACES
   
THREE ON TOUR
RED BANK: Three borough sites will participate in a weekend of self-guided tours of 52 historic locations in Monmouth County May 4 & 5.
VOLUNTEERS GET INTO THE WEEDS
Toting plastic trash bags, 51 volunteers conducted a walking litter cleanup on Red Bank's West Side Saturday.
“IT’S A PARTY AT WAWA!”
You wish you could vibe like Brian, who lives on the other side of Hubbard’s Bridge. He caught redbankgreen’s attention in Red B ...
POPE OKS ORATORY
RED BANK: St. Anthony of Padua obtains papal approval to establish Oratory of St. Philip Neri, a community of priests and brothers devoted t ...
RED BANK: NEW MURAL BRIGHTENS CORNER
RED BANK: Lunch Break founder Norma Todd is depicted in a mural painted this week on the front of the newly renovated social service agency.
TULIPS TOGETHER
Spring tulips taking in the sunset outside the Molly Pitcher Inn in Red Bank Monday evening.
RIVER RANGERS RETURN
River Rangers, a summer canoeing program offered by the Navesink Maritime Heritage Association, returns this summer for up to 20 participa ...
DOUBLE DYLAN IN RED BANK
Trucks for a production company filming what one worker said was a Bob Dylan biography have lined Monmouth Street the past two days with cre ...
AFTER THE RAIN
A pear tree branch brought down by a brief overnight storm left a lovely tableau on the sidewalk in front of Red Bank's Riverside Gardens Pa ...
CONE OF UNCERTAINTY
Asked by a redbankgreen reporter why these cones were on top of cars, the owner of the car in the foreground responded: “That’s ...
RAIL RIDER’S VIEW
A commuter's view of Cooper's Bridge and the Navesink River from North Jersey Coast Line train 3320 out of Red Bank Tuesday morning.
PUT ME IN COACH!
Red Bank T-Ball kicked off at East Side park on Saturday morning. The brisk weather proved to be no deterrent to the young players, ranging ...
IT’S A SIGN!
Once proudly declaring its all-but-certain arrival in Spring 2019, the project previously known as Azalea Gardens springs to life again with ...
SPRINGTIME MEMORIES OF CARL
The Easter Bunny getup and St. Patrick’s Day hat that belonged to longtime Red Bank crossing guard and neighborhood smile-creator Carl ...
RED TRUCKS AT RED ROCK
A small dishwasher fire at Red Rock Tap and Grill was put out quickly by firefighters overnight, causing minimal damage. Red Bank Fire Depar ...
CREATIVE COVER UP
The windows of Pearl Street Consignment on Monmouth Street were smashed when a driver crashed their car through them injuring an employee la ...
THEY’RE BACK!
Ospreys returned to the skies over Red Bank this week for the first time since they migrated to warmer climes in late fall. With temperature ...