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Category Archives: History

RED BANK: TRINITY LAUNCHES FUNDRAISER
RED BANK: Trinity Church takes it heavenward in an effort to raise funds for a renovation project to restore its bell tower.
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March 22nd, 2021 @ 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: VIEWS SPLIT ON MUMFORD PLAN
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RED BANK: Mumford plan for stores and 23 apartments on Shrewsbury Avenue gets mixed reviews but no zoning board decision yet.
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March 19th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: NEW TOOTH SIGN OK’D
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RED BANK: Historic Preservation Commission OK's replacement of dentist's tooth-shaped sign in less time than recommended for a good brushing.
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March 18th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: BIG DOORS, BIG TOOTH ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Two restaurants propose garage-style doors, and dentist seeks to replace iconic tooth sign when Historic Preservation Commission meets.
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March 17th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: APARTMENTS & STORES PROPOSED
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RED BANK: Mumford plan for stores and 25 apartments on Shrewsbury Avenue goes to zoning board in search of variances this week.
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March 16th, 2021 @ 2pm
FAIR HAVEN: FOREFRONT NEARS PROJECT END
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FAIR HAVEN: What's Going On Here, with another historic building up on blocks? Tech entrepreneur nears goal line of multiyear preservation effort.
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March 12th, 2021 @ 12pm
RED BANK: DREAMING BIG ABOUT RIVERVIEW
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RED BANK: Developer who made a windfall on land sale to Riverview commissioned concept plans that depict a vastly expanded hospital campus.
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February 24th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: RIVERVIEW DEAL YIELDS WINDFALL
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RED BANK: Sale of vacant land to Riverview Medical Center yields windfall for seller: a 300-percent profit in less than four years.
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February 23rd, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: BASIE TOUR & MORE ON AN APP
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RED BANK: New app created by High Tech High students offers walking tour of significant places in the life of William 'Count' Basie.
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February 10th, 2021 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: HISTORIC TREES GET A TRIM
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FAIR HAVEN: The majestic avenue of sycamore trees along Buttonwood Drive is getting an overdue pruning this week, following an arborist's recommendation.
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February 9th, 2021 @ 3pm
SHREWSBURY: YMCA HONORS DR. KING
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SHREWSBURY: YMCA of Greater Monmouth County honors life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
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January 29th, 2021 @ 11am
RED BANK: SPLASHY ‘STASH’ WINDOWS OK’D
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RED BANK: Filmmaker Kevin Smith, characteristically profane, wins approval for splashy signage on new Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash store.
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January 21st, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: ‘STASH’ SIGNAGE UP FOR REVIEW
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RED BANK: Preservation commission to review sign requests by Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash; a pizzeria; and a juice bar, all on Broad Street.
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January 20th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: MANSION RAZED; MORE LAND EYED
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RED BANK: Ignoring pleas by preservationists, Riverview razes 19th-century riverfront mansion, and moves to acquire more property.
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December 28th, 2020 @ 3pm
RED BANK: AFTER ‘NO-HO-HO,’ CHIMNEY’S A GO
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RED BANK: After a 'no-ho-ho' for 'eyesore' chimney, Historic Preservation Commission OKs amended plan for Washington Street house.
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December 24th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: Westside Hose Company has two new volunteer firefighters in the house, and one is already the borough fire commissioner.
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November 25th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: HOSPITAL PLAN DRAWS HPC IRE
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RED BANK: Frustration erupts at Historic Preservation Commission over hospital plan to raze riverfront Victorian mansion.
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November 19th, 2020 @ 1pm
RED BANK: PLAN TO GET HISTORIC REVIEW
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RED BANK: Plans to remodel a fire-damaged home slated for review by the Historic Preservation Commission Wednesday night.
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November 18th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: LOCALS CELEBRATE BIDEN VICTORY
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RED BANK: Biden-Harris supporters gathered in Riverside Gardens Park Saturday to celebrate the win. Here are some of their thoughts.
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November 9th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: SPLIT COUNCIL OKS ENGINE DEAL
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RED BANK: Purchase of two fire engines approved after Ballard and Zipprich find themselves on short end of another split within the all-Democratic council.
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October 15th, 2020 @ 7am
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 ...