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RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK TO BUY CHURCH
RED BANK: Looking to address homelessness, Lunch Break will buy church site for possible residential project, redbankgreen has learned.
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RED BANK: WARMING CENTER SET FOR WINTER
RED BANK: Men's fellowship congregants of two churches team up to prepare warming center on Shrewsbury Avenue for coming winter.
SHREWSBURY: LOVE TO RECEIVE KING AWARD
SHREWSBURY: Lunch Break executive director Gwendolyn Love to receive YMCA's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Human Dignity Award.
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.
RED BANK: HUNDREDS RALLY FOR JUSTICE
RED BANK: Hundreds march through town and gather for "Justice for George Floyd" rally to protest police brutality and systemic racism. Photos.
RED BANK: RACIAL JUSTICE MARCH SLATED
RED BANK: "Justice for George" march to protest the killing of George Floyd slated to begin at Marine Park and end with rally at Count Basie Fields Tuesday afternoon.
RED BANK: KNOCKOUT WEATHER FOR… SUNDAY
RED BANK: The sun will fight to be seen over the next two days, but is expected to deliver a knockout Sunday. Here's the forecast for the Greater Green.
SHREWSBURY: YMCA URGES ‘TOGETHERHOOD’
SHREWSBURY: YMCA of Greater Monmouth County rolls out a yearlong effort to promote 'togetherhood' by supporting community needs.
MIDDLETOWN: FIELD OF FLAGS DEDICATED
MIDDLETOWN: This year's Field of Flags at Westminster Presbyterian Church honors 6,972 military personnel who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.
RED BANK: Council meeting won't be held on Yom Kippur after all as three council members walk back their controversy-stirring votes.
RED BANK: Council debates balloon-release ordinance. Menna says it shouldn't apply when "a kid's singing 'Happy Birthday' and the balloon goes in the air."
RED BANK: ‘SURPRISE’ RIFT OVER YOM KIPPUR
RED BANK: Rejecting otherwise routine change, council decides on split vote to stick to its schedule and meet on October 9, Yom Kippur.
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RECORDS SKIP INTO TOWN
RED BANK: Devotees of vinyl records expected to drop needle at Broad and Mechanic Saturday. Here's why.
Feline fortunes on Monmouth Street
Christopher Russell and feline pal Princess take in some fresh air on a warm May night Thursday in the doorway of Gina’s Psychic Bouti ...
GOING UP?
RED BANK: Public Library will be closed Friday for the start of elevator construction. (Click for more.)
TREEBIRTH
RED BANK: Replacement of nine trees gets underway on South Street, where a wholesale removal angered residents last September. (Click for mo ...
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 ...