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Category Archives: Seniors

DOCUMENTARY KEEPS STORIES OF RED BANK’S “UNCLE FUNZI” ALIVE
Now streaming on Youtube: the colorful life story of Alphonso Tomaino, aka "Uncle Funzi" aka "Red Bank hillbilly" who died at age 101. (click to read)
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January 27th, 2025 @ 3pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: FIRE VICTIM MOURNED
RED BANK: Would-be rescuer recounts fatal blaze, and community gathers to mourn its 90-year-old victim, "loving and kind" Hazel Davis.
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November 15th, 2023 @ 5pm
RED BANK: 90-YEAR-OLD KILLED IN FIRE
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RED BANK: A 90-year-old woman died in Wednesday morning's fire at Evergreen Terrace complex, said fire Chief Hartman.
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November 15th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: ROSI LISTING RUSHED THROUGH
RED BANK: Ignoring planning board rejection, soon-to-be-replaced council OKs 11th-hour attempt to protect Senior Center property.
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June 15th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: After a failed attempt to preserve part of the Senior Center property by subdivision, council will try another approach.
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June 13th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: BOARD NIXES CENTER SUBDIVISION
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RED BANK: Planning board rejects subdivision of Senior Center property as ceding control of land to New Jersey "in return for nothing."
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June 6th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: SENIOR CENTER TO REOPEN AT LAST
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RED BANK: After a four-year closure and $2 million in repairs, Senior Center slated to formally reopen next week.
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May 30th, 2023 @ 1pm
RED BANK: SENIOR CENTER LOBBY DEDICATED
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RED BANK: Lobby of long-closed Senior Center named in memory of the late Thomas E. Hintelmann, the town's longest-serving council member.
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April 12th, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: EVENT SLATED AT SENIOR CENTER
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RED BANK: Officials schedule dedication ceremony at long-closed Senior Center, but it's maybe not what you're thinking.
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April 10th, 2023 @ 11am
RED BANK: SENIOR CENTER WORK DELAYED
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RED BANK: Completion of Senior Center repairs held up by a shortage of materials, officials say. Here's the latest.
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January 3rd, 2023 @ 3pm
RED BANK: SENIOR CENTER UPDATE
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RED BANK: Where do repairs stand with the Senior Center, which has been shuttered more than three years? We check in on the latest.
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September 8th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: WALKING TOURS HIT THE BRICKS
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RED BANK: Environmental Commission rolls out QR code-linked walking tours of town, plus a parklet for resting up from all that walking.
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August 5th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: After an abandoned effort of year ago, council will try again to find a full-time borough administrator.
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May 12th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: Council expected award Senior Center repair contract; may also restart a search for new administrator, if Ballard prevails with resolution.
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May 10th, 2022 @ 4pm
RED BANK: CENTER FIXES OK’D, RE-ARGUED
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RED BANK: Even as they approve spending for Senior Center repairs, Democrats split over how long it took and who should have 'found' funding sooner.
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February 24th, 2022 @ 2pm
RED BANK: ‘BOAT RAMP’ TO FUND CENTER FIX
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RED BANK: Funding for Senior Center repairs includes 30-year-old account set aside for a contemplated boat ramp that was never built.
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February 22nd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: $2M CENTER REPAIRS ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Almost $2M in funding for Senior Center repairs on the table as council holds workshop and regular sessions Wednesday night.
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February 9th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: CENTER REPAIR PLANS TWEAKED
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RED BANK: Residents weigh in with suggestions large (dig basement) and small (add door buzzer) on long-awaited Senior Center repairs.
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October 28th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: CENTER REPAIR FORUMS SLATED
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RED BANK: Public forums on planned repairs and changes to Senior Center slated for October 27.
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October 15th, 2021 @ 4pm
RED BANK: SENIORS MARK END OF SUMMER
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RED BANK: Senior citizens, still displaced from their customary gathering place, mark end of summer with a cookout at the Westside Hose Company.
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October 11th, 2021 @ 6am
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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 ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.