Category Archives: Web/Tech

Lest we forget, Red Bank is still in its centennial year, and reminders of that milestone continue to pop up now and again. The latest is the above video, shot and produced by four students, aged 14 to 17, who...

An original music video made by and starring students at the Red Bank Middle School has reached the finals of a contest promising $25,000 worth of educational technology to the winner, redbankgreen has learned. From photo/art/culture teacher Chris Ippolito: We...

Eighth-graders Michelle Reyes, in white, and Anisa Abella watch the RBMS video at Monday night's council meeting. This time last year, the kids at the Red Bank Middle School were jamming on a video entry for a contest that might...

Longtime redbankgreen readers may recall our feature some 17 months ago about Tinton Falls Councilman Mike Skudera's push for better use of the web by municipal governments. First of all, he wanted those that weren't on the Internet to build...

Andrew Mencinsky and a brigade of sea paddlers head down the Hudson River last year. They'll be doing the same next week. In May, 2007, a two-mile-wide tornado tore through the town of Greensburg, Kansas, destroying 95 percent of its...

You've seen the teaser logos for about eight months. Well, the countdown is finally over. Today, redbankgreen marks its first significant expansion with the launch of Red Bank oRBit, a new website dedicated to comprehensive coverage of the local arts,...

New Jersey's largest daily is "losing a battle to survive," its publisher says. The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest newspaper, has to shrink its payroll by 200 jobs and retool two union contracts by October 1 or it will have to...

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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...

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,...

A retired Fair Haven policeman and former borough official has taken a plea of endangering he welfare of a child after he was alleged to have used a Borough Hall computer to view child pornography, the Asbury Park Press reports...

By TOM CHESEK The news has at least two generations of local residents disappointed and disgusted, but the Internet Café is "throwing in the towel," says owner Joe Cullity. In the wake of an incident that saw a recent show...

A refurbished room on the second floor of the library. The room was once a bedroom in the Eisner family home. Months overdue but not over budget, the renovated Red Bank Public Library will reopen at 1p next Tuesday, Borough...

Colorful chairs for little people await the reopening of the children's room at the renovated Red Bank Public Library last week. Today's Asbury Park Press reports that the elevator at the Red Bank Public Library passed a state inspection Friday,...

Jim Willis in East Side Park. Jim Willis rolled into town three months ago eager to do some community building. It's what he does. A self-employed 36-year-old techie, Willis spends his workdays knocking down perceived barriers between people and information....

File photo of the Verizon building at 183 Broad Street. A measure that would have settled a tax appeal by Verizon Inc. on its Broad Street switching station was tabled by the borough council last night after a debate that...

Yo, yo, check it out. A hastily made rap video by bunch of students at Red Bank Middle School has advanced to the final five in a nationwide contest that will land the winning school $15,000 worth of classroom technology....

Tinton Falls is holding an online beauty contest, and the contestants are two new websites. Or more accurately, they're two versions of the the same site. The more popular of the two will become the new municipal site, replacing the...

There's lots of empty space as Michael Bonney transitions his Monmouth Street shop from a newsstand to a convenience store. By LINDA G. RASTELLI When Michael Bonney bought Red Bank News in May, it seemed the decades-old monument to print...

Starting next month, Diney's Place/The Children's Cultural Center won't be just for kids anymore. Turns out that investing a ton of money to transform the former Red Bank municipal building and police station into a learning center full of digital...