Skip to content

A town square for an unsquare town

redbankgreen

Standing for the vitality of Red Bank, its community, and the fun we have together.

RED BANK: WIND KNOCKS OUT POWER FOR 1,006
RED BANK: Nearly one in six borough customers were affected by power disruptions Sunday evening, according to JCP&L/First Energy.
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
redbankgreen Classics
RED BANK: DOWNPOUR SOAKS REGION
RED BANK: Heavy rain drenched the region early Monday, flooding roads and leaving hundreds in the borough without electricity.
RED BANK: POWER OUTAGE REPORT
RED BANK: JCP&L/First Energy reporting 39 borough customers (out of 6,642) without electricity as of 6 a.m. due to overnight rain and wind.
RED BANK: WIND, RAIN KNOCK OUT POWER
RED BANK: Wind and rain combined to knock out power for about 250 borough homes early Monday, with wind expected to persist. Here's the forecast.
RED BANK: POWER BACK ON AS HEAT DIALS UP
RED BANK: Power almost fully restored as feels-like temperatures close to 100 loom this week. Here's the extended forecast for the Greater Green.
RED BANK: POWER OUTAGES CONTINUE
RED BANK: Power outages caused by Isaias continue, with much of Red Bank and Fair Haven still without electricity.
ON THE GREEN: OUTAGES & DELAYED OPENINGS
ON THE GREEN: A post-storm rundown of outages and delayed school starts in the Red Bank area.
LINCROFT: Power outage prompts closing of Brookdale campus for the day.
RED BANK: WEST SIDE GOES DARK, BRIEFLY
A portion of Red Bank’s West Side, including a stretch of Shrewsbury Avenue, above, was briefly without electricity Tuesday night as a result of a burned wire at Bridge AvenueContinue reading "RED BANK: WEST SIDE GOES DARK, BRIEFLY"
LITTLE SILVER: HIGH WINDS PROMPT OUTAGES
Crews from JCP&L and Little Silver cleared a fallen tree and electrical line on Branch Avenue, where a service line was torn away from the house at left during aContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER: HIGH WINDS PROMPT OUTAGES"
Some 25 telephone landlines in the Shady Oaks over-55 condo community in Middletown remained out of service Friday, eight days after a weather-related outage, Verizon tells redbankgreen. “Verizon’s repair crewsContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: PHONES OUT FOR EIGHT DAYS"
HARD-HIT SEA BRIGHT FACES BRIDGE OUTAGE
News of the planned closure of the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge had restaurateur Chris Wood lobbying elected officials for a modification Friday. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Business ownersContinue reading "HARD-HIT SEA BRIGHT FACES BRIDGE OUTAGE"
SEE UPDATE BELOW Five local teens have been charged for a brazen burglary of a Rumson home during the Hurricane Sandy-induced power outage, borough police reported Thursday. The arrests ofContinue reading "RUMSON CHARGES TEENS IN SANDY BURGLARY"
By: REBECCA DESFOSSE In case it wasn’t already getting the message, JCP&L will now hear it from the Borough of Shrewsbury: get your act together. At Monday night’s town councilContinue reading "SHREWSBURY SHINES SPOTLIGHT ON JCP&L"
RED BANK: SEX, POWER AND GENERATORS
The Red Bank council wants JCP&L to send company representatives to any town with more than five percent of its customers experiencing outages. (Photo by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge)Continue reading "RED BANK: SEX, POWER AND GENERATORS"
FAIR HAVEN RATES STORM COMMUNICATIONS
A hard hat signed by Alabama Power line workers was donated to Fair Haven as thanks for the town’s hospitality at Tuesday night’s council meeting. (Photo by Wil Fulton. ClickContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN RATES STORM COMMUNICATIONS"
RED BANK POWER RESTORATION CONTINUES
A map issued by the Red Bank Office of Emergency Management late Tuesday afternoon shows, in yellow, areas of town that have been restored to full electrical service. At right,Continue reading "RED BANK POWER RESTORATION CONTINUES"
PATIENCE & GROANS AS OUTAGES PERSIST
A downed tree and electrical lines had First Street in Rumson blocked off 48 hours after the storm. Below, a sign on the locked doors of Trader Joe’s in Shrewsbury.Continue reading "PATIENCE & GROANS AS OUTAGES PERSIST"
Partyline
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 ...
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.