RED BANK: COUNCIL SALARIES UNCHANGED

Sep 27, 2023

The council meets twice monthly at borough hall, 90 Monmouth Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Salaries for Red Bank’s mayor and council, which haven’t risen in at least 15 years, will remain unchanged at least through the remainder of 2023, under an resolution up for a vote Thursday night.

But whomever the governing body selects to fill the new borough manager post will have the latitude to give them specified raises under a related ordinance that’s also up for a vote.

Here’s a quick look at the agenda:

September 27, 2023 - 8:58 am |

RED BANK: SALARY BUMPS & MORE ON AGENDA

Sep 14, 2023

The council meets twice monthly at borough hall, 90 Monmouth Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank’s council would clear the way to give itself its first pay bump in at least 15 years under an ordinance up for introduction Thursday night.

It would also reset the maximum salaries for the top three unelected positions at borough hall, one of which is open.

Here’s a quick look at the agenda:

September 14, 2023 - 8:30 am |

RED BANK: URBAN OUTFITTERS BUILDING SOLD

May 12, 2023

One of Red Bank’s landmark commercial buildings has a new owner, redbankgreen has learned.

Two other downtown buildings have also changed hands recently.

May 12, 2023 - 7:20 am |

RED BANK: BROAD STREET ‘VAULT’ SOLD

Nov 10, 2022

After a long-overdue sprucing-up and revival as office space, a prominent building in downtown Red Bank changed hands late last month, redbankgreen has learned.

November 10, 2022 - 10:45 am |

RED BANK: BUILDING VALUE DOUBLES. HOW?

Oct 18, 2022

The building at 14-16 Broad Street doubled in value in just two years. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Talk about rapid inflation: a downtown Red Bank commercial building doubled in value over the last two years, according to a recent sale.

What’s Going On Here?

October 18, 2022 - 6:50 am |

RED BANK: MINORITIES AND HEALTH IN FOCUS

Sep 1, 2022

Parker Family Health Center executive director Suzy Dyer with clinic founder Dr. Eugene Cheslock during Wednesday’s discussion. (Photo from Zoom. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Despite progress in recent decades, minority group members are still impacted by “medical apartheid,” a health professional said at a Red Bank Public Library discussion Wednesday night.

Panelists and about two dozen viewers took stock of some healthcare challenges faced by the disenfranchised during the latest entry in the library’s ‘Let’s Talk About Race‘ series.

September 1, 2022 - 12:00 pm |

RED BANK: MERCHANTS BLAST FEE HIKE

Jun 9, 2022

Red Tank Brewing owner John Arcara speaking at Wednesday’s council session. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

The Red Bank council voted Wednesday to boost the fees charged to restaurants to maintain tables in parking spaces converted to streateries.

The action followed claims by two business owners that the hike was onerous.

June 9, 2022 - 2:50 pm |

RED BANK: STREATERIES ON HOLD

May 31, 2022

Borough workers created a streatery outside Bombay River and Tacoholics restaurants on Broad Street in July, 2020. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

At the Red Bank council’s first in-person session in more than two years last week, a lone member failed to advance a pandemic-era fix said to be favored by two merchant organizations: street eateries.

May 31, 2022 - 7:50 am |

RED BANK: RIVERCENTER TAPS DOWNTOWN PRO

May 23, 2022

Bob Zuckerman has run business-promotion organizations in South Orange, where he’s now an elected official, and Westfield. (Photo by Matt Glass. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

A downtown-management professional with extensive experience in New York and New Jersey has been tapped to run Red Bank RiverCenter, the organization announced Thursday.

Bob Zuckerman replaces Glenn Carter, the onetime borough planning director who served as RiverCenter’s executive for less than a year prior to his retirement earlier this year.

May 23, 2022 - 7:20 am |

RED BANK: MEAL PROVIDERS TEAM UP

Apr 12, 2022

(Press release from Soup Kitchen 411)

It wasn’t the first time they’ve collaborated to feed community members, but on the mild April Monday morning, the smell of delicious meals was almost unparalleled. The vegetarian sandwiches featured roasted red pepper hummus with lettuce tomatoes and cabbage, while the meat sandwiches had just about any and every type of meat carnivores crave—ham with mustard aioli, monterey jack cheese, mixed greens, tomatoes; turkey/pastrami with creamy horseradish, monterey cheese, lettuce tomatoes; grilled chicken with roasted red peppers, basil aioli and arugula, all in hearty ciabatta bread.

April 12, 2022 - 3:30 pm |

RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK COLLECTS PROMWEAR

Feb 3, 2022

(Press release from Lunch Break)

Lunch Break, the food pantry and social service resource center in Red Bank, is accepting formal-wear donations for female and male students from Feb. 1-March 31, 2022 at its facility, 121 Drs. James Parker Blvd., as part of the Sixth Annual Prom Drive and Give-Away.

February 3, 2022 - 11:00 am |

RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK IN HOUSING MERGER

Jan 4, 2022

Lunch Break Board President Philip Antoon and Family Promise of Monmouth County Board President Jessica Stepanski sign ceremonial document incorporating Family Promise into the Lunch Break network of programs. (Photo courtesy of Lunch Break. Click to enlarge.)

Press release Lunch Break

Addressing the systemic problem of homelessness in Monmouth County has long been on Lunch Break’s radar. Community members without adequate housing have sought the resource center’s help with life’s basic necessities, among them, shelter.

January 4, 2022 - 4:05 pm |

RED BANK: GUITARS, TOYS & TABLES CHURN IN

Nov 12, 2021

Relic Music owner Mike Nicosia with one of the Dunable guitars his shop carries. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Amid a booming market for six-stringed instruments, a boutique retailer of electric guitars has opened in downtown Red Bank.

Also in this edition of Retail Churn: a new combo toy and sports memorabilia shop, and a Ukrainian maker of custom tables and jewelry making its United States landfall, both on Broad Street.

November 12, 2021 - 7:58 am |

RED BANK: EBANKS OFFERS PLANNING PRIMER

Oct 15, 2021

Community planning director Shawna Ebanks speaking at the library Thursday night. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

About 15 Red Bank residents got a brief seminar in municipal planning and zoning at the public library Thursday night.

But presenter Shawna Ebanks, the borough’s director of community development, steered clear of third-rail issues such as tax abatements.

October 15, 2021 - 7:57 am |

RED BANK: TOWN HALL OPEN BY APPOINTMENT

Sep 20, 2021

After 17 months off-limits to visitors as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, offices in Red Bank’s borough hall have reopened on an appointment-only basis Monday, the town announced Monday.

September 20, 2021 - 8:30 am |

RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK REOPENS ITS DOORS

Jul 21, 2021

Lunch Break’s kitchen staff stands ready to again serve in-person guests. (Lunch Break photo. Click to enlarge.)

(Press release from Lunch Break)

After 15 months of operating as a take-away facility because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Red Bank’s Lunch Break is again offering its guests seated meals onsite, the food security and social services resource announced Wednesday.

July 21, 2021 - 11:50 am |

LITTLE SILVER: COVID SHUTS WEIGHT ROOM

Jul 15, 2021

After a Red Bank Regional High School student tested positive for COVID-19 this week, the Little Silver school’s weight room was closed for additional cleaning, an official told players and parents Thursday.

July 15, 2021 - 3:40 pm |

RED BANK: BOARD TAPS BOWERS-CRADER

Jun 30, 2021

Samantha Bowers-Crader with her father, John Bowers, at the Mayor’s Ball in 2018. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank RiverCenter‘s new chairperson is filling a seat held three decades ago by her father.

June 30, 2021 - 11:45 am |

RED BANK: CARTER TO LEAD RIVERCENTER

May 26, 2021

Glenn Carter and OceanFirst Bank’s Robin Fitzmaurice at the Mayor’s Ball at the Oyster Point Hotel in 2018. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

A familiar face has been hired to run Red Bank RiverCenter, the downtown promotion organization: former borough planning director Glenn Carter.

May 26, 2021 - 3:45 pm |

RED BANK: MASTER PLAN UPDATE BEGINS

May 18, 2021

A southward view of Broad Street from 2012. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank embarked on a full-scale rewriting of its Master Plan for the first time in 25 years Monday night.

At a meeting via Zoom that lasted less than 12 minutes, the planning board initiated what could be a two-year process of rethinking the town’s zoning for the next generation.

May 18, 2021 - 7:52 am |

RED BANK: KIRKPATRICK QUITS RIVERCENTER

May 11, 2021

Laura Kirkpatrick addressing the Red Bank council in March, 2020. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

[See UPDATE below]

By JOHN T. WARD

For the second time in just 17 months, the downtown promotion organization Red Bank RiverCenter is losing its executive director.

After just one, pandemic-filled year, Laura Kirkpatrick has resigned as operational head of the agency that manages the borough’s special improvement district, redbankgreen has learned.

May 11, 2021 - 4:00 pm |

RED BANK: STUDENTS HELP FEED THE HUNGRY

May 4, 2021

Brigid Hempstead, right, with her twin sister Siobhan and teacher Brian Nesci planting vegetables on the lot last Saturday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

On a vacant lot in Red Bank, students from Red Bank Catholic High School are mixing the ancient lessons of agriculture with new technology to help tackle food insecurity amid a global pandemic.

They’re also hoping to create a new model for food-sharing.

May 4, 2021 - 7:59 am |

RED BANK: ADULT SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE

Apr 20, 2021

Press release from the Eastern Monmouth Area Chamber of Commerce Educational Foundation

A scholarship for higher education is life changing, just ask Laura Burns, a school teacher in Hazlet, who wanted to continue graduate work to reach her goal in school administration. As a middle school language arts and social studies teacher, Laura (at right) dreamed of taking the next step but realized the financial hurdles to make it happen would be an obstacle. She applied to the Eastern Monmouth Area Chamber of Commerce (EMACC) Educational Foundation for its annual scholarship and the rest is history or her story.

April 20, 2021 - 4:05 pm |

LITTLE SILVER: RBR SET FOR MP4 AND BEYOND

Mar 30, 2021

Closing out its third marking period last week, Red Bank Regional High School shared photos over the weekend of the recently completed addition to the Little Silver school, above and below.

March 30, 2021 - 7:52 am |

LITTLE SILVER: RBR BACK TO REMOTE CLASSES

Mar 11, 2021

[See UPDATE below]

Red Bank Regional High School will revert to an all-remote schedule Friday because of “high rates of community transmission” of COVID-19 and other factors, Superintendent Lou Moore announced Thursday evening.

March 11, 2021 - 10:34 pm |

1 2 3 4 5 >»

redbankgreen.com

PO Box 8683
Red Bank NJ 07701

© 2024 redbankgreen.com. No portion of this website or its content can be used without permission. All rights reserved.