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: 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: 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 |

RED BANK: DUMPED PRODUCE STUNS SHOPPERS

Jul 20, 2021

Customers of the Red Bank Farmer’s Market were alarmed to see good produce tossed into a dumpster Sunday.

July 20, 2021 - 7:30 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: PICK-IT-UP MARKS EARTH DAY

Apr 22, 2021

On an unseasonably nippy Earth Day 2021, volunteers marked the third anniversary on Thursday of Pick It Up, an effort to curb litter and single-use plastics pollution in downtown Red Bank.

April 22, 2021 - 12:00 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 |

RED BANK: PRIMARY SCHOOL BACK TO REMOTE

Jan 21, 2021

All Red Bank Primary School students, and some in the middle school, will revert to remote instruction Thursday, Superintendent Jared Rumage said in an announcement Wednesday.

He cited a number of COVID-19-related factors as driving the change.

January 21, 2021 - 6:08 am |

RED BANK: RBR BACK TO FULL-REMOTE SKED

Dec 21, 2020

Red Bank Regional High School goes back to a full-remote schedule Monday after a student who was present for two days last week tested positive for COVID-19, Superintendent Lou Moore announced Sunday.

December 21, 2020 - 6:15 am |

VIRUS: HEALTH WORKERS TO GET FIRST SHOTS

Dec 14, 2020

Frontline healthcare workers at Riverview Medical Center received cheers from the police, first aid and fire personnel in April. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

A nationwide rollout of America’s first COVID-19 vaccine is expected to begin Tuesday with inoculations of frontline healthcare workers.

Among them will be employees of Hackensack Meridian Health, the parent company of Red Bank’s Riverview Medical Center, according to chief executive Robert Garrett.

“I truly believe this is going to be the beginning of the end of this terrible pandemic,” Garrett said on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation‘ Sunday.

December 14, 2020 - 7:53 am |

RED BANK: SCHOOLS DIVERGE ON SCHEDULES

Dec 11, 2020

The construction fence surrounding an addition at Red Bank Regional High School has come down, in time for a resumption of a hybrid schedule that will bring students back to the Little Silver campus starting Monday, Superintendent Lou Moore announced Thursday.

But in Red Bank borough, RBR’s largest sending district, the primary and middle schools will remain off-limits to students and staff for another month due to the resurgent COVID-19 pandemic, Superintendent Jared Rumage said.

December 11, 2020 - 7:55 am |

VIRUS UPDATE: COVID-19 CASES ON THE RISE

Dec 7, 2020

Red Bank schools, including the middle school, continued on all-remote learning Monday after a planned return to a hybrid schedule was postponed. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Governor Phil Murphy warned of a delayed post-Thanksgiving COVID-19 surge Monday, while cautioning New Jersey residents against gathering over the coming holiday season.

December 7, 2020 - 6:30 pm |

RED BANK: LOW-KEY TREE LIGHTING

Nov 25, 2020

Red Bank’s official Christmas tree, a blue spruce donated by the Jennings family of Little Silver, was installed in Riverside Gardens Park over the past weekend. But because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lighting of the tree will be a low-key affair.

November 25, 2020 - 5:00 pm |

RED BANK: PANDEMIC-ERA ELECTION ARRIVES

Nov 3, 2020

A prospective voter peers inside Red Bank borough hall shortly before the 6 a.m. start of election voting Tuesday.

Amid concern about the spread of COVID-19, borough hall is the only polling location for all Red Bank voters this year. In-person voters will be given paper provisional ballots to complete; disabled voters only will use accessible voting devices.

Polls remain open until 8 p.m., the hour at which mail-in ballot drop-off boxes, including the one seen at right above, will be locked. Find more information here. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

November 3, 2020 - 6:40 am |

RED BANK: CONCERT OFF, LIGHT-UP STILL ON

Oct 29, 2020

An annual event that brings thousands of visitors to Red Bank and kicks off the holiday season has gotten the coronavirus bump.

What would have been the 28th annual Holiday Express concert November 27 won’t be held this year, organizers confirmed Wednesday.

October 29, 2020 - 7:30 am |

RED BANK: HALLOWEEN PARADE DELIGHTS

Oct 26, 2020

It’ll go down as the pandemic parade, but the 73rd annual Red Bank Halloween Parade held Sunday was a delight for hundreds of kids and kids at heart.

Check out redbankgreen‘s photos from the event below

October 26, 2020 - 7:40 am |

RED BANK: PARK CONCERTS CANCELLED

Sep 24, 2020

Two weeks after they were announced, six paid-admission concerts over the next two Saturdays in Red Bank’s Riverside Gardens Park have been cancelled.

September 24, 2020 - 9:38 am |

RED BANK: LIBRARY SETS PARTIAL REOPENING

Sep 22, 2020

Closed to public access by the COVID-19 pandemic since March, the Red Bank Public Library plans partial reopening starting Monday, September 28.

September 22, 2020 - 12:00 pm |

RED BANK: FOOD FESTS OUT, CONCERTS IN

Sep 11, 2020

The Weeklings, who’ve performed at past food festivals in town, will get a starring slot at a concert in Riverside Gardens Park. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

The sun has set on the possibility that downtown Red Bank will host one or maybe even two food festivals this autumn.

Instead, business promotion agency RiverCenter has put six outdoor concerts on the district’s dance card – but you’ll have to pay to attend.

September 11, 2020 - 6:45 am |

RED BANK: EX-GYMNAST BRINGS THE JUICE

Aug 19, 2020

Daniel Ardelan puts the finishing touches on the window sign at GoodVibe Nutrition Tuesday afternoon. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

Lying in bed in her New York City apartment on July 16, Irina Popa-Erwin had an insight: she had to open a store selling healthy beverages.

On Wednesday, five weeks later, she and two partners will open their business in Red Bank, a town they had never visited before they went on a mad search for a place to set up shop.

August 19, 2020 - 6:55 am |

RED BANK: PROBE, METERS & MORE ON AGENDA

Aug 17, 2020

A leak of emails, including correspondence between Councilman Ed Zipprich and a prospective bidder for the trash contract, is the subject of an investigation. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank Councilman Ed Zipprich will get the investigation into a leak of emails he requested earlier this month.

Approval of the probe, as well as final adoption of the 2020 budget; extended hours of parking meter enforcement; and a half-dozen police department promotions are all on the council’s busy agenda for Wednesday night.

August 17, 2020 - 6:50 am |

RED BANK: LATIN-FLAVORED CAFÉ OPENS

Jul 8, 2020

Their plans disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis, a longtime Red Bank-area chef and his two sons have opened a restaurant in the Galleria complex on Bridge Avenue. More →

July 8, 2020 - 6:59 am |

RED BANK: NEARLY NEW CALLS IT QUITS

Jun 29, 2020

After 27 years in business, Janice Brown has closed the Nearly Newly clothing store on Monmouth Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

After a career as a Pan Am stewardess, Janice Brown found her second act in 1993 as a Red Bank retailer, selling stylish vintage clothing.

But in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown has decided to close the shop.

Read all about the end of the Nearly New Shop and other changes downtown in this edition of redbankgreen‘s Retail Churn.

June 29, 2020 - 6:15 am |

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