Tag: Red Bank

Residents running for council under the Red Bank Together banner held a press conference Wednesday at the Oyster Point Hotel in the run-up to the May 9 municipal election.

The lobby of the Eck Center was filled with athletes and proud family members. The line was long to get to the table for pictures for Red Bank Catholic’s spring Signing Day ceremony, a testament to an athletic department that continually produces student-athletes who move on to play collegiately in just about every sport the school offers.

When playwright Hansol Jung thought about translating Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” into contemporary text, she was told it would likely never be produced because the story is too famous. But with a commission from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! Project, she embarked on the project, which in 2020 then became part of the Two River Theater’s Two River Rising online reading series.

A special meeting to discuss cannabis businesses was held at the borough hall March 29, where the council proceeded to approve the introduction of two ordinances amidst litigation threats from business owners.

Before the May 9 special election ushering in Red Bank’s new form of government, candidates for public office in the borough have signed on to participate in a forum organized by the League of Women Voters of Monmouth County (LWV).

The borough’s underground lead pipelines will be replaced over a period of 10 years, Jaclyn Flor, president and CEO of ENGenuity Infrastructure, told the borough council at a meeting last month.

When the COVID-19 health crisis forced music clubs around the world to shutter their doors, cutting the cord on the touring industry, Jersey Shore rocker Jeff Kazee was left with plenty of time to examine his local environment.

The council reached an informal consensus at its latest meeting to open Broadwalk this season from May 15 through Oct. 1, but has yet to vote on the plan.

For years, Project Write Now (PWN), a nonprofit offering fee-based writing classes and community outreach, was located in an old industrial building near the Red Bank train station on the West Side of the borough.

Red Bank is turning over a new leaf this spring with its first nonpartisan election process being held in May and an even more competitive mayoral race is stirring with the announcement of Timothy J. Hogan, president and chief hospital executive of Riverview Medical Center, as a candidate.