Tag: Red Bank

Despite the lavish wealth found in the Two River area, food insecurity is an oft-overlooked issue that affects many local residents. To combat this problem, the Vin Gopal Civic Association (VGCA) opened its first food bank last year at 224 Shrewsbury Ave.

If not being able to sip your favorite alcoholic concoction or brew kept you from enjoying that cinematic gem showing at Basie Center Cinemas, it’s time to buy your tickets.

Countering antisemitism with “cancel culture” doesn’t help, Rabbi Marc Kline told a Zoom room full of attendees at the latest Red Bank Public Library Let’s Talk About Race program. 

RED BANK – In this new era of Name Image and Likeness, Elijah McAllister is taking advantage of his status as a high-profile SEC athlete to grow his foundation.

The newly elected governing body set some ground rules for governance at its first meeting July 6 since all members and the mayor were installed five days earlier.

Impassioned chants rang down West Front Street as residents, local politicians and candidates for state government gathered in Riverside Gardens Park for a Rally for Reproductive Freedom Saturday, June 24.

A resolution added last minute to the borough council’s meeting agenda to add the Red Bank Senior Center property to the state’s Recreation and Open Space Inventory (ROSI) passed with a majority vote.

“The time just seems right,” said Darren McConnell, chief of the Red Bank Police Department and current interim borough administrator, about his decision to retire at the end of July, soon after the new council-manager form of government takes over in the borough.

The history, legacy and challenges facing New Jersey’s indigenous population have been widely documented. In its latest installment of the Let’s Talk About Race series, the Red Bank Public Library invited leaders of the Ramapough Lenape nation – Michaeline Picaro and her husband, the Turtle Clan Chief Vincent Mann – for a first-person account of the challenges their community still faces.

The Hackensack Meridian Riverview Medical Center Foundation (HMRMCF) Board of Trustees will host a fireworks display on the Navesink, lighting up the night sky over Red Bank Monday, July 3. The fundraiser will benefit Hackensack Meridian Riverview Medical Center.