Author: Alan E Hill

Stranger in a strange land

Red Bank where the car is the star…

But for how much longer? The draft of the 2023 Master Plan is now available, and anyone with a .pdf reader can pore through its 166 or so pages before its official presentation to the community at the Red Bank…

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Now. Where were we? Oh yes…

2023 Master Plan up for discussion It has been a while, but here we are, on the cusp of a new form of government and a new era, that of the 2023 Master Plan. Whether “non-partisan” elections illuminate the machinations…

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Normal service is resumed

Sorry about that… just a minor blip. Now where was I? Oh yes…

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Broadwalk Broadcast

Red Bank Borough is holding a hybrid “in-the-room” and Zoom “Broadwalk Round Table” meeting this Wednesday, 29 June @6.00pm. Attendees will be “invited to discuss the potential upcoming Broadwalk season“. How much this will just be a platform for some…

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Red Bank Borough gets a lesson in ZOOM

Full marks to FHI Studios’ Zoom presentation about the developing Red Bank Master Plan. Of course, there were shortcomings in the topics and subsequent responses to questions and comments, but at all times there was a transparency to the proceedings…

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Zoom, Zoom, Zoom…

There are at least three important public meetings slated for this week on the borough calendar; A Police Public Forum, a council Workshop meeting and a Master Plan “Update Session“. Police Public Forum, Monday @6.00pm: Given the last few days’…

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Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam!!!

I don’t know… Has this little blog arrived? Well if the numbers of spam comments and log on attempts are anything to go by, yes. And if you’re expecting a Russian or Chinese invasion, you’re wrong… At least 90% are…

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Ghost Town… Kastin’s Drugs

This memorial to Kastin’s Drugs stands as a reminder of the time before national chains and when neighbourhoods still had a degree of self-sufficiency and cohesion. Kastin’s succumbed to the invasion of the national drugstore chains in 2004 after 86…

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Ghost Town… Got any gum, chum?

My mother and father were teenagers in a naval city in the south-west of England at the outset of the Second World War. When the US Army eventually arrived in town kids from all over followed the jeeps around yelling,…

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