Category Archives: MIDDLETOWN

John Curley in his former domain, Red Bank. Former Red Bank council member John Curley is gearing up for a second run for a seat on the Monmouth County Freeholder board, a post he narrowly fell short of after a...

Middletown police are looking for a Red Bank man in connection with an attempted sexual assault on a woman as she lay asleep next to her husband on Christmas morning. The Asbury Park Press reports that the assailant was known...

The Asbury Park Press has some details on the police search for a burglary suspect redbankgreen reported on yesterday. The newspaper says that the subject of the search, which involved a helicopter and police dogs, was a 26-year-old man wanted...

Two weeks after the election, Amy Mallet of Fair Haven has won a seat on the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders, tipping the majority in favor of Democrats for the first time in a generation, the Asbury Park Press...

A search helicopter (upper right) flies over Route 35 near Nicholas Restaurant Wednesday afternoon. Police from Middletown and Red Bank, aided by a helicopter and search dogs, were out in southern Middletown in search of burglary suspect this afternoon. Homeowners...

The Asbury Park Press, quoting a marine mammal expert, says the dolphin found floating in the Shrewsbury River this morning was not from the pod that's been in the river and the nearby Navesink since early summer. And a separate...

A dead dolphin has been found in the Shrewsbury River near the Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has confirmed. From a media alert sent out by NOAA spokeswoman Teri Frady this morning: A dead dolphin was...

A dolphin swims in the Shrewsbury River near the mouth of Navesink late Sunday afternoon. The pod of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins that took up residence in the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers this summer and autumn continues to ply those waters,...

Dolphins on the west side of the Oceanic Bridge in mid-July. (Photo courtesy of Mary Fenton) A team of experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has decided that the dolphins in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers are just...

Some of the dolphins off Rumson in July, shortly after they moved upriver from the Shrewsbury to the Navesink. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has jurisdiction over the pod of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins that has been in local...

Sheep grazing recently on a farm at the corner of Nut Swamp and Middletown-Lincroft roads in Middletown. Today's weather forecast is lamby-mild, but showers are expected tomorrow. Here's the outlook as the National Weather Service sees it: Today: Areas of...

Dolphins in the upper Shrewsbury in late June. Federal marine experts say they have an answer to slippery question: How may dolphins are there in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers? Answer: Twelve, at least 10 of which have spent most...

NOAA officials on dolphin watch in the Shrewsbury River in late June. Federal marine authorities say they are one week closer to implementing an effort to lure or drive visiting dolphins out of the Navesink River and toward the Atlantic...

The Highlands-Sea Bright (Route 36) Bridge, as seen yesterday from the deck at Gaiter's Restaurant in Sea Bright. Pile driving and other loud work on the Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge now under reconstruction has been quieted to enhance the possibility that...

A boat nears a dolphin in the Shrewsbury River early last summer, before the pod headed upriver along the Navesink. The Asbury Park Press is reporting that dolphins have been spotted in the Shrewsbury River in recent days, giving rise...

A judgment of that size could hit home at the Bongiovanni residence on the Middletown side of the Navesink. A Boston-area man has filed a $400 billion lawsuit against Bon Jovi, Major League Baseball and TBS over a song he...

The view downriver from the Oceanic Bridge, the route the remaining dolphins would need to travel to reach the Shrewsbury River and, ultimately, Sandy Hook Bay. Federal marine experts this afternoon outlined two acoustics-based approaches to moving the remaining bottlenose...

A boater stands for a better look at dolphins near the Oceanic Bridge Wednesday afternoon. (Click to enlarge) The deaths of two dolphins in recent weeks has prompted a telephone confab among marine and federal officials to consider whether and...

A State Police Marine Unit boat travels east along the Navesink yesterday afternoon, shortly after receiving the report of a dead dolphin on the Middletown side. The decomposed corpse of a young dolphin was found in the Navesink River yesterday,...

A marine animal advocacy group has dialed up its calls for a forced removal of the visiting dolphin pod from the Navesink River following the death of a young female this week. Meanwhile, redbankgreen has gotten an unconfirmed report that...