Category Archives: Taxes

RED BANK: SCAVONE TO LEAD RIVERCENTER

June 19, 2013 – 8:09 am

Jim Scavone, left, rockin’ promotional sunglasses at a Red Bank Flavour event last month with RiverCenter program director Amanda Lynn, center, and Visitors Center director Margaret Mass. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Red Bank RiverCenter kept it local, choosing interim director and borough resident Jim Scavone to lead the downtown promotion agency, the [...]

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RED BANK: ROBOCALLER DIALS UP TENSION

June 13, 2013 – 7:55 am

By JOHN T. WARD A Red Bank man who tried to rally last-minute opposition to a bond vote engaged elected officials in a tense exchange over taxes and debt Wednesday night, but got no vocal backing from the audience. Sean Di Somma, 31, of Morford Place, had robocalled an unspecified number of residents just hours [...]

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SEA BRIGHT COVETS ANCHORAGE SITE

June 11, 2013 – 10:05 am

The Anchorage Apartments were left uninhabitable by Hurricane Sandy, which deposited a utility pole in the living room of one unit, below. (Click to enlarge) The storm-wracked Anchorage Apartments complex in Sea Bright would become a beach parking lot under a plan being considered by state officials, the Star-Ledger reported Tuesday morning. Located on Ocean [...]

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SEA BRIGHT: BEACH VISITS GET SLOW START

June 6, 2013 – 2:42 pm

Crowds were light on Memorial Day after two days of rainy holiday weekend weather. (Click to enlarge) By WIL FULTON With two weekends down, Sea Bright officials are beginning to get an idea of what the first post-Sandy summer on the shore could look like, and it may not be great. But even though the [...]

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SEA BRIGHT: HANDLIN TARGETS TAX FORMULA

May 22, 2013 – 7:19 am

By WIL FULTON Last month, Sea Bright Mayor Dina Long called a school-tax formula that would sock struggling residents with a 13-percent hike for sending their high schoolers to Shore Regional High School “painful before, but after Sandy, unbearable.” Now, Assemblywoman Amy Handlin, right, has stepped up to bat for the storm-shattered borough, offering to [...]

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FAIR HAVEN: NO TAX HIKE FOR SIXTH YEAR

May 13, 2013 – 1:59 pm

“It’s not just about saving money,” says council President Jon Peters, below. “It’s keeping the town in good shape.”   (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD On the agenda at Fair Haven’s borough council meeting Monday night: a budget that doesn’t raise taxes for the sixth consecutive year. Borough Administrator Theresa Casagrande says her research shows [...]

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SLEDGER: FAKE-FARMER LAW NEEDS TEETH

April 26, 2013 – 7:12 am

A recently enacted state law aimed at culling ‘fake farmer‘ landowners “will eventually give local tax officials the power to force out fakers,” but doesn’t go far enough, the Star-Ledger says in an editorial published Friday. Championed by state Senator and Red Bank resident Jen Beck – who won her seat in 2007 after a [...]

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RED BANK: A QUIET NIGHT WITH THE BUDGETS

April 25, 2013 – 12:17 pm

By WIL FULTON It was a tale of two tax plans in Red Bank Wednesday night as the mayor and council advanced the 2013 budgets for both the municipality and RiverCenter on a relatively light agenda. The borough budget – proposed at $21.2 million and containing a 7.7-percent tax increase, to 52.9 cents per $100 [...]

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SIX-MONTH ROUTE 520 BOTTLENECK TO BEGIN

April 15, 2013 – 6:45 am

One of two spans will remain open throughout the duration of the project, but with just one lane in each direction. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A taxing season begins Monday night for commuters who use Route 520 to get into and out of Red Bank. Following the evening rush, traffic across the [...]

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SEA BRIGHT FACES ‘UNBEARABLE’ TAX HIT

April 10, 2013 – 12:06 pm

By WIL FULTON Post-Sandy challenges continue to pile up for the ravaged beach community of Sea Bright, this time in the form of a school tax hike via the Shore Regional High School district. Borough property owners can expect a 13-percent increase, to 54 cents per $100 of assessed value, meaning that the average home, assessed [...]

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SEA BRIGHT: DCA’S NUMBERS COME UP SHORT

April 3, 2013 – 7:38 am

A Sea Bright home as seen from the sea wall five days after Hurricane Sandy. Borough officials contend the number of severely damaged homes is being underestimated by a state agency. (Click to enlarge) By WIL FULTON Six months after Hurricane Sandy walloped the region, Sea Bright officials find themselves in a disagreement with a [...]

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MORANA: SCHOOL TAX COULD’VE BEEN WORSE

March 29, 2013 – 7:27 am

By WIL FULTON Red Bank’s school board unanimously approved the borough’s 2013-2014 school budget at the Thursday night before a small group of residents and school officials at the primary school. The spending plan weighed in at $13.2 million, up $522,503, or 4.1 percent, from last year. The increase might have topped 8 percent, had [...]

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R-FH BUDGET: R TAX UP, FH, DOWN

March 27, 2013 – 11:04 am

Rumson resident Joe Kopel raises a few questions with the R-FH board Tuesday night. (Photo by Sarah Klepner. Click to enlarge) By SARAH KLEPNER With six residents in the audience, Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High board of education ok’d a $16.9 million spending plan for 2013-’14 that increases taxes on Rumson property owners and reduces them [...]

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RBR BUDGET SAILS TO PASSAGE

March 25, 2013 – 3:38 pm

By SARAH KLEPNER Red Bank Regional’s board of education unanimously passed the district’s 2013-2014 budget last week, with no comment from the public. The 50-minute meeting Thursday night was sparsely attended, with fewer than 10 in attendance, including staff and teachers. This year’s budget is 1.5-percent smaller than last year’s, which amounts to shrinkage of [...]

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RED BANK: ADAMS QUITS RIVERCENTER HELM

March 25, 2013 – 8:29 am

Nancy Adams with RiverCenter vice chairman Tom Fishkin, center, and board secretary Michael Warmington in 2011. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The top job at downtown promotion agency Red Bank RiverCenter is vacant following the abrupt departure of Nancy Adams as executive director Friday. Adams announced her resignation in an email to redbankgreen, [...]

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