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Here's the latest from NJ Transit, moved at 4:51p: NJ TRANSIT has resumed service between New York and Newark following earlier police activity... Passengers may expect residual delays, and potentially some train cancellations for approximately 30 minutes as we work...
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New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber, who had 12 speeding tickets, four bench warrants issued for her arrest and three license suspensions even before her questionable intervention in a Bergen County traffic stop involving her boyfriend in May, has been...
NJ Transit is reporting that service has been suspended between New York and Secaucus due to police activity. Here's the text of the alert, issued at 4:13p: Due to police activity east of Secaucus Junction Station, NJ TRANSIT rail service...
A profusion of decals pasted to signs and lampposts on Monmouth Street prompted attorney William Meyer to ask the Borough Council last night if businesses that issue them might be held liable for the cost of removal. No, says councilman...
Today's Asbury Park Press samples some of the familiar complaints about parking in downtown Red Bank, an issue in which the challenge of finding a space near one's destination or staying one coin ahead of the meter reader counts as...
A Little Silver attorney in a Manhattan-based personal injury practice has pleaded guilty with his sole partner to stealing $275,000 from clients. According to a report in Thursday's New York Times, Michael Mann, 40, of Little Silver, pleaded guilty with...
Spykes, the naughtywear shop on Shrewsbury Avenue, is going dark today. Patent-leather dark. Owner Mary Jennings is temporarily putting the business in storage while she plans a move around the corner, to the former Gasper Sign shop on Bridge Avenue,...
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They're not likely to exit their mesh pavilion with quite the same noisy urgency as a flock of doves loosed at the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. In fact, they may have to be coaxed off the nectary flowers they've...
Here's the latest on the Sara Swanson flip story we told you about in June: the Madison Avenue house Swanson's been rehabbing for over a year is finally on the market. The four-bedroom, twoTHREE-bath house is listed at $699,000. Will...
The Monmouth County Freeholders voted last night to put a nonbinding public question on the Nov. 7 ballot. At issue is a proposed countywide tax of 1.5 cents per $100 of assessed property value to be used to fund the...
The three owners of the Red Bank house shown here have pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with an alleged plot to defraud the government through a kickback scheme at Fort Monmouth. A story in today's Asbury Park Press...
Eight years ago, when the Red Bank Farmers' Market opened in the Galleria parking lot, it had only two vendors. Today, there are 30, and every week more merchants ask to be let in, some hoping to hawk goods that...
Last week's image shows a coat-of-arms painted on the side of a building at 90 West River Road in Rumson. The property is owned by the Tedesco family, and the building, a turn-of-the-century (19th to 20th, that is) structure, is...
Seventy-nine percent of New Jerseyans have "absolutely no interest" in reading ex-Guv. Jim McGreevey's upcoming book about his struggles with homosexuality and his 2004 political flame-out, according to the Monmouth University Polling Institute. Five percent expressed "a lot' of interest,...
Today's Star-Ledger has a comprehensive look at the latest crime stats in New Jersey. Users can access data town-by-town. The trend is generally positive, except for a disturbing uptick in urban homicides. From the story in the Ledger: There were...
Larry Higgs of the Asbury Park Press has an item today about the arrests of two young women who dove off the Oceanic Bridge Sunday afternoon and wound up getting arrested by Rumson police, one for assaulting an officer, the...
A now-former city worker in Asbury Park was charged with drunken driving following an accident on Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright Saturday night. Ruben Trejo Jr. of Hazlet was driving a city-owned SUV at the time of the accident, which...
Coming off a 13-hour marathon that had him signing geek memorabilia almost until dawn at his Broad Street comic book store, filmmaker Kevin Smith entertained 2,000 fans in Marine Park last night with a mixture of endless approachability and profanity....
In a state where community college tuitions are among the nation's highest, Brookdale Community College in Lincroft is at the top of the heap, according to a story in today's Star-Ledger. Brookdale will charge $98 a credit starting next month....
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RED TRUCKS AT RED ROCK
A small dishwasher fire at Red Rock Tap and Grill was put out quickly by firefighters overnight, causing minimal damage. Red Bank Fire Depar ...
CREATIVE COVER UP
The windows of Pearl Street Consignment on Monmouth Street were smashed when a driver crashed their car through them injuring an employee la ...
THEY’RE BACK!
Ospreys returned to the skies over Red Bank this week for the first time since they migrated to warmer climes in late fall. With temperature ...
SPRING IS SPRUNG
RED BANK: Spring 2024 arrives on the Greater Red Bank Green with the vernal equinox at 11:06 p.m. Tuesday.
RED BANK’S FINEST – AND NEWEST
Red Bank Police Officer Eliot Ramos was sworn in as the force’s newest patrolman Thursday, and if you’re doing a double take thinkin ...
EASTER EGG MAYHEM AT THE PARK
An errant whistle spurred an unexpectedly early start to the Spring Egg Hunt on Sunday, which had been scheduled to begin at eggsactly 11am ...
PRESEASON DOCKWORK
RED BANK: With winter winding down, marina gets ready for boating season with some dockwork on our beautiful Navesink River.
CORNED BEEF AND DISCO FRIES?
It’s Friday, and smart Lent-observing Leprechauns know the pot of gold at the end of Red Bank’s rainbow is actually the deliciou ...
SURFBOARD DITCHED
It’s a violation of etiquette in surfing to ditch your board.  (it could hit another surfer and hurt them). But someone appears to ha ...
ELSIE, TAKE ME WITH YOU!
Soaked by pouring rain with the temperature hovering in the low 40’s, this sign in the window of Elsie’s Subs on Monmouth Street ...
WALK THIS WAY
PARTYLINE: Before-and-afters of a sidewalk cleanup on West Street.
SOGGY NOTION
RED BANK: Breezeway sculpture captured the mood downtown as heavy rains fell Saturday morning.
HOME DELIVERY
RED BANK: After a subdivision, an instant house rises on a new Catherine Street lot.
COMMUNITY PROFILES
For Black History Month, Red Bank's Community Engagement and Equity Advisory Committee has been running a series of local profiles on Facebo ...
HEARTY FAREWELL FOR HARDY
RED BANK: Council to honor DPU supervisor Rich Hardy, who retired recently after almost 39 years of keeping things running.
HOMEBOUND? READ ON…
RED BANK: Can't get to the public library? It's now offering free delivery and pickups for homebound borough residents.
TAMING A BEAST OF A WEEK
RED BANK: After the second snowfall of the week, a borough family finds the perfect use for it – a Godzilla snow sculpture.
RED BANK: LIBRARY CLOSED, BUT THE HILL’S OPEN
RED BANK: Though the library was closed by a snowstorm, kids got to enjoy the riverfront property's steep slope Tuesday.
LIGHT(HOUSE) MAKEOVER
This year, getting ready for spring means a midwinter makeover for Strollo's Lighthouse in Red Bank.
TODAY: LOCAL PUPPY COMPETES ON ANIMAL PLANET’S “PUPPY BOWL”
Red Bank’s very own rescue puppy, Biscuit, is set to compete in Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl this Sunday, February 11, at 2 PM. Th ...