Category Archives: Coastal

The view Saturday as the dolphin pod frolicked near McLoone's. (Photos by Colleen Curry) By COLLEEN CURRY Beachgoers were not the only ones invading the Jersey Shore this weekend, as a pod of bottlenose dolphins was seen swimming and jumping...

Rik van Hemmen, above, rough-hews a tulip tree log with a chain saw while Boris Kofman, left, begins shaping one end of what will become a canoe. A giant tulip tree log that's been lying on the ground outside the...

Volunteers cleared a path to the river on the borough-owned parcel earlier this month. Three months ago, Red Bank officials were mulling the possible sale of a small piece of riverfront property to help offset a budget shortfall. Last night,...

By SUE MORGAN Never mind that 'farewell forever' send-off held last year at Donovan’s Reef. The legendary Sea Bright landmark is sticking around and kicking up sand a bit longer. Today's lackluster real estate market has benefited regulars of the...

When Long John Hunter wants to go canoeing, his owner, Susan Fick, takes him canoeing. redbankgreen spotted Fick and Hunter — a Great Dane and therapy dog at Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune — during what Hunter surely must...

A Red Bank-owned lot at the foot of Maple Avenue got a sprucing up by about dozen volunteers who cleared a path between a small parking lot and the water's edge Sunday. Out came chunks of broken concrete, an old...

The Navesink and Shrewsbury Rivers are among New Jersey waterways now experiencing algae blooms that are turning them brown, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The bloom phenomenon is also affecting Raritan and Sandy Hook bays as well as ocean surf...

The on-surface boardwalk, at lower left, will connect with a stretch to run parallel to the ocean. By SUE MORGAN Tenderfooted beachgoers will appreciate this: Sea Bright plans to extend its modest boardwalk, bringing salvation that much closer to sunbathers...

The beachfront borough can now lay claim to its own fair. BY SUE MORGAN As a volunteer at the annual Oceanport Lions Strawberry Fair, Steve Spahr would wonder why the beachfront community he grew up in and still worked in...

The parade thundered; the skies didn't. Red Bank's two-day centennial celebration went off under a cloudless dome of blue Saturday and ended Sunday at 2p with just a hint of a drizzle. Fairly perfect conditions, all things considered, for the...

Are there more cigarette butts on New Jersey's beaches than in decades past? Some environmentalists say so. Citing data gleaned in part by Clean Ocean Action from its twice-yearly sweep of New Jersey beaches, today's Star-Ledger reports that this summer's...

Grace O'Connor of Shadow Lake, above and below right with Penny Ticehurst of Shrewsbury, tries her artistic hand at capturing the Sea Bright-Highlands Bridge from the deck behind Gaiters restaurant in Sea Bright Wednesday morning. Both women left the heavy...

Michael Nitka, an experienced rower from Red Bank, gets ready to enter a scull during Navesink River Rowing's open house on Saturday. Next Sunday, as part of Red Bank's two-day centennial celebration, rowers from the the non-profit club will participate...

The kind of parade George Bowden dreams of: scads of bunting throughout town, with perhaps a giant balloon strapped to the roof of a motorcar, as seen in this undated photo from Helen C. Phillips' "Red Bank on the Navesink."...

The parking lot in the foreground and adjacent river access are no longer under consideration for sale, Red Bank officials have confirmed. A combination of public opposition and anemic support have forced Red Bank officials to drop a proposal to...

Trash hauled up from the banks of the Swimming River awaits pickup at the western end of Drs. James Parker Boulevard Saturday. "No dead bodies" were found, says Boris Kofman, of the Red Bank Environmental Commission, but a handful of...

Fireworks illuminated the Monmouth Boat Club and the Navesink River in Red Bank last night. (Click on images to enlarge) The occasion: a fundraiser for the annual KaBoom Fireworks, which needs to raise at least $175,000 to cover the cost...

The Highlands Bridge and overpass to Sandy Hook as they appeared in mid-February, shortly after the arrival of construction equipment. By SUE MORGAN The stroke of a state official's pen has Sea Bright officials on edge about who or what...

Cindy Burnham checks out a tax map at the foot of Maple Avenue prior to last night's council meeting. Despite protests from boaters, environmentalists and others, Red Bank officials have not ruled out a proposal to sell one of the...

The borough council ordered up an appraisal on the disused borough parking lot at the foot of Maple Avenue last month, with an eye toward a possible sale. Pushback on Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna's plan to sell a disused...