Category Archives: Labor

LITTLE SILVER: Pandemic bonuses for all borough employees, and new police salaries, up for council consideration Monday night.

RED BANK: Once again, issues related to trash split all-Democratic council into factions, and this time generate some shade-throwing.

RED BANK: Menna proposes interim compromise in council split over dueling probe demands stemming from emails leaked in August.

RED BANK: Split over probe into leaked emails enters its third month as Ballard derides colleagues for wanting to "whistle past the graveyard" and ignore the issue.

RED BANK: GoFundMe campaign raises $3,600 to get biking landscaper Ricardo Paz back on the road. Not that he ever completely left it.

RED BANK: Landscaper who hauls his equipment around by bike needs new set of wheels, so friends launch a Go Fund Me campaign to help.

RED BANK: Six cops sworn in to new command positions as officials note the air of tension over policing elsewhere.

RED BANK: Six police officers move up the command ladder – unceremoniously, for now, because of the pandemic. Here's who they are.

RED BANK: Rifts laid bare as council Democrats clash for hours over budget and an email leak probe that one calls a "witch hunt."

RED BANK: Almost two months after it was first announced, finance committee's public walk-thru of proposed budget has a date.

RED BANK: Local tax would rise by 2.8 percent under budget that finance chair Ballard said is "inflicting more pain" on residents impacted by pandemic.

RED BANK: Council takes up budget that would boost local tax load by 5.4 percent, but finance committee chairman may oppose it.

RED BANK: Things get personal on Zoom as two part-time recycling center jobs are eliminated, prompting split on the all-Democratic council.

RED BANK: Fellow officers and borough employees mark retirement of two cops with a traditional "walkout" on their last day of work.

RED BANK: There's silence all around as council ends a harassment case filed against Shehady five months into his job as business administrator.

SHREWSBURY: Saker organization opens new 80,000-square-foot ShopRite supermarket today on 10-acre site of former office complex.

RED BANK: Count Basie surprises construction workers with free lunch from food truck, served with quips by comedian Jon Stewart.

SHREWSBURY: What's Going On Here? A new supermarket under construction needs to fill some 300 jobs by the end of the year.

RED BANK: Five police officers move up the command ladder at swearing-in ceremonies during Wednesday night's council meeting.

RED BANK: The borough police department is back to full force with the hiring of two new patrolmen, one of whom has a familiar name.