Category Archives: Public Facilities

The proposed line would link Lakehurst with the North Jersey Coast Line at the Red Bank train station, above. Just a day after the announcement of a so-called compromise transit plan that would have directed a new commuter rail line...

The garden, the result of work and materials donated by Siciliano Landscaping, Molzon Garden Center and the Navesink Garden Club, is irrigated by the library's rain gutters. A new rain garden at the Red Bank Public Library could be in...

The Red Bank station would be the northern terminus of a new commuter line from Lakehurst, linking central Ocean County to the North Jersey Coast Line. Over the vehement objections of Red Bank officials, proponents of a new commuter rail...

Contractors working on improvements to a nearby intersection are using the borough-owned lot as a staging area. A wooden form for making concrete slabs was built at center, and a load of stone was dropped closer to the river. A...

"The lovely park by the pond on Buttonwood in Fair Haven" is how reader S. Pilar described, correctly, the location of last week's Where. "Where the turtles sunbathe. Shhh. Don’t tell anyone." For readers unable to make out the image,...

A crew from Guaranteed Plants & Florist in Locust began pulling weeds Tuesday at the traffic island at Bridge Avenue and Monmouth Street in Red Bank on Tuesday. The island will planted with flowers in time for the Memorial Day...

Northbound Maple Avenue traffic was backed up approaching the intersection of West Front Street Tuesday afternoon. More than two months later than expected, work got underway this week on an effort to smooth the flow of traffic past a key...

In the latest edition of Ledger Live, vodcaster Brian Donohue turns his lens on Sea Bright, which he nominates the "worst beach in New Jersey" because of access issues. In an off-the-news take on the announcement yesterday by the New...

The Oceanic Bridge as seen from the Navesink last summer. Nighttime users of the Oceanic Bridge between Middletown and Rumson are in for a doozie of detour this week. Monmouth County last night began closing the bridge for repairs between...

The library as seen from the foot of Maple Avenue. Ending tradition, the Red Bank Public Library will be open on Saturdays this summer, its board of trustees announced Thursday night. The added hours, from 9a to 1p, will be...

Gary Watson, in blue shirt at center, met with residents at the River Street Commons. About a dozen Red Bankers turned out Thursday night to hear borough public works director Gary Watson discuss the whys and wherefores of rules governing...

Scenes from last year's post-parade picnic on Centennial Day, the precursor to Saturday's Red Bank Day. (Click to enlarge) At the picnic that followed the parade for Red Bank's Centennial last year, Mayor Pasquale Menna was telling everyone he wanted...

Here's hoping for less-ominous weather than we've had recently when residents gather for the official opening of the borough dock Monday evening. Fair Haven officials have scheduled a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday to mark the reopening of the borough dock on...

The new Unity Way designation applies to Tilton Avenue between Drs. James Parker Boulevard and West Sunset Avenue. Red Bank officials and borough residents plan to gather at 5p tonight for a ceremony designating a block of Tilton Avenue as...

Craig Widmaier of Red Bank and son Gregory tackle the job of digging out the invasive plant Japanese knotweed at Saturday's cleanup of the Maple Avenue lot. For the second year in a row, a crew of volunteers descended on...

The truck that left these tracks in the baseball infield at East Side Park also tore up a portion of the new soccer field sod. Later, the truck got stuck in Marine Park. Among some English words you don't want...

Rumson's future borough hall may be ready for occupancy as early as June 1, Mayor John Ekdahl tells the today's Asbury Park Press after the town council authorized the purchase of $124,000 worth of desks, chairs and other furniture last...

A view of the Count Basie Field grandstand. A Red Bank man remained hospitalized in critical condition with head injuries Monday, two days after police say he jumped off the side of the Count Basie Field grandstand. Manuel Trejo-Martinez, 24,...