Category Archives: SEA BRIGHT

By SUE MORGAN With none of the intra-party divisiveness seen last month in Wall Township over a similar vote, Sea Bright officials approved Monmouth County Republican Chairman and former Sheriff Joseph Oxley (left) as borough attorney Tuesday. On a snow-driven...

Priced to sell, but you must buy now. By JoANN PILEGGI It's not only stores and restaurants using markdowns to attract scarce consumer dollars. Trying to get a jump on the competition from private beach clubs and other municipalities while...

According to the stranding center, three dolphins passed under the bridge twice yesterday – once to enter Sandy Hook Bay, at right, and then to return to the river. Three of the five Atlantic bottlenose dolphins said to remain in...

A dolphin in the Shrewsbury River in November. Federal marine life authorities say only five of the original 16 Atlantic bottlenose dolphins that set up house in inland waters here last June remain, and that more are likely to die....

By SUE MORGAN Members of the newly-installed Republican majority in Sea Bright are hoping to land Joseph Oxley, their party's Monmouth County chairman, as borough attorney, redbankgreen has learned. If they succeed next month, it would mark the second such...

The Route 520 bridge as seen from the Chapel Beach Club on Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright. By SUE MORGAN It's not too much holiday sugar that has Sea Bright and Rumson officials and residents hopped up about a proposed...

Dolphins near the Oceanic Bridge in mid-July. (Photo courtesy of Mary Fenton) The dolphin found dead on a bank of the Shrewsbury River in Sea Bright on Christmas was a pregnant female whose stomach was empty of food, according to...

A dolphin found dead on the eastern bank of the Shrewsbury River at the foot of the Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge Thursday morning was a member of the original pod of 16. (Photo courtesy of Robin Dowd) One of the original...

Sea Bright's town hall will have to make room for a court operation now housed in a trailer out back. By SUE MORGAN Less than two weeks before a deadline, Sea Bright officials are sending to a Superior Court judge...

A dolphin exhibited a feeding behavior dubbed "mouth open" in the Shrewsbury on Tuesday. (NOAA photo) Marine scientists remain convinced that the 12 Atlantic bottlenose dolphins still in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers six months after their arrival are neither...

Dolphins in the Shrewsbury River on Saturday, as seen from the Highlands side. (Photo courtesy of Robin Dowd) The Associated Press reports that federal wildlife experts will confer this week about what to do if the remaining dolphins plying the...

Last week's 'Where' proved a bit obscure, as only one reader identified it — and she had to make a special trip to confirm her hunch. The photo showed an industrial building at 6 River Street in Sea Bright, which...

The borough is under the gun to upgrade its court operations, and looking at this building as part of the fix. By SUE MORGAN Sea Bright officials were left with narrowed options this week after finding little support for a...

The Asbury Park Press, quoting a marine mammal expert, says the dolphin found floating in the Shrewsbury River this morning was not from the pod that's been in the river and the nearby Navesink since early summer. And a separate...

A dead dolphin has been found in the Shrewsbury River near the Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has confirmed. From a media alert sent out by NOAA spokeswoman Teri Frady this morning: A dead dolphin was...

A dolphin swims in the Shrewsbury River near the mouth of Navesink late Sunday afternoon. The pod of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins that took up residence in the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers this summer and autumn continues to ply those waters,...

Dolphins on the west side of the Oceanic Bridge in mid-July. (Photo courtesy of Mary Fenton) A team of experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has decided that the dolphins in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers are just...

Some of the dolphins off Rumson in July, shortly after they moved upriver from the Shrewsbury to the Navesink. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has jurisdiction over the pod of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins that has been in local...

Dolphins in the upper Shrewsbury in late June. Federal marine experts say they have an answer to slippery question: How may dolphins are there in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers? Answer: Twelve, at least 10 of which have spent most...

NOAA officials on dolphin watch in the Shrewsbury River in late June. Federal marine authorities say they are one week closer to implementing an effort to lure or drive visiting dolphins out of the Navesink River and toward the Atlantic...