RED BANK: SPRING STREET FLIP RETURNS

May 9, 2023

Vehicle parking would be allowed only on the east side of Spring Street for several blocks if the proposed change passes. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

A plan to flip parking from one side of Spring Street to the other returns when the Red Bank council holds its semimonthly meeting Wednesday night.

Also on the agenda: a new four-way traffic stop, an expansion of a lead-pipe replacement program, and the installation of a $4-per-transaction automated teller machine in borough hall.

May 9, 2023 - 7:25 am |

RED BANK: POSSIBLE GRENADE FOUND IN SEWER

Apr 25, 2023

A member of the State Police bomb squad emerging from a Red Bank storm sewer with a possible hand grenade Tuesday afternoon.

April 25, 2023 - 1:30 pm |

RED BANK: WEEKLONG DETOUR FOR WATER JOB

Apr 23, 2023

Avoid it if you can: access to a busy Red Bank intersection will be shut down for a week starting early Monday morning.

April 23, 2023 - 12:08 pm |

RED BANK: POT, BUDGET & MORE ON AGENDA

Apr 11, 2023

Responding to public pressure, the council plans to create a four-way stop at the intersection of Leighton Avenue and Drs. James Parker Boulevard. (Google Maps image. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

On the Red Bank mayor and council’s agenda for Wednesday night: new hurdles for licensing of cannabis businesses; the 2023 budget; a new four-way traffic intersection and more.

April 11, 2023 - 8:09 am |

RED BANK: WEST SIDE LEAD PIPE PLAN OK’D

Feb 10, 2023

Eighty percent of Red Bank properties have an unknown type of water service line, according to ENGenuity. (Image by ENGenuity. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank’s West Side streets will soon be abuzz with street-opening backhoes as as the borough embarks on a massive, decade-long effort to identify and replace lead water lines.

February 10, 2023 - 7:58 am |

RED BANK: EXPECT CHLORINE-Y SMELL IN WATER

Jan 31, 2023

Red Bank residents and businesses may smell chlorine in water from their taps starting next week.

There’s no need for alarm, the borough government said in an announcement Tuesday.

January 31, 2023 - 10:45 am |

RED BANK: DPU HEAD OUSTED

Jan 12, 2023

Cliff Keen on Broad Street last June. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

At its first working session of 2023, the Red Bank council fired public utilities director Cliff Keen Wednesday night.

Unmentioned at the meeting: he was replaced on an interim basis, at a cost of $16,500 per month, by Gary Watson Sr., whom Keen succeeded in 2016.

January 12, 2023 - 7:30 am |

SHREWSBURY: MAIN BREAK PROMPTS DETOURS

Jan 3, 2023

A water main break was slowing traffic at a primary entry point to Red Bank Tuesday morning.

SEE UPDATE BELOW

January 3, 2023 - 9:30 am |

RED BANK: DEBT, COMMITTEE NAME ON AGENDA

Oct 12, 2022

Financing for the Broad Street sewer project completed in July is on the agenda. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Capital financing and tweaks to the name and purposes of a committee stand out on a light agenda when the Red Bank council meets for a regular semimonthly session Wednesday night.

October 12, 2022 - 7:45 am |

RED BANK: YOUR CAPTION HERE…

Sep 28, 2022

What’s Going On Here at East Front and High streets in Red Bank?

Read on for the answer… or make up your own photo caption.

September 28, 2022 - 1:45 pm |

RED BANK: RAILFANS SAVOR FREIGHT CHANGE

Sep 12, 2022

<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span>Railfan Donny Fortunato videorecords as a freight engine crosses Drs. Parker Boulevard on August 26. (Video by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Once or twice a week in recent months, commuters stuck at a rail crossing in Red Bank might have seen something that struck them as odd: small clusters of camera-wielding observers savoring the movements of a giant freight engine.

September 12, 2022 - 6:00 am |

LITTLE SILVER: RIDGE ROAD OAKS CUT DOWN

Aug 31, 2022

Seventeen oak trees on Ridge Road in Little Silver were cut down this week by a contractor for Monmouth County.

August 31, 2022 - 7:40 am |

RED BANK: LAWN-WATERING RESTRICTED

Jul 22, 2022

A Red Bank man watering his lawn during a light rain in July, 2013. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

Amid the hottest stretch of weather so far this summer, Red Bank’s water supplier has instituted a water conservation restriction.

New Jersey American Water Company, which supplies borough users for half the year, issued a mandatory odd/even lawn-watering and outdoor water-use schedule Thursday.

July 22, 2022 - 6:00 am |

RED BANK: ZIPPRICH LEADS ATTORNEY FIRING

Jul 14, 2022

Attorney Greg Cannon at borough hall last November. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

It was another night of political fireworks, this time punctuated by Cannon fire, as the Red Bank council terminated borough attorney Greg Cannon without explanation Wednesday night.

The abrupt action created a vacancy Mayor Pasquale Menna angrily refused to fill when Councilman Ed Zipprich nominated a lawyer who recently “exonerated” him of impropriety.

July 14, 2022 - 7:59 am |

RED BANK: SINKHOLE OPENS ON BROAD

May 31, 2022

A sinkhole opened on Broad Street in downtown Red Bank Monday night, caused a parked vehicle to sink about a foot.

May 31, 2022 - 11:05 am |

RED BANK: ZIPPRICH DERIDES ‘SMEAR’ WAR

May 27, 2022

Councilman Ed Zipprich, right, with then-Councilman Erik Yngstrom at a workshop session in March, 2020. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank Councilman Ed Zipprich has been “exonerated” after a two-year “smear campaign” meant to “dehumanize” him, he said in a statement to redbankgreen Thursday.

Zipprich’s statement came in response to special attorney’s finding that he did not “interfere” in the award of a trash collection contract two years ago.

May 27, 2022 - 11:55 am |

RED BANK: ZIPPRICH CONDUCT ‘NOT UNLAWFUL’

May 26, 2022

Councilman Ed Zipprich, right, with Councilman Michael Ballard in February. (Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank Councilman Ed Zipprich did not “interfere” in the award of a trash collection contract two years ago, according to an unreleased report obtained by redbankgreen.

Special attorney Scott Salmon’s report also says “there is evidence to suggest” that former business administrator Ziad Shehady was the the anonymous source of internal emails about Zipprich that were leaked to redbankgreen.

May 26, 2022 - 2:25 pm |

RED BANK: BROADWALK PANEL FORMED

May 13, 2022

Navigating sidewalks on Broad Street in downtown Red Bank is a bit of a challenge these days.

What’s the latest on the streetscape project that’s been underway since November in the streets northernmost blocks? Read on.

May 13, 2022 - 7:00 am |

RED BANK: COUNCIL SPARS OVER BROADWALK

Apr 28, 2022

Curb replacement work underway as part of the Broad Street streetscape project last week. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

An ongoing split among Red Bank council Democrats played out as a power struggle Wednesday night over who will steer the reopening of the seasonal Broadwalk dining and shopping plaza.

April 28, 2022 - 7:49 am |

RED BANK: BROADWALK MAY RETURN IN JULY

Apr 14, 2022

Diners enjoying lunch in the Broadwalk zone in October. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Delayed by street a reconstruction project, Red Bank’s Broadwalk outdoor dining plaza will return this summer, borough officials agreed Wednesday.

The informal consensus of the council was the first indication that the downtown car-free experiment, launched in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, would get a third edition.

April 14, 2022 - 7:58 am |

RED BANK: COUNCIL OKS MAIN, TIE-IN COSTS

Jan 27, 2022

A Montana Construction crew working on Broad Street earlier this month. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Broad Street in Red Bank will get a new, $1.3 million water main, following council action to expand a $2.7 million sanitary sewer project that has disrupted downtown traffic for the past three months.

And property owners won’t have to pay thousands of dollars to replace their water connections, as some had feared.

January 27, 2022 - 7:30 am |

RED BANK: LEAK SLOWS BROAD STREET ANEW

Dec 23, 2021

Two days after construction of a new sanitary sewer line in downtown Red Bank was suspended through the Christmas weekend, a work crew was back to repair a water leak Thursday morning.

December 23, 2021 - 9:15 am |

RED BANK: BROAD STREET WORK PAUSED

Dec 21, 2021

Construction of a new sewer line on Broad Street has been suspended through the Christmas weekend, Red Bank officials announced Monday.

December 21, 2021 - 7:50 am |

RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAPS UP 2021

Dec 17, 2021

The council meeting was the final one scheduled for 2021. (Screenshot from Zoom. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

The Red Bank council’s final regular meeting of 2021 included a new police contract, a plan to recombine workshop and regular sessions, a new used Tesla, and praise for a departing colleague.

Here’s an overview.

December 17, 2021 - 7:10 am |

RED BANK: “YOU BROKE IT, YOU FIX IT”

Dec 16, 2021

A Montana Construction crew working on Broad Street earlier this month. (redbankgreen photo. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Property owners in downtown Red Bank pushed back Wednesday night on the notion that they should pay thousands of dollars each to replace their water service lines.

Addressing the borough council on their behalf, Red Bank RiverCenter Executive Director Glenn Carter invoked the adage, “you broke it, you fix it.”

December 16, 2021 - 7:48 am |

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