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.

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May 9, 2023 - 7:25 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.

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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.

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January 31, 2023 - 10:45 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

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January 3, 2023 - 9:30 am |

FAIR HAVEN: MONTHS OF ROADWORK TO BEGIN

Sep 3, 2021

A year of on-and-off construction disruptions along River Road in Fair Haven is expected to begin Tuesday.

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September 3, 2021 - 1:15 pm |

RED BANK: BALLARD TOUTS NEW FEE LAW

Aug 26, 2021

Part of a recent building boom, 170 Monmouth Street is being converted from offices to residences, as seen in June. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank Councilman Michael Ballard says a newly enacted ordinance will help address the impact of “explosive development” on borough infrastructure and taxes.

But only if it doesn’t get thrown out by a judge, says Mayor Pasquale Menna.

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August 26, 2021 - 6:40 am |

MIDDLETOWN: SINKHOLE SWALLOWS VEHICLE

Aug 19, 2021

No one was injured when a sinkhole swallowed a motor vehicle following a water main break in the River Plaza section of Middletown Thursday morning, police said.

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August 19, 2021 - 12:00 pm |

RED BANK: AGENCY APPOINTEE SILENT

Jun 23, 2021

Cherron Rountree, bottom left, during the agency’s meeting Tuesday. (Zoom screengrab. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

The prospective new manager of the Red Bank Redevelopment Agency appeared onscreen without introduction during its monthly meeting Tuesday evening.

Cherron Rountree, who now serves as township administrator in Holmdel, also did not speak, even as former council member Cindy Burnham said her appointment should be halted by a pending sexual harassment lawsuit in which Rountree is a defendant.

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June 23, 2021 - 7:58 am |

RED BANK: AGENCY CALLS FOR $9.3M YARD

May 26, 2021

A Google Maps satellite view of the public works yard and adjoining property to the east, roughly outlined in red. (Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank should move quickly to bond for an overhauled public works facility, according to a recommendation adopted by the Redevelopment Agency Tuesday evening.

Estimated cost, including the acquisition of property adjacent to the Chestnut Street site: $9.3 million.

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May 26, 2021 - 7:45 am |

RED BANK: HIGHRISE GETS NEW POOL & NAME

May 25, 2021

The new pool and poolhouse at the former Riverview Towers. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Three years after their swimming pool mysteriously popped out of the ground, residents of a Red Bank riverfront highrise got a closeup look at its $3.5 million replacement Monday night.

The 53-year-old Riverside Towers, at 28 Riverside Avenue, has also been rebranded as the Navesink Riverside Residences and Marina.

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May 25, 2021 - 7:50 am |

RED BANK: TEMPERS BOIL OVER WATER JOB

Apr 8, 2021

Neighbors John Shepherd, left, and Charlie Oliver, on the grassy island between East and West Lake roads. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

The temporary takeover of a block-long island of grass and trees that spans the Red Bank-Little Silver border has neighbors furious.

Red Bank officials said they had no advance notice of the New Jersey American Water Company project, and only learned last week, months into the project, that it had camped out on borough property.

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April 8, 2021 - 7:55 am |

RED BANK: RIVERVIEW WATER DEAL DETAILED

Dec 22, 2020

The agreement ends a lawsuit alleging the hospital illegally connected its Blaisdell Pavilion to the borough water system. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Under a “confidential” settlement approved by the borough council last week, Riverview Medical Center will pay Red Bank just $850,000 for water and sewer usage the town contended in a lawsuit was worth at least $5.3 million.

The hospital also will get 10 more years to pay off the obligation, some of which dates to 1984.

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December 22, 2020 - 6:15 am |

RED BANK: WATER SERVICE AFFECTED

Dec 18, 2020

After spending much of a cold day fixing a sewer issue on Broad Street, a crew from Red Bank’s big-plumbing-job contractor, Mark Woszcak Mechanical, was called to the scene of a water line break at South Street and Madison Avenue at about 6 p.m. Friday.

Water pressure was expected to be reduced or cut off for several hours in the immediate area for several hours while repairs were made, said Rich Hardy, a supervisor in the borough’s public works department. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

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December 18, 2020 - 6:55 pm |

RED BANK: LOOSE LIPS AT COUNCIL SESSION

Dec 17, 2020

Mayor Pasquale Menna, upper left, and Councilman Ed Zipprich, center left, seen on Zoom during Wednesday’s council session Attorney Greg Cannon is in second row, third from left. (Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

The final Red Bank council meeting of 2020 included a couple of apparent cases of loose lips.

In one, Mayor Pasquale Menna revealed more than the borough attorney thought he should about the settlement of a lawsuit over Riverview Medical Center’s water bill.

In another, Councilman Ed Zipprich  questioned the qualifications of a newly hired official.

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December 17, 2020 - 12:00 pm |

RED BANK: SUIT SEEKS $5.3M FROM RIVERVIEW

Oct 27, 2020

A lawsuit filed by the borough alleges an illegal water connection to the Blaisdell Pavilion, at right. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Riverview Medical Center owes Red Bank $5.3 million for at least half a billion gallons of water consumed over a 33-year period, the borough alleges in a lawsuit.

In its January, 2019 complaint, the town contends the hospital hid an illegal connection and meter when it built the Blaisdell Pavilion wing in 1984.

The East Front Street hospital denies the allegations, and the dispute appears headed to mediation.

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October 27, 2020 - 12:00 pm |

RED BANK: EAST BERGEN PROJECT TO WRAP

Jun 6, 2019

After almost a year, a dusty and bumpy road rebuilding project in Red Bank is on track for completion this week, the borough’s consulting engineer said Wednesday. 

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June 6, 2019 - 5:30 am |

RED BANK: NICE PLACE YOU GOT HERE…

Apr 4, 2019

Affecting the air of a thuggish gang, a group of vultures loitered outside Les Gertrude apartments on Broad Street in Red Bank Thursday morning. One enjoyed a sidewalk breakfast of fresh kill. 

Any ornithologists out there who can identify these gray-headed birds? (Photo by Trish Russoniello. Click to enlarge.)

April 4, 2019 - 9:00 am |

RED BANK: COUNCIL AGENDA

Nov 28, 2018

Borough hall would get a new phone system under a contract up for approval by the council. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

Here’s a preview of the Red Bank borough council’s agenda for its semimonthly meeting Wednesday night:

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November 28, 2018 - 8:45 am |

RED BANK: H2O REFILL STATION INSTALLED

Nov 8, 2018

What’s that’s strange object that cropped up recently in Red Bank’s Johnny Jazz Park?

redbankgreen’s What’s Going On Here? has the answer.

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November 8, 2018 - 2:00 pm |

RUMSON: NAVESINK QUALITY IMPROVES

Apr 2, 2018

A view of the Navesink from Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank last month. Below, Bill Heddendorf of the New Jersey DEP discusses the need for additional testing along the Spring Street storm sewer line in Red Bank. (Photo above by Trish Russoniello, below by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

An effort to reverse biological contamination in the Navesink River is “working,” and could result in the reopening of closed shellfish beds a year earlier than previously expected, a New Jersey environmental scientist told a gathering in Rumson last week.

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April 2, 2018 - 12:30 pm |

RED BANK: A SLIGHTLY WHITE CHRISTMAS?

Dec 22, 2017

Will the Greater Red Bank Green get a coating of white for Christmas?

There’s a 60-percent chance of it, according to the National Weather Service. 

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December 22, 2017 - 7:06 am |

RED BANK: MILD WEATHER FORECAST

Dec 18, 2017

After three snowfalls in a week, autumn 2017 winds down on the Greater Red Bank Green with unexceptional weather.

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December 18, 2017 - 6:30 am |

RED BANK: THIRD SNOWFALL FORECAST

Dec 15, 2017

A third late-autumn snowfall in the span of a week could lay up to three inches on the Greater Red Bank Green starting late Friday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. (Click to enlarge.)

Click ‘read more’ for dull details on the weekend and beyond, weatherwise.

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December 15, 2017 - 5:33 am |

RED BANK: GUSTY CONDITIONS FORECAST

Dec 12, 2017

A pair of gulls at Marine Park in Red Bank Monday. They’ll have more wind beneath their wings starting Tuesday evening, according to the Weather Channel. (Photo by Trish Russoniello. Click to enlarge.)

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December 12, 2017 - 6:00 am |

RED BANK: EATERIES SPOTLIGHT STRAWS

Dec 8, 2017

Kitch Organic on Leighton Avenue, above, is one of eight Red Bank restaurants participating in a monthlong effort to reduce the number of plastic drinking straws that don’t make it into the recycling stream.

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December 8, 2017 - 8:40 am |