By SUE MORGAN They're a little large, and tend to crowd the sidewalk. Mayor Mike Halfacre says he lost a "$1.79 cup of coffee" when he accidentally collided with one. The six vivid yellow pedestrian-crossing signs recently installed on Fair...

By SUE MORGAN Rose Greco doesn't own a boat, but felt it necessary to stand up Monday night for boat owners who might not completely understand the wording of proposed revisions to the Fair Haven's boat storage ordinance. "It's ambivalent,"...

Talk about "a show about nothing:" Yasmina Reza's Tony-award winning play Art centers on an all-white painting in which one of the three characters invests a hefty sum. What ensues, though, is emphatically not nothing — not to these guys....

Hatless at the moment, Rich Gardella wears several at his Allen Street office. By SUE MORGAN He's been on the job little more than seven months, but Rich Gardella, 35-year-old, spike-haired Fair Haven employee, is saving the modest-sized bedroom community...

By LINDA G. RASTELLI In a fiscal climate where good news about taxes seems as rare as a celebrity who hasn't been in rehab, Fair Haven has done the seemingly impossible: lowering its municipal taxes. The rate in the next...

By LINDA G. RASTELLI In the last month, Fair Haven’s council, led by Mayor Mike Halfacre, has cut the town's anticipated debt by $3 million by selling the former Masonic Temple and slicing its borrowing for 2007 by $2 million....

By Linda G. Rastelli Residents who live near Fair Haven Fields complained last night to the Fair Haven borough council about the likelihood of increased traffic through a quiet neighborhood resulting from work now underway at the recreation site. Also...

An eleventh-hour move by the owners of a handful of properties in the historic downtown district of Fair Haven to opt out of the sidewalk reconstruction project that begins this week failed last night. Led by attorneys Brooks Van Arx,...

For the second time in seven years, Fair Haven Councilman Chris Walrath is stepping down, again citing work and family obligations as distractions from his public duty. "This will be my last council meeting," Walrath announced at the end of...

A move to restrict the ability of homeowners and builders to take down trees on their properties is back in Fair Haven, uprooting some tensions that had been buried in recent months. Larry Higgs has a story in today's Asbury...

As a way of decompressing from the workweek, an after-dinner dawdle along the streets of Red Bank on a summer evening is a pretty sure thing. And this Saturday night, lollygaggers can add art appreciation to their wanderings by getting...

RED BANK: DWI arrests, graffiti galore and "diamond Egyptian evil eye charm teardrop necklace" worth $10k reported stolen in June blotter.

RED BANK: September police blotter includes 18 contempt-of-court arrests, two for DWI and seven for marijuana possession.

RED BANK: March was another busy month for RBPD, with a couple of thefts at the hospital and three DWI arrests on the activity blotter.

RED BANK: The latest police blotter includes multiple incidents of vandalism at the boat marina in Marina Park, plus five DWI arrests.

RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a long-closed restaurant plans to reopen, another closes, and a bike shop wheelies outta town.

FAIR HAVEN: Incumbent GOP pair hold off strong challenge.

FAIR HAVEN: Meet and compare the four borough council candidates on backgrounds and positions. Here are Christopher Rodriguez's answers to our Q&A.

FAIR HAVEN: Meet and compare the four borough council candidates on backgrounds and positions. Here are Shervyn von Hoerl's answers to our Q&A.

FAIR HAVEN: Meet and compare the four borough council candidates on backgrounds and positions. Here are Rowland Wilhelm's answers to a redbankgreen Q&A.