George Kolber speaks; Councilman Art Murphy listens. Throwing a possible speed bump in the path of the Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County, the owners of the recently repurposed former PS 5 on Drs. James Parker Boulevard last night...

Cindy Burnham confers with engineer Christine Ballard of T&M Associates about the Maple Street riverfront lot after Monday night's council meeting. A scaled-down version of a proposed plastic bag recycling law was tabled, and plans for a community center moved...

After repeated and unsuccessful efforts by Councilman Mike DuPont to ban Red Bank stores from distributing plastic bags, the borough council tonight is scheduled to take up a series of scaled-back measures aimed at fostering recycling and education. On the...

Councilman Mike DuPont takes his lumps at Monday's meeting. Is the ordinance that wouldn't die finally dead? As he has repeatedly over the past ten months or so, Councilman Mike DuPont tried getting his ban on plastic bags passed by...

An empty storefront on West Front Street. Spurred by surging unemployment and dwindling consumer sales, Red Bank officials are organizing an an economic "summit" of sorts for business owners and residents to brainstorm ideas to help the borough buck the...

A stray bag flutters along Monmouth Street in September. Six weeks after it was tabled amid concerns about its financial impacts on stores, a proposed ban on plastic shopping bags is back before the Red Bank Council tonight. The law,...

Here's a recap of Monday night's Red Bank Borough Council meeting. (Follow along with the agenda, if you like.) • Mayor Pasquale Menna accepted a $162,975 dividend payment to the borough from the Central Jersey Health Insurance Fund, the shared-services...

A stray bag flutters along Monmouth Street recently. A proposed ban on plastic bags may be tabled yet again while its sponsor, Red Bank Councilman Mike DuPont, meets with objectors and other interested parties, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The...

Councilman Mike DuPont's initiative got enough votes for introduction, including one from Councilwoman Sharon Lee, though she said she disagreed with its punitive thrust and could not support adoption. A proposed ordinance that might have put Red Bank in a...

Red Bank is seeking county and state grants with an eye toward replacing — maybe — the football field at Count Basie Park, seen here after a scrimmage last week between freshmen from RBC and Manasquan High. Hey, if Monmouth...

A slate of 3.5-percent pay raises for non-unionized borough employees approved last night will be the last across-the-board increase, Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna pledged last night. He said he had instructed Borough Administrator Stanley Sickels to implement and complete...

Tonight's council meeting has been postponed until tomorrow night, we're told, because of a schedule conflict for Mayor Pasquale Menna. Tomorrow's meeting is scheduled for 5:30p. Here's the agenda. Not shown on the agenda but slated for introduction is the...

"A disgrace," Councilman Art Murphy says of the morning-after conditions on the sidewalk alongside Ashes. Led by Councilman Art Murphy, the Red Bank Borough Council last came down with both feet on Ashes Cigar Club on Broad Street, refusing to...

James Giannell took his place at the council table, and a free-range plastic bag blew around out on Monmouth Street. Notes from last night's bimonthly meeting of the Red Bank Borough Council: • An ordinance to ban plastic bags commonly...

A plastic bag stuck in a Monmouth Street tree last winter; a house on Washington Street that's part of the new historic district. Actions taken Monday night at the bimonthly meeting of the Red Bank Council. • A ban on...

Volunteers working to clear the lot of debris at low tide earlier this month. Hoping to head off bureaucratic problems later on, Red Bank officials have tabled a measure to preserve a borough owned lot fronting on the Navesink River...

Some of the torsos seen at the finish line in 2006. For the 15th time since it was moved from Asbury Park, shortened to a five-miler and re-christened, the George Sheehan Classic is set to take over Red Bank's downtown...

Agita continued to flow from Red Bank's proposed 21-percent budget increase last night as one resident lashed out at the borough council, another sought details on where purported spending cuts had been made, and elected officials blamed Trenton and Freehold...

Red Bank residents will get a chance to delve into the whys and wherefores of the borough's proposed 2008-'09 budget next week. Reprising an effort introduced a year ago to improve transparency, borough-government department heads will offer up details of...

Looking north on Hudson Avenue this morning at 7:55a. After a brief war of the curb, Hudson Avenue homeowners and tenants last night became the latest on the East Side to win resident permits to park their cars. The victory...