RED BANK: On the council's busy agenda Wednesday: annual budget; reduced speed limit; cannabis zoning; new redevelopment agency head and more.

RED BANK: More heavy rain possible after flooding interrupts blues show at Count Basie theater. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green.

RED BANK: By 4-1 vote, council approves members of new redevelopment agency, along with a second group to serve as technical advisors.

RED BANK: Sixteen urban planning students at Rutgers take on the challenge of redesigning a stretch of Monmouth Street. Here's what they came up with.

RED BANK: Water main issues add to cost and timeline of East Bergen Place road project; engineer details proposed park upgrades.

Red Bank's Phoenix Productions goes "Into the Woods" at the Basie...and Middletown's Monmouth Players go "Moon Over Buffalo" at Navesink Arts...as the fall stage season heats up on the greater Green.

RED BANK: A grant from OceanFirst Bank will fund a summer opera camp for kids at the Count Basie Theatre, with a focus on the Holocaust.

LITTLE SILVER: After interning with a Shrewsbury-based surgeon, RBR grad Chase Hintelmann enters Johns Hopkins University as a pre-med student with a talent for tap dance.

MIDDLETOWN: Teens are challenged to read books, help out in the community and win some great prizes, through the Library's Summer Reading Program.

RED BANK: Not everyone wants a park at the former town dump, say residents concerned about the long-range effects of contaminants.

RUMSON: Salt Creek Grille hits the million-dollar fundraising mark, as its annual tasting event makes a big donation to domestic violence resource 180 Turning Lives Around.

RED BANK: As they did in December, writers for Jon Stewart's hush-hush new show are slated to offer a night of standup and improv here this week.

RED BANK: The NJ Symphony knocks twice on Basie's door, with a live play-along to RAIDERS and a guest visit by classical superstar Pinchas Zukerman.

RED BANK: Four big events in Christmas music and dance roll onto the Greater Green in coming days, including The Nutcracker and the Vienna Boys Choir.

RED BANK: Contributors to the Jon Stewart project in the works for HBO are slated to offer an evening of comedy here Thursday. Will Stewart himself show?

RED BANK & MIDDLETOWN: Two intimate version of 'A Christmas Carol,' Charles Dicken's Scrooge's story, play out ion stages here in coming days.

RED BANK: Holiday Express town lighting concert. Santa Express. Jackie Evancho. Friday night will be bursting with holiday life, and we've got details.

LINCROFT: Brookdale Community College celebrates its half-century of existence with a big band concert on the campus, a former 100-acre horse farm.

RED BANK: Five candidates, including two incumbents, stake out positions on development, taxes, the charter school and more at annual forum.

RED BANK: Five candidates, including two incumbents, are on the ballot in next month's council election. Here's where Kathy Horgan stands on the issues.