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RED BANK: PIPES, RENTALS, VOTING ON DECK
Branch Avenue resident Alberto Larotonda with a lead pipe he brought to a council meeting in 2015. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) The Red Bank council may authorize spending up to $2.4 million to replace water service lines made of lead when it meets Wednesday night. Also...
RED BANK: MASTER PLAN’S USE DEBATED
An illustration from the Master Plan section on affordable housing. (Image by BFJ Planning. Click to enlarge.) The unanimous vote followed spirited debate about whether the many recommendations in the 166-page document should be prioritized for council action. William Poku, president of the NAACP of Greater Red Bank, after speaking...
FAIR HAVEN: BONE MARROW MATCH SOUGHT
Emersyn ‘Emmy’ Freund. The family of a 15-year-old Fair Haven girl recently diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia has launched an effort to find a critical bone marrow match. They’ll be holding a registry drive this week. Diagnosed in December with AML leukemia, Emersyn ‘Emmy’ Freund, a freshman...
RED BANK: BILLBOARD QUESTIONS LOOM
A 40-foot tall digital billboard would replace the existing 22-foot billboard at 187 Riverside Avenue. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.) But Outfront Media LLC may use the permit simply to block competitors, a company official testified to the zoning board. Zoning board member Vincent Light at Thursday’s...
RED BANK: CARL COLMORGEN DIES AT 81
Carl Colmorgen, a Red Bank school crossing guard who for many years delighted kids and motorists with colorful holiday headwear, died Tuesday. He was 81 years old. Carl Colmorgen adorned in holiday regalia over the years. That’s him in the ape costume below, with his brother, Rob, on Broad Street in 2015. (redbankgreen photos. Click to enlarge.)
RED BANK: EASTSIDE PARK PLANS SLATED
A public hearing on plans for upgrades to the basketball and tennis/pickleball courts in a Red Bank park has been rescheduled for next week, the borough announced Wednesday. A post on the borough website said officials will hold an information session for the public Monday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
RED BANK: EXPECT CHLORINE-Y SMELL IN WATER
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. The borough-owned water utility, which distributes water from New Jersey American Water Company for about six months each year, reposted...
RED BANK: SAWING INSTEAD OF SHOVELING
Taking advantage of relatively warm weather, Red Bank public utilities worker Jorge Maquiver applied his skills with a chainsaw high up in a tree behind the West Side Hose firehouse on Leighton Avenue last Friday. It’s been saws-instead-of-shovels weather as the Greater Red Bank Green closes out the first month...
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