• Donovan’s Reef: See you next summer

    By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer If plans for rebuilding Donovan’s Reef in Sea Bright are approved, the beachfront fixture destroyed by Sandy will have an ocean view and a full kitchen. SEA BRIGHT — After a year’s hiatus, the owners of Donovan’s Reef expect the beachfront landmark to be completely rebuilt and open for business…

  • Support animal protection legislation and vote

    Gov. Chris Christie is no friend to animals. He recently vetoed legislation that would have banned the cruel practice of raising sows in gestation crates. The ban had overwhelmingly passed both state houses (Assembly, 60-5; and Senate, 29-4). But instead of living cage-free, these unfortunate female pigs, which are raised on factory farms, will continue…

  • Vetoes of health care programs dismiss citizens’ needs

    Gov. Chris Christie’s recent actions are short-sighted and dismissive of New Jersey’s health care needs. He vetoed funds for a necessary public education campaign for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). He vetoed a bill expanding Medicaid coverage for family-planning for single women. He vetoed the Legislature’s attempt to restore $7.4 million for familyplanning clinics. He…

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  • Support open space initiatives

    Drive north from New York into the Catskills and you find yourself in the sources of the Delaware River, where thousands of acres of open land protect the water supply of New York City. People in much of New Jersey have no such protected reserves. For decades, we have paved and built and settled in…

  • RiverCenter director aims to foster collaboration

    By ARIANA IGNERI Staff Writer Red Bank RiverCenter Executive Director James Scavone surveys Broad Street, the downtown shopping district’s main thoroughfare, where attracting businesses to vacant storefronts is a priority. A s the new executive director of Red Bank RiverCenter, James Scavone acknowledges that there is a fair amount of work to do in downtown…

  • Mad Hatter may return as community’s beach house

    By NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer Plans for the storm-damaged Mad Hatter restaurant call for demolition of the current building on Ocean Avenue and construction of an elevated three-story building with new amenities. NICOLE ANTONUCCI/STAFF SEA BRIGHT — Tentative plans for the reconstruction of the Mad Hatter call for an elevated, two-and-a-half-story structure that captures the…

  • Securing the future of the T. Thomas Fortune house

    By ARIANA IGNERI Once the residence of prominent journalist, writer and civil rights activist T. Thomas Fortune, the 19th-century, Victorian-style house on Drs. James Parker Boulevard in Red Bank is currently the subject of an active preservation project. Protecting Fortune’s influential legacy in the nation’s past has become, for many, synonymous with saving his now-endangered…

  • Elevation grants help some, leave others up in the air

    By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer A $100 million Hazard Mitigation Grant Program will provide reimbursements of up to $30,000 to elevate storm-damaged residences for some 3,000 homeowners. Homeowners struggling to elevate their houses to new federal height requirements may be eligible for a new wave of grant funding announced by Gov. Chris Christie and the…

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