RED BANK: MEMBERS-ONLY CIGAR CLUB OK’D

Jun 3, 2016

The club, called Le Malt, is to occupy the space previously leased to a gym, and will include a small retail cigar store accessible to the public through the front door. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

A few hundred well-heeled smokers may soon have a swank hangout in downtown Red Bank, following Thursday night’s zoning board approval of a private cigar and bring-your-own-booze club.

To be called Le Malt Club, it’ll be posh, exclusive and “absolutely” odor free to residents of the nine condos above the West Front Street storefront, let alone to passersby, according to testimony.

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June 3, 2016 - 6:20 am |

RED BANK: PRIVATE CIGAR CLUB PLANNED

Jun 2, 2016

Red Bank’s zoning board will take up a proposal Thursday night for the creation of a private cigar bar and restaurant at 22-24 West Front Street, in a space formerly leased as a gym.

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June 2, 2016 - 7:29 am |

RED BANK: SWITCH ADDS COLLECTION DAYS

Sep 8, 2015

With the switch to private cartage last week, all homes in Red Bank have now had at least one pickup by DeLisa Demolition of Tinton Falls, which won a three-year, $1.49 million contract for collection of trash, recyclables and household bulk waste last month.

The change, borough officials said in advance, would have been all but unnoticed by residents. But there’s a perk or two, including — as some perplexed residents may have noticed on Labor Day — holiday pickups.

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September 8, 2015 - 12:00 pm |

RED BANK: TRASH PICKUP TO GO PRIVATE

Aug 18, 2015

Two of the borough’s four garbage trucks will be sold, and the other two kept for leaf and snow removal, officials said. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank is getting out of the garbage business.

By a 4-0 vote at a special, single-issue meeting Monday night, the borough council approved a three-year, $1.49 million contract for collection of trash, recyclables and household bulk waste with a private hauler, Delisa Demolition of Tinton Falls.

But the change, effective September 1, will be all but unnoticeable to residents and small-business owners, town officials said. And it should generate “significant” savings, they contend.

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August 18, 2015 - 7:00 am |

RED BANK: PRIVATE TRASH PICKUP NEARS

Aug 13, 2015

No borough employees will lose jobs or benefits in the switch, Mayor Pasquale Menna said. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

The end of public-sector trash collection in Red Bank could come as soon as September 1, under the terms of a contract that the borough council body discussed in private Wednesday night.

Still not quite at the end of a process it began 18 months ago, the council scheduled a special meeting for next Monday night solely to vote on the deal.

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August 13, 2015 - 10:24 am |

RUMSON: PRIVATE TRASH PICKUP PLANNED

Jan 28, 2015

A municipal trash crew at work on Forrest Avenue last week. Below, Mayor John Ekdahl says the timing is good for privatization. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

Four years after a proposal to privatize Rumson’s trash pickup got trashed by residents, the borough is trying again. And this time around, Mayor John Ekdahl is getting no flak, he says.

The main reason, he said, is that the latest plan, unveiled at the borough government reorganization on January 1, won’t have any adverse impact on jobs.

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January 28, 2015 - 3:00 pm |

RED BANK: BURNHAM REOPENS WATER VALVE

Feb 27, 2014

Councilwoman Cindy Burnham, right, listens as Councilwoman Kathy Horgan reads an Environmental Commission resolution that denounced any move to privatize Red Bank’s water utility. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

New Red Bank Councilwoman Cindy Burnham‘s recent suggestion that the town sell its water utility got a thorough hosing Wednesday night.

Two weeks after discussion of $2.2 million capital improvement bond prompted Burnham to call for privatization of the water system, Burnham sat stone silent through a critique of the idea Wednesday night – and then voted in favor of the bond.

By Thursday morning, though, the council’s lone Republican was talking again, calling opposition to her suggestion an “attack” by the Democratic majority.

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February 27, 2014 - 10:19 am |

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RED BANK: MEMBERS-ONLY CIGAR CLUB OK’D

RED BANK: PRIVATE CIGAR CLUB PLANNED

RED BANK: SWITCH ADDS COLLECTION DAYS

RED BANK: TRASH PICKUP TO GO PRIVATE

RED BANK: PRIVATE TRASH PICKUP NEARS

RUMSON: PRIVATE TRASH PICKUP PLANNED

RED BANK: BURNHAM REOPENS WATER VALVE