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OCEANPORT – Bringing the past into the present to honor local military heroes, Oceanport Borough Administrator Donna Phelps, with help from volunteers, salvaged over 250 photographs of local veterans and restored them to create a new display for all to experience.

TINTON FALLS – A chilly drizzle could not dampen the festive atmosphere at the Veterans Day Picnic at Soldier On’s Gordon H. Mansfield Veterans Community on Essex Road Nov. 10, sponsored by Netflix in conjunction with JBJ Soul Kitchen of Red Bank. 

FORT MONMOUTH – It was more a celebration than a press conference. Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix, traveled to Fort Monmouth last Friday to take center stage at a press event announcing a key step toward building its planned production facility on the former U.S. Army Base.

The public can now access and peruse detailed plans for Netflix Studios Fort Monmouth online in a 137-page document complete with visuals.

The atmosphere was electric throughout the new multilevel space inside Fort Monmouth’s former Commissary, now named Baseline Social, at 3 p.m. last Thursday when The Two River Times arrived for a pre-opening tour.

Netflix has completed a key initial phase in purchasing almost 300 acres of Fort Monmouth known as the Mega Parcel for its new film production studio. The next step – Netflix’s presentation of its Reuse Plan to the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority (FMERA) – is imminent, officials said.

A 23.78-acre wooded area between Hope and Pinebrook roads in the Tinton Falls section of Fort Monmouth is being purchased by the county for a new passive recreation park.

Pulling up to the rebranded Riverside Marina restaurant, formerly Marina at Oceanport, improvements are immediately apparent.

Next month New Jersey will become the first state in the nation to use scientific “predictive precipitation modeling” for future developments, hopefully reducing flooding in some inland areas.

Sports businesses and a fruit-forward franchise are the first lessees at RiverWalk Center, a commercial redevelopment on 12 acres inside the Oceanport Avenue gates of Fort Monmouth. Construction is about to begin on the two buildings the businesses will occupy, with completion anticipated for spring 2024.