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Nearly a full calendar year ago, a passing of the torch – or wishbone – unfolded when, for the first time, my wife and I welcomed family and friends into our humble Port Monmouth abode to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday.

Where is the affordable senior housing and active community green space? That was the question posed by concerned residents in attendance during the Nov. 10 meeting of the Atlantic Highlands Borough Council

The transformation of a local ball field into a massive stormwater retention center is a linchpin element in the borough’s proposal to mitigate nuisance flooding on residential roadways.

A decade later and Mayor Robert Neff can still smell the wet wood of the downed shade trees strewn about town. Simply peering out at a particular portion of sidewalk can flip a switch on the reel-to-reel projector in his mind, replaying scenes of borough residents trudging out of their homes to dispose of belongings lost to floodwaters from the nearby Shrewsbury River.

The wooded site, surrounded by a sprawl of single-family residences, has become a topic of interest for neighboring property owners after it hit the real estate market late in the summer with a $2.8 million asking price.

During the height of the COVID-19 health crisis, the Henry Hudson Trail was a sanctuary port in an unprecedented storm for bikers and hikers in search of some normalcy.

Though tax relief may be a welcomed byproduct of school regionalization, for borough parents and Mayor Brian Kelly, transitioning students to a new school district is a source of anxiety he and the borough council will address during a special Oct. 3 meeting of the governing body.

This murky couplet, plucked from the prose of Jim Morrison’s 1970 performance piece titled “Celebration of the Lizard King,” serves as a properly provocative introduction to Paul Hansen’s solo exhibition “The Doors” at Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury.

Would 50 new apartments in a five-story building on Globe Court serve as a detriment to the character of adjacent historic structures and districts?

Earlier this month, as the dog days of summer ratcheted up the heat index toward triple digits, Atlantic Highlands resident Leonard Coleman was transported back to his childhood home in Montclair.