The Two River Times

06/30/2025

If you have not discovered Mabel, the first full-service restaurant at the thriving Bell Works campus in Holmdel, what are you waiting for? Named in honor of Alexander Graham Bell’s wife, Mabel is the second restaurant from innovative chefs Laura Brahn and Grace Crossman, who are known for Cardinal Provisions, a popular brunch spot in Asbury Park.

https://tworivertimes.com/mabelatbellworks/

06/30/2025

RED BANK – Over the past five years, a surge in development in Red Bank has left officials and residents dealing with a changing landscape as they seek a balance between growth and preservation in the wake of state-mandated affordable housing obligations.

https://tworivertimes.com/chartingconcreteplansforredbanksmixedusefuture/

06/29/2025

LINCROFT – What started as a freshman year final project has become a burgeoning business for three rising juniors at High Technology High School. Challenged by their engineering teacher Linda Grunthaner to find a way to recycle coffee pods – those ubiquitous foil-topped plastic cups we plop in machines every morning – Henry Griffith, Rafael Guzman and Luke Tyler developed the Coffee Pod Recycler and, in the process, created an up-and-coming sustainability-driven business known as the Coffee Pod Recycling Co. (CPRC).

LINCROFT – What started as a freshman year final project has become a burgeoning business for three rising juniors at High Technology High School.

06/28/2025

FAIR HAVEN – At this week’s borough council meeting, Fair Haven moved forward with an application for a $500,000 grant from the Monmouth County Municipal Park Improvement Grant Program to fund the development of a passive waterfront park at 21 Fair Haven Road. The project, with an estimated cost of $1 million, aims to transform the blighted property into a scenic, accessible green space for public enjoyment.

FAIR HAVEN – At this week’s borough council meeting, Fair Haven moved forward with an application for a $500,000 grant from the Monmouth County Municipal Park Improvement Grant Program to fund the development of a passive waterfront park at 21 Fair Haven Road.

06/27/2025

RED BANK – You’re gonna need a bigger wall. That is, if you purchase a piece of original art celebrating the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s classic film “Jaws” at an upcoming exhibit in Red Bank.

RED BANK – You’re gonna need a bigger wall. That is, if you purchase a piece of original art celebrating the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s classic film “Jaws” at an upcoming exhibit in Red Bank.

06/26/2025

SEA BRIGHT – With many Jersey Shore towns scrambling to hire enough lifeguards this summer, Sea Bright has held the line with its unique lifeguard program that maintains staffing and an effective training pipeline – all while some other beaches, including federal beaches at Sandy Hook, are facing potentially dangerous shortfalls.

SEA BRIGHT – With many Jersey Shore towns scrambling to hire enough lifeguards this summer, Sea Bright has held the line with its unique lifeguard program that maintains staffing and an effective training pipeline – all while some other beaches, including federal beaches at Sandy Hook, are facin...

06/25/2025

LINCROFT – Those who have lost a loved one know how their spirits endure, traveling with us beyond the pain of hard goodbyes, walking with us even when we seem to walk alone.

https://tworivertimes.com/exhibit-explores-continuing-conversation-between-father-and-son-artists-milton-and-mike-quon/

06/23/2025

BASKING RIDGE – Overtime wasn’t kind to the Rumson-Fair Haven girls lacrosse team in the early part of the 2025 season, with losses to Lawrenceville and Hunterdon Central. But that all changed in the final game of the season when it counted the most.
https://tworivertimes.com/rfhgirlslaxwinsstatechampionshipinthriller/

06/22/2025

OCEANPORT – The reimagined marina restaurant at Old Wharf Park has taken a turn – to Key West.

OCEANPORT – The reimagined marina restaurant at Old Wharf Park has taken a turn – to Key West.

06/21/2025

NAVESINK RIVER – For the first time in generations, cargo has once again traveled by boat up the Navesink River. On June 12, a small solar-powered vessel quietly glided from the Molly Pitcher Inn to Bahrs Landing, met the sail-powered Schooner Apollonia, and returned upriver with a box of maple syrup, wind-shipped from upstate New York, destined for Delicious Orchards.

NAVESINK RIVER – For the first time in generations, cargo has once again traveled by boat up the Navesink River. On June 12, a small solar-powered vessel quietly glided from the Molly Pitcher Inn to Bahrs Landing, met the sail-powered Schooner Apollonia, and returned upriver with a box of maple sy...

06/21/2025

HOLMDEL – Patrick DePalma’s hands show the years of tilling Holmdel farmland that has been in his family for more than four generations – farmland that now faces an uncertain future.
https://tworivertimes.com/with-time-running-out-depalma-family-could-lose-farm-lease-in-holmdel/

06/20/2025

ASBURY PARK – A President Trump impersonator was, fittingly, one of the first speakers at Asbury Park’s No Kings rally, held this past Saturday at Springwood Park. Taking the stage, he made a few jokes before encouraging the audience to spend 10 seconds telling him whatever they wished they could say to the real current president. What followed was a burst of frustration and anger, as attendees put voice to the feelings that had driven them there, one of the only such rallies in the area.

https://tworivertimes.com/despite-downpour-crowd-turns-out-to-no-kings-rally-in-asbury-park/