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Filed the old-fashioned way

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Red Bank City Manager Chris Dorsey dodges rusty fingerprint ink cans, hanging ceiling insulation and termite-ridden records as he considers what’s left of City Hall.

“I just know every time I try to find something, I’m told it was washed away in a flood,” he said.

Heavy rain apparently swept court documents down Dayton Boulevard in mid-1990s flooding. Those pages are long gone and nobody seems to know how many.

“Sometimes we don’t know what got lost,” Mr. Dorsey said. “That worries me.”