Monthly Archives: November 2008

Today's Asbury Park Press reports that Democrats have dispatched four volunteer lawyers to oversee the handling and counting of an estimated 3,200 provisional ballots cast Tuesday in the Monmouth County Freeholder race. There's no official count yet of the ballots,...

Voters exit the Hook & Ladder Fire House on Mechanic Street, site of the district 1 polling station, after casting their ballots Tuesday. Long an island of aqua in a red county, Red Bank went inky blue this year, throwing...

Amy Mallet of Fair Haven and John Curley of Middletown remain locked in squeaker of an election for Monmouth County Freeholder this morning. "It's quite a battle," Republican Curley tells redbankgreen. The county clerk's website has Mallet, a Democrat, leading...

They just keep coming and coming, an endless line of stoop-shouldered pilgrims in undersized t-shirts. We're talking about fans of fillmmaker Kevin Smith, who stream into his Red Bank comic-books-and-tchotchkes emporium, Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, looking for detailed...

Ninety-three-year-old Jacqueline O'Shea signs in to vote at Borough Hall in Sea Bright Tuesday. By SUE MORGAN A year after a disputed mayoral race that has yet to be resolved in court, Sea Bright voters dispatched two Democrats from the...

A Rumson voter signs in at the Forrestdale School polling station Tuesday afternoon. By SUE MORGAN By 8p, Democratic Borough Council candidate Michael Steinhorn expected to have picked up his campaign signs, all 25 or so of them, that he...

Out are two Republican incumbents and in come a Democrat and an independent after Little Silver voters dealt their harshest rebuke to the GOP in a decade Tuesday. Of 6,445 votes cast, the largest share, 1,681, went to attorney Daniel...

No changes planned here. Incumbent Republicans Jerome Koch and James Banahan held off a challenge from a single Democratic candidate in the race for two seats on the Fair Haven Borough Council Tuesday. Of 4,881 votes cast, Banhan attracted 1,706,...

Sen. Barack Obama has been elected president of the United States of America. redbankgreen encountered these two homemade tributes to Obama's presidential campaign in the yards of homes in Fair Haven Tuesday morning. The one on the top is from...

John Curley at home in 2006, when home was Red Bank. Figures relased by the Monmouth County Clerk's office indicate that former Red Bank Councilman John Curley leads his nearest Democratic opponent by just 108 votes out of 250,000 cast...

Juanita Lewis embraces her campaign manager, Christine McKenna, after her win in Tuesday's Red Bank Council election. Red Bank voters skied straight down the Democratic column in Tuesday's elections, hoping to elevate the first-ever African-American to the presidency and making...

Somehow, over a 50-year career, jazzman Mose Allison has never made it to this part of the Jersey Shore. But he'll be here this week, with a stop at Tim McLoone's Supper Club in Asbury Park Thursday night. Such an...

Election officials are expecting record turnout today, according to the Asbury Park Press. Here's what redbankgreen found in the first hour of voting activity in Red Bank this morning: 6:00a: More than a dozen voters stand in line in the...

Lest we forget, Red Bank is still in its centennial year, and reminders of that milestone continue to pop up now and again. The latest is the above video, shot and produced by four students, aged 14 to 17, who...

Monmouth County is one of six counties statewide that may have to revert to paper ballots for first-time voters because of a crush of last-minute registrations, today's Star-Ledger reports. From the article: Warren, Atlantic, Bergen, Monmouth, Ocean and Salem counties...

The Independent Fire House on Mechanic Street does double duty as the district 2 polling station on election day. Will the lines be long? Will the flow of voters through the polling stations be smooth? That remains to be seen....

Admit it: you've read the two public questions on this year's ballot over and over again, and the "interpretive statements" that purport to explain them, and you don't know what to make of them. First, you're not alone. And second,...

Crimes reported to the Red Bank Police Department during the week of October 24 to 31. The information is unedited. Theft occurring on 10-24-08 at Monmouth St. Victim reported that cash was stolen from purse. Ptl. Paul Perez. Theft occurring...