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RED BANK: BEAT THE RUSH WITH EARLY VOTING
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RED BANK: For the first time, voters can cast early, in-person ballots at a single polling station this weekend. In fact, it's begun.
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May 5th, 2023 @ 1pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: TAX INCREASE HELD TO ONE PERCENT
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RED BANK: Aided by parking surplus, local tax on average-value home goes up $25 this year, officials said at a walk-thru of the 2023 budget.
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May 5th, 2023 @ 3am
RED BANK: BUDGET WALK-THRU SLATED
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RED BANK: Spending plan that calls for $14.47 million in local taxes to get walk-thru presentation Thursday night.
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May 4th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: WHO TO VOTE FOR? THIS MAY HELP
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RED BANK: Still deciding who to vote for in the May 9 election? Here's a way to compare all 15 candidates, apples-to-apples.
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May 3rd, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: VISCOMI Q&A
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RED BANK: Here's what council candidate Suzanne Viscomi said in response to a redbankgreen questionnaire.
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May 3rd, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: FACEY-BLACKWOOD Q&A
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RED BANK: Here's what council candidate Nancy Facey-Blackwood said in response to a redbankgreen questionnaire.
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May 3rd, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: MURPHY Q&A
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RED BANK: Here's what council candidate Sean Murphy said in response to a redbankgreen questionnaire.
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May 3rd, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: HOGAN Q&A
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RED BANK: Here's what mayoral candidate Tim Hogan said in response to a redbankgreen questionnaire.
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May 3rd, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: Here's what council candidate John Jackson said in response to a redbankgreen questionnaire.
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May 3rd, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: Here's what council candidate Ben Forest said in response to a redbankgreen questionnaire.
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May 3rd, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: JANNONE Q&A
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RED BANK: Here's what council candidate Laura Jannone said in response to a redbankgreen questionnaire.
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May 3rd, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: Here's what council candidate Kate Triggiano said in response to a redbankgreen questionnaire.
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May 3rd, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: PORTMAN Q&A
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RED BANK: Here's what mayoral candidate Billy Portman said in response to a redbankgreen questionnaire.
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May 3rd, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: BONATAKIS Q&A
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RED BANK: Here's what council candidate Kristina Bonatakis said in response to a redbankgreen questionnaire.
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May 3rd, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: Here's what council candidate Jacqueline Sturdivant said in response to a redbankgreen questionnaire.
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May 3rd, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: CASSIDY Q&A
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RED BANK: Here's what council candidate David Cassidy said in response to a redbankgreen questionnaire.
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May 3rd, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: FLEMING Q&A
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RED BANK: Here's what council candidate Erin Fleming said in response to a redbankgreen questionnaire.
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May 3rd, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: HILL Q&A
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RED BANK: Here's what council candidate Linda Hill said in response to a redbankgreen questionnaire.
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May 3rd, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: NO DECISION ON CANNABIS SHOP
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RED BANK: Too close to a school? Proposed cannabis shop faces same questions driving effort to rewrite zoning law.
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May 2nd, 2023 @ 6am
RED BANK: CANNABIS SHOP ON AGENDA
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RED BANK: Proposed cannabis shop goes to planning board amid tensions between board and council over possible zoning changes.
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May 1st, 2023 @ 7am
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RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...