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Category Archives: Politics

RED BANK: Council agenda includes bonds, hirings, event date approvals for a post-pandemic world... but still no movement on commenting protocol.
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January 26th, 2021 @ 7am
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RED BANK: DEMOCRATS FORM BLACK CAUCUS
RED BANK: Democrats announce creation of Black caucus to "bring forward future civic leaders and field future candidates," among other objectives.
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January 19th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: MORE SPARKS OVER SENIOR CENTER
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RED BANK: Passions run high as residents demand Senior Center be repaired, while sparks continue to fly among council members.
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January 14th, 2021 @ 5pm
RED BANK: CONTRACTOR DENIES RACIST POST
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RED BANK: Animal-control specialist contracted to provide back-up services to borough says he did not write racist post attributed to him on Facebook.
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January 11th, 2021 @ 3pm
RED BANK: DEMS ERUPT OVER SENIOR CENTER
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RED BANK: Tension among Democrats over the future of the borough's Senior Center erupts in public as "majority" splits with Ballard and Zipprich.
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January 11th, 2021 @ 9am
RED BANK: SENIOR CENTER STILL ON ICE
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RED BANK: The Senior Center, which has been closed since a leak almost two years ago, is not for sale, officials say. But will it ever reopen?
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January 8th, 2021 @ 1pm
FAIR HAVEN: BOROUGH ATTORNEY REPLACED
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FAIR HAVEN: First order of business as Democrats take control of council: a new borough attorney, one familiar to Red Bankers.
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January 5th, 2021 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: HOLZAPFEL, BRENNAN WIN
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LITTLE SILVER: Official result confirms Republicans Holzapfel and Brennan outpolled Democrats Keenan and Gotti in council race.
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November 24th, 2020 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: DEMS WIN RARE MAJORITY
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FAIR HAVEN: Democrats secure first council majority in memory as Rodriguez retains seat and newcomer Neff displaces Sorensen.
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November 24th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: WRITE-IN TO ACCEPT SCHOOL WIN
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RED BANK: In school races, a write-in winner says she'll accept seat on borough board, and a newcomer trounces RBR's president.
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November 19th, 2020 @ 4pm
RED BANK: LOCALS CELEBRATE BIDEN VICTORY
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RED BANK: Biden-Harris supporters gathered in Riverside Gardens Park Saturday to celebrate the win. Here are some of their thoughts.
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November 9th, 2020 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: HOLZAPFEL, BRENNAN IN LEAD
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LITTLE SILVER: Republicans Holzapfel and Brennan show strong lead as count continues in race for two council seats, county reports.
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November 6th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: NEWCOMER LEADS RBR PRESIDENT
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RED BANK: Newcomer Stephanie Albanese appears to have displaced longtime Red Bank Regional board of ed president John Garofalo.
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November 4th, 2020 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: DEMOCRATS HOLD WIDE MARGIN
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FAIR HAVEN: Incomplete vote count shows Democrats Rodriguez and Neff holding wide leads over Republican Sorensen.
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November 4th, 2020 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: RACE TOO CLOSE TO CALL
LITTLE SILVER: Race for two council seats too close to call early Wednesday with all four candidates within 85 votes of one another and counting continuing.
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November 4th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: BALLARD, ZIPPRICH SAIL TO WINS
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RED BANK: In-person turnout light as Zipprich and Ballard breeze toward new council terms.
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November 3rd, 2020 @ 9pm
RED BANK: PANDEMIC-ERA ELECTION ARRIVES
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RED BANK: Election day in the age of COVID-19 arrives.
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November 3rd, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: BALLARD, ZIPPRICH DUCK Q&A
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RED BANK: Ballard and Zipprich, unopposed incumbents seeking re-election as Red Bank council members, duck customary question and answer.
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October 29th, 2020 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: RODRIGUEZ Q&A
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FAIR HAVEN: Q&A with borough council candidate Christopher Rodriguez, one of three contenders in this year's race for two seats.
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October 28th, 2020 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: SORENSEN Q&A
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FAIR HAVEN: Q&A with borough council candidate Susan Sorensen, one of three contenders in this year's race for two seats.
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October 28th, 2020 @ 7am
Partyline
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 ...