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Category Archives: Politics

FAIR HAVEN: NEFF Q&A
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FAIR HAVEN: Q&A with borough council candidate Laline Neff, one of three contenders in this year's race for two seats.
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October 28th, 2020 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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LITTLE SILVER: BRENNAN Q&A
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LITTLE SILVER: Q&A with council candidate Kevin Brennan one of four contenders for two seats on the governing body in the November 3 election.
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October 27th, 2020 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: GOTTI Q&A
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LITTLE SILVER: Q&A with council candidate Joan Gotti, one of four contenders for two seats on the governing body in the November 3 election.
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October 27th, 2020 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: HOLZAPFEL Q&A
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LITTLE SILVER: Q&A with council candidate Michael Holzapfel, one of four contenders for two seats on the governing body in the November 3 election.
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October 27th, 2020 @ 7am
LITTLE SILVER: KEENAN Q&A
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LITTLE SILVER: Q&A with council candidate Stephanie Keenan, one of four contenders for two seats on the governing body in the November 3 election.
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October 27th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: GOP PAIR QUIT COUNCIL RACE
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RED BANK: Both Republicans quit borough council race, leaving incumbent Democrats Ballard and Zipprich on a glide path to re-election.
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September 10th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: Neither of two clashing requests for investigations of leaked emails appears on Wednesday night's council agenda. Here's what is on it.
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September 8th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: RALLY SLAMS POSTAL CHANGES
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RED BANK: Thirty protestors rallied outside the Shrewsbury Avenue post office to voice support for the postal service and its role in voting by mail.
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August 21st, 2020 @ 4pm
RED BANK: CLANCY MULLS COUGHING ON ‘LIBS’
RED BANK: Three years after he quit Human Relations committee over a text seen as threatening, GOP chairman Clancy muses about "coughing" on liberals to "harass" them.
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August 10th, 2020 @ 4pm
ON THE GREEN: ONE POLLING PLACE PER TOWN
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ON THE GREEN: Pandemic transforms primary voting to mail-in affair, with just one live poling place per town in Red Bank, Fair Haven and Little Silver.
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July 7th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: Dreamer 'thrilled' by SCOTUS decision thwarting Trump effort to kill DACA protections, plans a Facebook live discussion.
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June 18th, 2020 @ 2pm
FAIR HAVEN: BRUSH GRINDING SITE GRATES
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FAIR HAVEN: Neighbors say they've had it with a noisy brush-grinding operation that jams narrow streets with 18-wheelers, endangering kids.
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June 5th, 2020 @ 2am
LITTLE SILVER: A BACKYARD SWEARING-IN
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LITTLE SILVER: After the first socially distanced backyard swearing-in ceremony in borough history, Keenan joins the council Monday - remotely.
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April 17th, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: YASSIN GETS POLS TO PONY UP
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RED BANK: First-term Councilman Yassin wrangles a bipartisan group of New Jersey politicians to donate from their campaign funds to help fight COVID-19.
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April 2nd, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: BALLARD & ZIPPRICH TO RUN AGAIN
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RED BANK: Zipprich and Ballard to defend seats on the all-Democrat council in November election. No word yet on Republican candidates.
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March 3rd, 2020 @ 8am
FAIR HAVEN: COUNCIL ADDS TWO DEMOCRATS
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FAIR HAVEN: Democrats Meghan Chrisner-Keefe and Mike McCue are sworn to office, creating first 3-3 party split in modern memory.
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January 7th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: IN LIMBO, ‘DREAMERS’ HEAD TO DC
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RED BANK: Their futures in limbo, some three dozen DACA recipients and supporters headed to D.C., where SCOTUS is to decide their fates.
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November 12th, 2019 @ 2pm
RED BANK: Democratic incumbents Horgan and Yngstrom win re-election and extend their party's lock on the governing body into 2020.
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November 5th, 2019 @ 11pm
FAIR HAVEN: DEMOCRATS WIN TWO SEATS
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FAIR HAVEN: Democrats Meghan Chrisner-Keefe and Mike McCue capture two council seats, easily winning all six voting districts.
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November 5th, 2019 @ 10pm
RED BANK: GOP CLAIMS WEST SIDE ADVOCACY
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RED BANK: Republicans in this year's council race position themselves as the true advocates for minorities and the West Side, a Democratic stronghold.
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October 29th, 2019 @ 6am
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 ...