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Category Archives: Politics

RED BANK: GOP TO RUN MAYORAL CANDIDATE
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RED BANK: Political newcomer Pearl Lee makes it official: she's running for mayor as the first GOP candidate for the post since 2006.
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September 26th, 2018 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: MURPHY TOUTS LOWER COSTS
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RED BANK: Murphy visits Riverview to tout state's effort to preserve Obamacare, which he said will yield a 9.3-percent decline in premiums next year.
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September 10th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: The authors of a report calling for the creation of a downtown redevelopment agency appear on the verge of winning a contract to make it happen.
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August 30th, 2018 @ 2pm
RED BANK: Councilman Mike Whelan, who claimed to have been attacked in a Hamptons men's room last month, faces an assault charge, redbankgreen has learned.
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August 17th, 2018 @ 1pm
RED BANK: GOP ATTACKS RIVAL OVER THREAT
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RED BANK: In the first attack of the 2018 election season, Republicans accuse Triggiano of "cavorting" with a man Clancy said has made threats against him.
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August 17th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: WHELAN CLAIMS HAMPTONS ATTACK
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RED BANK: Councilman Mike Whelan wound up in a Hamptons police station Saturday after he was attacked in a hotel men's room, he says.
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July 25th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK Governor Phil Murphy and and First Lady Tammy Murphy set to run Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday along with about 1,000 others.
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June 15th, 2018 @ 1pm
RED BANK: BRIDGE RENAMED FOR KYRILLOS
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RED BANK: Long known locally as Hubbard's Bridge, the West Front span connecting the borough to Middletown has been renamed for former state Senator Joe Kyrillos.
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June 15th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: REPORT RIPS TOWN OPERATIONS
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RED BANK: Report from council-commissioned management review is sharply critical of borough operations across the board, starting with the form of government.
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June 12th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: Comic Jon Stewart returns to the stage of the Count Basie this month for a Q&A to raise money for the theater's $26 million expansion.
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June 6th, 2018 @ 4pm
RED BANK: Results of 2018 primary voting on the Greater Green Tuesday.
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June 6th, 2018 @ 8am
RUMSON: EKDAHL RETIRES AS MAYOR
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RUMSON: After 14 years as mayor, during which he helped guide borough past Hurricane Sandy, Ekdahl retires early, citing the lure of winters in Florida.
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May 31st, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: ADMINISTRATOR ‘Z,’ ON NEW JOB
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RED BANK: New administrator 'Z' Shehady tells redbankgreen he wants to see "government done right" and make the town stand out nationally on that basis.
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April 18th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: NEW ADMINISTRATOR NAMED
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RED BANK: Council picks new administrator. He's 33, an Army veteran and ex-mayor from Union County. And his salary will be triple his predecessor's.
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April 12th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: GOP CHAIR TO SEEK COUNCIL SEAT
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RED BANK: GOP chairman Michael Clancy and a political newcomer to run for council instead of Whelan and Taylor. Once again, party has no mayoral candidate.
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March 30th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: In a bombshell announcement, incumbent GOP council members Taylor and Whelan say they won't run for re-election this year.
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March 30th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: A year after being passed over by GOP, former party stalwart will run for council as independent, adding wild card to race.
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March 27th, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: MENNA TOPS TICKET AGAIN
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RED BANK: Menna tops ticket with two newcomers in November race as Democrats, with 4-2 majority, seek to regain total control of council.
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February 27th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: PARKING STUDY GETS IN GEAR
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RED BANK: Democrats issue request for parking study bids while wrapping up a move of some permits from White Street to east side lots.
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February 22nd, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: FOREST LAUNCHES MAYORAL BID
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RED BANK: Ben Forest, a Democrat, launches bid to unseat Pasquale Menna as mayor, saying he's 'had enough.' Who else is running?
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February 1st, 2018 @ 9am
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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 ...