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CONGRESSWOMAN VISITS REFORM TEMPLE
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Press release from Monmouth Reform Temple Monmouth Reform Temple (MRT), 332 Hance Avenue in Tinton Falls, will welcome the distinguished Congresswoman and Democratic National Committee Chairperson, Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Sunday,Continue reading "CONGRESSWOMAN VISITS REFORM TEMPLE"
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December 3rd, 2013 @ 6am
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RED BANK: BURNHAM BREAKS DEMS’ ‘HOLD’
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Cindy Burnham,left, and Sean Di Somma, right, awaiting returns in a downtown office Tuesday night. Below, incumbent Democrat Kathy Horgan, who won another three-year term. (Click to enlarge) By JOHNContinue reading "RED BANK: BURNHAM BREAKS DEMS’ ‘HOLD’"
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November 5th, 2013 @ 11pm
By JOHN T. WARD An eleventh-hour write-in campaign for Rumson council ended with a pair of soccer dads missing their goal but feeling they’d scored some points Tuesday. Tim McCooeyContinue reading "RUMSON: LATE WRITE-IN PUSH FALLS SHORT"
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November 5th, 2013 @ 10pm
RED BANK: EARLY TURNOUT MODERATE
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A voter arrives early Tuesday at the Independent Engine Company on Mechanic Street in Red Bank, voting home to districts 2 and 7. At right, an enlargeable district map ofContinue reading "RED BANK: EARLY TURNOUT MODERATE"
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November 5th, 2013 @ 7am
ELECTION DAY 2013: GLITCH IN RUMSON
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A voter arrives at Congregation B’nai Israel, the polling place for Rumson districts 4 and 5, early Tuesday. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Election Day 2013 on theContinue reading "ELECTION DAY 2013: GLITCH IN RUMSON"
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November 5th, 2013 @ 7am
RUMSON: WRITE-IN DRIVE HEATS UP ELECTION
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A write-in campaign for two candidates billing themselves as the Rumson Family ticket emerged in the wake of the Oxford House controversy last month. Below, Tim McCooey at the OctoberContinue reading "RUMSON: WRITE-IN DRIVE HEATS UP ELECTION"
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November 4th, 2013 @ 9am
One of four Q&As with the candidates for two, three-year terms on the Red Bank Borough Council in next weeks election. Kathy Horgan and Sharon Lee, both Democrats, are theContinue reading "RED BANK CANDIDATE: CINDY BURNHAM"
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November 1st, 2013 @ 11am
One of four Q&As with the candidates for two, three-year terms on the Red Bank Borough Council in next week’s election. Kathy Horgan and Sharon Lee, both Democrats, are theContinue reading "RED BANK CANDIDATE: SEAN DI SOMMA"
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November 1st, 2013 @ 11am
One of four Q&As with the candidates for two, three-year terms on the Red Bank Borough Council in next weeks election. Kathy Horgan and Sharon Lee, both Democrats, are theContinue reading "RED BANK CANDIDATE: KATHY HORGAN"
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November 1st, 2013 @ 11am
One of four Q&As with the candidates for two, three-year terms on the Red Bank Borough Council in next week’s election. Kathy Horgan and Sharon Lee, both Democrats, are theContinue reading "RED BANK CANDIDATE: SHARON LEE"
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November 1st, 2013 @ 11am
A “capias warrant” for the arrest of Sean Di Somma was issued and is still in effect, a spokesman for the city of Dallas told redbankgreen late Friday afternoon, addingContinue reading "DALLAS SAYS DI SOMMA IS WARRANT SUBJECT"
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October 25th, 2013 @ 7pm
RED BANK: ZIPPRICH OWNS ‘ASTROTURF’ URL
Councilman Ed Zipprich, seen at the Red Bank NAACP candidates’ forum at Calvary Baptist Church Thursday night, acknowledged he set up a website that now attacks Republican candidates. (Photo byContinue reading "RED BANK: ZIPPRICH OWNS ‘ASTROTURF’ URL"
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October 25th, 2013 @ 1pm
Red Bank council candidate Sean Di Somma tells redbankgreen that no warrant was ever issued for his arrest for running a stop sign in Dallas almost three years ago, contraryContinue reading "DI SOMMA: DEMS LIED. ‘THERE IS NO WARRANT’"
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October 25th, 2013 @ 9am
RED BANK: DEMS FLAG DI SOMMA WARRANT
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A long-dormant Red Bank election season erupted in finger-pointing Thursday as Democrats accused Republican newcomer Sean DiSomma of ducking an arrest warrant over a traffic violation in Texas two yearsContinue reading "RED BANK: DEMS FLAG DI SOMMA WARRANT"
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October 24th, 2013 @ 6pm
RED BANK: ZIPPRICH WEDS PARTNER
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Ed Zipprich, left, and J.P. Nicolaides on election night in 2007. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) Red Bank Councilman Ed Zipprich wed his longtime partner J.P. NicolaidesContinue reading "RED BANK: ZIPPRICH WEDS PARTNER"
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October 21st, 2013 @ 9am
RED BANK: COUNCIL CONTENDERS FACE OFF
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Cindy Burnham, left, addresses the audience as Sean Di Somma, Kathy Horgan and Sharon Lee listen at the Westside Community Group’s annual candidate’s forum Thursday night. (Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "RED BANK: COUNCIL CONTENDERS FACE OFF"
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October 18th, 2013 @ 7am
CANGEMI WEDS AS MENNA DOES THE HONORS
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In a ceremony officiated by Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna, former Councilwoman Mary Grace Cangemi married Gerard Ryan on the beach at Surfrider in Sea Bright Sunday afternoon. Though Menna,Continue reading "CANGEMI WEDS AS MENNA DOES THE HONORS"
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October 14th, 2013 @ 6am
RED BANK: HUNGER ON THE TABLE
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Governor Chris Christie joined restaurateur Tom Colicchio, right, and an interviewer on stage at the Count Basie Theatre Monday afternoon for a discussion of the politics of combatting hunger. TheContinue reading "RED BANK: HUNGER ON THE TABLE"
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October 1st, 2013 @ 6am
SENATE PRIMARY A YAWNER ON THE GREEN
Marjorie and Howard Fox after voting in Little Silver, above. Barbara Crowton, below, voted at the United Methodist Church in Red Bank. (Photo by Sarah Klepner. Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "SENATE PRIMARY A YAWNER ON THE GREEN"
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August 14th, 2013 @ 6am
RED BANK: SHAKEUP AT ZONING BOARD
Rosemary Minear was one of two zoning board members who quit in May. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Following two abrupt resignations, some new faces join the RedContinue reading "RED BANK: SHAKEUP AT ZONING BOARD"
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July 18th, 2013 @ 8am
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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.
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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 ...