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DEMS: CORZINE NEARLY DRAGGED US UNDER
Though close, the outcome was worth a shared high-five between running mates Art Murphy, right, and Mike DuPont, with back to camera. (Click to enlarge) The Democratic faithful who gatheredContinue reading "DEMS: CORZINE NEARLY DRAGGED US UNDER"
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November 4th, 2009 @ 1am
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RED BANK GOP HEARTENED BY CLOSE FINISH
Candidates Rob Lombardi, left, and Kim Senkeleski were joined by former Councilman Jim Giannell as the returns came in at Senkeleski’s home. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Tuesday’sContinue reading "RED BANK GOP HEARTENED BY CLOSE FINISH"
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November 4th, 2009 @ 12am
On his second try, former Red Bank councilman John Curley won a seat on the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders, tipping the board back to Republican control. His winContinue reading "CURLEY, ASSEMBLY REPS RIDE GOP WAVE"
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November 4th, 2009 @ 12am
IT’S ALL-GOP IN FAIR HAVEN
A voter who asked not to be identified signs in with her daughter at her side at the Fair Haven Fire House yesterday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By a wideContinue reading "IT’S ALL-GOP IN FAIR HAVEN"
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November 4th, 2009 @ 12am
In the closest council race in recent memory, incumbent Red Bank Democrats Mike DuPont and Art Murphy have won re-election to the borough council. Republican political newcomers Kim Senekeleski andContinue reading "RED BANK DEMS WIN COUNCIL SQUEAKER"
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November 3rd, 2009 @ 10pm
FAIR HAVEN GOP: FOCUSED ON FINANCE
Bob Marchese and Ben Lucarelli in Lucarelli’s Red Bank office. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI This year’s Republican candidates for Fair Haven borough council haven’t gotten caught upContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN GOP: FOCUSED ON FINANCE"
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October 29th, 2009 @ 10am
FAIR HAVEN DEMS: BETTER SCRUTINY NEEDED
Margo Tikijian and Matthew Cohen on River Road. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI One might think that the historical odds are stacked against any Democrat running for FairContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN DEMS: BETTER SCRUTINY NEEDED"
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October 29th, 2009 @ 10am
COUNCIL CANDIDATE: SENKELESKI
[audio:https://redbankgreen.s3.amazonaws.com/redbankgreen/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/senkeleski.mp3] Today, redbankgreen brings you the fourth and final installment in a series of unedited audio interviews with each of the four candidates for two seats on the Red BankContinue reading "COUNCIL CANDID ...
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October 22nd, 2009 @ 6am
COUNCIL CANDIDATE: MURPHY
[audio:https://redbankgreen.s3.amazonaws.com/redbankgreen/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/murphy.mp3] Today, redbankgreen brings you the third in a series of unedited audio interviews with each of the four candidates for two seats on the Red Bank Council up forContinue reading "COUNCIL CANDIDATE: MURPHY"
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October 21st, 2009 @ 7am
COUNCIL CANDIDATE: LOMBARDI
[audio:https://redbankgreen.s3.amazonaws.com/redbankgreen/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lombardi.mp3] Today, redbankgreen brings you the second in a series of unedited audio interviews with each of the four candidates for two seats on the Red Bank Council up forContinue reading "COUNCIL CANDIDATE: LOMB ...
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October 20th, 2009 @ 6am
[audio:https://redbankgreen.s3.amazonaws.com/redbankgreen/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/dupont.mp3] Today, redbankgreen kicks off a series of unedited audio interviews with each of the four candidates for two seats on the Red Bank Council up for grabs in theContinue reading "COUNCIL CANDIDATE: DuPONT"
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October 19th, 2009 @ 9am
Today’s Asbury Park Press has coverage of the Red Bank council candidate’s debate Wednesday night. First-time candidates Kim Senkeleski of John Street and Rob Lombardi of William Street are hopingContinue reading "PRESS: COUNCIL CANDIDATES FACE 40 VOTERS"
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October 15th, 2009 @ 6am
CANDIDATE’S NIGHT SET
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Time is running out if you want to do this and aren’t registered. Amid reminders from local officials that the deadline for voter registrations is nearing, Red Bank’s Westside CommunityContinue reading "CANDIDATE’S NIGHT SET"
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September 30th, 2009 @ 7am
Congressman Rush Holt‘s town hall meeting on federal health coverage in Middletown Wednesday was a less raucous affair than the one held the night before in Red Bank by hisContinue reading "PRESS: HOLT HAS TIGHT REIN ON TOWN HALL"
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August 27th, 2009 @ 8am
HALFACRE HALF-OK WITH STIMULUS MONEY
Mayor Mike Halfacre in 2008. With his town having  just landed a whopping $477,000 in federal stimulus money, one might think that Fair Haven mayor and congressional aspirant Mike HalfacreContinue reading "HALFACRE HALF-OK WITH STIMULUS MONEY"
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August 18th, 2009 @ 2pm
Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. has scheduled a town-hall style Q&A about health insurance reform for Tuesday, August 25 in Red Bank. But Pallone, a Long Branch Democrat who chairs aContinue reading "PALLONE PLANS TOWN HALL ON HEALTHCARE"
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August 17th, 2009 @ 10am
CORZINE TO RB DEMS: SORRY, NO SEATS LEFT
Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna holds a chair for Gov. Jon Corzine prior to a radio interview at the KaBoom Fireworks on July 3. The Corzine campaign did not returnContinue reading "CORZINE TO RB DEMS: SORRY, NO SEATS LEFT"
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July 16th, 2009 @ 1pm
BOROUGH DEMS SNUBBED ON OBAMA VISIT?
A pair of Marine Corps helicopters rehearsed Tuesday at Holmdel High School for the arrival of President Obama on Thursday. The aircraft are designated as Marine One only when theContinue reading "BOROUGH DEMS SNUBBED ON OBAMA VISIT?"
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July 15th, 2009 @ 6pm
Video of a radio interview of Gov. Jon Corzine at last week’s Kaboom Fireworks on the Navesink in Marine Park. The interview was by Q104.3’S Ken Dashow, who was joinedContinue reading "CORZINE GETS RADIO-ACTIVE"
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July 8th, 2009 @ 12pm
HALFACRE TO MAKE D.C. RUN OFFICIAL
Now in his third year as mayor, Mike Halfacre has set his sights on a seat in Congress. After months of testing-the-waters fundraising, Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre plans toContinue reading "HALFACRE TO MAKE D.C. RUN OFFICIAL"
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July 6th, 2009 @ 6am
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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 ...