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RED BANK: BALLOT POSITIONS SET
RED BANK: Ballot-position drawing gives Portman inside lane against Hogan in mayor's race, while Hogan's council slate gets primo position.
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RED BANK: All 15 candidates for office in May election "cleared the bar" with valid petitions, says clerk. Up next: a ballot-position drawing.
ON THE GREEN: ONE POLLING PLACE PER TOWN
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.
LITTLE SILVER: RBR DIGS IN FOR EXPANSION
LITTLE SILVER: Heavy equipment and piles of dirt now surround Red Bank Regional High.What's Going on Here? We've got the answers.
RED BANK: By a 2-1 margin, voters approve referendum on $6.75 million worth of repairs to primary and middle schools.
RED BANK: REFERENDUM Q&A SCHEDULED
RED BANK: Schools superintendent Jared Rumage schedules first presentation on a $6.75 million referendum for Thursday evening.
RED BANK: $6.75M REFERENDUM PLANNED
RED BANK: Voters will be asked to decide whether school district should borrow $6.75 million for needed repairs, with no increase in taxes, officials say.
RED BANK REGIONAL: REFERENDUM PASSES
LITTLE SILVER, RED BANK & SHREWSBURY: Voters in three towns give overwhelming support to $17.3 in repairs and improvements at Red Bank Regional.
RED BANK REGIONAL: $17.3M PLAN ON BALLOT
LITTLE SILVER, RED BANK & SHREWSBURY: Voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide a $17.3M spending plan for a roof, classrooms and turf at Red Bank Regional.
RBR: REFERENDUM INFO PUSH LAUNCHED
RED BANK REGIONAL: Taxpayers in Red Bank, Little Silver, and Shrewsbury face 'drastic' impact if referendum on $17.3M upgrade plan fails, school officials say.
RBR, LOCAL DISTRICT TO HOST FORUMS
RED BANK: Both RBR and the local school district plan forums in coming days, one on a $17.9 million referendum, the other on a strategic plan.
RED BANK REGIONAL: $17.9M PLAN ON BALLOT
RED BANK REGIONAL: Three towns will vote in December on a $17.9 million capital plan driven in large part by a need to save a cash cow: academy tuition.
A view down Broad Street from 2012.  (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Three years after its selection by Smithsonian Magazine as the third-best small town in America, RedContinue reading "RED BANK ON BALLOT FOR MAGAZINE HONOR"
FAIR HAVEN: Incumbent Republican Susan Sorensen won re-election to the borough council, but Aimee Humphreys pulled off a rare win for a Democrat in outpolling incumbent Republican Jerome Koch. TheContinue reading "ELECTION RESULTS FROM ACROSS THE GREEN"
DEMS PICK HORGAN FOR TICKET IN 11TH
Horgan has been a member of the Red Bank Council since 2008. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Monmouth County Democrats selected Red Bank Councilwoman Kathy Horgan Wednesday nightContinue reading "DEMS PICK HORGAN FOR TICKET IN 11TH"
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SIDEWALK GOES FROM WORST TO FIRST
P (photo by Brian Donohue) What had been, in our estimation – and apparently in the eyes of the several people who have emailed and te ...
RED BANK: PEERING FROM ON HIGH, ACROSS THE DECADES
Roofers on the Azalea Red Bank top off the project in the shadow of a sculpture depicting another generation of construction workers who toi ...
BRICK FACELIFT CONTINUES ON MONMOUTH STREET
A million-dollar brick sidwalk makeover of Monmouth Street in Red Bank continues.
JAY AND SILENT EAGLE
A very loud blue jay squawks at an indiferent bald eagle in a treetop alongside the Swimming River in Red Bank this week. (Partyline photo b ...
PIZZA LOVING SQUIRREL SPOTTED IN RED BANK
Pizza squirrel spotted in Red Bank. (click to read)
GET YOUR MA SOMETHIN’ NICE AT THE RED BANK FARMERS MARKET
It’s a beautiful and sunny Mother’s Day for the first instance of the farmer’s market, held every Sunday, beginning in May ...
SIGN? WHAT SIGN?
Folks in Red Bank Wednesday exercising their riparian rights to access tidal waters first encoded into Roman law in 500 AD and later adopted ...
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Partyline contributor captures photo of backyard fox.
STRIPER RUN AT MARINE PARK
An angler pulls in a striped bass from the Marine Park bulkhead Tuesday evening. (photo by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
COLD AS CANADA? CHECK.
A pair of goose sculptures propped atop an air conditioning unit on River Street in Red Bank.
SUNRISE OVER A GLASSY NAVESINK
Sunrise over the Navesink River, seen from NJ Transit Train 3320. (photo by Partyline contributor Karly Swaim)  
A BLAST FROM THE PAST
NJ Transit "heritage" locomotive makes an appearance at the Red Bank station.
RBFD SNUFFS OUT SMALL APARTMENT FIRE
A small fire that started in a light fixture at the Colony House apartments in Red Bank was quickly put out by members of the Red Band Volun ...
HEAVENLY RED BANK
Rays burst from behind clouds at the sun begins to set over the Navesink River. (photo by Partyline contributor Thomas Doremus)
IN THE FLOW STATE AT RIVESIDE GARDENS
Flow artists in Riverside Gardens Park Friday night. ( photo by Partyline Contributor Karly Swaim)
MAILBOXES HEAD TO HISTORY’S SCRAP HEAP
Sign of the digital age: mailboxes hauled away from Red Bank post office to storage.
HOVERING CHOPPER
What’s going on here? Last Sunday. Hovering around for quite a while. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Rosaleen Perry)   ...
RBMS HOOPS CHAMPS HONORED
The Red Bank Middle School girls basketball team is honored for their championship season. (click for more)
NAVESINK SUNSET
Sunset sunburst over Riverside Gardens Park (photo by Partyline contributor Thomas Doremus)
RIVERSIDE SUNSET
Sunday’s sunset shot from Riverside Gardens Park. (Photo by Partyline contributor Thomas Doremus) —