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RED BANK: SCHOOLS EYE “DEVASTATING” STATE AID CUTS
RED BANK: Borough schools face cutbacks if a proposed massive cut in state aid is not restored.
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RED BANK: RUMAGE NAMED SUPER OF THE YEAR
RED BANK: Borough schools leader Jared Rumage named Monmouth County Superintendent of the Year for 2023.
RED BANK: WRITE-IN TO ACCEPT SCHOOL WIN
RED BANK: In school races, a write-in winner says she'll accept seat on borough board, and a newcomer trounces RBR's president.
RED BANK: NEWCOMER LEADS RBR PRESIDENT
RED BANK: Newcomer Stephanie Albanese appears to have displaced longtime Red Bank Regional board of ed president John Garofalo.
LITTLE SILVER: RBR CANDIDATES’ FORUM
LITTLE SILVER: League of Women Voters of Greater Red Bank hosts a virtual forum for candidates for the Red Bank Regional High Board of Education.
FAIR HAVEN: VOTERS APPROVE SCHOOLS PLAN
FAIR HAVEN: Voters give overwhelming approval for $15.6m school upgrades in Tuesday's special election.
FAIR HAVEN: VOTERS TO DECIDE $15.6M PLAN
FAIR HAVEN: Voters to decide $15.6m school upgrades referendum Tuesday. But first, they've got to get to the right polling station.
FAIR HAVEN: $15.6M SCHOOLS PLAN UNVEILED
FAIR HAVEN: Residents get first look at $15.6m school upgrades under planned referendum. It includes full-day K classes and improved security.
LITTLE SILVER: SPORTS CUTS SPARK OUTRAGE
LITTLE SILVER: Parents and students pack Red Bank Regional board meeting in effort to save hockey and golf from budget axe.
LITTLE SIVER: RBR TEACHERS BLAST MOORE
LITTLE SILVER: Red Bank Regional teachers' union blasts Moore for "authoritarian" style and "general lack of integrity" after no-confidence vote.
RED BANK: A year after being passed over by GOP, former party stalwart will run for council as independent, adding wild card to race.
RED BANK: WRITE-IN WINS BOARD SEAT
RED BANK: Write-in wins school board seat, making him the second successor to then-president Carrie Ludwikowski, who resigned eight months into her term.
RED BANK: School board president Carrie Ludwikowski is leaving town.
FAIR HAVEN: NEW SUPERINTENDENT SIGNS ON
New Fair Haven schools Superintendent Sean McNeil gets right to work, serving cake to students at a gathering to welcome him Tuesday night. His official start date is July 1. (Photo byContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: NEW SUPERINTENDENT SIGNS ON"
FAIR HAVEN: RIBON RESIGNS
Fair Haven schools Superintendent Nelson Ribon, seen here in 2014, plans to leave the district next July 1, following the school board’s acceptance of his resignation last week. In a letterContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: RIBON RESIGNS"
RED BANK: INCUMBENTS KEEP SCHOOL SEATS
Incumbents Ann Roseman, Fred Stone and Carrie Ludwikowski won clear victories over three challengers.  (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD An unusually newsy Red BankContinue reading "RED BANK: INCUMBENTS KEEP SCHOOL SEATS"
RED BANK: FORUM PIVOTS ON CLANCY ISSUES
Challenger Michael Clancy, right, with incumbents Carrie Ludwikowski, left, Frederick Stone and Ann Roseman on stage at the middle school Thursday night. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) ByContinue reading "RED BANK: FORUM PIVOTS ON CLANCY ISSUES"
RED BANK SCHOOLS: CLANCY
Michael Clancy. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) Six candidates are vying for three three-year terms on the Red Bank Board of Education in the November 3 election. To help votersContinue reading "RED BANK SCHOOLS: CLANCY"
RED BANK SCHOOLS: ROSEMAN
Ann Roseman. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) Six candidates are vying for three three-year terms on the Red Bank Board of Education in the November 3 election. ToContinue reading "RED BANK SCHOOLS: ROSEMAN"
RED BANK SCHOOLS: LUDWIKOWSKI
Carrie Ludwikowski. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) Six candidates are vying for three three-year terms on the Red Bank Board of Education in the November 3 election. To help votersContinue reading "RED BANK SCHOOLS: LUDWIKOWSKI"
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.