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RED BANK: FACING YOUR FINANCES FEARLESSLY
Red Bank’s Lunch Break hosts ‘Face Your Finances Fearlessly,’ a series of financial literacy workshops. Starting August 7, experts from Morgan Stanley will walk attendees through the nuts and boltsContinue reading "RED BANK: FACING YOUR FINANCES FEARLESSLY"
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RED BANK: Want to cut your federal income income tax under the newly adopted Trump plan? Consider prepaying your property taxes, borough says.
RED BANK: Budget vote creates unexpected bedfellows as two Republicans oppose plan drafted by colleague, who wins praise from her election opponent.
RED BANK: TAX BILLS TO RISE 2.9 PERCENT
RED BANK: The annual budget has been introduced. Here's the impact on taxpayers.
RED BANK: Council approves budget that hikes taxes 1.7 percent rather than 2 percent.
RED BANK: DEMS TARGET ‘SLUSH FUNDS’
RED BANK: Horgan and Zipprich say they've found "fluff and slush funds" that can be trimmed to reduce a tax hike.
RED BANK: BUDGET FAILS ON TIEBREAKER VOTE
Mayor Pasquale Menna confers with Councilwoman Linda Schwabenbauer during the council’s budget deliberation Wednesday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Red Bank’s first Republican-led budgetContinue reading "RED BANK: BUDGET FAILS ON TIEBREAKER VOTE"
RED BANK: TAX INCREASE REDUCED
A half-dozen or so residents, outnumbered by borough employees and officials, attended the budget session. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) [Update, May 20: Visuals from this presentationContinue reading "RED BANK: TAX INCREASE REDUCED"
RED BANK: ‘COMPROMISE’ PARKING HIKE OK’D
Fees for parking in downtown lots would double, to $1 per hour, while metered spots on the street would rise 50 percent, to $1.50 an hour. (Photo by John T. Ward.Continue reading "RED BANK: ‘COMPROMISE’ PARKING HIKE OK’D"
RED BANK: TAXPAYER BUDGET Q&A SLATED
For the 10th year in a row, Red Bank borough government department heads are scheduled to offer presentations on their 2016 budget proposals at a public information session scheduled for Wednesday,Continue reading "RED BANK: TAXPAYER BUDGET Q&A SLATED"
RED BANK: STEEP PARKING FEE HIKE PROPOSED
Fees for parking in downtown lots would double, while metered spots on the street would see a 50-percent increase. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading "RED BANK: STEEP PARKING FEE HIKE PROPOSED"
RED BANK: PARKING IDEA SPUTTERS
A proposal to extend meter enforcement hours appeared to get no traction Wednesday night. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The Red Bank councilContinue reading "RED BANK: PARKING IDEA SPUTTERS"
RED BANK: GOP DRAFT BUDGET HAS TAXES UP
Councilwoman Linda Schwabenbauer, who heads the finance committee, says there’s been a “severe” drop in revenue from last year along with an increase in expenses. (Photo by John T. Ward.Continue reading "RED BANK: GOP DRAFT BUDGET HAS TAXES UP"
RED BANK: AUDIT FINDS FISCAL IMPROVEMENT
Red Bank auditor David Kaplan, seen here in 2014, said the borough’s financial strength improved last year. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Debt isContinue reading "RED BANK: AUDIT FINDS FISCAL IMPROVEMENT"
Red Bank property owners will have until August 25 to pay their third-quarter tax bills without incurring a penalty, under a resolution past by the borough council Wednesday night. The graceContinue reading "RED BANK: DEADLINE ON TAXES EXTENDED"
RED BANK: NO TAX INCREASE
Councilman Mike DuPont credited borough employees for financial sacrifices that helped keep taxes level with last year. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD RedContinue reading "RED BANK: NO TAX INCREASE"
By JOHN T. WARD Wall Street debt-rating agency Moody’s has raised concerns about Red Bank’s $25.2 million worth of general-obligation bonds. In a announcement posted on its website late lastContinue reading "MOODY’S GOES NEGATIVE ON RED BANK DEBT"
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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.