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RED BANK: MICHAEL CLANCY Q&A
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RED BANK: redbankgreen's Q&A with Republican Michael Clancy, one of five contenders for two council seats in the November 6 election.
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November 2nd, 2018 @ 7am
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RED BANK: ALLISON GREGORY Q&A
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RED BANK: redbankgreen's Q&A with Republican Allison Gregory, one of five contenders for two council seats in the November 6 election.
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November 2nd, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: KATE TRIGGIANO Q&A
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RED BANK: redbankgreen's Q&A with Democrat Kate Triggiano, one of five contenders for two council seats in the November 6 election.
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November 2nd, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: SUE VISCOMI Q&A
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RED BANK: redbankgreen's Q&A with independent Sue Viscomi, one of five contenders for two council seats in the November 6 election.
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November 2nd, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: HAZIM YASSIN Q&A
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RED BANK: redbankgreen's Q&A with Democrat Hazim Yassin, one of five contenders for two council seats in the November 6 election.
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November 2nd, 2018 @ 7am
RED BANK: GOP QUESTIONS YASSIN’S RISE
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RED BANK: In its second broadside of the campaign, the GOP questions Yassin's rapid rise and suggests he engaged in "fraud."
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October 25th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: REPORT DOMINATES FACE-OFF
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RED BANK: Against backdrop of critical management report, two mayoral and five council candidates face off before a full house.
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October 24th, 2018 @ 11am
RED BANK: GOP TO RUN MAYORAL CANDIDATE
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RED BANK: Political newcomer Pearl Lee makes it official: she's running for mayor as the first GOP candidate for the post since 2006.
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September 26th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: GOP ATTACKS RIVAL OVER THREAT
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RED BANK: In the first attack of the 2018 election season, Republicans accuse Triggiano of "cavorting" with a man Clancy said has made threats against him.
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August 17th, 2018 @ 10am
RUMSON: EKDAHL RETIRES AS MAYOR
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RUMSON: After 14 years as mayor, during which he helped guide borough past Hurricane Sandy, Ekdahl retires early, citing the lure of winters in Florida.
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May 31st, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: GOP CHAIR TO SEEK COUNCIL SEAT
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RED BANK: GOP chairman Michael Clancy and a political newcomer to run for council instead of Whelan and Taylor. Once again, party has no mayoral candidate.
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March 30th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: MENNA TOPS TICKET AGAIN
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RED BANK: Menna tops ticket with two newcomers in November race as Democrats, with 4-2 majority, seek to regain total control of council.
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February 27th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: FOREST LAUNCHES MAYORAL BID
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RED BANK: Ben Forest, a Democrat, launches bid to unseat Pasquale Menna as mayor, saying he's 'had enough.' Who else is running?
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February 1st, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: PARKING AGENDA IN TRANSITION
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RED BANK: Amid recriminations and calls for a fresh start, Democrats prepare to take the wheel in the drive for a downtown parking solution.
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December 4th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: AIM OF GOP PACT DISPUTED
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RED BANK: Burnham releases secret pact that made her council president in 2016 in attack on Schwabenbauer and GOP.
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November 6th, 2017 @ 8am
RED BANK: SQUEEZING IN NEW PARKING SPOTS
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RED BANK: Area near bottleneck gets two new parking spaces, and just minutes later, a truck calls that decision into question.
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October 19th, 2017 @ 6am
RED BANK: BUILDERS BALK AT ‘NET 500’
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RED BANK: Both developers vying to redevelop the White Street parking lot said an insistence on 500 net new space may not be economically viable.
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September 28th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: Push to redevelop the White Street parking lot gets two spotlights tonight, with meetings at borough hall (6:30) and the primary school (8 pm).
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September 27th, 2017 @ 6am
RED BANK: WHAT’S NEXT FOR PARKING?
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RED BANK: What happens next in the quest for a parking solution? Two meetings on the same night, for starters.
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September 20th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: POLS PULL U-TURN ON PARKING
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RED BANK: Republicans and Democrats claim compromise on White Street redevelopment that will also nullify lawsuit over parking garage.
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September 14th, 2017 @ 8am
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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 ...
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!