RED BANK: Responding to Taylor claim that he's the source of "chaos" in local government, Zipprich fires back – and Taylor doubles down.

RED BANK: Two approaches to a possible change from the borough form of government have shown no signs of traction in recent months.

RED BANK: A referendum on nonpartisan elections and reform government reform is not on the ballot today, and its leading advocate is OK with that.

RED BANK: Forget a new parking garage for now. A study finds the borough's parking operation "broken" and says that needs to be fixed first.

RED BANK: In an otherwise empty borough hall on New Year's Eve, the council convenes a special meeting to fire the CFO, hours before she was due to reach tenure.

RED BANK: Council says farewell to 2018, and the only two remaining Republican members, at its final session of the year.

RED BANK: Final council session of 2018 is also the last for the two remaining Republicans on the governing body. Here's the agenda.

RED BANK: Council moves to boost allowable density of VNA site to 90 units per acre, which would negate a planning board compromise reached last week.

RED BANK: No money has yet come in from grants a contractor helped the borough apply for, but officials hope the pump is now primed.

RED BANK: Borough Democrats cruise to victory as incumbent mayor and two new council members give the party full control of local government.

RED BANK: In its second broadside of the campaign, the GOP questions Yassin's rapid rise and suggests he engaged in "fraud."

RED BANK: Against backdrop of critical management report, two mayoral and five council candidates face off before a full house.

RED BANK: Petition drive for nonpartisan elections fails to meet deadline for November ballot, but isn't dead, Taylor and Whelan say.

RED BANK: Political newcomer Pearl Lee makes it official: she's running for mayor as the first GOP candidate for the post since 2006.

RED BANK: Dormant vehicles on Bank Street; four-way stops; a new firetruck; zoning for marijuana dispensaries. All these got mulled over at the council's first workshop session Wednesday.

RED BANK: The authors of a report calling for the creation of a downtown redevelopment agency appear on the verge of winning a contract to make it happen.

RED BANK: A public-input session on downtown parking issues has been scheduled as part of a study of parking needs now underway.

RED BANK: Councilman Mike Whelan, who claimed to have been attacked in a Hamptons men's room last month, faces an assault charge, redbankgreen has learned.

RED BANK: Councilman Mike Whelan wound up in a Hamptons police station Saturday after he was attacked in a hotel men's room, he says.

RED BANK: Local-government groupies and gadflies will have another municipal meeting to add to their calendars starting next month: a council workshop session.