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RED BANK: YOUNG RISING SONS MAKE SPLASH

A Red Bank-based band, Young Rising Sons, released this debut video this week to a fair amount of acclaim, including praise from blogger who says ‘High’ “has everything you would want from an indie pop song, providing playful whistling, booming drums and charging vocal harmonies that carry the listener through memorable choruses.”

Do you agree? And how many locations in Red Bank and elsewhere on the greater Red Bank Green can you identify in the video? The band’s members are Andy Tongren, Dylan Scott, Julian Dimagiba and Steve Patrick.

SEA BRIGHT: HANDLIN TARGETS TAX FORMULA

By WIL FULTON

Last month, Sea Bright Mayor Dina Long called a school-tax formula that would sock struggling residents with a 13-percent hike for sending their high schoolers to Shore Regional High School “painful before, but after Sandy, unbearable.”

Now, Assemblywoman Amy Handlin, right, has stepped up to bat for the storm-shattered borough, offering to find a legislative solution to ease such shocks in the future.

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