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Monthly Archives: April 2012

Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • Keith Monaghan, age 18, from Commonwealth Avenue in Red Bank, NJ, arrested on April 24, 2012 byContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: SEX ASSAULT ALLEGED"
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April 30th, 2012 @ 1pm
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The restaurant is doing an extensive overhaul at 33 Broad Street and plans a September opening, says the landlord. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD You’ll be able toContinue reading "CHAR GETS LIQUORED UP & LANDLORD SCORES"
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April 30th, 2012 @ 12pm
The driver of an SUV that smacked head-on into a utility pole in Little Silver Friday evening has been charged with drunken driving and fleeing the scene, police Chief DanContinue reading "DRIVER CHARGED WITH DWI, FLEEING SCENE"
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April 30th, 2012 @ 10am
RED BANK: FOODIE TREK AROUND THE WORLD
Like the past two autumn Oysterfests, Red Bank Flavour’s new International Flavour Fest on Sunday will bulge at the belt line of the White Street parking lot. (Click to enlarge)Continue reading "RED BANK: FOODIE TREK AROUND THE WORLD"
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April 30th, 2012 @ 7am
Three men, including one from Middletown, are facing allegations they robbed a man on a Red Bank street when one of them posed as a cop, Red Bank police announcedContinue reading "TRIO CHARGED IN FAUX-COP ROBBERY"
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April 29th, 2012 @ 12pm
SUV HITS POLE IN LITTLE SILVER
Little Silver police closed Branch Avenue between Pinckney Road and Silverton Avenue after an SUV smashed into a utility pole around 6 p.m. Friday. No information about the accident orContinue reading "SUV HITS POLE IN LITTLE SILVER"
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April 27th, 2012 @ 6pm
A state Superior Court judge has overturned the harassment conviction of one of three Sea Bright firefighters involved in a firehouse scuffle 18 months ago, redbankgreen has learned. In anContinue reading "JUDGE TOSSES CONVICTION IN BRAWL CASE"
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April 27th, 2012 @ 6pm
Red Bank police abandoned a high-speed chase that took them up the Garden State Parkway nearly to the Raritan River early Friday morning, authorities say. The  incident began at aboutContinue reading "RED BANK COPS IN HIGH-SPEED PURSUIT"
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April 27th, 2012 @ 1pm
BOMB THREAT EMPTIES BROKERAGE
Red Bank police and a NJ Transit dog were on the scene as as authorities investigated a report of a bomb left in the underground parking garage of Merrill LynchContinue reading "BOMB THREAT EMPTIES BROKERAGE"
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April 27th, 2012 @ 12pm
PAINTING, AND CLOTHING, THE TOWNS PINK
A profusion of pink explodes from local wardrobes this time of year, as evidenced by these pix from the 2011 Girls’ Night Out party in Pink Bank. (Click to enlarge)Continue reading "PAINTING, AND CLOTHING, THE TOWNS PINK"
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April 27th, 2012 @ 8am
GARDENERS ADVISED TO MAKE NICE
Concerns expressed by the proposed garden site’s neighbors must be addressed before any planting can occur, town officials said. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Red Bank officials toldContinue reading "GARDENERS ADVISED TO MAKE NICE"
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April 26th, 2012 @ 10am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
A second clue to last week’s Where Have I Seen This? didn’t keep some fans of this feature from going a bit astray. One guessed it was taken at Prown’sContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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April 26th, 2012 @ 8am
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Little Silver Police Department. • April 8- A Fraud was reported to have taken place at a residence on Winding Way. P.O.Continue reading "LITTLE SILVER POLICE BLOTTER"
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April 26th, 2012 @ 6am
The unacknowledged elephant in the room: the Welsh Farms on East Front Street, now seeking to convert to an all-day 7-Eleven. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Without explainingContinue reading "RED BANK AIMS TO BAN OVERNIGHT BUSINESS"
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April 26th, 2012 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER SEARCH YIELDS NOTHING
Police presence was high on the roads bordering the marshland, including Prospect Avenue, above. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD An intensive manhunt for two suspected burglars in LittleContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER SEARCH YIELDS NOTHING"
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April 25th, 2012 @ 1pm
MANHUNT UNDERWAY IN LITTLE SILVER
A tracking dog from the Monmouth County Sheriff’s office arriving at a home on Prospect Avenue at noon. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Police and tracking dogs fromContinue reading "MANHUNT UNDERWAY IN LITTLE SILVER"
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April 25th, 2012 @ 12pm
READYING RED BANK’S RED CLAY COURTS
It doesn’t look very red now, but the outlook for fans of Red Bank’s red clay courts is rosy. (Click to enlarge) By DANIELLE TEPPER A recent visit to RedContinue reading "READYING RED BANK’S RED CLAY COURTS"
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April 25th, 2012 @ 10am
OPERA AND DANCE TO LIGHT UP RBR STAGE
Rehearsing for this week’s Spring Dance Concerts at Red Bank Regional, VPA dance majors include (front row, left to right) Phoenicia Butler, Jessica Adderly, Dillion Jackson, plus (back row, leftContinue reading "OPERA AND DANCE TO LIGHT UP RBR STAGE"
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April 25th, 2012 @ 9am
Town officials are hoping to determine if a time capsule featured in a 1976 celebration of the nation’s 200th anniversary at Fair Haven’s Bicentennial Hall was buried or misplaced. (ClickContinue reading "CONFUSION OVER FAIR HAVEN TIME CAPSULES"
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April 25th, 2012 @ 6am
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • On April 22, 2012 Patrolman Adam Colfer responded to a report of a collision at the intersectionContinue reading "MTOWN: COCAINE CHARGE FOLLOWS ACCIDENT"
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April 24th, 2012 @ 2pm
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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!
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 ...