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Entries from the desk log at the Red Bank Police Department for the week of January 30 to February 6. The information appears here unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring on 2-2-09 at Broad St. parking lot. Victim reported that unknown person(s)...
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February 9th, 2009 @ 5am
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The state says the middle school missed proficiency targets in language arts. Red Bank Superintendent Laura Morana says school performance data released this week by the state Department of Education obscures genuine academic progress being made at the borough's middle...
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February 6th, 2009 @ 10am
A 17-year-old Fair Haven boy was arrested on drug possession charges Wednesday evening in a raid on his family's home. Police used a battering ram to bust into the house after the youth barricaded himself inside, Lt. Joe McGovern tells...
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February 6th, 2009 @ 9am
A couple of River Street residents used trowels and other tools to assemble a rather imposing snowman yesterday. Will he survive Saturday and Sunday's temperatures? (Photo courtesy of Gary Morris) We're looking at a relatively warm weekend, with temperatures in...
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February 6th, 2009 @ 6am
Sorry, kids — no dynamite. A long disused smokestack behind Red Bank Catholic High School is coming down next week, weather and other conditions permitting. Jay Patock, president of Patock Construction in Eatontown, says demolition of the stack, which is...
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February 6th, 2009 @ 5am
By SUE MORGAN With none of the intra-party divisiveness seen last month in Wall Township over a similar vote, Sea Bright officials approved Monmouth County Republican Chairman and former Sheriff Joseph Oxley (left) as borough attorney Tuesday. On a snow-driven...
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February 5th, 2009 @ 7am
Last week's 'Where Have I Seen This?' featured three views from the site of Shrewsbury's Allen House, a history-drenched property that dates to the late 17th or early 18th century and functioned for many years as a tavern. Now maintained...
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February 5th, 2009 @ 6am
A Red Bank man has been indicted for a stopping a car, jumping on its hood, forcing its occupants out and crashing the vehicle into both a moving car and a house last year, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The...
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February 4th, 2009 @ 7am
Scenes from Tuesday's snowfall. (Click to enlarge) And now, the cleanup. Yesterday's snowfall left several inches of glistening white stuff to be removed from streets and sidewalks by conscientious citizens and their local governments. Though the mercury may rise to...
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February 4th, 2009 @ 6am
Rumson-Fair Haven girls basketball player Kate Miller bagged her 1,500th career point — a school record — and coach George Sourlis notched his 500th victory, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The dual milestones came in the Bulldogs' 58-32 Shore Conference...
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February 4th, 2009 @ 6am
Matthew Brown of the Red Bank public utilities lays down some magnesium-treated salt at the corner of Broad and Monmouth at lunchtime today. As forecast, the Coastal Monmouth area is getting hit with a persistent snow this afternoon. The National...
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February 3rd, 2009 @ 2pm
Attendees found seats wherever they could, even on the stairs of the restored former Anthony Reckless homestead, better known as the Woman's Club of Red Bank. By JoANN PILEGGI Money woes are putting the brakes on pet projects all over...
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February 3rd, 2009 @ 11am
Entries from the desk log at the Red Bank Police Department for the week of January 23 to 30. Entries are published here unedited. Armed Robbery occurring 1-23-09 at Tilton Ave. and West Bergen Place. Victim reported that while making...
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February 3rd, 2009 @ 10am
Red Bank's plows could get their second workout in less than a week today. The National Weather Service says snow starting this morning will leave 3 to 5 inches in Monmouth County (and perhaps an inch less in immediate coastal...
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February 3rd, 2009 @ 5am
Red Bank Police expected to consult with officials from the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office today about whether any charges should be brought in a case in which a middle school student brought a knife to school last month, Capt. Steve...
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February 2nd, 2009 @ 4pm
Getting ready to suit up? Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre is distancing himself from a report that he's mulling a run for Congress... while at the same time admitting that he's sorta kinda thinking about it. Wally Edge, the pseudonym...
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February 2nd, 2009 @ 3pm
An automobile accident at Tilton Avenue and River Street landed one vehicle on its side and sent three passengers to the hospital with minor injuries, Red Bank police say. Among the victims was a child who suffered a facial injury....
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February 2nd, 2009 @ 12pm
First-place finisher Michael Simone shows off his winning wheels. (Photos by JoAnn Pileggi) By JoANN PILEGGI Some were sleek and speedy. Others were boxy and a little slower. In the end, the designers, builders and racers of the annual Cub...
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February 2nd, 2009 @ 9am
Today's Star-Ledger's has a page-one story about the selections of Kevin Ryan and Virginia Bauer to top posts at Covenant House, the New York-based charity for homeless youth. Ryan, a former head of the New Jersey Department of Children and...
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February 2nd, 2009 @ 6am
An iceboat zips along the Navesink on Saturday. Thinking an iceboater involved in a crash had gone underwater, a Red Bank man jumped into Navesink River to find him Sunday, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The iceboat driver, though, had...
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February 2nd, 2009 @ 5am
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PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
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.