Skip to content
Brian Donohue
Editor Brian Donohue
Long Live Local News
Get "The Blast" Newsletter

A town square for an unsquare town

redbankgreen

Standing for the vitality of Red Bank, its community, and the fun we have together.

Category Archives: Breaking News

WORKER FALLS FROM RBC STEEL
News
Emergency personnel tend to the injured man. A man fell about 13 feet onto a concrete pad at a construction site at Red Bank Catholic High School this morning. TheContinue reading "WORKER FALLS FROM RBC STEEL"
Post a comment
July 17th, 2009 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
redbankgreen Classics
DOLPHINS RETURN TO SHREWSBURY RIVER
News
A pair of dolphins cross in the Shrewsbury River at sunset Sunday, as seen from McLoone’s Rum Runner in Sea Bright. The dolphins are back. A year after 16 dolphinsContinue reading "DOLPHINS RETURN TO SHREWSBURY RIVER"
Post a comment
June 7th, 2009 @ 9pm
We don’t yet know who he is. But this firefighter was surely feeling the heat of today’s blaze at Memory Bowling in Shrewsbury as flames suddenly tore through the roofContinue reading "A FIREFIGHTER’S ESCAPE"
Post a comment
June 5th, 2009 @ 7pm
Christine McKenna with her daughter, Kayla, and Mayor-elect Pasquale Menna on election night 2006, at left; at right, with Kayla at a sendoff for her husband the following month. Christine McKenna, the wife of former Red Bank Mayor Ed McKenna,...
Post a comment
June 3rd, 2009 @ 3pm
Police on the scene at 7 Ridge Road this morning. A SWAT team was mobilized and at least one Rumson home was evacuated this morning after reports of shots being fired in a residential neighborhood of Rumson. Authorities aren't yet...
Post a comment
May 22nd, 2009 @ 9am
One of two robbers showed a gun, an employee said. A Red Bank jewelry store was held up at gunpoint Monday afternoon. There's no official word on the crime yet from police, who were just leaving the scene on Shrewsbury...
Post a comment
March 9th, 2009 @ 3pm
David Goldman with his son, Sean, in an undated photo taken before the boy was moved to Brazil four years ago by his mother. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she is working to resolve the prolonged international custody case...
Post a comment
March 4th, 2009 @ 8am
Here are the announced school closings as of 10:50p Sunday: Little Silver Public Schools Middletown Township Public Schools Red Bank Catholic Red Bank Charter School Red Bank Public Schools Red Bank Regional High School Shore Regional High Shrewsbury Borough School...
Post a comment
March 1st, 2009 @ 10pm
Here's an announcement made early Sunday afternoon by the Borough of Red Bank, issued in light of the National Weather Service forecast of a possible 5 to 9 inches of snow overnight: Garbage pickup suspended during snow emergency RED BANK—Borough...
Post a comment
March 1st, 2009 @ 1pm
Borough officials have an ordinance on tonight's agenda to limit so-called 'college nights' like the one that resulted in last week's violence. Three separate incidents of violence involving patrons of Chubby's Waterside Café had Red Bank police scrambling early last...
Post a comment
February 23rd, 2009 @ 11am
A sheet covers the body of a victim outside the Salvation Army building. A horrific multi-car accident on Newman Springs Road left one person dead and an unknown number of others injured Wednesday evening. Information about the person killed and...
Post a comment
February 18th, 2009 @ 11pm
A neighbor tells the Press that one man was dead in the street, the other in a car. Two Red Bank men and a Fair Haven man were arrested and charged in connection with the predawn shooting that left two...
Post a comment
February 11th, 2009 @ 5am
The crime scene on Locust Avenue this morning. A suspect in this morning's double homicide on Red Bank's West Side is in custody, redbankgreen has learned. The information came from a knowledgeable source. The suspect, we're told, was located using...
Post a comment
February 10th, 2009 @ 2pm
An elderly patient evacuated from the building is led to a car as firefighters investigate the alarm. Smoke from a outdoor trash fire briefly routed a two-story medical office building at 200 White Road in Little Silver this morning. The...
Post a comment
January 30th, 2009 @ 11am
The state Alcoholic Beverage Control division has affirmed the Red Bank Borough Council's order to shut down Best Liquors, moving the case of the troubled package goods retailer significantly closer to possible finality. Mayor Pasquale Menna released the following statement...
Post a comment
January 27th, 2009 @ 12pm
The view west along Newman Springs Road as firefighters battled a truck blaze beside Spirits Unlimited, at center; below, fire still burns beside the shell of a tractor-trailer cab. [THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED SINCE ITS INITIAL POSTING AT 6:30p...
Post a comment
December 21st, 2008 @ 6pm
Police had the entry road to the school blocked at 9:45a. The Red Bank Primary School was in a state described by one parent as a "lockdown" at midmorning today as authorities dealt with what sources said was a domestic...
Post a comment
December 3rd, 2008 @ 10am
Sunny Sharma has lost his appeal of Red Bank's revocation of his license to sell booze through his problem-plagued Best Liquors store on Leighton Avenue, the Asbury Park Press reports this evening. From the Press: A decision released today [by...
Post a comment
October 23rd, 2008 @ 7pm
The view downriver from the Oceanic Bridge, the route the remaining dolphins would need to travel to reach the Shrewsbury River and, ultimately, Sandy Hook Bay. Federal marine experts this afternoon outlined two acoustics-based approaches to moving the remaining bottlenose...
Post a comment
October 10th, 2008 @ 3pm
Firefighters and other emergency personnel from a handful of towns were on the scene of a midmorning residential fire at 105 Rumson Road in Little Silver Wednesday. As of about 10:45a, the fire, said to have started in the basement,...
Post a comment
October 8th, 2008 @ 11am
Partyline
“That should be on Red Bank Green!”

If you've ever thought that, join the 24 readers who've signed up to post their own stories on Red Bank Green.

Become a Partyliner
Partyline
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES CODING TO MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green and creator of Broad Street, was teaching City and Regional Magazine Association publishers how ...
LET’S SEE YOUR KINDLE DO THIS
A stack of books served as a chock while a motorist changed a flat tire on Branch Avenue Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by John T. Ward
NEW WELCOME SIGN INSTALLED
A new "Welcome to Red Bank" sign has gone up at the northern Route 35 entrance to town at the foot of Cooper's Bridge.
JUNIOR BUCS WRESTLING WELCOMES YOUNG ATHLETES FOR 22ND SEASON
Junior Bucs Wrestling is preparing for its 22nd season, offering boys and girls from Red Bank, Shrewsbury, and Little Silver an opportunity ...
TIME FOR SCHOOL, DEER
Fall has arrived and so have the middle school loving deer!
JUST IN TIME FOR THE FALL CLASSIC
Just in time for the start of the World Series later this week baseball-themed paintings by artist Max Maxon hang in the windows of the Art ...
DINNER PLANS?
Chipotle in Red Bank Sunday evening will donate a quarter of proceeds from sales Sunday to the volunteer Red Bank Fire Department auxiliary.
KENNY KATZGRAU TEACHES VIBE CODE SESSION AT LOCAL NEWS CAMP
Kenny Katzgrau, publisher of Red Bank Green, is running a vibe code session, teaching other publishers to vibe code at Blue Engine Collectiv ...
Her Majesty visits Red Bank
Navesink Queen docked at the Molly Pitcher Marina. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Boris Kofman)  
RED BANK DINER MONEY TREE
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sunshine and a money tree at the Red Bank Diner.
NAVESINK LIGHTS
Riverview Hospital lights up the Navesink. (Text and photo by Partyline contributor Terry Franco)  
HALF BAKED BROAD STREET
Broad Street repaving begins with road subject to overnight closures.
COLOR RUN AT RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL
redbankgreen Partyline happens upon a cloud of color at annual color run event at Red Bank Primary School.
I’LL EAT IT HERE, THANKS
A squirrel goes all-in for a popular autumn flavor on Madison Avenue in Red Bank Sunday morning.
POP UP TACOS DRAW CROWD
How’s this for a train station redevelopment idea? The pop-up taco vendors Tacos Los Mandones, known on social media as El Mandoon, dr ...
LONG LIVE LOCAL NEWS!
"Long Live Local News" flags from redbankgreen's 20th anniversary celebration in Marine Park Tuesday prove to be the perfect compliment to s ...
MUMS AND WITCHES
17 Prospect Ave (Photo by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
KAYAKERS CLEAR RIVER JUNK
Partyline photo: "The Navesink Nymphs" clear floating tires from the river.
PAINT IT PURPLE?
Caption: ‘Should it be done purple?’ Perfect day. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris Havens)  
St. James Church praying mantis 102026
MANTIS (PRAYING) AT CHURCH
Partyliner photographs praying mantis at church.
Become a Guardian of the Green. Help redbankgreen stand for 100 years. Help us get to our first 100 Guardians · joined by John L Smallwood Sr and 8 others
Become a Guardian