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Category Archives: Law & Justice

Today's Asbury Park Press describes a bloody scene as a 22-year-old Red Bank man stabbed his former girlfriend outside the Red Bank Primary School shortly before 9a Wednesday. Being held on attempted murder and weapons charges is Jorge Vargas Mancilla,...
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December 4th, 2008 @ 6am
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Red Bank Schools Superintendent Laura Morana tells redbankgreen that the primary school is functioning normally this morning following a domestic dispute on the school grounds but outside the building. No staff members or children were involved in the incident, which...
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December 3rd, 2008 @ 10am
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...
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December 3rd, 2008 @ 10am
The Welsh Farms convenience store on East Front Street in Red Bank was robbed at gunpoint Sunday evening, the Asbury Park Press reports. From the report: Police were called to the store about 5 p.m. A clerk told officers that...
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December 2nd, 2008 @ 9am
Owner PRC Group is seeking permission to convert the 91 rental units at Grandville Towers to condos. Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna tells today's Asbury Park Press that senior-citizen tenants of Grandville Towers won't be forced to move if the...
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December 1st, 2008 @ 10am
By SUE MORGAN Rose Greco doesn't own a boat, but felt it necessary to stand up Monday night for boat owners who might not completely understand the wording of proposed revisions to the Fair Haven's boat storage ordinance. "It's ambivalent,"...
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November 25th, 2008 @ 6am
After repeated and unsuccessful efforts by Councilman Mike DuPont to ban Red Bank stores from distributing plastic bags, the borough council tonight is scheduled to take up a series of scaled-back measures aimed at fostering recycling and education. On the...
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November 24th, 2008 @ 6am
The Asbury Park Press has some details on the police search for a burglary suspect redbankgreen reported on yesterday. The newspaper says that the subject of the search, which involved a helicopter and police dogs, was a 26-year-old man wanted...
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November 20th, 2008 @ 2pm
A search helicopter (upper right) flies over Route 35 near Nicholas Restaurant Wednesday afternoon. Police from Middletown and Red Bank, aided by a helicopter and search dogs, were out in southern Middletown in search of burglary suspect this afternoon. Homeowners...
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November 19th, 2008 @ 3pm
Grace Scott, left and Cionna Rosenthal of the Rumson Country Day School help homeowner Yvonne Grayson repaint her repeatedly vandalized Obama sign Sunday morning. Late last month, redbankgreen reported on a rash of Obama campaign signs being stolen and vandalized...
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November 17th, 2008 @ 7am
Unedited entries from the Red Bank Police Department activity log for the week of November 7 to 14. Criminal Mischief occurring at Globe Court between 11-6-08 and 11-7-08. Victim reported that unknown person(s) broke two window in the business. Ptl....
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November 17th, 2008 @ 6am
Going mobile, data-wise. Here are highlights from Monday night's bimonthly meeting of the Red Bank Council: • Mayor Pasquale Menna announced a settlement between the borough and the Fair Share Housing Center of Cherry Hill over how many affordable housing...
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November 11th, 2008 @ 8am
Councilman Mike DuPont takes his lumps at Monday's meeting. Is the ordinance that wouldn't die finally dead? As he has repeatedly over the past ten months or so, Councilman Mike DuPont tried getting his ban on plastic bags passed by...
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November 10th, 2008 @ 11pm
Here's the latest crime report from the Red Bank Police Department, covering the week of October 31 to November 7. Entries are unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring on 10-30-08 at Tower Hill Ave. Victim reported that unknown person(s) spray-painted the side...
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November 10th, 2008 @ 6am
Six days after police in Little Silver arrested a Red Bank man on drug possession charges, they arrested him again Wednesday after finding a loaded pistol and holl-point bullets in his impounded car, the Asbury Park Press reports today. From...
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November 7th, 2008 @ 7am
An architect's rendering of the proposed RW @ River's Edge condos. A proposed 12-unit West Side condo project that was the flashpoint in a legal challenge to Red Bank's efforts to provide affordable housing is up for final approval by...
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November 6th, 2008 @ 7am
Crimes reported to the Red Bank Police Department during the week of October 24 to 31. The information is unedited. Theft occurring on 10-24-08 at Monmouth St. Victim reported that cash was stolen from purse. Ptl. Paul Perez. Theft occurring...
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November 3rd, 2008 @ 5am
The Red Bank Regional High School board of ed is closing in on a new set of rules governing student conduct following a discipline controversy that erupted last winter. Proposed revisions to what is now an athletic code of conduct,...
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October 31st, 2008 @ 10am
Here's a recap of Monday night's Red Bank Borough Council meeting. (Follow along with the agenda, if you like.) • Mayor Pasquale Menna accepted a $162,975 dividend payment to the borough from the Central Jersey Health Insurance Fund, the shared-services...
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October 28th, 2008 @ 9am
Entries from the Red Bank Police Department logbook for the week of October 17 to 24. Burglary reported on 10-17-08 at W. Bergen Place vacant residence within the last two weeks. Owner reported that unknown person(s) gained entry into the...
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October 27th, 2008 @ 6am
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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.
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 ...