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Sunday's Asbury Park Press had a story that took a closer work at the detective work that led last month to the indictment of alleged Red Bank serial burglar Mauro Vasquez-Galvan. The article focuses on the detailed effort to trace...
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Red Bank police have charged a Tinton Falls woman in a string of cases in which she's alleged to have pretended to be either a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency officer. Maria Collins, 41, of Buford Place is in...
The Red Bank borough council is expected tonight to vote on a proposed lawsuit settlement that would have the town paying the Bluffs Condominium Association $4,500 a year to offset the costs of private snow plowing and trash pickup. According...
Like the Democratic primary, this thing seems to go on and on. Well, maybe this will end it... or maybe not. A state Appeals Court today ruled in favor of former Heisman trophy winner (and Citigroup bigwig) Pete Dawkins and...
A New York attorney arrested in Red Bank last month in a bizarre case of alleged police impersonation has been busted again, this time for making lewd comments to a Little Silver teenager, the Asbury Park Press reports. The latest...
A view along Hudson Avenue one morning in late March. It's Mailman 1, Borough 0 in the first test of a new Red Bank ordinance that restricts parking on Hudson Avenue to residents. Municipal Judge William Himelman appeared to let...
Red Bank police are sorting through the details of an assault case that sent two people to the hospital early this morning. Under arrest and now being treated at Riverview Medical Center is 29-year-old Johnny Campos of Spring Street, says...
Two men identified as Red Bank residents were arraigned in Freehold yesterday on charges arising from an alleged bid-rigging scheme centered on the state prison system, where one of them was employed, today's Star-Ledger reports. Gerald Kennedy and Mark Sterner...
Terence Wilkins The Red Bank school board last night announced, and accepted, the resignation of the Terence Wilkins as middle school principal, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The action came a week after Wilkins was indicted on arson and insurance...
Unedited entries from the Red Bank police logs, April 25 through May 2. Criminal Mischief occurring at N. Bridge Ave. on 4-28-08. Employee of business reported that two unknown males entered restroom and broke the glass in vanity mirror. Ptl....
Terence Wilkins, the Red Bank Middle School principal indicted earlier this week in an alleged arson and insurance fraud scheme, pleaded not guilty during his arraignment in an Essex County courtroom today, the Asbury Park Press reports. Wilkins was indicted...
A month after fellow Democrats showed him the door in Matawan, some residents of are wondering why Pasquale Menna lost his gig as borough attorney there, according to a report in this week's Independent weekly. Menna, who is of course...
Keith Glass NBA agent Keith Glass of Rumson has settled liigation dating back five years to his time as the coach of the Rumson-Fair Haven regional boy's basketball team, according to an Associated Press report in the Philadelphia Inquirer. According...
Principal Terence Wilkins Red Bank Middle School Principal Terence Wilkins has been indicted by an Essex County grand jury in connection with a scheme to have his leased car stolen and torched, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. From the...
A "relentless serial burglar" who authorities say targeted the homes of women and photographed them while they slept has been indicted by a Monmouth County Grand Jury, according to reports in today's Asbury Park Press and Star-Ledger. Mauro Vasquez-Galvan, 27,...
From the borough police logs for the wek of April 18 through April 25. Entries are unedited. Theft occurring at W. Front St.—Riverside Gardens on 4-19-08. Victim reported that she inadvertently left her purse hanging on the fence and left...
Vacant houses on, Drs. Parker Boulevard (left) and opposite sides of Bank Street (center and right) would be razed and replaced with 11 townhouse condos under the newest plan. Click images to enlarge. A West Side townhouse plan with a...
Red Bank police are investigating a report of an assault on a 15-year-old boy on Marion Street Monday evening. According to Chief Mark Fitzgerald, the victim, who had been rollerblading on the basketball court at East Side Park, was skating...
From the borough police logs. Entries are unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring on 4-12-08 in the rear of Broad St Parking Lot. Victim reported that unknown person(s) damaged his parked vehicle by denting and scratching the driver’s side and passenger side,...
The following are entries in the Red Bank police logs from April 4 through 11. The information is supplied by the police department. Criminal Mischief occurring at Linden Place on 4-6-08 report of a wooden planter being turned over and...
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STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
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 ...