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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...
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May 12th, 2008 @ 8am
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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...
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May 9th, 2008 @ 1pm
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...
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May 7th, 2008 @ 12pm
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...
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May 7th, 2008 @ 11am
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...
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May 6th, 2008 @ 9am
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...
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May 6th, 2008 @ 6am
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...
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May 6th, 2008 @ 5am
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....
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May 5th, 2008 @ 11am
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...
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May 2nd, 2008 @ 4pm
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...
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May 1st, 2008 @ 6am
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...
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April 29th, 2008 @ 3pm
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...
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April 29th, 2008 @ 11am
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,...
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April 29th, 2008 @ 7am
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...
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April 29th, 2008 @ 6am
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...
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April 25th, 2008 @ 11am
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...
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April 25th, 2008 @ 10am
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,...
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April 21st, 2008 @ 7am
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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April 16th, 2008 @ 6am
A 50-year-old New York City man was arrested in Red Bank early Monday morning on a charge of impersonating a police officer, according to a news release from the borough police department. Richard Braunstein, who was identified by the Asbury...
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April 16th, 2008 @ 6am
Appearing in state Superior Court in Freehold to answer three attempted-murder charges and related weapons counts, Anthony Sims Jr. pleaded not guilty yesterday, the Asbury Park Press reports. Sims, 19, of Eatontown was arrested in a drug raid in Highlands...
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April 15th, 2008 @ 6am
Partyline
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 ...