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Red Bank police subdued a belligerent man on Spring Street this morning after a bizarre spree in which he confronted a passing motorist, stole her car, and crashed it head-on into another moving vehicle, they say. Joseph Henninger, 26, of...
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March 14th, 2008 @ 5pm
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Anthony Sims, the 19-year-old who became a fugitive for two months after a Red Bank shooting that left two men near death in late November, has been indicted for attempted murder, the Asbury Park Press reports. A Monmouth County grand...
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March 12th, 2008 @ 4pm
The Asbury Park Press is reporting that four people were sent to Riverview Medical Center after a motor vehicle accident on West Bergen Avenue. From the Press: Four people suffered injuries this morning when a car and a pick-up truck...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 8am
The following are entries in the Red Bank police logs from Feb. 29 through March 7. The information is supplied by the police department and unedited. Robbery occurring on 2-29-08 in the area of Shrewsbury Ave. Victim reported that he...
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March 7th, 2008 @ 5pm
Today's Asbury Park Press, in a story about rising overtime costs for employees of Middletown, reports that seven members of the township police department called in sick on Super Bowl Sunday. The news is contained in the context of a...
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March 6th, 2008 @ 6am
Pankaj 'Sunny' Sharma's appeal of Red Bank's revocation of his Leighton Avenue store's liquor license wrapped up near Trenton today without a decision, the Asbury Park Press reports. Moreover, a ruling probably won't be handed down until summer, and whichever...
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March 5th, 2008 @ 4pm
The lawsuit that redbankgreen reported Red Bank officials had authorized over the Children's Cultural Center has not been filed, and the two sides are continuing to talk, today's Asbury Park Press reports. From the story: The fingers of borough officials...
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March 5th, 2008 @ 6am
It's crunch time, finally, in the long-delayed effort by Pankaj 'Sunny' Sharma to save his West Side liquor store from a shutdown over a handful of violations involving sales to minors and other offenses. Last June, the Red Bank Borough...
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March 4th, 2008 @ 11am
Middletown resident Kevin Freibott, a former township police officer, was sentenced to 11 years in state prison yesterday for a car crash that killed a two-year-old boy and left his mother comatose and severely brain-injured, today's Star-Ledger reports. The accident...
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February 29th, 2008 @ 7am
A 19-year-old Red Bank man is being held on $345,000 bail in connection with what police say was an armed burglary of an acquaintance's apartment on Harding Road early Tuesday morning. Prince Johnson was arrested at his West Westside Avenue...
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February 27th, 2008 @ 6am
Let it go, people. Your cellphone that is, while driving. Until now, the state of New Jersey's law against holding your cellphone to your ear while operating a motor vehicle has been easy to flout. Police, if they were to...
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February 26th, 2008 @ 6am
A Monmouth County grand jury has indicted a 52-year-old Fair Haven woman in connection with what authorities say were her efforts to fraudulently obtain prescription painkillers. Janice Rogers (no street address given) was charged iwith two counts of third-degree attempting...
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February 25th, 2008 @ 4pm
A Jackson Township woman who ran a Lincroft investment advisory firm has been indicted on charges she bilked clients out of $641,000. Zina Martin, 43, was the sole owner and president of Kairos Financial, whose address is given as 331...
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February 19th, 2008 @ 6am
A former Red Bank policeman was sentenced to 18 months probation for assaulting a man while on duty shortly after the 2006 fireworks display in town, the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office says in a press release issued late yesterday.Download 021508a.pdf...
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February 16th, 2008 @ 9am
A string of fatal car crashes involving teens on provisional licenses has given rise to a test program: requiring those drivers to display a golden decal on the rear windows or bumpers of their cars. Students wishing to park their...
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February 15th, 2008 @ 7am
A retired Fair Haven policeman and former borough official has taken a plea of endangering he welfare of a child after he was alleged to have used a Borough Hall computer to view child pornography, the Asbury Park Press reports...
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February 13th, 2008 @ 7am
The second floor is off-limits for now at Ashes Cigar Club. Turns out the Internet Café wasn't the only joint in town to come under the scrutiny of Red Bank safety inspectors in recent weeks. Ashes Cigar Club was shut...
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February 12th, 2008 @ 11am
Worst of the worst? 179-181 Shrewsbury Avenue. Municipal Court Judge William Himelman last week slapped an Eatontown couple with $36,000 in fines and threatened them with up to 360 days in jail if they don't correct dozens of problems in...
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February 12th, 2008 @ 9am
Still on the streets: Gary Watson Sr. Today's Asbury Park Press profiles Gary Watson Sr., a Red Bank kid who rose through the ranks of the borough police department, retired, and came back five years ago in civvies to help...
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February 12th, 2008 @ 7am
The Asbury Park Press is reporting that a Spring Street man is hospitalized in serious condition after a fight with his brother at a Super Bowl party in Middletown on Sunday. From the article: James J. Gibbons, 44, of DeForrest...
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February 7th, 2008 @ 1pm
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SNEAKERS OVER BROAD
On the redbankgreen Partyline: sneakers hanging from the overhead wires on Broad Street.
PIANO TRASHED
Left out to take at 83 River Street. Property owner is a touring musician. Studio and home. (Photo and text by Partyline contributor Chris H ...
FALL COLORS IN RED BANK
redbankgreen's Partyline captures peaking fall foliage on a Red Bank street corner.
FALL AT THE COURTS OF RED BANK
On the Partyline: stunning foliage at Red Bank's "medieval office park."
WALK FOR DEMOCRACY
The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center led a "Walk for Democracy" Sunday from Riverside Gardens Park to the cultral center on Drs. James Park ...
Go big or go home
On the redbankgreen Partyline: Gourd display at Lighthouse on its penultimate night of the season.
MARIGOLDEN SUNSHINE
Partyline photo captures October sunshine hitting marigolds for sale ahead of Dia de Los Muertos.
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.
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