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A Rumson physician who was indicted in October on federal drug charges is facing a possible loss of his medical license, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners took up the administrative case of...
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December 21st, 2007 @ 6am
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Re Bank Municipal Court Judge William Himelman expressed frustration this morning over delays concerning evidence in the DWI case of local publisher Claudia Ansorge. "It's now too long" since a Monmouth County Grand Jury decided not to indict Ansorge last...
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December 20th, 2007 @ 12pm
A state hearing on the fate of Best Liquors' booze license has been pushed back until March. An administrative law judge with the state Alcoholic Beverage Control division granted a request, submitted yesterday by the store's attorney, asking for an...
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December 18th, 2007 @ 9am
A Red Bank patrolman will lose his job but won't face jail time after pleading guilty to assault and falsifying police records, the Asbury Park Press is reporting. Officer Steven Adams, 28, was indicted in October by a Monmouth County...
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December 17th, 2007 @ 10pm
An anonymous donor, acting through the Red Bank Men's Club, has posted a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of Anthony Sims Jr., wanted in connection with last month's shooting at Montgomery Terrace that left two brothers...
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December 15th, 2007 @ 12pm
The municipal judge in Sea Bright who invalidated he borough's noise ordinance on a legal technicality has now reinstated it, the Asbury Park Press reports. The latest twist hinges on a some hairsplitting: whether the borough should have sought state...
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December 13th, 2007 @ 12pm
A homeless juvenile arrested in late October for burglarizing several address on East Bergen Place turns out not to be a minor after all, Red Bank Police say they have learned. Ismael Rojas-Vela turns out to be 19 years old,...
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December 13th, 2007 @ 10am
A former Middletown cop with a long rap sheet involving booze and driving faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty yesterday to DWI charges in connection with a 2-year-old boy's death in Hudson County earlier this year,...
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December 13th, 2007 @ 6am
By LINDA G. RASTELLI A recent string of burglaries and shootings in Red Bank evoked mixed reactions at a West Side Community Group neighborhood watch meeting last night, with some residents praising police efforts and others saying they feel unsafe....
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December 13th, 2007 @ 6am
Red Bank Police are looking for a burglar who may knock on his victims' front doors to determine if anyone is home before entering their houses. The culprit may also be targeting the homes of Hispanic families, said Capt. Steve...
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December 12th, 2007 @ 7am
Two suspects in today's stabbing and robbery of a Shrewsbury Avenue merchant, as well as two alleged accomplices, are in custody, and one of them used to work in the store, Red Bank police report. All four suspects are from...
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December 10th, 2007 @ 5pm
After being stabbed in his store, at left, victim Charlie Williams made his way to Golf Greens Fore U, at right. A Shrewsbury Avenue merchant was pistol-whipped and stabbed by two hooded robbers this morning. The victim, Charlie Williams, is...
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December 10th, 2007 @ 1pm
Revelers beware: Red Bank Police are stepping up their enforcement of drinking-and-driving laws this month. It starts tonight, with a DWI checkpoint on Newman Springs Road. Cops will be out there from 11p to 3a. There will also be more...
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December 8th, 2007 @ 12pm
There's a bit more detail about the allegedly drunk substitute teacher from Middletown this morning. From an Associated Press story in today's Star-Ledger: School officials said fourth-grade students at Pine Brook Elementary School [in Manalapan] knew something was wrong when...
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December 7th, 2007 @ 8am
Sometimes, there's nothing we can add to a story, partly because we're speechless. This is from the Asbury Park Press this afternoon: FREEHOLD — A Middletown woman working as a substitute teacher in a Manalapan elementary school was arested Wednesday...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 2pm
Mayor Pasquale Menna and Police Chief Mark Fitzgerald continue to stick to the information blackout imposed on them by by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's office last week in the wake of the shootings at the Montgomery Terrace public housing units...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 8am
The former Count Basie Learning Center, a site that proponents favor as the future home of a community center. Outrage over social conditions that some citizens linked to last month's double shootings at the Montgomery Terrace public-housing project pushed the...
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December 6th, 2007 @ 7am
A former political opponent of soon-to-be-ex Sea Bright Mayor Jo-Ann Kalaka-Adams has asked the Monmouth County Prosecutor to investigate the role the mayor may have played in a recent borough court matter that resulted in a local noise ordinance being...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 12pm
Federal immigration-law enforcers nearly doubled the number of arrests of illegal aliens in New Jersey during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, today's Star-Ledger reports. A total of 2,079 illegal aliens were taken into custody by four teams of...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 7am
Red Bank Police Chief Mark Fitzgerald checks out a new metal detector at Borough Hall Tuesday. The $3,500 device will be used to scan visitors to Municipal Court, but not attendees to other borough functions such as council and planning...
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December 5th, 2007 @ 6am
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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 ...