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RED BANK: DRIVER CHARGED IN FATAL HIT-AND-RUN
A Red Bank man has been charged with leaving the scene of an August 5 crash that killed a 23-year-old man in Shrewsbury. (click to read)
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RED BANK: POLICE STING TARGETS CROSSWALK SCOFFLAWS
Red Bank Police issue 25 summonses to drivers who fail to stop for pedestrians (click to read)
RED BANK: AFTER 15-YEAR VACANCY, REBIRTH FOR FAMEABILIA BUILDING
RED BANK: After a 15-year vacancy, redevelopment is underway at the former Fameabilia location on Monmouth Street. (click to read)
FAMILY MOURNS HIT-AND-RUN VICTIM; DRIVER STILL AT LARGE
Pedestrian killed in hit and run, leaving family and Red Bank community searching for answers. (click to read)
RED BANK: STOLEN DUMMY, ASSAULTS, GRAFFITI SPREE IN POLICE REPORTS
RED BANK: Porch pirates steal a martial arts dummy, a handful of assaults and two DWI's on the July police blotter. (click to read)
RED BANK: KINDA-SORTA CHIEF MARKS A YEAR IN LIMBO
RED BANK: After a scandal involving the police chief, his replacement completes a full year leading the department in an odd state of limbo.
RED BANK: SENIOR CENTER TURNS CONSULATE FOR A DAY
Mexican citizens living in the US fill Red Bank senior center for "mobile consulate" program. (click to read)
RED BANK: CRIME & ARREST REPORTS
RED BANK: Nine people arrested for DWI and a lot of graffiti on the June police blotter.
RED BANK: DENHOLTZ AIMS FOR ‘DENSE’ TRANSIT VILLAGE
RED BANK: As the town plans a public workshop on transit village, developer says "it needs to be dense" with housing.
RED BANK CRIME AND ARREST REPORTS
RED BANK: Police blotter for May includes a stolen pair of Ray Bans and several drunk driving arrests. (click to read)
RED BANK: BANK WITHDRAWING FROM TOWN
RED BANK: Wells Fargo is shutting down its Broad Street operations, vacating one of the town's most visible commercial properties. (Click.)
RED BANK: CRIME & ARREST REPORTS
RED BANK: April police blotter includes reported thefts of pricey booze from two liquor stores, an off-season egging and more than 30 arrests.
RED BANK: POT SHOP, RESTAURANT ON AGENDA
RED BANK: Hearing on plan to turn laundromat into cannabis shop to resume. Also on agenda: restaurant for (most of) former Coco Pari spot on Broad.
RED BANK: UNDERAGE SMOKE SALES CHARGED
RED BANK: Employees at three downtown smoke shops charged with illegal sales to under-21 buyer following special police investigation.
RED BANK: COPS ARREST MAN WITH HANDGUN
RED BANK: Police arrest man with loaded handgun outside Windmill restaurant. Weapon was reported stolen in Ohio, Frazee said.
RED BANK: CRIME & ARREST REPORTS
RED BANK: Police blotter for March includes the arrest of a fugitive, a woman charged with arson and four DWI arrests.
RED BANK: POLICE DOGS WALK INTO RETIREMENT
RED BANK: Drug sniffing dogs find their skill set outdated now that pot is legal. With Milk Bones and salutes, a thankful town honors their service and loyalty at retirement ceremony.
RED BANK: BOARD ATTORNEY LECKSTEIN DIES AT 81
RED BANK: Michael Leckstein, who served as planning board attorney here for 25 years – and in Little Silver for 50 – died Saturday.
RED BANK: TEACHING NEW JERSEY DRIVERS TO PUMP THEIR OWN GAS
RED BANK: A new class teaches drivers from New Jersey – the only state with no self-serve – how to pump their own gas.
CHIEF WON COUNCIL PRAISE WHILE SHIELDING GIRLFRIEND
RED BANK: While repeatedly protecting his girlfriend and subordinate from discipline, McConnell won plaudits for managing the town.
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 ...