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Red Bank police charged a Tinton Falls man Tuesday for a violent street robbery last month. Kaire Hatcher, 22, of 53 Steven Avenue, was charged with robbery and assault inContinue reading "RED BANK: SUSPECT CHARGED IN MUGGING"
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November 20th, 2014 @ 6pm
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Recent arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. Pedro Santiago, age 19, from Park Avenue in Perth Amboy, NJ, arrested on October 25, 2014 by PatrolmanContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: RECENT ARRESTS"
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November 20th, 2014 @ 11am
LITTLE SILVER MULLS FIRST LIQUOR LICENSE
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Residents packed Monday night’s borough council meeting, many in support of a referendum on the license question.  (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD LittleContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER MULLS FIRST LIQUOR LICENSE"
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November 17th, 2014 @ 11pm
Video of Jeffrey Michel’s arrest on the Brookdale campus Friday. (Video posted by Vincent Cordero) By JOHN T. WARD Video of the arrest of a Freehold man on the LincroftContinue reading "LINCROFT: CAMPUS ARREST VIDEO GOES VIRAL"
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November 17th, 2014 @ 11am
RED BANK: CARLO’S OWNER BUSTED FOR DWI
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‘Cake Boss’ Buddy Valastro at the opening of Carlo’s Bake Shop in Red Bank a year ago. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Buddy Valastro, star of TVs’s Cake BossContinue reading "RED BANK: CARLO’S OWNER BUSTED FOR DWI"
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November 14th, 2014 @ 8am
A 70-year-old Red Bank man was indicted for an arson spree in which he’s alleged to have started four fires in less than an hour last July, according to aContinue reading "RED BANK: SENIOR INDICTED FOR ARSON"
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November 13th, 2014 @ 11am
Two Red Bank-area men reported to be brothers were arrested in Millersville, Maryland Monday on charges related to an alleged home invasion, according to news reports. Ronald Roy, 38, ofContinue reading "LOCAL MEN CHARGED IN MD. HOME INVASION"
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November 13th, 2014 @ 7am
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of October 30 and November 6, 2014. This information is unedited. CRIMES CriminalContinue reading "RED BANK CRIME & ARREST REPORTS"
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November 10th, 2014 @ 8am
RED BANK: SECOND SHOOTING IN TWO NIGHTS
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Police were still on the scene of the River Street shooting at 2 p.m. Saturday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Yet another shootingContinue reading "RED BANK: SECOND SHOOTING IN TWO NIGHTS"
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November 8th, 2014 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BROTHERS SHOT 7 MONTHS APART
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Medical gloves littered the street in the vicinity of the shooting on West Sunset Avenue Friday morning . (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARDContinue reading "RED BANK: BROTHERS SHOT 7 MONTHS APART"
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November 7th, 2014 @ 9pm
RED BANK: VICTIMS WERE SHOT IN VEHICLE
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The shooting occurred near the telephone pole at center above, according to a neighbor. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A man and aContinue reading "RED BANK: VICTIMS WERE SHOT IN VEHICLE"
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November 7th, 2014 @ 8am
A man and a woman were shot on Red Bank’s West Side Thursday night, according to a report by NJ.com. The shooting occurred on West Sunset Avenue near Shrewsbury Avenue,Continue reading "RED BANK: TWO SHOT ON WEST SIDE"
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November 7th, 2014 @ 7am
RED BANK: EV SPACE? HOLD THAT THOUGHT
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The public charging station, located outside borough hall, remained under wraps Thursday afternoon. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD It seems somebody at RedContinue reading "RED BANK: EV SPACE? HOLD THAT THOUGHT"
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November 6th, 2014 @ 5pm
RED BANK: EV CHARGING SET AT $2 PER HOUR
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Red Bank’s first and only electric vehicle charging station, installed on Monmouth Street outside borough hall, will cost users $2 per hour for both a recharge and the use ofContinue reading "RED BANK: EV CHARGING SET AT $2 PER HOUR"
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November 6th, 2014 @ 11am
Crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Fair Haven Police Department for the period of October, 2014. 10/04- A River Road business owner reported an attempted break-in atContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN CRIME & ARREST REPORTS"
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November 3rd, 2014 @ 12pm
A 95-year-old pedestrian was struck by a car in a hit-and-run accident in Red Bank Sunday afternoon, according to a report by the Asbury Park Press. Alphonse Tomaino was takenContinue reading "RED BANK: 95-YEAR-OLD STRUCK IN HIT-&-RUN"
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November 3rd, 2014 @ 6am
SICKELS CITED IN PENN STATE EGGING
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[CLARIFICATION: The original version of this story mistakenly reported, in the headline and body of the story, that Garrett Sickels and his three teammates were “arrested.” According to Sickels’ father,Continue reading "SICKELS CITED IN PENN STATE EGGING"
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November 1st, 2014 @ 10pm
The crime and arrest reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of October 23 to October 30, 2014. This information is unedited. CRIMES BurglaryContinue reading "RED BANK: MAIL-SLOT BREAK-IN REPORTED"
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October 31st, 2014 @ 8am
Recent arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. Joseph Brucato, age 39, from Wilson Avenue in Middletown, NJ, arrested on September 24, 2014 by Patrolman ThomasContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: PROSTITUTION CHARGES FILED"
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October 30th, 2014 @ 8am
RED BANK SCORES IN GAS VALVE BATTLE
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An NJNG crew packs it in after being ordered by police to stop work on a nearly completed gas regulator valve replacement on Monmouth Street in October, 2012. Below, aContinue reading "RED BANK SCORES IN GAS VALVE BATTLE"
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October 29th, 2014 @ 10am
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(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.
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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.