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RED BANK: Police arrest Montgomery Terrace apartments resident on drug and weapons charges.
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RED BANK: Cops executing narcotics search warrant recover 'significant' crack cocaine haul and cash; charge 43-year-old borough man.
RED BANK: Borough man flees traffic stop on foot. Cops capture and charge him with having 'large quantity' of heroin and a loaded gun.
RED BANK: A borough man was one of 29 individuals charged in a sweeping case alleging gang activity that included drug sales and dogfighting.
RED BANK: Police are investigating an early morning altercation on Bridge Avenue, where a gun was fired and a man was grazed by the bullet.
RED BANK: A man who was shot six times as he sat in a car parked here in 2014 was charged with an Eatontown murder that occurred a year later.
RED BANK: Two years after two people were shot as they sat in a truck parked on the West Side, authorities charged a man who was already in custody.
RED BANK: Police looking for unidentified man who fired two shots on the West Side.
RED BANK: Police investigating report of shots fired on West Side.
RED BANK: A VIGIL FOR VICTIMS, AND PEACE
RED BANK: Vigil for Dallas police and civilian victims of violence draws several dozen participants.
RED BANK: Vigil slated Sunday evening for Dallas police and civilian victims of violence.
CHRISTIE: BECK-BACKED GUN BILL ‘DOPEY’
Governor Chris Christie in Sea Bright in October, 2013, above, and state Senator Jen Beck in Red Bank last May. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T.Continue reading "CHRISTIE: BECK-BACKED GUN BILL ‘DOPEY’"
Red Bank police arrested a borough man on drug and weapons charges, Chief Darren McConnell said in a prepared statement issued Friday afternoon. Here’s the full text:
A Red Bank man faces gun- and drug possession charges after a family dispute at the Montgomery Terrace apartments Tuesday morning, police Chief Darren McConnell tells redbankgreen. Officers responding to theContinue reading "RED BANK: GUN REPORT LEADS TO ARREST"
RUMSON: SHOTS LEAD TO CONTEMPT CHARGE
By JOHN T. WARD A Philadelphia man was in custody Monday after firing a pistol inside a Rumson residence Sunday night, police said. But Robert Toros, 36, was charged withContinue reading "RUMSON: SHOTS LEAD TO CONTEMPT CHARGE"
RED BANK: BRINGING IN THE BIG GUN
A 120-ton, 16-inch cannon from the battleship USS New Jersey sat in the rail yard in Red Bank Saturday awaiting transport to Battery Lewis in Middletown’s Hartshorne Woods Park. TheContinue reading "RED BANK: BRINGING IN THE BIG GUN"
RUMSON: GUNFIRE IN HOME INVESTIGATED
By JOHN T. WARD Rumson police were questioning two people Sunday night following an incident in which a gun was fired multiple times inside the basement of a home here.Continue reading "RUMSON: GUNFIRE IN HOME INVESTIGATED"
RED BANK: POLICE TO HOLD CRIME FORUM
Police Chief Darren McConnell and Mayor Pasquale Menna at a community meeting on the recent shootings last month. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARDContinue reading "RED BANK: POLICE TO HOLD CRIME FORUM"
RED BANK COPS “HAVE AN IDEA” OF SHOOTERS
Residents packed a hastily organized community meeting on the recent shootings Tuesday night. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Red Bank police believe theyContinue reading "RED BANK COPS “HAVE AN IDEA” OF SHOOTERS"
A string of shootings on the West Side, including one Monday night, has prompted Red Bank officials to schedule a community meeting for Tuesday night. From an announcement sent outContinue reading "RED BANK: COMMUNITY MEETING SLATED"
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THEY’RE BACK!
Ospreys returned to the skies over Red Bank this week for the first time since they migrated to warmer climes in late fall. With temperature ...
SPRING IS SPRUNG
RED BANK: Spring 2024 arrives on the Greater Red Bank Green with the vernal equinox at 11:06 p.m. Tuesday.
RED BANK’S FINEST – AND NEWEST
Red Bank Police Officer Eliot Ramos was sworn in as the force’s newest patrolman Thursday, and if you’re doing a double take thinkin ...
EASTER EGG MAYHEM AT THE PARK
An errant whistle spurred an unexpectedly early start to the Spring Egg Hunt on Sunday, which had been scheduled to begin at eggsactly 11am ...
PRESEASON DOCKWORK
RED BANK: With winter winding down, marina gets ready for boating season with some dockwork on our beautiful Navesink River.
CORNED BEEF AND DISCO FRIES?
It’s Friday, and smart Lent-observing Leprechauns know the pot of gold at the end of Red Bank’s rainbow is actually the deliciou ...
SURFBOARD DITCHED
It’s a violation of etiquette in surfing to ditch your board.  (it could hit another surfer and hurt them). But someone appears to ha ...
ELSIE, TAKE ME WITH YOU!
Soaked by pouring rain with the temperature hovering in the low 40’s, this sign in the window of Elsie’s Subs on Monmouth Street ...
WALK THIS WAY
PARTYLINE: Before-and-afters of a sidewalk cleanup on West Street.
SOGGY NOTION
RED BANK: Breezeway sculpture captured the mood downtown as heavy rains fell Saturday morning.
HOME DELIVERY
RED BANK: After a subdivision, an instant house rises on a new Catherine Street lot.
COMMUNITY PROFILES
For Black History Month, Red Bank's Community Engagement and Equity Advisory Committee has been running a series of local profiles on Facebo ...
HEARTY FAREWELL FOR HARDY
RED BANK: Council to honor DPU supervisor Rich Hardy, who retired recently after almost 39 years of keeping things running.
HOMEBOUND? READ ON…
RED BANK: Can't get to the public library? It's now offering free delivery and pickups for homebound borough residents.
TAMING A BEAST OF A WEEK
RED BANK: After the second snowfall of the week, a borough family finds the perfect use for it – a Godzilla snow sculpture.
RED BANK: LIBRARY CLOSED, BUT THE HILL’S OPEN
RED BANK: Though the library was closed by a snowstorm, kids got to enjoy the riverfront property's steep slope Tuesday.
LIGHT(HOUSE) MAKEOVER
This year, getting ready for spring means a midwinter makeover for Strollo's Lighthouse in Red Bank.
TODAY: LOCAL PUPPY COMPETES ON ANIMAL PLANET’S “PUPPY BOWL”
Red Bank’s very own rescue puppy, Biscuit, is set to compete in Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl this Sunday, February 11, at 2 PM. Th ...
WHAT? NO redbankgreen NEWSLETTER?
Apologies to redbankgreen newsletter subscribers: the daily email hasn’t gone out for two days because of technical issues.
RED BANK: TIRED OF SKEETERS?
RED BANK: Tired of mosquito bites every summer? Monmouth County has a free program to help eliminate skeeter breeding grounds.