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RED BANK HOUSING AUTHORITY EYES NEW SENIOR APTS. SITE
Public housing agency hires a builder to design a new 54-apartment building that would replace an aging Red Bank senior citizen complex. (click to read)
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MONTGOMERY TERRACE TREES REMOVED
A row of tall oaks on Tilton Avenue are removed. (click to read)
RED BANK: VOTER SHUTTLE PLANNED AMID POLLING PLACE CHANGE
Voters in two Red Bank districts will vote in a new polling place. The borough is planning a shuttle bus to get them there. (click to read)
FACING NEW HOUSING QUOTA, RED BANK EYES ADDING UNITS TO COMPLEX
The State of NJ says Red Bank needs 154 new affordable housing units. Could a long-planned remake of two subsidized complexes help meet the quota? (click to read)
RED BANK: CRIME-SITE PATROL NABS THREE
RED BANK: Increased police patrol at scene of shooting earlier this week lead to arrests of three men on unrelated charges, Frazee says.
RED BANK: POLICE INVESTIGATE SHOOTOUT
RED BANK: Two men exchanged at least eight shots in an early morning gun battle that left one of them wounded, police said.
RED BANK: Police arrest Montgomery Terrace apartments resident on drug and weapons charges.
RED BANK: HOUSING UPGRADES PROMISED
RED BANK: Residents of Evergreen Terrace and Montgomery Terrace assured of rent stability as housing authority plans change in funding model.
RED BANK: Anthony Sim gets 50 years for feud-driven 2014 shooting in driveway on Willow Street. Up next: the victim goes on trial for killing Sims' brother.
RED BANK: SIMS GUILTY OF MURDER ATTEMPT
FREEHOLD: Anthony Sims, already a felon for earlier Red Bank shooting, convicted in feud-driven 2014 shooting on Willow Street.
FREEHOLD: Alleged gunman in 2014 Red Bank shooting gets underway, though jurors won't hear about an alleged retaliation killing.
Anthony Sims in a photo released by police in 2007. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A former Red Bank man who did time for a double shooting inContinue reading "RED BANK: SIMS INDICTED IN APRIL SHOOTING"
RED BANK: HOOPS AT THE TERRACE
After a recent facelift by donors and volunteers, the long-disused basketball court at Montgomery Terrace in Red Bank saw some action over the past three weekends, as the Community YMCAContinue reading "RED BANK: HOOPS AT THE TERRACE"
RED BANK: EX-CON HELD IN SHOOTING
Anthony Sims in a photo released by police in 2007. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Red Bank police have a suspect in custody for last week’s shooting ofContinue reading "RED BANK: EX-CON HELD IN SHOOTING"
RED BANK: COURT GETS ITS GAME BACK
Missing for years, the backboards and hoops at Montgomery Terrace have returned. (Photos by Sarah Klepner. Click to enlarge) By SARAH KLEPNER Basketball hoops said to have been removed afterContinue reading "RED BANK: COURT GETS ITS GAME BACK"
REMEMBERING RIYADHNA
A crowd of hundreds applauded a performance of “The Greatest Love of All” at a candlelight vigil in memory of Riyadhna Farrow. (Photos by Stacie Fanelli. Click to enlarge.) By STACIEContinue reading "REMEMBERING RIYADHNA"
Facing a second trial after a Monmouth County jury deadlocked on attempted murder charges, Anthony Sims has pleaded guilty to shooting two brothers in Red Bank in November, 2008, theContinue reading "SIMS PLEADS GUILTY IN ’07 DOUBLE SHOOTING"
The jury in the attempted-murder trial of Anthony Sims could not reach a unanimous decision on charges related to the shootings of two brothers at Red Bank’s Montgomery Terrace apartmentsContinue reading "JURY DEADLOCKS ON SHOOTING CHARGES"
The attempted murder trial of Anthony Sims took a turn yesterday when the defendant admitted firing shots that hit two brothers and missed a third man, according to today’s AsburyContinue reading "SIMS ADMITS SHOOTING"
The trial of alleged Montgomery Terrace shooter Anthony Sims got underway in Freehold last week, and going by the coverage in the Asbury Park Press, it sounds like a trashfest:Continue reading "ACCUSATIONS FLY AT SIMS TRIAL"
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.