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BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Center for the Arts - directly across from the Red Bank Police Department headquarters. 
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THE BUCK STOPS HERE
Red Bank’s finest gives some out-of-town teens a stern talking to outside of Starbucks on Friday night. The group briefly drew several police cruisers on Broad and White streets. (PartylineContinue reading "THE BUCK STOPS HERE"
RED BANK: PASTOR CHARGED WITH SEX ASSAULT OF JUVENILE
Pastor charged with assaulting a juvenile parishoner during his years leading a church in Red Bank. (Click to read)
RED BANK: ADULT, CHILD FOUND DEAD IN HOME
An adult female and a juvenile are found dead in a home in Red Bank. The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office Major Crime Bureau is investigating. (click to read)
RED BANK POLICE: COP “MISAPPROPRIATED” MONEY FROM FELLOW OFFICER
A Red Bank police officer was docked 114 days of sick and vacation time for misappropriating money belonging to a fellow cop. (click to read)
COPS RAID RED BANK SMOKE SHOP
State special agents, Red Bank police raid Monmouth Street smoke shop. (click to read)
RED BANK: COPS NAB GRAFFITI SUSPECTS
Using video, Red Bank police nab alleged scrawlers they say are responsible for incidents of summertime graffiti. (click to read)
BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER AND 8 FT DANCING DRAGONFLY AT RED BANK NIGHT OUT
Photos of sandwich-tossing cops, a US Army Black Hawk helicopter landing at Count Basie Park and more from National Night Out. (click to read)
RED BANK COPS REWARD KIDS’ GOOD DEEDS WITH FREE PIZZA
Red Bank Police launch new program giving free pizza to kids caught "doing the right thing." (click to read)
COURT UPHOLDS RED BANK POLICE CROSSWALK STING
A drivers' attempt to fight a ticket issued during a police sting crashes and burns. Twice. (click to read)
HAZLET MAN ARRESTED FOR RED BANK SHOOTING
Hazlet man arrested in Florida for a Dec. 7 shooting in Red Bank. (click to read)
RED BANK: BANK STREET JUNKER SUES OVER TOWED VEHICLES
Red Bank junker sues police-contracted towing company for the return of four vehicles and a trailer of lumber. It's the latest chapter in a two decade battle over the defacto junkyard. (click to read)
“GHETTO FOR THE RICH?” RED BANK COUNCIL TALKS PILOT PROS
Council talks train station PILOT, renews police-social worker contract and more. A full rundown of the people's business. (click to read)
RED BANK: MAN ARRESTED FOR CLUB TO THE HEAD, GASOLINE ASSAULT
A man living on Bank Street was arrested after a neighbor told police the man assaulted him, poured gasoline on him and threatened him with a gun. (click to read)
RED BANK EX POLICE CHIEF’S $176K PAYOUT IN PRESS SPOTLIGHT
Former Red Bank Police Chief Darren McConnell received a $176,000 payout for unused sick and vacation time, Asbury Park Press reports. (click for more)
VIDEO: BRAZEN CAR THEFT AT RED BANK GAS STATION
RED BANK: Driver gets out to pay gas station attendant and creeping thief hops in and drives away. (click for story/video)
RED BANK SWEARS IN TWO POLICE OFFICERS
The Red Bank Police Department welcomes two new officers. (click to read)
RED BANK SWEARS IN NEW POLICE CHIEF
Michael Frazee, 28-year veteran of the Red Bank Police Department who rose from dispatcher and drew praise while leading the department through recent turmoil, was officially sworn in as chief of police Friday.
RED BANK POLICE CHIEF RESIGNS, SETTLING ETHICS CHARGES
Red Bank police chief accused by the state of burying discipline cases against his girlfriend resigns. A new chief will be sworn in next month. (click to read)
RED BANK: COPS ARE BACK ON BIKES
Fifteen years after bike patrols were ended, Red Bank Police are patrolling the town on two wheels again. (click to read)
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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 ...