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Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • Damian Salgado, age 34, from Kimberly Court in Middletown, NJ, arrested on May 23, 2013 by PatrolmanContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: SAME GUY ARRESTED THRICE"
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WEEKEND: EAT, DRINK, LISTEN, REPEAT
Don’t even bother trying to curb your appetite at Red Bank Riverfest, which runs through Sunday in Marine Park. Details in the poster below. (Click to enlarge) Friday, May 31:Continue reading "WEEKEND: EAT, DRINK, LISTEN, REPEAT"
MEMORIAL DAY COMMEMORATIONS
Red Bank, above, and Fair Haven, below, return with traditional Memorial Day events Monday. (Click to enlarge) RED BANK: Memorial Day Commemoration, Monday, 11 a.m., Veterans’ Monument, 51 Monmouth Street,Continue reading "MEMORIAL DAY COMMEMORATIONS"
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • Pietro Amato, age 37, from Leonardville Road in Atlantic Highlands, NJ, arrested on May 11, 2013 byContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN POLICE BLOTTER"
A Rumson man was helicoptered to a trauma center after his car struck a tree on Navesink River Road in Middletown Monday evening. Frank Caccavo, Jr., 54 remained hospitalized atContinue reading "RUMSON MAN HURT IN MIDDLETOWN CRASH"
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • On May 9, 2013 the Middletown Police Detective Bureau and Quality of Life Unit executed a searchContinue reading "M’TOWN: CHASE YIELDS 330 BAGS OF HEROIN"
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • Michael Disarli, age 60, from Briarwood Avenue in Atlantic Highlands, NJ, arrested on April 22, 2013 byContinue reading "M’TOWN: SHOPLIFTING BUSTS YIELD DRUGS"
RED BANK: RIVER VIEWS
Enjoying our beautiful Navesink River on a warm spring afternoon Wednesday were an osprey, above; a fisherman on a paddleboard, right; and crossing squads of girls’s and boys’ rowers, below,Continue reading "RED BANK: RIVER VIEWS"
This just in from the Middletown PD: On April 23, 2013 Detective Kelly Godley of the Middletown Police Department arrested Darius Williams, age 24, from Witmer Place in Long Branch,Continue reading "SUSPECT ARRESTED IN GAS STATION HOLDUP"
This just in from the Middletown PD: On April 23, 2013 at approximately 8:30pm Middletown Police responded to a two car motor vehicle crash at the intersection of Newman SpringsContinue reading "DWI, ASSAULT CHARGES FOR CABBIE IN CRASH"
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 the Middletown Police Department Detective Bureau arrested Michael Crupi, age 35, fromContinue reading "ARRESTS MADE IN HOLDUP, BURGLARIES"
This just in from the Middletown police: On April 18, 2013 at approximately 5:40 am a black male subject, approximately 6′-0″ tall with a stocky build and a thin goateeContinue reading "ARMED ROBBERY AT MIDDLETOWN RACEWAY"
An 81-year-old Lincroft man was burned in a fire started when he was doing plumbing work with a torch, police said Wednesday. The fire, at 6 Rimwood Drive, reported atContinue reading "LINCROFT FIRE INJURES HOMEOWNER, 81"
George Harrington being placed under arrest for drunken driving of a boat shortly after the 2011 crash. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD [Editor’s note:Continue reading "M’TOWN: BOATER IN FATAL CRASH INDICTED"
NEWMAN SPRINGS ROAD SQUEEZE BEGINS
The narrowing of twin Newman Springs Road (Route 520) bridges over the Swimming River got its first test at rush hour Tuesday morning with a long line of vehicles headingContinue reading "NEWMAN SPRINGS ROAD SQUEEZE BEGINS"
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • Thomas Moriarty, age 25, from Village Lane in Middletown, NJ, arrested on April 3, 2013 by CorporalContinue reading "M’TOWN WOMAN CHARGED WITH COP ASSAULT"
One of two spans will remain open throughout the duration of the project, but with just one lane in each direction. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD A taxingContinue reading "SIX-MONTH ROUTE 520 BOTTLENECK TO BEGIN"
SPRING 2013: GETTING SOME AIR
It was a get-outside kind of day on the Green Tuesday, and locals took advantage of  summerlike temperatures in the high 70s. A biker, above, got some air on WestContinue reading "SPRING 2013: GETTING SOME AIR"
A Middletown man spent some time in the emergency room at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank Monday after getting pepper-sprayed in a road rage incident, borough police said. MichaelangeloContinue reading "DRIVER PEPPER-SPRAYED IN ROAD DISPUTE"
Recent activity reports, unedited, as provided by the Middletown Township Police Department. • On March 29, 2013 the Middletown Police Detective Bureau and Quality of Life Unit executed a searchContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: FIVE DWIs, ONE ROCKAFELLOW"
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THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
Whether through schmear force of will or user error, this bagel somehow seems to have escaped the cooking vat or hopped out of the bag as so ...
MANTIS HANGIN’ DOWNTOWN
A mantis seems to be saying, “shh, don’t tell them I’m here” as it hangs under an eave on White Street with a pair o ...
SUNDAY MORNING BOLLARD CRASH
No stranger to being awoken by an early morning bollard strike, redbankgreen reader and Broad St. resident Steven Sickles submitted this Par ...
SOUPY SAILING
Sailboats out there in all that fog and rain on the Navesink River Wednesday. (Photo by Partyline contributor James Barnett)
SMOKY WHO?
Smokey Bear has nothing on Red Bank Fire Department First Deputy Chief Frank Woods as he delivers the straight dope on fire prevention to ca ...
HAZY DAYS INDEED
View of the Navesink River, taken from New Jersey Transit Coastline Train #3320 Friday morning. Photo by Partyline contributor Karly Swaim
RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
A midsummer evening thunderstorm and a rainbow. Does it get any better? This rainbow appeared over Red Bank after Friday evening’s sho ...
MEANWHILE, ON THE DARK SIDE OF RED BANK
Away from the lights and crowds of Broadwalk, Darth Vader was seen hanging just a couple of blocks down in Red Bank’s second best park ...
PARKLETTING BEGINS
Construction began Monday morning on a “parklet” on Monmouth Street near the intersection with Broad. You can read more about wh ...
NOT SO SCARY
Twenty times? Fifty times? How many times did we drive by this home on the corner of River Street and Shrewsbury and do a double take before ...
LOCAL 9 TAKE TROPHY
After a long hot two days of baseball, the Red Bank area-based Jersey Shore Raiders emerged as champions of the United States Amateur Baseba ...
RHAPSODY ON ICE
RED BANK: On a cool-ish summer evening, keyboardist NGXB entertained customers of Strollo's Italian Ice with renderings of 'Bohemian Rhapsod ...
PUDDLE BE GONE
A work crew was out this week attacking the site of the notoriously persistent puddle at the corner of Broad and Mechanic Streets. This phot ...
SMALLS FOR MAYOR?
We at redbankgreen remain neutral in political affairs and never make endorsements. But we have to say Borough Clerk Laura Reinertsen’ ...
CRASH ON LEIGHTON
The driver of this car was headed north on Leighton Avenue when they it hit an SUV pulling a work trailer headed in south in the opposing la ...
CAR VS STREET SIGN
The driver of this Mercedes hopped the curb and toppled the street sign at the corner of South Pearl and Drs. James Parker Boulevard Wednesd ...
SKETCHES OF RED BANK BY LOCAL ARTIST MICHAEL WHITE
Sketches of Red Bank scenes have been floating around on social media and we thought they deserved some spotlight. First appearing in our fe ...
POLE DOWN
Utility pole falls on English Plaza shop Forge after being struck by SUV shortly before noon. No injuries reported, though 86-year-old drive ...
YO, ADRIAN!
It’s a tough turn for our hero as Rocky Balboa is relegated to the curb for trash pickup on Locust Avenue. We’ll have to go back ...
“EL PALOMO” IS IN THE HOUSE
Jesus Rios, a mariachi singer who performs under the stage name “El Palomo” (The dove) pauses for a moment before entering a bac ...