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RED BANK: ALLEGED FAVORITISM SPARKED PROBE
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RED BANK: State AG's report exposes alleged pattern of favoritism by police Chief McConnell toward officer he dated and married.
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March 18th, 2024 @ 5pm
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RED BANK: NJAG FINDS McCONNELL VIOLATED ETHICS, SHOULD BE ‘TERMINATED’
RED BANK: Attorney General slams McConnell for "unethical behavior" regarding unidentified officer – who redbankgreen has learned is his spouse.
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March 15th, 2024 @ 4pm
RED BANK: PBA NOW “CONFIDENT” IN OFFICIALS
RED BANK: PBA president says union is again "confident" in police and borough leadership after AG "sustains" its complaints about McConnell.
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March 14th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: GANT PUTS McCONNELL ON LEAVE
RED BANK: Borough manager puts McConnell on administrative leave eight months after union allegations delayed chief's plan to retire.
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March 4th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: SILENCE CONTINUES ON PBA V. CHIEF
RED BANK: Seven months after PBA complaint, McConnell is still police chief, awaiting a decision that will allow him to retire.
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February 14th, 2024 @ 8am
RED BANK: PBA AGAIN BLASTS McCONNELL
RED BANK: PBA files grievance against McConnell as he ends "interim" borough leadership and awaits word on retirement as chief.
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December 15th, 2023 @ 8am
RED BANK: MCPO WEIGHS IN ON PBA CLAIM
RED BANK: Prosecutor's statement refutes "another misrepresentation of the facts by the PBA" regarding his leadership, McConnell says.
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August 14th, 2023 @ 9pm
RED BANK: McCONNELL REBUTS ALLEGATIONS
RED BANK: Refuting PBA allegations, McConnell says he had a relationship with a former "significant other" of a department employee "years ago," but none since.
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August 12th, 2023 @ 8pm
RED BANK: PBA BLASTS McCONNELL’S ‘ETHICS’
RED BANK: With McConnell retirement pending, police union accuses him of "numerous inappropriate sexual relationships" with employees.
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August 11th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SCENES FROM A NICE ‘NIGHT OUT’
RED BANK: Hundreds enjoy free food and games at the annual police-sponsored National Night Out Against Crime festival. Photos.
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August 2nd, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: COPS + KIDS + COPTER = FUN
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RED BANK: Black Hawk helicopter is again the star attraction for kids as police host National Night Out at Count Basie Park. Photos galore.
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August 3rd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAPS UP 2021
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RED BANK: Council wraps 2021 with PBA contract, a plan to recombine workshop and regular sessions, a new used Tesla, and praise for a departing colleague.
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December 17th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: COPTER STARS AT NIGHT OUT
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RED BANK: Black Hawk helicopter steals the show as police host National Night Out on a gorgeous summer night at Count Basie Park. Photos.
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August 4th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: COUNCIL SAYS ‘BYE-BYE, 2018’
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RED BANK: Council says farewell to 2018, and the only two remaining Republican members, at its final session of the year.
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December 17th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: POLICE HOST NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
RED BANK: Borough police host an evening of free food and fun as part of the National Night Out Against Crime campaign at Count Basie Park.
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July 7th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: HUNDREDS PEDAL OFF IN UNITY
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Hundreds of cyclists from police departments across New Jersey headed down a misty Broad Street in Red Bank on the first leg of the annual Police Unity Tour Saturday morning.Continue reading "RED BANK: HUNDREDS PEDAL OFF IN UNITY"
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May 9th, 2015 @ 10am
RED BANK: STREET FAIR SHINES AGAIN
[slideshow_deploy id=’92747′] Sunday was a day of sunglasses, leashes, and bibs in downtown Red Bank for the annual late-summer edition of Street Fair, a fundraiser for the volunteer fire departmentContinue reading "RED BANK: STREET FAIR SHINES AGAIN"
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September 8th, 2014 @ 8am
RED BANK: GIRL’S WISH IS TO ENABLE OTHERS
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Eight-year-old Kasey Kennedy, a student at St. James School in Red Bank, with the members of the Red Bank Catholic Making Wishes Club – plus her little brother, Colin. (PhotoContinue reading "RED BANK: GIRL’S WISH IS TO ENABLE OTHERS"
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June 4th, 2014 @ 7am
RED BANK COPS BIKE DOWNPOUR FOR CHIEF
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Despite teeming rain and slick roads, dozens of cyclists, including numerous police officers, headed out on a 26-mile ride in memory of late Red Bank Police Chief Steve McCarthy ThursdayContinue reading "RED BANK COPS BIKE DOWNPOUR FOR CHIEF"
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May 8th, 2014 @ 9am
RED BANK COPS TO RIDE FOR LATE CHIEF
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Police Chief Steve McCarthy in 2010. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi. Click to enlarge) Members of the Red Bank Police Benevolent Association plan a memorial bike ride this week for the lateContinue reading "RED BANK COPS TO RIDE FOR LATE CHIEF"
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May 5th, 2014 @ 12pm
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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 ...