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RED BANK: KINDA-SORTA CHIEF MARKS A YEAR IN LIMBO
RED BANK: After a scandal involving the police chief, his replacement completes a full year leading the department in an odd state of limbo.
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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.
RED BANK: BOROUGH GETS NEW MANAGER
RED BANK: For top job at borough hall, council approves a 38-year-old municipal administrator who began his career as a police dispatcher.
RED BANK: VOTE ON TOWN MANAGER SLATED
RED BANK: Council schedules special session to vote on contract for new borough manager. Police chief has been "interim" since mid-2021.
RED BANK: WHAT’S ON COUNCIL AGENDA
RED BANK: Unhitched trailer ban adoption, awards of engineering contracts and more on council agenda for Thursday night.
RED BANK: STATE SLAMS PAYOUT CONTROLS
RED BANK: State says borough has inadequate controls on sick leave and vacation payouts; McConnell says town is working on compliance.
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.
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.
RED BANK: PBA BLASTS McCONNELL’S ‘ETHICS’
RED BANK: With McConnell retirement pending, police union accuses him of "numerous inappropriate sexual relationships" with employees.
RED BANK: FRAZEE TO BECOME POLICE CHIEF
RED BANK: Borough native Frazee to become next police, though McConnell's planned retirement has been postponed by about a month.
RED BANK: McCONNELL TO RETIRE
RED BANK: Police chief and interim administrator Darren McConnell plans to retire next month. But there's an outside chance he'll be back as manager.
RED BANK: EX-COP TO BECOME SCHOOL SRO
RED BANK: New school resource officer is a "perfect fit," says chief: police department sees two officers retire this month.
LITTLE SILVER: DALPRA RETIRING FROM RBR
LITTLE SILVER: After turning around the sports culture at Red Bank Regional over the past 12 years, Louis 'Del' DalPra is retiring. For real this time, he says.
RED BANK: ‘WALKOUT’ HONORS PD RETIREES
RED BANK: Fellow officers and borough employees mark retirement of two cops with a traditional "walkout" on their last day of work.
RED BANK: COUNCIL WRAP
RED BANK: Weeds, a police department retirement and the library were on the agenda of a no-surprises council meeting Wednesday. Here's a wrap-up.
RED BANK: SNACK BAR, SCREENS ON AGENDA
RED BANK: Council to take up measures on weeds, window screens and the future of the Riverside Gardens Park Wednesday. Here's an agenda scan.
RED BANK: WHAT’S ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA?
RED BANK: Taxes, a new track for Basie Fields, alternate-side parking and more pack the agenda for council's only regular meeting this month.
RED BANK: CHARTER SCHOOL NAMES NEW HEAD
RED BANK: Charter school names new head, who left her last job under pressure over changes she implemented, according to news reports.
RED BANK: COUNCIL LAUDS PRINCIPAL CLAY
RED BANK: Borough council and former superintendent lead dozens of in a sendoff for Risa Clay on her retirement as Red Bank Regional principal.
RED BANK: CHARTER SCHOOL HEAD TO RETIRE
RED BANK: Meredith Pennotti, who led the charter school through most of its first two, and highly fraught, decades, announces plan to retire.
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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.
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 Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.
CARPY DIEM
From the redbankgreen Partyline: A pair of large carp cruise the shallows under Hubbard's Bridge (Senator Kyrillos Bridge) on Front Street T ...
BIBS ON FOR OPENING DAY
Partyline: Two longtime neighbors re-unite for lobsters on the Boondocks Fishery opening day.