Author Archives: John T. Ward

RED BANK: PBA president says union is again "confident" in police and borough leadership after AG "sustains" its complaints about McConnell.

RED BANK: Hunter and Eko, the four-legged members of the police K9 unit, will retire this month after years of "faithful exemplary service."

RED BANK: A failed expansion by Sickles Market to the Anderson building here may have torpedoed its 116-year-old Little Silver business.

LITTLE SILVER: Four weeks after abruptly pulling the plug on its Red Bank expansion, 116-year-old Sickles Market here also has closed.

LITTLE SILVER: Power outage prompts early dismissal and event cancellations at RBR as wind knocks hundreds offline.

RED BANK: After five years of operation, Red Tank Brewing closed this week following sale to a Bergen County microbrewery.

RED BANK: A mainstay of the downtown health-and-beauty sector for a dozen years has closed its doors.

RED BANK: Borough manager puts McConnell on administrative leave eight months after union allegations delayed chief's plan to retire.

RED BANK: Breezeway sculpture captured the mood downtown as heavy rains fell Saturday morning.

For Black History Month, Red Bank's Community Engagement and Equity Advisory Committee has been running a series of local profiles on Facebook.

RED BANK: Graffiti and contempt of court charges dominate January blotter, with arrests also for weapons and DWI.

RED BANK: Historic Preservation Committee members, meeting for first time in eight months, get acquainted with new law they'll administer.

RED BANK: Council to honor DPU supervisor Rich Hardy, who retired recently after almost 39 years of keeping things running.

RED BANK: Can't get to the public library? It's now offering free delivery and pickups for homebound borough residents.

RED BANK: Though the Sickles store that surrounded it has shut down, Booskerdoo is staying put, and adding a kiosk at Sickles' main location, owner says.

RED BANK: After the second snowfall of the week, a borough family finds the perfect use for it – a Godzilla snow sculpture.

RED BANK: Three days after a snowstorm, here we go again, with another three or four inches coming overnight, according to the NWS.

RED BANK: Shoppers stunned by abrupt closing of Sickles Market at train station, which in a few years became part of their routines.

RED BANK: After four years of operation, Sickles Market is closing its store here immediately, the Little Silver grocer announced Thursday.

RED BANK: Seven months after PBA complaint, McConnell is still police chief, awaiting a decision that will allow him to retire.