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BASIE BAND PLAYS BASIE AT THE BASIE
Count Basie Orchestra Count Basie Center for the Arts
Count Basie Orchestra Count Basie Center for the Arts
Video: An amazing Red Bank moment: On William "Count" Basie's birthday, Count Basie Orchestra plays "The Kid from Red Bank" - at the Basie. (Click for more)
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August 21st @ 5pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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POLICE: RED BANK MAN SHOT GUN THROUGH NEIGHBOR’S WINDOW
Police say a Red Bank man fired a gun in his garage sending a bullet through his neighbor's window, nearly striking them. (Click to read)
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August 21st @ 3pm
RED BANK: BIG BASIE BASH ON TAP
A free concert by The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra tops three days of events to celebrate William "Count" Basie's birthday weekend. (Click to read)
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August 19th @ 7am
RED BANK POLICE BLOTTER: GUN, AMMO CHARGES FOR BORO MAN
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RED BANK: Police blotter for July includes man charged with possession of penetrating bullets, large ammo magazine, and possession of handgun for illegal purposes.
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August 14th @ 11am
RED BANK: ARTY AUGUST NIGHT ON TAP
Red Bank art galleries throw open their doors for your August Friday evening enjoyment. (Click to read)
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August 13th @ 3pm
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
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August 13th @ 12pm
RED BANK STUDENT STARTS BLADE SHARPENING BIZ
Red Bank college student launches his own knife-sharpening business. (click to read)
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August 12th @ 8am
RED BANK: JULY FLOOD WASN’T THE FIRST FOR BUILDER DENHOLTZ
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The developer chosen by NJ Transit to build the Red Bank train station redevelopment project is being sued by a $1.7m condo buyer on a previous project, where several units flooded in February. (click to read)
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August 11th @ 8am
RALLO UNVEILS PLANS FOR GAS STATION IN CHURN
Red Bank Retail Churn: Birravino owners unveils concept for former gas station spot, as new frozen yogurt and massage spots plan openings. (Click for full story.)
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August 5th @ 8am
NO TAX BREAK? NO PROBLEM. RED BANK BUILDER TRANSFORMS GATEWAY & SPURS REGRET
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Developers said the 212-unit Commodore project would sink without a tax break. Red Bank officials refused, but the building rises anyway, spurring regrets from the Planning Board chair who now says he "hates it." (Click to read)
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August 4th @ 8am
RED BANK: BURST PIPE FLOODS DENHOLTZ APARTMENT BUILDING
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Angry residents, flooded apartments: At least a dozen apartments in one of Red Bank's newest and most high-profile buildings were flooded when a pipe burst at The Rail. (Click to read)
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July 29th @ 8am
VIDEO: WALKING RED BANK’S ENTIRE RIVERFRONT
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Video: Reporter sets out to walk the entire Red Bank waterfront from end to end.
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July 27th @ 4pm
RED BANK’S INDIE STREET FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2026 LINEUP
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Red Bank's Indie Street Film Festival announces its 2026 full lineup of 50 shorts 12 feature films. It runs August 17-23. (Click to read)
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July 22nd @ 3pm
RED BANK: $9000 ART HEIST, SUSPECT DITCHES ON $266 CAB FARE IN JUNE POLICE BLOTTER
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RED BANK: A thief stole three paintings worth up to $3,000 each and a tax passenger ditched on a huge fare in the June crime and arrest reports from the RBPD.
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July 22nd @ 11am
RED BANK: SCHOOL OF ROCK CLOSES WITH WALLS CRUMBLING DOWN
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RED BANK: School of Rock closes Red Bank location as building is deemed unsafe. (Click to read)
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July 15th @ 5pm
RED BANK CHURN: CATEZZA GOES DARK; NEW ITALIAN SPOT EYES FRONT STREET
Red Bank Retail Churn: Catezza goes dark, while an Italian eatery eyes the old Front Street Trattoria location.
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July 15th @ 2pm
RED BANK: B-52’s LAND ON BASIE WALK OF FAME
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B-52s founders and fellow NJ native alt-rockers Dramarama are honored with plaques on the Basie Center walk of fame. (Click to read)
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July 10th @ 7pm
RED BANK: FIRE RIPS THROUGH CHESTNUT STREET HOME
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Two families were displaced after firefighters battled an early morning blaze on Chestnut Street in Red BankThursday. (Click to read)
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July 9th @ 8am
RED BANK: DENHOLTZ SEEKS OK FOR TRAIN STATION PROJECT PHASE 1
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Planning Board to hold public hearing on proposed 175-unit apartment building, parking garage and public plaza near historic Red Bank train station.(Click to read)
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July 6th @ 5pm
RED BANK: 30 YEARS LATER, MURDER REMAINS UNSOLVED
Thirty years after a Red Bank shop owner was found brutally murdered in her store, her killing remains unsolved. (click to read)
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July 3rd @ 7am
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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 ...