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RED BANK GARDEN PLAN NEEDS WATERING

A narrow borough-owned lot with a disused pumping station on it needs water access before it can be transformed into a community garden, town officials say. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The battle over a proposed Red Bank community garden abated Wednesday night when its main proponent appeared to accept to an offer [...]

PITCHFORKS OUT OVER COMMUNITY GARDEN

With organizer Cindy Burnham holding up a photo, Annie Jones argues for allowing residents to garden a 900-square-foot strip of borough property at Maple Cove. (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Community garden proponents assailed the Red Bank council Wednesday night for what they termed its “because-I-said-so” opposition to the creation of a farm [...]

ON THE AGENDA: PITCHFORKS, TURF & MORE

Proponents of a Red Bank community garden try for another bite of the apple with their request to farm a portion of the public library property, above. (Click to enlarge) The agenda for the bimonthly meeting of Red Bank’s council Wednesday night is a busy one. On the docket: • Red Bank RiverCenter comes in for [...]

WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?

Last week’s photo showed some luscious greens in a raised vegetable bed. Did you recognize the location?

PARKER HOMESTEAD GETS HISTORIC SEAL

The Parker house stands at an entrance to what is now the Sickles Market and remnants of the original working farm on Rumson Road. (Click to enlarge) Five months after securing state Register of Historic Places status, Little Silver’s 347-year-old Parker Homestead has been added to that list’s national counterpart, the Asbury Park Press reports [...]

PARKER HOUSE WINS REGISTER ENTRY

The Parker homestead, seen here in 2007, dates back to (Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The Parker House, Little Silver’s oldest surviving homestead, has won addition to the state Register of Historic Places, Mayor Bob Neff tells redbankgreen.

CHILDREN’S VEGETABLE GARDEN BURGLARIZED

The crime reports below were provided by the Red Bank Police Department for the period of June 24 to July 1, 2011. This information is unedited. Criminal Mischief occurring between 6-27-11 and 6-28-11 at Monmouth Street-business. Victim reported that unknown person(s) broke window in business. Ptl. Michael Zadlock. Theft occurring at West Bergen Place between [...]

IN SHREWSBURY’S QUIVER, A DEER SOLUTION?

A deer on the lawn of the Monmouth County Library’s Eastern Branch on Route 35 last October. (Photo by Peter Lindner; click to enlarge) Not a word of objection was uttered Monday night as the governing body of the fed-up-with-deer borough of Shrewsbury gave the nod to the use of bows and arrows to thin [...]

RUMSONITES BARK AT TREE TAKEDOWN

Shade Tree Commission Chairman Doug Spencer shows residents a piece of a tree Tuesday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Fair Haven officials aren’t quite out of the woods yet when it comes to adapting to changes to the borough’s tree preservation ordinance. And now, they have a little company. On [...]

COUNCIL STILL DUG IN AGAINST GARDEN SPOT

Community garden proponents talk to borough Administrator Stanley Sickels about their proposal after Wednesday night’s council meeting. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The borough council Wednesday night unanimously adopted a resolution supporting a community garden in Red Bank. Great, some said. But when it came down to where the council [...]

COUNCIL DIGS IN AGAINST PROPOSED GARDEN

Advocates are pushing the council to allow a community garden on borough-owned property to the right of the library, above. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI The green thumbs had their rakes and hoes out in force Wednesday night. An already lengthy Red Bank council meeting carried on about 45 minutes [...]

SUNDAY: MARKET ON YOUR CALENDAR

Red Bank’s popular farmers market makes its traditional Mother’s Day debut Sunday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI It’s time to polish momma’s apple, locavores. Red Bank’s ever-popular, always-growing open-air emporium, the Red Bank Farmers’ Market, returns to the blacktop of The Galleria on Mother’s Day for its 12th season of [...]

READY FOR ARBOR DAY

In early celebration of Arbor Day on Friday and Red Bank’s fifth annual designation as a “Tree City,” members of the Shade Tree Committee distributed white pine seedlings to attendees of Tuesday night’s borough council meeting. STC secretary Boris Kofman, right, hands a baby tree to assistant borough administrator/public works director Gary Watson. (Photo by [...]

A GREEN DOUBLE-DIP

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI It’ll be an environmental double feature in Red Bank at the end of the month. The borough’s environmental commission and its subcommittee, the Green Team, will run back-to-back talks on environmental issues on April 28.

COUNTY OFFERS INSIDE DIRT ON COMPOSTING

Tim Zebo of Red Bank with the composter he got as part of the Monmouth County course in 2008. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Gather up the banana peels, egg shells and coffee grinds, all you greenies and wanna-bes. The Monmouth County Planning Board is offering local workshops at which experts will go over [...]


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