Category Archives: Environment

Feeling the desire to do something nice for the planet for Earth Day? No, don't buy it a necktie — it never wears them — or pick up a gift certificate from the Gap. Instead, get some mud in the...

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There's extensive coverage today of the reported attack on a toddler by a coyote in the Chapel Hill section of Middletown Friday night. So far, just what it was that tried to drag the boy off and left him with...

To the untrained eye, the nature area at Fair Haven Fields looks as otherwordly as it ever has. A compact little wetland forest at the edge of a suburban bedroom community, "it's sort of our micro-wilderness," says neighbor Dick Fuller....

Robert A. Herold, owner of The Fence Guys in Highlands, has asked redbankgreen to clarify the identity and employment of the suspect named in our March 16 story about the theft of borough-owned fencing on Locust Avenue in Red Bank....

We've got our bald eagle. In Red Bank, Tenn., the news today concerns coyotes. From News Channel 9, WTVC, in Chattanooga: A problem is brewing for homeowners in Red Bank who say they've seen a number of coyotes near their...

The staff of redbankgreen was out for a late-afternoon walk on Tuesday when we were astonished to see a bald eagle flying overhead. We were just stepping onto the Cooper Bridge from the Middletown side when we saw the giant...

[CLARIFICATION: Robert A. Herold, owner of The Fence Guys in Highlands, has asked redbankgreen to clarify the identity and employment of the suspect named in the article below. Charged in the theft was Herold's 29-year-old son, Robert F. Herold, who...

A head-scratcher over why water usage appeared to triple last year at the Red Bank Middle School appears to have been solved, the Asbury Park Press reports today. The problem wasn't leaks or kids suddenly turned ambitious about hygiene. It...

Today's Asbury Park Press has a fascinating story today about a study in which fish tagged with tracking devices were released into the Navesink River as part of a study to understand their wanderings. From the article, by reporter Kirk...

Those dead spots you keeping hitting in Fair Haven when talking on your cell phone? They're no closer to being filled, thanks to a decision by the state Department of Environmental Protection that the borough may not use Green-Acres funded...

Red Bank is now the owner of a former industrial property on the West Side that officials say is destined to house some 30 low- and moderate-income families—and won't cost the town a dime. The borough closed Monday on its...

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Some art requires solitude and study and the quiet wait for inspiration. But when a visitor asks Medy Quiroz about how she works, she drags a clattering easel into the middle of her kitchen floor, puts up a large half-finished...

Shellfishermen downriver in Sandy Hook Bay weren't entirely satisfied, but Red Bank and state officials say they're attacking elevated fecal coliform levels in the Navesink River with all they've got, and that it's working. The most effective tool at their...

The would-be developer of the former Doremus estate in Fair Haven wants to give the adjoining Schwenker's Pond to the borough. He may soon be advised to go jump in a lake. "The pond is a mess, frankly," says Mayor...

Officials from the state Department of Environmental Protection are scheduled to present the results of a recent study of fecal coliform in the Navesink River Wednesday night. The news isn't good. The meeting of Navesink River Municipalities Committee “is of...

We call this entry, and the two just below, 'Loose Ends,' because we're taking a moment as the calendar changes to 2007 to update redbankgreen readers on a couple of stories from our first few months in business. This one...

Today's Asbury Park Press has a story about an effort to explain what appears to be soaring water usage at the Red Bank Middle School, which tripled in the July-October billing period, to 1,500 gallons per day. So far, plumbers,...

Kim Sambucci was sitting at her desk at Golf Greens Fore U on Shrewsbury Avenue late last Friday afternoon when she heard “an explosion, like a car crashing into the building.” But it wasn’t a car Sambucci saw when she...