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Category Archives: Organic gardening

MEET RED BANK’S TRAILBLAZING “NO MOW” GARDENERS
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A dozen Red Bank gardeners are lauded for their ambition - and lack of it - by a program aimed at creating swaths of native habitat, one yard at a time. (click to read)
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September 1st, 2025 @ 10pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK BRUSH PICKUP RESUMES WITH NEW SCHEDULE
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Yard cleanup season's here and the Borough of Red Bank is resuming brush collection with a new schedule. Check out the map and details. (click to read).
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April 2nd, 2025 @ 7am
RED BANK: LEAD-TAINTED SOIL TO BE REMOVED
RED BANK: Two years after garden shutdown, DEP outlines $2.6M plan to excavate and replace lead-contaminated soil from nearby residential properties.
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February 23rd, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: More than two years after community garden shutdown over possible lead contamination, DEP will give a public presentation Tuesday.
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February 21st, 2022 @ 2pm
RED BANK: FARMER DEFENDS PRODUCE TOSS
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RED BANK: Farmers' market vendor defends discard of produce as free-food distributor says he donates "tons" of food, including this past Sunday.
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July 22nd, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: DUMPED PRODUCE STUNS SHOPPERS
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RED BANK: Shoppers shocked to see good produce tossed into in a dumpster at the Farmers' Market. Galleria official responds to complaint.
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July 20th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: LITTLE PROGRESS ON GARDEN
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RED BANK: What's Going On since community garden was shut down over contamination concerns 13 months ago? We have an update.
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September 17th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: WALK-THRU MARKET TO RESUME
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RED BANK: After three weeks as a drive-thru, the Galleria's farm market resumes walk-thru shopping Sunday, with masks and social distancing required.
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June 9th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: MARKET REOPENS AS DRIVE-THRU
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RED BANK: The Galleria's farm market reopens as a drive-thru only. Here's some initial feedback from vendors, customers, and one unhappy pedestrian.
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May 18th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: MARKET RETURNING AS DRIVE-THRU
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RED BANK: The Galleria's farm market plans to open May 17, with a host of new rules for the COVID-19 era. Rule number one: it'll be drive-thru only.
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May 4th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: DEP EXPANDS GARDEN SOIL TESTS
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RED BANK: What's Going On since community garden shutdown over contamination concerns? Tests that could involve properties hundreds of feet away.
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March 10th, 2020 @ 10am
RED BANK: CONCERNS AIRED OVER LEAD TESTS
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RED BANK: Community gardeners air concerns about borough's "sense of urgency" following facility's closure over presence of lead in soil.
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September 26th, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: TESTS DETAIL GARDEN LEAD LEVELS
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RED BANK: Tests of community garden soil finds elevated lead in one sample, but at a depth NJDEP says requires "no immediate response." More tests expected.
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September 3rd, 2019 @ 6pm
RED BANK: CONTAMINATION SHUTS GARDEN
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RED BANK: Borough shuts community garden in "abundance of caution" after neighbor's testing of its soil appear to show lead contamination, Shehady says.
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August 12th, 2019 @ 1pm
RUMSON: NAVESINK QUALITY IMPROVES
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RUMSON: After a bacteria crisis, Navesink is showing "rapid" improvement in water quality, with possible reopening of shellfish beds a year earlier than expected, state DEP says.
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April 2nd, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: RIVER BACTERIA SOURCES LOCATED
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RED BANK: Officials from the 'Rally for the Navesink' collaborate celebrate success in finding a significant source of river bacteria on Marion Street.
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April 28th, 2017 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: NAVESINK RALLY RESUMES
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FAIR HAVEN: An effort dubbed Rally for Navesink series continues tonight with discussions of oyster beds and safe boat waste disposal.
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March 8th, 2017 @ 7am
NAVESINK: BACTERIAL HOTSPOTS IDENTIFIED
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RED BANK: Bacteria-sniffing dogs ID hotspots here and in Fair Haven as possible sources of human waste bacteria that's winding up in the Navesink River.
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December 1st, 2016 @ 7am
RED BANK: RIVER CONTAMINATION UPDATE SET
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RED BANK: Teaching kids "watershed mindfulness," plus the findings of bacteria-sniffing dogs, mark agenda for the final Rally for the Navesink of 2016.
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November 16th, 2016 @ 8am
RED BANK: JUST A COUPLE OF WORKING SNIFFS
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RED BANK: Bacteria-sniffing dogs used to track contamination in the Navesink give a demo of their methods in a hospital conference room.
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September 22nd, 2016 @ 8am
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
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 ...
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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.