RED BANK: BOROUGH SHUTS DOWN PARKS
Riverside Gardens Park as seen last Saturday afternoon. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Red Bank officials plan to indefinitely close borough parks starting Wednesday.
RED BANK: MAN CHARGED AS TREE VANDAL
The man police say has been mutilating trees in downtown Red Bank was spotted by redbankgreen doing exactly that on Monmouth Street Thursday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Red Bank police have charged an Asbury Park man in a recent vandalism spree that targeted street trees downtown.
Edward Williams, 41, was arrested Friday after being identified from surveillance video yanking out a potted tree on Broad Street during Sunday’s Street Fair to benefit the Police Benevolent Association, when hundreds of people were present, according to Chief Darren McConnell.
RED BANK: STREET TREES ATTACKED AGAIN
Red Bank police are now investigating repeated acts of vandalism on street trees after young specimens on Monmouth Street were attacked a second time Wednesday night, just hours after a post-attack pruning by the Shade Tree Committee.
RED BANK: YOUNG TREES MUTILATED
Members of Red Bank’s Shade Tree Committee were horrified to discover Wednesday that all six young Japanese tree lilacs planted on Monmouth Street three years ago had been mutilated.
RED BANK: 11 TREES PLANTED. HERE’S WHERE.
As part of an annual spring planting, Red Bank’s tree inventory grew by 11 new Black Tupelo and Serviceberry trees Tuesday, including ones planted on Elm Place, above, and Leighton Avenue, right.
RED BANK: SANDERS BACKERS BERN TRACKS
Chanting “feel the Bern” and “this is what democracy looks like,” about 300 Bernie Sanders supporters marched in a drizzling ran through downtown Red Bank at noontime Saturday. Among several petitions circulated was one to get the presidential candidate on the New Jersey primary ballot, for which voting is to be held on June 7. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
RED BANK: SANDERS BACKERS PLAN MARCH
The march is slated to proceed on sidewalks from the train station to Riverside Gardens Park via Monmouth and Broad streets. (Map courtesy of Google Maps. Click to enlarge)
Red Bank merchants, visitors and residents should be prepared for possible traffic delays as hundreds of supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders are expected to march through the downtown enroute to a rally at lunchtime Saturday.
RED BANK TREE PLAN GETS PLANTED
Spring blooms along West Front Street at the entrance to Riverside Gardens Park last week. (Click to enlarge)
The Red Bank Shade Tree Committee hopes to plant 200 new trees in the borough over the next five years, according to an action plan filed with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection last week.
Also among the objectives of the Community Forestry Management Plan: complete an ongoing inventory of every tree not on private property.