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LITTLE SILVER: GUIDED MEDITATION IN THE GARDEN
LITTLE SILVER: Borough Environmental Commission will offer guided meditation in the Little Silver Community Garden Monday evenings throughout the summer.
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May 31st, 2022 @ 2pm
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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: FOOD WRITER SUSAN ERICSON DIES
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RED BANK: Food writer Susan Ericson, who savored and promoted the local food scene for redbankgreen and on her blog, has died at age 66.
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May 31st, 2021 @ 3pm
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: 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
LITTLE SILVER TO OPEN COMMUNITY GARDEN
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Little Silver gets down and dirty Saturday with the opening of its community garden, located on Harrison Avenue behind the Parker Homestead on the approach to Sickle’s Market. With aContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER TO OPEN COMMUNITY GARDEN"
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May 15th, 2015 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: FOR GARDENERS, 2014 IS A WRAP
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The  front walkway at the Raevis house in Fair Haven is decorated with pumpkins grown in the community garden. Below, a bountiful harvest of pumpkins grown on a double plotContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: FOR GARDENERS, 2014 IS A WRAP"
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November 3rd, 2014 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: GARDENERS SHARE HARVEST
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Master gardener Cindy Skoe in the Fair Haven Community Garden. (Photo by Susan Ericson. Click to enlarge) By SUSAN ERICSON Among the plots in Fair Haven’s community garden is an areaContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: GARDENERS SHARE HARVEST"
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July 17th, 2014 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: A GIANT SPIDER AND SOME RICE
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Fair Haven resident Jim Raevis demonstrates his spider-like irrigation system in the community garden. (Photo by Susan Ericson. Click to enlarge) By SUSAN ERICSON By far the strangest thing toContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: A GIANT SPIDER AND SOME RICE"
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July 1st, 2014 @ 10am
FAIR HAVEN GARDEN: BLACK IS THE NEW GREEN
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Carol Weston in the community garden, where black coverings in different materials can be found among the plants this year. (Photos by Susan Ericson. Click to enlarge) By SUSAN ERICSONContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN GARDEN: BLACK IS THE NEW GREEN"
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June 17th, 2014 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: GROWING, OLD SCHOOL
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Lou Smith in the Fair Haven Community Garden. (Photos by Susan Ericson. Click to enlarge) By SUSAN ERICSON In the colorful, whirligig-friendly, anything-goes Fair Haven Community garden, the seeds haveContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN: GROWING, OLD SCHOOL"
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June 5th, 2014 @ 6am
After 33 years, the Fair Haven Community Garden goes by tacit rules of etiquette. Others, though, have written rules.. (Photo by Susan Ericson. Click to enlarge) By SUSAN ERICSON Hey,Continue reading "KEEPING ‘COMMUNITY’ IN SHARED GARDENS"
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April 15th, 2014 @ 8am
[slideshow_deploy id=’89245′]Red Bank’s Community Gardeners were in full bloom on Marion Street Sunday morning to kick off the garden’s second year. (Photos by Jim Willis. Click to enlarge)      
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April 7th, 2014 @ 10am
PIEHOLE: BAGELS, BURGERS AND PERUVIAN
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Why is a bagel sandwich so cheap here? Because they make bagels. They want you to eat bagels. (Photo by John T Ward. Click to enlarge) By JIM WILLIS redbankgreen’s PieHole is allContinue reading "PIEHOLE: BAGELS, BURGERS AND PERUVIAN"
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February 28th, 2014 @ 11am
RED BANK: GETTING ORGANIC AT LIBRARY
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With snow in the forecast, it’ll still be a while before we’re getting our hands dirty. (Photo by Jim Willis. Click to enlarge) By JIM WILLIS Sure, your beds may still haveContinue reading "RED BANK: GETTING ORGANIC AT LIBRARY"
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February 25th, 2014 @ 9am
PIEHOLE: CHEESE SCHOOL IS NOW IN SESSION
Ready for cheese school? Read all about it in PieHole. (Photo by Jim Willis. Click to enlarge) redbankgreen’s PieHole is all about local food and drink. If you haven’t liked us on FacebookContinue reading "PIEHOLE: CHEESE SCHOOL IS NOW IN SESSION"
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February 21st, 2014 @ 5pm
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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.