RED BANK: TREE PLANTING UNDERWAY
A fall planting of 75 young trees in Red Bank began with a gingko finding a home on Leonard Street Monday morning.
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.
RUMSON SCHOOLS CELEBRATE ARBOR DAY
Forrestdale and Deane Porter students participate in the ceremonial planting of a tree as Rumson Borough Shade Tree Commission Chairman Stephen Barrett looks on.
Press release from Rumson School District
Students at two Rumson schools celebrated Arbor Day with a Legacy Project planting and a poem, as well as a ceremony held at Deane Porter School on the morning of April 29.
The celebration was attended by all students in Pre-K and Kindergarten, two student representatives from each first through third grade class, and Student Government Officers as well as Homeroom Representatives from grades four through eight at Forrestdale School. Dignitaries on hand included Rumson Borough Mayor John Ekdahl, Rumson Borough Shade Tree Commission Chairman Stephen Barrett, and Board of Education members.
For the Legacy Project, students in grades Pre-K through eight participated in a “Bucks for Barks” fundraiser organized by the Student Government Association. Donations totaling $6,281.00 were used to purchase trees that were planted on the school grounds by students in each grade level.
RED BANK NAMED ‘TREE CITY’ FOR 10th YEAR
Red Bank’s still growing strong, treewise. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
Press release from Borough of Red Bank
The Arbor Day Foundation has announced that Red Bank has been named a Tree City USA community for 2016, to honor its commitment to community forestry. It is the tenth year that Red Bank has received this national honor from the Arbor Day Foundation, the nation’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to planting trees.