Category Archives: Agriculture

RED BANK: Shoppers at the planned Sickles Market Provisions will be able to watch produce growing in a shipping container in the parking lot.

RED BANK: Community gardeners air concerns about borough's "sense of urgency" following facility's closure over presence of lead in soil.

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.

RED BANK: Borough shuts community garden in "abundance of caution" after neighbor's testing of its soil appear to show lead contamination, Shehady says.

RED BANK: A year after defeat, developer Ray Rapcavage wins key approval for townhouse-and-garden plan at the Five Corners on the edge of downtown.

RED BANK: A year after being stopped cold, RayRap returns to the zoning board this week with a plan for townhouses on the edge of downtown.

LITTLE SILVER: Restoration work on three barns, one of them dating back to around 1790, is completed, and the town celebrates.

RED BANK: Like another developer thwarted by the zoning board, RayRap wants its property designated as "in need of rehabilitation."

MIDDLETOWN: Kids spend their summer off growing and collecting produce for the hungry.

RUMSON: Borough man gets three years in prison for commodities market manipulation.

LITTLE SILVER: The Parker Homestead blackberry harvest returns for three days next week.

LITTLE SILVER: Century-old Benevedis house, badly damaged by leak, is razed for parking.

RED BANK: Senior Center has a new raised-bed planter donated by Councilwoman Cindy Burnham.

RED BANK: Builder Ray Rap will press the council to raise the number of bedrooms allowed downtown without variances.

RED BANK: Bon Jovi hosts local retailers to thank them for helping out in a fundraiser.