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Editor, Asbury Park Sun, The past few years, each spring, at least two flatbeds of palm trees are planted at the former VIVE sales office site between Cookman and Lake avenues, then dug up and trucked away in the fall. Not once have I heard anything but such comments as “tacky,” “ridiculous,” “this isn’t Florida,” and “where do they go […]

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Native tree species will be placed where palm trees once provided shelter from the sun in the “Summer Experience” shaded hammock garden, previously the site of the Vive sales trailer. The Asbury Park planning board Monday gave unanimous approval for master waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial to swap out the palms, which they had trucked up […]

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