In a written letter posted Sunday via social media, Environmental Shade Tree Commission Chair Tom Pivinski announced a new garden is underway along Fifth Avenue at Sunset Lake, west of Veterans Park.  “In response to the domestic terrorism in our country and our city, the Friends of the Asbury Park Environmental Shade Tree Commission [ESTC] […]

The Asbury Park City Council honored a set of volunteer who tend to the city’s gardens and open space areas this week. Led by Tom Pivinski, the members of the Environmental and Shade Tree Commission [ESTC] were presented with a Proclamation that honored their ‘years of dedicated service.’ “The City of Asbury Park has been […]

The Asbury Park Environmental Shade and Tree Commission has launched a ‘Friends of’ 501(c)(3) nonprofit arm to help with the funding of their city-wide greening projects. “This has come about to continue the Asbury Park Environmental Shade Tree Commission’s [ESTC] commitment to further the beauty and health of our city,” chair Tom Pivinski said in […]

The Pulse nightclub massacre second anniversary was commemorated Tuesday with a moment of silence, poetry reading, song, and thanks for a community that rose to help plant the memorial grove in Library Square Park, bordered by Heck Street, Asbury, First, and Grand avenues. “Two years ago we experienced one of the worst travesties in modern […]

After months of planning and weeks of readying desolate plots of land for planting, a new Art Park is taking shape between Atkins Avenue, Avenue A, and Borden Avenue in the southwest neighborhood of Asbury Park. Funded through the $500,000 Choice Neighborhoods grant awarded to the Asbury Park by the federal Housing and Urban Development […]

Monday night’s Pulse Memorial gathering in Library Square Park was not only a moment for the Asbury Park community to remember the 49 individuals who lost their lives one year prior when 29-year-old Omar Mateen, a security guard armed with a SIG Sauer MCX semi-automatic rifle and a 9mm Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol attacked the […]

After a few years of stagnation, Sunset Lake is back on track. The northeastern water body that suffered from post Sandy affects and an infiltration of algae, with brought forth an unbearable stench during the driest and warmest summer months, is headed to a healthier state, thanks in part to the city’s Sunset Lake Commission and […]

Remedying the algae overgrowth that brings out an unbearable stench during the driest and warmest summer months will be multi-pronged, according to members of the Sunset Lake Commission and a team of area environmental agencies working in support of their efforts. “We are all concerned and want what is best for the lake,” Chair Sue […]

The Orlando Memorial Grove Plaque reads in part: ‘May love, tolerance, and compassion bloom in this garden and spread throughout this community and our world,’ Asbury Park Environmental Shade Tree Committee’s Tom Pivinski read during Saturday’s planting and dedication service at Liberty Square Park. At 8 a.m., a group of volunteers set out to plant […]

The pruning along Third, Fourth, and Asbury avenues have city residents questioning the benefit of leaving behind trees with awkwardly shaped limbs that conjure up an Edward Scissor Hands abstract. “These trees are 100 years old and they are shade trees, meant to provide shade on the sidewalks and streets,” said 6-year resident Brian Watkins. […]