Tag: East Brunswick Environmental Commission

  • Celebration will mark 39th designation of East Brunswick as ‘Tree City USA’

    Celebration will mark 39th designation of East Brunswick as ‘Tree City USA’

    EAST BRUNSWICK – To commemorate being named a “Tree City USA,” East Brunswick will hold a special observance of Arbor Day next month. Steve Gottleib of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission will present the Tree City U.S.A. flag and other recognition materials to Mayor Brad Cohen at 1:30 p.m. May 5 at Warnsdorfer Elementary School on…

  • Talk on hydroculture slated for April 26

    Talk on hydroculture slated for April 26

    The Option Green Speakers Series presented by the Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission continues at 7 p.m. on April 26 with a talk on hydroculture – the science of growing plants in a soil-free environment – at the East Brunswick Public Library, 2 Jean Walling Civic Center. Speaker Stephanie Alea, a field researcher in…

  • Police close road, giving salamanders safe passage to migrate

    Police close road, giving salamanders safe passage to migrate

    By VASHTI HARRIS Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – “A hop, a skip and a jump” is what many local amphibians were doing as they journeyed undisturbed across Beekman Road to begin mating season on March 8. Thanks to a 12-year collaborative effort from the Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission (EBEC), the Township of East…