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MONDAY 07.21.14

VOLUME135

NUMBER 173

SINCE 1879

ADVICE C4

BUSINESS A8

CLASSIFIED C6

COMICS C5

LOCAL A3

LOTTERIES A2

OBITUARIES A9

OPINION A10

SPORTS D1

TV D8

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Spice up your summer on a board in the

surf off the coast @play, C1

10 KEY PLAYERS FOR THE SCARLET KNIGHTSRutgers football team returns 15 starters for its first season in the Big Ten SPORTS, D1

CATCH SOMESHORE WAVES

NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYMENT

THE GUARDIANS OF LIBERTY

Soldiers from the Guards 1-150th Assault

Helicopter Battalion gathered with family, friends

and veterans Sunday afternoon in Sea Girt for a

formal sendoff as the battalion prepares to head

to Kosovo.TODAY, A3

Monmouth County could be the first county in thestate to have a network of bicycle lanes to allow ridersto travel safely from town to town if an idea proposedby Fair Haven Mayor Benjamin Luccarelli wins localand county support.

Luccatelli pitched the idea through a resolution tomayors of 11eastern Monmouth towns for a network ofbike lanes by painting lanes on county roads from RedBank to Sea Bright, through Monmouth Beach, Ocean-port and Little Silver.

The idea grew out of a Safe Routes to Schools grantapplication for bike lanes for the 500 to 600 Fair Havenstudents who ride bikes to and from school, as well assuggestions to expand those lanes to Red Bank Region-al High School.

The infrastructure is already there; were lookingto repurpose it and educate the public on the proper useof it, he said. Its incumbent to mark the road so peo-ple know where to ride and where its safe to ride.

Luccarelli, a recreational cyclist, said he sees plentyof cyclists out in the morning on River Road. They in-

clude people commuting to work and children, manyriding to school. Some are riding on the sidewalk, hesaid, which is against the law for adults.

I see one bike after another with people riding towork, riding on the sidewalk; these guys deserve a safepassage, Luccarelli said. Its just another form oftransportation. The infrastructure is there and the peo-ple are already using it, and it (the road) isnt purposedfor it.

PEDAL-POWERED TRAVEL

Plan backs

network ofbike lanesFair Haven mayor seeks support

from 11 Monmouth County towns

By Larry Higgs @APPLarry

See BICYCLES, PageA5

A woman and child walk a bike across Red Banks ChestnutStreet, which is marked with sharrows to remind driversto share the road with bicycles. LARRY HIGGS/STAFF PHOTO

BICYCLE ROUTES

Visit http://bit.ly/1p6jSh7 for a PDF map of bicycles routesthroughout Monmouth County.

PLUMSTED After farmer DouglasHallock chugs down a row on the field,shaping a low light-brown ridge in theground behind his tractor, the plantingcrew comes riding along, their machin-ery neatly injecting bright-green shootsinto the prepared soil.

All around on the 296 acres of Hal-locks U-Pick Farm and Greenhouses,

customers are in the fields, picking theearly summer crops of green beans, cu-cumbers for pickling, fragrant red andyellow onions, purple and white egg-plants. But the little green shoots are fill-ing a big field, and an ethnic marketthats grown for enterprising farmers.

Its jute leaf, an ingredient in Africanand eastern Mediterranean cooking,from the same plant family used to maketough string and rope. Other crops notoften grown commercially in New Jer-sey in a generation are a big part of the

YOU -P I CK FARMS:

FAM IL I ES TREK

TO P LUM STE D

Jackie Jacobs of Richboro, Pennsylvania, is absorbed in her berry picking and her 5-month-old daughter Emily is contentin her sling as they work the berry field at Emerys Berry Farm in Plumsted. PETER ACKERMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Traditional and ethnic vegetables draw customers

KirkMoore

LIFE IN THE PINES

SeePICK, Page A4

(From top) Charlie Hallock sits by histractor. Signs identifying the crops sit in abin at a pick-it-yourself farm. StephanieSpampanato of Farmingdale picks beans atDeWolf's Farm in Plumsted. PETERACKERMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER