Category: Atlanticville Business

Changing marketplace ultimately spelled the end for small retailer By gloria stravelliStaff Writer By gloria stravelli Staff Writer LINDSEY SIEGLE David Prown will close Prown’s Has Everything, a Broad Street retailer in Red Bank for 77 years, to focus on serving home improvement needs. The end of the era of neighborhood stores, where shopkeepers knew…

One of few staff agencies to be By gloria stravelliStaff Writer By gloria stravelli Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY Dolores (l-r) and William Stein, Oceanport, and Bill Stein, Fair Haven, confer with Nursefinders staffing coordinators Denise Sarambo (foreground), Neptune, and Josephine Florke, Long Branch. While other business owners were festively ringing in the new year last…

Farm has gone to the dogs By elaine van develdeStaff Writer By elaine van develde Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY Buster, a German shepherd mix, was a featured animal in the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ pet adoption program, held Dec. 14 at Dogs on the Farm, Middletown. MIDDLETOWN — A dog’s life…

Unusual gifts could heat up the holidays By gloria stravelliStaff Writer By gloria stravelli Staff Writer Mrs. Claus sports a leather bolero jacket over a bustier, thigh stockings and stiletto heels compliments of Spykes. Santa’s "Ho-Ho-Ho!" could turn into "Oh-Oh-Oh!" when the old gent peeks into his sack of presents during Christmas Eve deliveries. In…

By gloria stravelliStaff Writer By gloria stravelli Staff Writer GLORIA STRAVELLI John Abbatemarco gives Jonathan Fellis of Fair Haven a trim while his counterpart, Betsy O’Neill, styles a customer. After 51 years of barbering, you might think a guy would have trouble getting used to curling irons and hair spray. Not true, said John Abbatemarco,…

By gloria stravelliStaff Writer By gloria stravelli Staff Writer GLORIA STRAVELLI The Garden Room in the Olde Union House, Red Bank, is slated to undergo some renovations in anticipation of being turned into a new restaurant called the Hiptown Grille. RED BANK —The Planning Board last week approved a facelift for one of the oldest…

The upper mid-Atlantic region of Starbucks stores began a month-long program on Oct. 21 to donate approximately 2,000 pounds of coffee to American troops abroad. The program, in conjunction with the American Red Cross Armed Forces Emergency Services, will be conducted by employees in more than 90 stores. Employees will donate rather than keep the…

Getting people outside to help look inProject U.S.E. By libby kesilStaff Writer Getting people outside to help look in LIBBY KESIL Co-founder Phil Costello and staff members Nancy Medrow and Jennifer Reich outside the administrative offices of Project U.S.E. Project U.S.E.’s recent work includes program at RFH, RBR schools By libby kesil Staff Writer RED…

New ferry boat soonto replace fishing boatin Keyport By maura dowgin & Elaine Van DeveldeStaff Writers New ferry boat soon to replace fishing boat in Keyport ELAINE VAN DEVELDE The fishing boat Suzie Girl ferries commuters to Manhattan from Keyport on the morning of Nov. 4. NY Fast Ferry said it is expecting a new…