Category: Atlanticville News

  • Memories fill fabric of widow’s quilt

    Quilting group stitches blanket from shirts of Marine killed in combat BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Stacey Sammis holds the quilt that Rebecca’s Reel Quilters of Poricy Park, Middletown, made from her husband’s shirts. Sammis’ husband was killed a year ago in Iraq. After Stacey Sammis’ husband, Capt.…

  • School board returns to routine after election

    Incumbents sworn in for next term; council considers failed budget BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Incumbents sworn in for next term; council considers failed budget BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — With the election behind it and all three incumbents returned to the dais, the city’s Board of Education got down to business at its reorganization…

  • School hopes extra effort will improve math scores

    Superintendent sayshe wants to go from agood to a great school BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer Superintendent says he wants to go from a good to a great school BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer MONMOUTH BEACH — Faced with less than satisfactory scores on math in state tests two years ago, the Monmouth Beach School launched…

  • West Park Avenue now responsibility of county

    Township has assumed responsibility for Corlies, Sunset avenues BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer OCEAN TOWNSHIP — The township and Monmouth County officials are making a trade. West Park Avenue, also known as County Route 15, which connects Monmouth Road with Wayside Road will be taken over by the county, while Corlies and Sunset…

  • Packed auditorium for hearing on Stop & Shop

    Many residents did not get a chanceto speak on plan BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Packed auditorium for hearing on Stop & Shop Many residents did not get a chance to speak on plan BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Ocean Township residents packed the high school auditorium on Monday, filling every seat and spilling into the aisles and…

  • Family honoring mother with vo-tech scholarship

    Longtime high school clerk remembered for relating to students BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer OCEAN TOWNSHIP — A new scholarship will be benefiting the vocational students in the Ocean Township school system. Sherri Norman and Sandra Stowman’s mother, Marilyn Binger Measure, succumbed to breast cancer on April 29. In order to remember the…

  • Szostak, Gatta voice opposition to fort plan

    Mayors BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer Mayors’ council hears from opponents of plan BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer Local mayors failed to reach a consensus on the issue of a planned private development at Fort Hancock on Saturday, largely because new mayors withheld their support. Dissension among the mayors was a setback for Rumson developer James…

  • City man murdered in apartment

    BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — Police are interviewing the friends and neighbors of Luis Gonzalez, in the wake of the city man’s murder sometime between Sunday night and the early hours of Monday. Gonzalez, 22, of High Street, was found shot dead in his apartment from wounds that may have…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Monmouth Regional’s Barry Bostick races to a win in the 100-meter hurdles at the Monmouth County Championships on May 6 in Tinton Falls.