Category: Atlanticville News

  • 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.

  • Brookdale to honor World War II veterans

    BY JOSH DAVIDSONStaff Writer BY JOSH DAVIDSON Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — The Center of World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution of Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, will honor distinguished local veterans for their roles during the D-Day Allied attack on German military forces at Normandy Beach, France. The May 20 event at Brookdale’s Collins Arena…

  • Council supports board on computer question

    District officials must find $329,000 in cutsto meet state cap BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer District officials must find $329,000 in cuts to meet state cap BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer EATONTOWN — The Borough Council has agreed to support the expenditure of $90,000 by the school district to fund the salary and associated benefits for…

  • Zest

    Carrying a flame for state fire science centerMuseum at Allaire State Park has been in works for three decades BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer Zest Carrying a flame for state fire science center Museum at Allaire State Park has been in works for three decades BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer Carrying a flame for state fire…

  • Surfers claim victory in battle for Deal ocean-access lane

    Owner wanted beach path removed from dune restoration plan DEAL — Local surfers and fishermen are claiming victory in a notable beach access case. Brian Unger, an activist with Surfers’ Environmental Alliance (SEA), said that he received notification that the state attorney general’s office will require the owners of an oceanfront property on Ocean Lane…

  • Concordance gaining steam for reach-out effort

    Group working to become umbrella organization BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer to aid those in need BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — Just two months into its existence, the Long Branch Concordance (LBC) is already making headway. The LBC is a recently formed effort to bring to the forefront the issues of people struggling because of…