Category: Atlanticville News

  • Proposed school budget may raise taxes 5.8%

    BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer OCEAN TOWNSHIP — Property owners would see a 5.8 percent increase in school district taxes with the approval of the $53.6 million budget for 2004-05. The tax increase would be 12.9 cents per $100 of assessed property value if the budget is adopted as proposed. The median home…

  • BRAC review may determine Fort’s future

    BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer BRAC review may determine Fort’s future BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Congressman Frank Pallone, D-6th District, (above) came to Eatontown with fellow Congressman Rush Holt, D-12th, to discuss the future of Fort Monmouth and the possibility of the Army base being included on the ’05 list of facilities…

  • Zest

    Building bridges across the dinner tableEthnic eateries a catalystfor a dialogue that gets beyond our differences BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer Zest Building bridges across the dinner table Ethnic eateries a catalyst for a dialogue that gets beyond our differences BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer Building bridges across the dinner table Ethnic eateries a catalyst for…

  • Resident petitions council to corral, euthanize geese

    BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer Resident petitions council to corral, euthanize geese BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer Fed up with the Canada geese and their feces littering her property, Mary Lynn Mango called on the West Long Branch Borough Council to round them up, haul them away and humanely euthanize them. Mango of Linden Avenue presented the council…

  • Photo

    GLORIA STRAVELLI Long Branch High School students (l-r) Morgan Nieves and Johnny Estanquero cover balloons with papier-mâché during a mask-making workshop. See story on page 3.

  • City would take hit from cut to housing program

    More than 10% of programparticipants could lose aid BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer City would take hit from cut to housing program More than 10% of program participants could lose aid BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer The Long Branch Housing Authority could lose $530,000 in funding under the Bush administration’s proposal to cut funding for the Section 8…

  • Borough approves pay raises for its employees

    BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — Borough Clerk Lori Cole was granted another three-year term, and pay raises for all borough employees were approved during the Borough Council’s March 17 meeting. Cole, who has served as borough clerk since April 1985, was commended for the job she has…

  • Highlands opposing development on Sandy Hook

    Fair Haven will not join list of towns on record opposing fort project BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer The Borough of Highlands this week became the latest area town to pass a resolution opposing a planned commercial development in its front yard. In a unanimous vote, the Highlands Borough Council passed…

  • School budget down from previous year

    Board still waiting on word regarding possible state aid figures MONMOUTH BEACH — The tax rate to support the borough school would increase nearly 2 cents per $100 of assessed valuation this year, to 94.88 cents, for 2004-2005, under the proposed budget introduced by the Board of Education on March 9. The $3,922,389 budget itself…