Category: Atlanticville News

  • Municipal taxes to rise 8 percent in 2004

    New police officers, higher insurance costs drive spending increase BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer The Eatontown municipal tax rate would increase 6.9 cents to 92.6 cents for each $100,000 of assessed valuation under a tentative 2004 budget unveiled by the Borough Council. The proposed budget of $17,723,462 represents an increase of $840,385, or…

  • Borough budget tops $5M for the first time

    Cost of health insurance for boro employees rises by more than 10 percent BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer MONMOUTH BEACH — The Borough Commission has introduced a budget of $5,027,054 for 2004, which will require a 2.9 cent increase in the tax rate to 81.1 cents per $100 of assessed valuation.…

  • Police seek scam artists who bilked two city residents

    BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — In two separate incidents last week two city residents reported falling victim to similar con-artist scams. Police officer Robert Korn took the report from a 21-year-old female who communicated through a Spanish-speaking interpreter that she was cheated out of $1,000. Police officer Brendan Cahill took…

  • Crash with pick-up truck kills bicyclist on Rte. 35

    Crash with pick-up truck kills bicyclist on Rte. 35 EATONTOWN — A man on a bicycle, traveling against traffic on Route 35, was struck and killed by a pick-up truck, which then careened into a southbound car before veering into a parking lot, where it hit two cars before coming to rest, police said. Police…

  • Firemen will have to find a new place to wash trucks

    BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer Firemen will have to find a new place to wash trucks BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer EATONTOWN — Firefighters will no longer be able to wash their fire engines in front of the firehouse under new state storm water management regulations. Councilman Theodore F. Lewis Jr. remarked at the Feb. 11…

  • Town to preserve cemetery for early black residents

    Small graveyard was found and restored by Eagle Scout BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer If the tombstones could talk, they would tell tales of Tinton Falls’ fallen black Civil War veterans and their families. They have been there, beneath the stones for more than a century in the tiny,…

  • Local opposition to project at Fort Hancock emerging

    Fair-Haven drafts, Holmdel passes,resolution against plan BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer Fair-Haven drafts, Holmdel passes, resolution against plan BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer While federal agencies try to quash complaints that the choice of a developer for historic buildings at Fort Hancock was not done fairly, local sentiment appears to be mounting against the development. The…

  • White Street man charged with robbery

    Suspect allegedlymenaced clerk with knife, ran off with cash register BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer White Street man charged with robbery Suspect allegedly menaced clerk with knife, ran off with cash register BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer EATONTOWN — A man running down the street with a cash register under his arm provided a startling sight…

  • Vetter School set to celebrate first 50 years

    BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer Vetter School set to celebrate first 50 years BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer EATONTOWN — Students, faculty, parents and alumni of the Margaret L. Vetter Elementary School will immerse themselves in the culture of the 1950s next week as they mark the 50th anniversary of the school’s opening in 1954. The…