Category: Atlanticville News

  • PBA protesting boro change in work rules

    Council ordered illpatrolman placedon modified duty BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer Council ordered ill patrolman placed on modified duty BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — A potential change in the borough’s policy toward sick police officers brought representative of Policemen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) Local 141 to council chambers on Jan. 21. At the…

  • Engineering class gives students a base to build on

    Engineers coming into district schools to help with course BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer Robert Czerwinski, Nubia Gittens and Robert Brewer, students at Woodmere School, use rulers and an early model to help them picture the height of straw structures they are designing and building. EATONTOWN — Students in the elementary…

  • Sewerage Authority set to handle area’s growth

    Expansion workis expected to bedone by July BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer Expansion work is expected to be done by July BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff Two Rivers Water Reclamation Authority Executive Director Michael Gianforte and Chairman William Leonard at the site of the authority’s plant on Jan. 22. MONMOUTH BEACH — With…

  • Jersey waters hold secrets of shipwrecks

    Garden State coast linedotted with hundredsof ships lost at seaCorrespondent BY LORI ELKINS SOLOMON Garden State coast line dotted with hundreds of ships lost at sea Correspondent The Cecilia M. Dunlap, which lies off Sea Bright, as it appeared as the Parknook in the late 1800s. It wrecked in a storm near the Virgin Islands…

  • Perspective

    Couple BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer Perspective Couple’s collection helps give credit where it’s due Exhibit at Monmouth University highlights black inventors BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer Couple’s collection helps give credit where it’s due Exhibit at Monmouth University highlights black inventors BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Thomas and Maxine Daniels, Ocean Township,…

  • Kean denied a place on Stakeholders Commission

    NJSEA officials say panel would be unwieldy BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Kean denied a place on Stakeholders Commission BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Assemblyman Sean T. Kean (R-11th District) was denied a seat on the Monmouth Park Stakeholders Commission last week. In a letter written Jan. 20 to George Zoffinger, president of the New Jersey Sports and…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Shore Regional’s Liz Ferraro looks to pass in front of Matawan’s Cashae Cester during a game in West Long Branch on Jan. 30.

  • Governor signs ‘Clean Cars’ bill into law

    State hopes ruleswill aid drive to cutsmog by 20 percent BY ALISON GRANITOStaff Writer State hopes rules will aid drive to cut smog by 20 percent BY ALISON GRANITO Staff Writer An initiative that environmental groups and state officials say will help clean up our air is on its way. Gov. James E. McGreevey signed…

  • Borough expanding its free compost program

    Bins placed at school will make mulch, wood chips more accessible BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer EATONTOWN — Leaf compost and wood mulch will be made available by the borough in small quantities for the home gardener early next year. The borough has long made compost or mulch available by the…