Category: Atlanticville News

  • Mayor pushing municipal merger

    Possible savings for both towns if borough were to become part of Rumson BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer Mayor pushing municipal merger BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT — Forget about merging the municipal courts or police departments. Outgoing Mayor Gregory W. Harquail has proposed merging the entire borough with another town. Harquail, who chose…

  • Plan for private art studio draws neighbors’ queries

    Concern is spacewill be usedas an apartment BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer Concern is space will be used as an apartment BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer MONMOUTH BEACH — Construction over a garage on Shrewsbury Drive looks more like an illegal apartment than the private art studio that the homeowners claim it will be, according to…

  • Heart attack claims life of John Mulheren

    Friends saddened by loss of Wall Street icon, philanthropist PHOTO COURTESY OF ROANOKE TIMES John Mulheren RUMSON — Wall Street icon and philanthropist John Mulheren died Monday night at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. He was 54. The cause of death was cardiac arrest that followed a seizure Mulheren suffered at his Bingham Drive home…

  • Board gives Broadway Holdings green light

    BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — To the disappointment of many residents of the neighborhood, a divided Planning Board approved the application of Broadway Holdings LLC to build a two-story office building on Broadway at Halsey Place. The board voted 5-3 at its Dec. 9 meeting to give…

  • Academy’s Girls Night Out is serious fun

    BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Women of all ages and backgrounds gathered together Dec. 11 to celebrate being a woman. The Academy of Allied Health and Science in Neptune held a Girls Night Out workshop to promote women’s awareness and to have a little fun. Toni Gallo, a 17-year-old student, along…

  • Zest

    BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer Zest CHRIS KELLY staff Muffin Drake of West Allenhurst, and her mother, Jeannie Schick-Jacobowitz, of West Long Branch, hope that their new book, “A Bit of Applause for Mrs. Claus,” will become a new Christmas classic. ‘Behind every jolly Santa is a tired Mrs. Claus’ Local authors give Mrs. Claus her fair…

  • City police officer arrested in connection with robberies

    Two others suspended as result of undercover operation BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer An undercover investigation led to the arrest of rookie patrolman Kevin J. Hayes Jr., 22, of the Long Branch Police Department. On Dec. 4, Hayes, who is the son of the city’s code enforcement official and fire official, was arrested…

  • Photo

    JEFF GRANIT staff A disappointed Kenneth Banach sits alone after the Green Wave’s 21-14 defeat at the hands of New Brunswick in the Central Jersey Group II final at the Zebras’ home field on Dec. 9. The date and place for the game was moved because of the snowstorm on Dec. 6.

  • Ocean Gate hearing back on planners’ agenda

    Meeting to be held in h.s. auditorium to hold expected crowd BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Meeting to be held in h.s. auditorium to hold expected crowd BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Nearly four months after originally scheduled, the Ocean Township Planning Board hearing on a retail center at the corner of Deal Road and Route 35 is…