Category: Atlanticville News

  • City school’s pool plan going before voters 65,000-square-foot aqua center is expected

    to cost $13.5 million BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer City school’s pool plan going before voters 65,000-square-foot aqua center is expected Artist’s renderings of the proposed 65,000-square-foot Aquatic Center that would be built as part of the redevelopment of lower Broadway in Long Branch. to cost $13.5 million BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer On Tuesday, Long Branch residents…

  • Pair of two-car accidents on Route 36

    WEST LONG BRANCH — Two auto accidents occurred at the intersection of Route 36 and Monmouth Road over the Thanksgiving weekend. On Thanksgiving Day, a car driven by Gloria Wood, 61, of Neptune was headed eastbound on Route 36 when it was rear-ended by a driver traveling behind it, according to police. Police said Wood…

  • Legal wrangling on new sewer plant increases

    BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer MONMOUTH BEACH — The $48 million project to expand and upgrade the sewer plant of the Two Rivers Water Reclamation Authority, which is hard by the Shrewsbury River, is shaping up to become a lawyers’ field day. The legal action began when the TRWRA moved to…

  • WWII soldier thankful for surviving battles

    Managed to escapecapture by Germans twice BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer Managed to escape capture by Germans twice BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer James Serano, Ocean Township, recounted his experiences recently at Brookdale Community College’s Center for World War II Studies. The mud. Everywhere. Two- to 3-feet deep at times. That’s what James Serano remembers about…

  • Esplanade’s future uncer­tain after university departs

    Building BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — Alexander Scharf, owner of The Esplanade Hotel, said he knew nothing about Monmouth University’s plans to pull out of the hotel in spring 2005 until reading a story about its plan to build a new residence hall in the student newspaper.…

  • Perspective

    Vietnam vet teaches educators about warStories of combat,returning back homecaptivate audience BY JOLENE HARTStaff Writer Perspective Vietnam vet teaches educators about war Stories of combat, returning back home captivate audience BY JOLENE HART Staff Writer Vietnam vet teaches educators about war Stories of combat, returning back home captivate audience BY JOLENE HART Staff Writer FARRAH…

  • Minister seeking status as developer of building

    Brown, city remainin court battle over his church plan BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Brown, city remain in court battle over his church plan BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer The Rev. Kevin Brown is trying to play by Long Branch’s rules. Brown, long at odds with city officials over his plan for a mission church on Broadway in…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Long Branch Middle School students go through dress rehearsal for their upcoming production of “Ghostbusters,” which will be staged the first week of December.

  • Owner of run-down house has 30 days to make repairs

    Homeowner readyto start work upon receipt of permit BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer Homeowner ready to start work upon receipt of permit BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer The owner of a ramshackle house at 18 Riverdale Ave. was given 30 days to make appreciable progress in rehabilitating the building, or Monmouth Beach will tear it down. At a…