Category: Atlanticville News

  • Green Party candidates speak up

    Green Party Green Party candidates speak up Green Party — 11th District Lynn Surgalla Hometown: Monmouth Beach Age: 51 Occupation: Scientist Green Party — 11th District Lynn Surgalla Hometown: Monmouth Beach Age: 51 Occupation: Scientist Biography: A former president and founder of Integrity Research Corp., where she directed research in electromagnetic medicine and nonconventional energy…

  • Four arrested for narcotics distribution

    BY CAROLYN O BY CAROLYN O’CONNELL Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — A search warrant executed at a Clifton Avenue apartment resulted in four arrests for narcotics possession and distribution. Police charged Laura Coleman, 64, Willie Coleman, 33, and Antoine Wilkerson, 31, all of Clifton Avenue, with possession of heroin and cocaine, manufacturing and distributing, distributing…

  • Barry indicted for paying bribes in Hudson County

    Officials say charges will have no impact on Applied Cos. work BY CAROLYN O Officials say charges will have no impact on Applied Cos. work BY CAROLYN O’CONNELL Staff Writer The man who ran the company that is handling two of Long Branch’s biggest redevelopment projects has been indicted. Joseph Barry, 63, of Peapack-Gladstone, president…

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    Chris kelly staff The fast response of the West Long Branch Fire Department put a quick end to a car fire in The Home Depot parking lot on Route 36.

  • Potential R&D center blocks transfer of housing

    Fort being consideredas site for nation BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer Potential R&D center blocks transfer of housing Fort being considered as site for nation’s Homeland Security lab BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer The Army has reversed itself and decided to keep the Howard Commons military housing complex at Fort Monmouth. The borough has been engaged…

  • Ocean Blvd. project gets green light

    State and county willpick up lion BY CAROLYN O Ocean Blvd. project gets green light State and county will pick up lion’s share of reconstruction cost BY CAROLYN O’CONNELL Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — In less than two years Ocean Boulevard will have a whole new look. A $4.9 million contract to reconstruct a portion…

  • New lounge puts people in their element

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY Matthew Bongiovi (r), brother of rocker Jon Bon Jovi, takes a moment with his partner Vincenzo Rizzo by a waterfall celebrating the element of water in their new lounge Elements, which opened Tuesday on Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright. Ahhh … that…

  • Firefighters’ 9/11 efforts acknowledged

    BY CAROLYN O BY CAROLYN O’CONNELL Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — Several city firefighters who gathered to support those in need at ground zero over two years ago were recognized for their efforts by the city’s governing body last week. On the morning of the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center on September 11,…

  • Council gives nod on hiring two new police officers

    BY SHERRY CONOHANStaff Writer BY SHERRY CONOHAN Staff Writer EATONTOWN — The Borough Council has formally given Police Chief William Barnshaw the green light to increase the size of the borough police force. The council voted to authorize Barnshaw to advertise for two new police officers on Oct. 8. The council informally told him at…