Category: Atlanticville News

  • Ocean Twp. adopts pedestrian, bicycle plan

    Plan encourages residents to use modes other than automobiles BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer Ocean Township officials have adopted a plan to encourage bicycling and walking and improve access to destinations within the township. The township Planning Board unanimously adopted the Ocean Township Pedestrian and Bicycle Network Plan into the master plan during the Dec. 12…

  • Festival of Lights

    Rabbi Harry Levin, of the Open Synagogue, Fair Haven, lights the menorah at the train station in Red Bank on Dec. 20. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Dakota Diehl (front) and her sister Jaiden Diehl, of Long Branch, take part in the menorah lighting on the first night of Hanukkah. Participants celebrate the Festival of…

  • Beck: Monmouth Park accord expedites rebid

    NJSEA will continue to operate racetrack while new lessee is sought BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer OCEANPORT — Agreements reached between stakeholders in a last-minute deal to save the 2012 racing season at Monmouth Park will shape the state’s follow-up attempt to lease the rights to operate the racetrack. Sen. Jennifer Beck (R-12th District), who has…

  • Songs of the season

    Above: Se’Ana King sings a solo as the Long Branch High School Concert Chorus performs “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” during the Winter Holiday Concert on Dec. 19. Below: Vianela Valdez solos as the HarmoniX perform “Valerie.” PHOTOS BY LAUREN CASSELBERRY

  • Activist arrested for disorderly conduct at FMERA meeting

    Board passes 2012 fiscal plan, expects $31M from land sale in first year BYMIKE DAVIS Staff Writer TINTON FALLS — Less than 30 seconds into his public comment at the Dec. 21 meeting of the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority (FMERA), an outspoken activist about environmental and transparency issues at the fort was arrested for…

  • Eatontown homes light up the holiday

    BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer This home on Grant Avenue was among the winners of the Eatontown 2011 House Decorating Contest. NICOLE ANTONUCCI EATONTOWN — After spending the day driving around the community, the Recreation Department picked the winners of the borough’s Holiday Home Decorating Contest on Dec. 14. Four houses, one for each category…

  • Holiday joy

    Above: Kristen Gatzmer takes a turn on the dance floor with a Holiday Express “elf” durina concert at the LADACIN Network in Wannamassa on Dec. 12. Below: Holiday Express volunteers Sheldon Edmond, Tinton Falls, and Pam McCoy, Atlantic Highlands, belt out vocals during the concert, one of 55 the all-volunteer troupe performed at schools, special…

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    Tim McLoone, founder of Holiday Express, gets a high-five from Phijoe Phillip during a concert by the all-volunteer musical troupe at the LADACIN Network in Wannamassa on Dec. 12. More photos, page 14 and gmnews.com. CHRIS KELLY

  • Storm-water pipe draws fire from civic assoc.

    Eatontown planners hear application for 120-unit townhouse development BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer EATONTOWN — A drainage pipe for a proposed 120-unit townhouse development drew objections from neighbors at the Planning Board’s Dec. 12 meeting. Members of the Woodmere Civic Association raised objections to plans for the storm-water management system as the Planning Board heard…