Category: Atlanticville News

  • County library system offers free continuing education courses

    Take classes for free with the Monmouth County Library System’s new Universal Class database. The Universal Class database offers hundreds of non-college-credit continuing education courses in history, art, math, real estate, computer technology and many other subjects. Universal Class also offers courses for schooling in the home, training for a GED and starting a business,…

  • Suneagles to remain open after fort closure

    Gibbs Hall included in Management contract BYMIKE DAVIS Staff Writer EATONTOWN — Board members of the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority (FMERA) unanimously approved Atlantic Golf Management Inc. to manage the Suneagles Golf Course after the fort closes on Sept. 15. Atlantic Golf Management will also oversee the banquet and restaurant facilities, including Gibbs Hall…

  • City may make business license process tougher

    BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — With technology rapidly advancing, the Long Branch Department of Health is suggesting the city take a new approach to handling mercantile licenses. During the Aug. 9 workshop meeting, Health Director David Roach suggested the city use MorphoTrak, a firm that specializes in fingerprinting and background checks, before approving…

  • Perretti Farms for sale; owner liquidating equine inventory

    Major standardbred operation leaving N.J. partly due to Gov.’s decisions regarding horse racing BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent UPPER FREEHOLD — A 400-acre section of Perretti Farms in Upper Freehold Township, the largest standardbred breeding operation in the state, is on the market for $15 million. Farm owner William J. Perretti has also announced a dispersal…

  • Bill would expand monitoring of ocean waters

    Measure would cut time between testing and beach closures to six hours BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (l-r) speaks about new legislation to regulate ocean water quality, during an Aug. 17 press conference in Belmar, where Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Clean Ocean Action Executive Director Cindy Zipf also spoke. KENNY WALTER Two…

  • Ocean Twp. to install red-light cameras

    Monitoring system for intersections expected to decrease accidents, generate $$ BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer OCEAN TOWNSHIP – The Township Council moved forward with plans to install red light cameras at major intersections at the Aug. 8 meeting. The municipality began the process for installation of the monitors by American Traffic Solutions (ATS) by unanimously…

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    Festivalgoers enjoy a ride on the “Super Shot” on Aug. 11 during the 35th annual Township of Ocean Italian Festival hosted by the Italian American Association of Ocean Township at Joe Palaia Park Aug. 10-14. LAUREN CASSELBERRY

  • Yoga Festival by the Sea Sept. 24, 25

    ASBURY PARK — Yoga Festival by the Sea 2011 will take place Sept. 24 and 25 in Asbury Park’s downtown business district and along the city’s oceanfront boardwalk. The festival will include live music, organic and vegetarian fare, art creation and skate-boarding, and is sponsored by the yoga basin yoga studio to promote community outreach…

  • stork club 

    Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Red Bank, announces the following birth: A girl on June 15 to Stefanie L. and Aaron M. Green of Ocean Township; A girl on July 9 to Tiffany Watkins of Long Branch.