Category: Atlanticville News
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Eatontown set to go green
Green Team will seek options for environmental conservation, cost savings BY JAMES McEVOY Correspondent EATONTOWN — Following a brief discussion at the June 22 meeting of the Borough Council, the council voted unanimously to introduce an ordinance formally establishing an Advisory Committee on Sustainable Practices, aka the “Green Team.” The introduction will take place at…
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Donation funds purchase of Love INC building
EATONTOWN — Love INC, a faithbased support organization for families needing emergency help, recently received a gift of $25,000 from the members of First Presbyterian Church of Red Bank. The gift has been used to help purchase the building Love INC has been using for its Furnished with Love ministry in Long Branch. The store…
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Local man honored for work with Sylvia’s Children
HOLMDEL — Tony Costa, of Long Branch, has been presented with a silver President’s Volunteer ServiceAward for volunteering 350-plus hours to Holmdel-based charity Sylvia’s Children. Costa, a trustee for the organization, logged the hours while volunteering his time on various projects for Sylvia’s Children, both in New Jersey and in Uganda, where the charity does…
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Body of Red Bank woman found; husband charged
Viridiana Beltran- Gomez ABERDEEN — Authorities recovered the body of a Red Bank woman that had been buried in Aberdeen. The remains of 26-year-old Viridiana Beltran-Gomez were found June 25, according to Monmouth County First Assistant Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni. Her body was buried less than 100 feet from Garden State Parkway mile marker 119 .…
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Shawn Bilka dances to the rhythms of the band Goldenseal during a June 30 concert in Festival Plaza at Pier Village, Long Branch.
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Jim Rodriguez and Bette White-Fernandez dance to the music of local band Goldenseal during a concert at Festival Plaza at Pier Village in Long Branch on June 30. ERIC SUCAR staff
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Anti-Bullying Crew to visit White House
Long Branch Middle School students’ video draws attention of the Obamas LONG BRANCH — Long Branch Middle School students will be seen throughout the streets of Washington, D.C., wearing green “BullyingWe’ll Stop It” T-shirts when the school’s Anti-Bullying Crew visits theWhite House and Capitol on July 2. The group was invited by President Barack Obama…
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Photo contest to capture five decades of open space preservation and park development
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but how many pictures would it take to capture the beauty of preserving 650,000 acres of open space and parks in New Jersey over the past 50 years? That’s the challenge the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is putting into the shutter-happy hands of residents and…
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Call for nominations for 2011 Ocean Champion award
WEST LONG BRANCH — The Urban Coast Institute at Monmouth University announced a call for nominations for the 2011 Ocean Champion and Leadership Awards. The awards will be presented at the seventh annual Champion of the Ocean Awards Luncheon on Friday, Oct. 21, in Woodrow Wilson Hall at Monmouth University. The deadline for all submissions…
