Category: Atlanticville News

  • County receives $1.5M for fort workers’ assistance

    Career center provides training/support to displaced employees of Fort Monmouth BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer The county’s assistance program for workers displaced by the closure of Fort Monmouth has received a $1.5 million boost from the federal government. The $1.5 million is the final installment of an initial $3 million National Emergency Grant (NEG) awarded…

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    Kassidy Candella and fourth-grade classmates use teamwork to keep a ball in play during Field Day held at Margaret Vetter Elementary School in Eatontown on June 1. More photos, page 33 and at gmnews.com. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • L.B. church brings new twist to blood drive

    Food, music will enhance donors’ experience BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — Blood donors this week will have the opportunity to eat gourmet food and listen to live local bands when they donate critically needed blood. The Long Branch Covenant Church, 355 Joline Ave., will a hold the blood drive 10 a.m. – 3…

  • Inventory surveys city’s natural resources

    Environmental Resource Inventory reveals problems at Lake Takanassee BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer Faith Teitelbaum (c), of the Long Branch Environmental Commission, Charlie Sherman and Laurel Von Gerichten clear debris and invasive plants from Ross Island and along the shoreline of Lake Takanassee in Long Branch on May 21. Below: Volunteer Wayne Trester, Elberon, cuts through…

  • Christie to HUD: Approve fort plan

    BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer OCEANPORT — Gov. Chris Christie has joined a growing chorus of state officials ratcheting up the pressure on Washington to approve the Fort Monmouth redevelopment plan. In a letter addressed to Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Christie calls for the agency to…

  • T-Mobile proposes cell tower at church site

    Residents say 100-foot-tall pole would impact property values BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer OCEAN TOWNSHIP — Residents in the Rolling Meadows section of the township are up in arms over a proposal by TMobile to construct a 100-foot-tall mobile phone tower on the grounds of the nearby Wayside United Methodist Church. Roughly 100 residents turned…

  • Armed Forces Day

    Above: James Vanfechgmann, 12, Hazlet, sits in the pilot’s seat of a Black Hawk helicopter during Armed Forces Day, a special day saluting members of the military, held at Monmouth Park on June 4. The event included tours of the Black Hawk, exhibits, music, a flyover and thoroughbred horse racing. Below: Tyler Wolff, 11, looks…

  • Fort Hancock buildings continue to deteriorate

    NPS preparing new management plan for historic base BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent Building No. 5 is one of the buildings at Fort Hancock that needs to be rehabilitated. SANDY HOOK — Change is coming again to historic Fort Hancock as the National Park Service prepares to release a Draft General Management Plan due to be…

  • Replenishment plan will restore M.B. shoreline

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers allocates $7.5M; to begin project later this year BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer Monmouth Beach’s eroded shoreline will receive a much-needed restoration later this year when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begins an extensive beach replenishment project. The roughly $13 million project is being funded through a $7.5 million…