Category: Atlanticville News

  • Pallone: Offshore drilling isn’t safe anywhere

    Environmentalists protest bill to expand oil drilling to Eastern Seaboard BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer Clean Ocean Action Executive Director Cindy Zipf is joined by Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (r) and representatives of environmental organizations on April 20, the one-year anniversary of the Gulf oil spill, to protest legislation that would expand offshore drilling. DANIEL…

  • Soup’s on at Soup D’Shore

    Student-run nonprofit offers warm meals, social programs BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer Students in Monmouth University’s entrepreneurship program serve lunch at Soup D’Shore, a community soup kitchen founded by the students and based at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Long Branch. A group of 35 Monmouth University students are doing their part to help…

  • ‘Soundstage’ will fill club with hope for autistic youths

    BYAMY ROSEN Staff Writer Yellow #5 When voices and musical instruments combine, special things often happen. When musicians combine, special people can often be helped. Such will be the case on Saturday, May 7, when Greater Media Newspapers and Howell IceWorld present a host of musical performances for charity during “Soundstage” at Bar Anticipation in…

  • Walk for pancreatic cancer research on May 15

    WEST LONG BRANCH — The Monmouth County Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk will be held May 15 at Monmouth University, with all net proceeds benefiting The Lustgarten Foundation, the nation’s largest private foundation dedicated solely to funding pancreatic cancer research. The goal of the 3K walk is to raise money and awareness for research for pancreatic…

  • Monmouth Medical Center honors volunteers

    LONG BRANCH — Monmouth Medical Center hosted its 47th annual Adult Volunteer Awards Dinner recently, with more than 100 volunteers gathering at the SeaBreeze Café to celebrate an evening set aside in their honor. “National Volunteer Week is the time we set aside to show how much we appreciate the role our volunteers play on…

  • American Littoral Society celebrates Earth Day

    Students, volunteers plant beach grass at Sandy Hook BY KAITLYN D. KANZLER Staff Writer Andrew Stryker braves the inclement weather and plants beachgrass during the American Littoral Society’s Sandy Hook Beachgrass Planting on April 16. LAUREN CASSELBERRY LAUREN CASSELBERRY MIDDLETOWN — The American Littoral Society celebrated Earth Day early this year, on April 16, at…

  • Stately Homes to be held at Holly Hill

    Stately Homes by-the-Sea, a benefit for the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey, will take place May 3 to June 12 at Holly Hill, a historic country estate nestled in the Locust section of Middletown. More than 35 interior designers, decorators and landscape artists will transform this pre-war treasure, creating a home that reflects the…

  • Brookdale trustees OK legal action against Burnham

    College CFO also faulted, placed on unpaid leave BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer A fter reviewing the audit of the president’s office, the Brookdale Community College board of trustees approved legal action against former president Peter Burnham to recover monies due to the college, at itsApril 14 meeting on the Lincroft campus. The charges against…

  • Software program could track boro’s energy use

    Membership in ICLEI would also provide environmental training and planning BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer EATONTOWN — The Borough Council is looking into joining a new environmental organization that would provide the municipality with environmental programs and software to help the town get an accurate reading of its total energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions.…