Category: Atlanticville News

  • Fort museum to begin new chapter

    Communications artifacts to relocate to Aberdeen, Md. BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer From bouncing sunlight off a mirror to bouncing radio waves off the moon, the U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Museum houses a collection of impressively rare and arguably war-winning technologies, many of which scientists developed in our backyard. An early radio wave locator…

  • Oceanfest

    Dazzling fireworks, a juggling stilt walker and sand sculpture demonstrations were part of Oceanfest, Long Branch’s traditional Independence Day celebration, held on the Promenade along the oceanfront on July 4. PHOTO BY MIKE JAGENDORF PHOTO BY JOHN LALANAS PHOTO BY MIKE JAGENDORF PHOTO BY JOHN LALANAS

  • Baykeeper asks DEP to ease shellfish gardening ban

    Agency says it lacks patrols to deter poachers BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer The NY/NJ Baykeeper is urging the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to reconsider a ban that would end its successful oyster restoration project in the Raritan Bay. Keyport Harbor Reef Project staff with the NY/NJ Baykeeper and Rutgers University representatives…

  • Michael’s Feat will mark 10 years of aid to families

    On July 31 from 1-5 p.m. a crowd of more than 300 people is expected to gather at YMCA Camp Arrowhead, Route 520, Marlboro, for the Michael’s Feat 10th annual family picnic to help families of seriously ill newborns. In doing so, these families will help kick off a 10th anniversary celebration for Michael’s Feat,…

  • City approves budget, prepares for future

    Mehlhorn: Future budgets likely to call for layoffs BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — With four new City Council members in place, Finance Director Ronald Mehlhorn Sr. doesn’t see their job being any easier than the old council’s. Mehlhorn said that the administration spent the last two months preparing budget projections for 2011…

  • Photo

    Andrew Ricci is among the local artists, music makers, poets, writers, photographers and others participating in Art Hits the Streets, a celebration of the arts sponsored by Imagine Long Branch and held along Broadway in downtown Long Branch on June 26. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • New Long Branch council takes office

    City clerk announces Sept. 1 retirement BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer For the first time in nearly two decades, the Long Branch City Council has four new faces on the dais. The newly elected Long Branch City Council: Mary Jane Celli (l-r), Michael Sirianni, Kate Billings, John Pallone and Joy Bastelli, listen as incumbent Mayor…

  • July programs at the Long Branch Public Library

    Summer Reading Clubs are beginning, and the library is offering more programming than ever this month. “Meet the Doctors,” a panel discussion on current advances and challenges facing the medical field featuring three health care professionals will be presented at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 15, at the Elberon branch at168 Lincoln Ave. The Shakespeare Theatre…

  • Annual Ocean Grove house tour July 16

    Two of Ocean Grove’s famous tent homes will be among the stops on the annual self-guided house tour on July 16. OCEAN GROVE — The Historical Society of Ocean Grove will hold its 42nd annual House Tour on Friday, July 16. The tour is a self-guided walking tour within the seaside Victorian community. The tour…