Category: Atlanticville News

  • L.B., O’port officials get pollution update

    BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer OCEANPORT — Officials from both Long Branch and Oceanport were given an exclusive tour last week of the $20 million project designed to eliminate runoff from Monmouth Park that is the cause of pollution in Branchport Creek. The tour took place June 24, led by the New Jersey Sports &…

  • stork club •••

    Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, announces the birth of a girl May 5 to Jordan Tuchol and Jonathan Ramos of West Long Branch. May 26, a girl to Janice and Robert Gill of Eatontown. Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, announced the following births: May 21, a girl to Anlly Cepeda-Santos and Mauricio Dos Santos…

  • Green waves goodbye

    Clockwise from top: A graduate pauses prior to the beginning of commencement exercises at Long Branch High School on June 18. Valedictorian Maryssa Beale addresses the class of 2010, faculty and guests at the ceremony held at the high school’s Beston Stadium. As his name is announced, Rocco Mandeville gestures exuberantly. With his high school…

  • Monmouth’s Big Event seeks worksites

    WEST LONG BRANCH — If you have a project at your house and could use some helping hands, this is your chance to sign up to become a Big Event worksite. Big Event is the single largest student sponsored community service project organized by the Monmouth University Student Government Association. The community service day is…

  • Free conversational English classes in Long Branch

    LONG BRANCH — Learn to speak English with confidence by registering for the free conversational English classes offered by Literacy Volunteers of Monmouth County, starting Saturday, June 26, at Brookdale Community College’s Higher Education Center, 213 Broadway, Room119, in Long Branch. Adults-only classes will be held each Saturday morning from 10 a.m. until noon June…

  • Council authorizes plan to remediate wetlands at park

    Birdsall will create plan for Husky Brook Park site work BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer EATONTOWN — The Borough Council authorized a remediation plan for the disturbed wetlands area at the proposed Husky Brook Park and referred plans for the park back to the Recreation Committee at the June 9 workshop meeting. The council gave…

  • Area youth studying oil spill recovery in Alaska

    Local sites part of Hands Across the Sand event June 26 protesting offshore drilling BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Jake Calvitti has been lobbying against drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska since the age of 10. After five years of working with the Alaska Wilderness League, the now 15-year-old freshman…

  • L.B. looks at options for pier, ferry

    Projected cost put at $91.5M BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer If Long Branch residents learned one thing at the pier and ferry charrette last week, it was that piers and ferries come in many different shapes, sizes and designs. One of eight options for the pier design. The charrette took place at City Hall on…

  • Practitioners trained in needs of returning vets

    BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer Henry Acosta (l-r), from the Governor’s Council on Mental Health, stands with Robin Mama, dean of the School of Social Work at Monmouth University, and Robert Lowry, Carolyn Bradley, and Ellen Foley, members of the school’s Coming Home Project, after they were presented with the N.J. Governor’s Council Ambassador Award…