Category: Atlanticville News

  • Bands rock for good cause at Stone Pony

    Greater Media Newspapers benefit aids Samaritan Center BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer For several weeks faithful readers of Greater Media Newspapers probably couldn’t help noticing the articles and advertisements informing them about a special event Greater Media Newspapers was hosting at the historic Stone Pony in Asbury Park Dec. 13 to help feed the hungry.…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Lou Garcia, of Marlboro, catches some air snowboarding down Cemetery Hill in West Long Branch on Dec. 20 after the weekend blizzard blanketed coastal New Jersey with snow just a day ahead of winter’s arrival. For more photos, see page 11. CHRIS KELLY staff

  • Ocean Twp. weighs deer control options

    Residents oppose any deer hunt BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer Ocean Township Council members are mulling over ways to deal with an increasing deer population. The issue was raised at the council’s Dec. 8 meeting when several residents spoke in support of a humane, nonlethal method to deal with the deer problem. “We know that…

  • L.B. superintendent will retire in 2011

    Ferraina leaves open possibility of running for public office BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Long Branch School District Superintendent Joseph M. Ferraina announced last week that he will end his 15-plus-year tenure and retire at the end of the 2010-11 school year. Superintendent Joseph Ferraina heads a district with 10 schools and over 5,000 students.…

  • Playing Santa

    Parents and children wait in line for distribution of toys and winter clothing at Monmouth Family Health Center in Long Branch. The Christmas program is organized annually by volunteers from Westminster Presbyterian Church in Middletown. Volunteer Tamy Peyton said more than 500 gifts and warm winter clothing were given to children ranging in age from…

  • Advocates expect vets clinic to remain at fort

    Legislators say VA is also looking at other sites BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer EATONTOWN — Local officials are committed to seeing that the Patterson Army Health Clinic (PAHC) continues operating at Fort Monmouth after the fort closes its doors in 2011. Monmouth County Freeholder Lillian Burry and Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority (FMERPA)…

  • Planners OK eminent domain ordinance

    Board backs elimination of condemnation in Beachfront South BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Long Branch came a step closer last week to taking eminent domain off the table in the next phase of its oceanfront redevelopment plan. The Long Branch Planning Board met on Dec. 15 and reviewed a proposed ordinance that would eliminate the…

  • Community Christmas Dinner at St. James

    Three hundred or more people are expected to enjoy the annual Community Christmas Dinner at St. James Church, Long Branch, which is open to anyone in the community. The dinner is held as a joyful celebration of community and provides for those without food, those who are alone for Christmas and those who want to…

  • City hall move, transit village in L.B. master plan draft

    BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — With the revised master plan on schedule to be adopted by March, city officials are pondering a move of City Hall down Broadway. The subject was brought up at the presentation of the first draft of the master plan Dec. 10. David Maski, an engineer with CMX,…