Category: Atlanticville News

  • NOTES

    CHRIS KELLY staff Keith Stedman takes a slide into the pool during Caribbean Day at Seashore Day Camp in Long Branch on July 17. Piccola Italia, 837 W. Park Ave., Ocean, will donate a portion of its food sales from lunch and dinner to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Monmouth County, Eatontown, on July 30.…

  • Whale washes up on Monmouth Beach

    BY DANIEL HOWLEY        Monmouth Beach — The fully intact remains of an endangered Humpback Whale were found along a small stretch of shoreline in Monmouth Beach yesterday.     The female whale was first spotted earlier at approximately 8:30 a.m. on July 27 floating lifelessly just south of where it washed up on the…

  • Funding secured to complete L.B. pier design

    House approves Pallone’s request for $300K BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer The Long Branch pier and ferry terminal took another step toward being shovel-ready last week when the city secured $300,000 in funding. U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-6th District) announced that the U.S. House of Representatives approved a fiscal year (FY) 2010 Transportation and…

  • Philanthropist: Community’s generosity outshines wrongdoing

    Benefit for terror victims held against backdrop of arrests of local rabbis BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer Several hundred people gathered in a small restaurant in Long Branch last weekend to promote peace and support those who have been impacted by terrorism in the Middle East. Held at Stingers on July 25, the event was…

  • Swimathon inspired by Love4Lilly

    Classmates support dream of better hospital stays for tweens BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer Members of the swim team at Seashore Day Camp and School held a fundraiser Sunday to help make hospital stays more pleasant for children who are being treated for cancer. Lilly and her parents, Gerri and Brian Daneman, pose for a…

  • Freeholders oppose Old Orchard rezoning

    FREEHOLD — The Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders is urging Eatontown officials not to change the zoning at the Old Orchard County Club golf course to permit construction of a high-density, mixed-use development called Old Orchard Village at Eatontown. Located on Route 36, Old Orchard straddles Eatontown, Oceanport and West Long Branch on its…

  • Environmental commission meets in L.B.

    BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — The city’s newly formed Long Branch Environmental Commission met for the first time and officially drafted bylaws recently. The group was appointed on June 22 and met for the first time on July 13. The commission members discussed issues including the “Change a Bulb, Change the World”…

  • Christie makes Monmouth County stops

    Candidate for governor speaks to students, GOP officials BY DANIEL HOWLEY and TOM SHORTELL Staff Writers Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie toured Monmouth County Wednesday after choosing county Sheriff Kim Guadagno as his lieutenant governor candidate earlier in the week. Christie spoke to students participating in the state’s Governor’s School of Public Issues for roughly…

  • NOTES

    Kiril Kulish, a star of the Broadway hit “Billy Elliot,” autographs playbills for young fans in Seashore Day Camp’s Theater Camp on July 8. Campers saw “Billy Elliot,” took a songand dance workshop with actors from the smash hit, and had the thrill of meeting Tony Award-winner Kulish. Campers at the Long Branch day camp…