Category: Atlanticville News
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CHRIS KELLY staf f Max Falvey, Eatontown, tries his luck in a fishing derby held at Eatontown’s Wampum Park on June 6. ONE-USA Walk for Juvenile Cancer to help and assist The Valerie Fund will take place 9 a.m.-noon June 13 beginning at Seven Presidents Park, Long Branch and ending at the West End section…
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OUT OF THE CLASSROOM AND ONTO THE PLAYGROUND – Advertorial
By Gloria Averbuch Advertorial OUT OF THE CLASSROOM AND ONTO THE PLAYGROUND By Gloria Averbuch Sky Blue FC Collette McCallum Photo credit to: Howard C. Smith/ISIphotos.com Just as learning is not confined to a classroom, neither are sports and fitness confined to organized teams and programs. You can do a lot to promote children’s fitness,…
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CHRIS KELLY staff Young fishermen just had to bring fishing poles and tackle to the youth fishing derby at Wampum Park in Eatontown on June 6; worms were supplied by the Eatontown Recreation Advisory Committee.
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Coastal evacuation plan coordinates exodus
Plan will give county tools in event of natural disaster BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Monmouth County has unveiled a draft plan for coastal evacuation that takes a comprehensive look at the facilities necessary to move residents safely away from coastal areas. The yearlong study of coastal evacuation routes prepared for the Monmouth County Planning…
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New Jersey preps study of school consolidation
12 school ‘clusters’ to be studied in Monmouth BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer The State Department of Education is moving forward with plans to study the consolidation of school districts and will work with a handful of public colleges and universities to assess its controversial school consolidation feasibility studies. The universities and colleges, which have…
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Seeing is believing: the awful toll of war
Boots signify lives lost at war BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer The financial cost of war is often spelled out for the public, tallied in the billions of dollars spent on weapons and technology, but how is the human cost of war illustrated? PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Seventy-eight pairs of military boots arranged…
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Ocean Twp. schools monitor flu cases
Pagano: Cluster of intermediate students have symptoms BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer OCEAN TOWNSHIP — Officials with the Ocean Township school district are calling on parents to closely monitor their children for any flu-like symptoms after the Monmouth County Regional Health Commission confirmed that a township student was infected with the A-H1N1 influenza virus last…
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Antique clock returns home to Oceanic firehouse
BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer George Sperling (l-r), clock restorer and donator, Albert Mentel, president of the Oceanic Fire Engine Company, and Irven Miller Jr., a member of the fire company, with the vintage clock that was returned to the fire company on May 6. In the background is a photo of Thomas Worthley, the…
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Lead-free agreement combats poisoning
Long Branch becomes Model Lead-Safe City BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — The City of Long Branch has joined the growing list of New Jersey municipalities to sign an agreement with the New Jersey Public Advocate to aggressively respond to and prevent the problem of childhood lead poisoning. New Jersey Public Advocate Ronald…
