Category: Atlanticville News

  • Wetlands map error stalls Husky Brook project

    BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer At least two members of the Eatontown Borough Council are calling on the municipality’s former engineering firm to pay for the cost of redesigning a site plan for the town’s Husky Brook Park. Councilman Mark Regan and Councilwoman Victoria Rau want Middletownbased T&M Associates to pay for at least a…

  • Spend a weekend steeped in history

    A Weekend in Old Monmouth May 2-3 BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer Now in its second year, A Weekend in Old Monmouth is gearing up for a full schedule of tours and exhibitions highlighting Monmouth County’s varied history. Slated for the first weekend in May, A Weekend in Old Monmouth will offer visitors, both…

  • Voters defeat Eatontown school budget for 4th year

    Newcomers unseat three incumbents on Board of Ed. BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer EATONTOWN — Borough voters rejected the $19.4 million school spending plan at the polls last week for the fourth consecutive year. The 2009-10 school budget was defeated by a margin of 83 votes, with 458 residents voting against the plan and 375…

  • L.B. school budget fails by nine votes

    Spending plan passes in all but two Elberon districts BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — The Long Branch School District budget for 2009-10 was defeated on April 21 by a margin of just nine votes, 402-393, with taxpayers in most districts of the city voting to approve the spending plan. The $86.2 million…

  • In the Service

    The U.S.S. Columbus Veterans Association is seeking Navy and Marine Corps shipmates who served on the USS Columbus CA-74/CG-12 from 1944-76, and USS Columbus past and present wishing to share memories and camaraderie with old friends or to make new ones. Shipmates are also sought for a reunion Sept. 30-Oct. 3 at Holiday Inn Select,…

  • Earth Day

    PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Above: Jeff Neyhart (l-r), of Farmingdale, and Brandon Neyhart, of West Long Branch, plant a red oak tree during West Long Branch’s Recycling Day held in conjunction with Earth Day at the West Long Branch Community Center on April 25. Below: Herb Jensen, a member of the borough’s Environmental Commission,…

  • Spring Beach Sweep

    PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Volunteers search for litter along the beach in Monmouth Beach as part of Clean Ocean Action’s 24th annual Spring Beach Sweep on April 25. Thousands of volunteers cleared debris from beaches at more than 60 sites along the Jersey Coast.

  • NOTES

    Fraser Bird and Josh Even, students at Seashore School in Long Branch, used heat to differentiate the chemical reactions of three different substances, winning a medal for their team in Science Olympiad 2009. They were part of a team of Seashore fifth- and sixth-graders who took first place in two events and second place in…

  • Regional school budgets approved

    TINTON FALLS — Both Monmouth Regional and Shore Regional high schools saw their proposed budgets approved by a majority of voters during last week’s school board elections. The Monmouth Regional School District, which educates students from Eatontown, Tinton Falls and Shrewsbury Township, proposed a budget of $25,388,429, a decrease from last year’s budget. The budget…