Category: Atlanticville News

  • Guide aids families facing foreclosure

    Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno wants to assist families facing foreclosure and evictions by offering a comprehensive resource guide. The information can be accessed through www.sheriffguadagno.com and by clicking on the “Foreclosures” section which leads to the Resource Guide Brochure. “People need guidance during the foreclosure process, but some don’t know where to turn,” said…

  • Suspect in murder indicted

    FREEHOLD — A borough man is facing the possibility of life behind bars after being indicted last week in connection with the August 2008 murder of a Holmdel man. On March 18, a Monmouth County grand jury returned an indictment charging Tyrone A. Price, 23, of Eatontown, with first-degree murder for allegedly beating Kevin Martin,…

  • T.F. man sentenced for bank robberies

    FREEHOLD — Richard C. DeMott Jr., of Tinton Falls, was sentenced to an 18-year state prison term for five Monmouth County bank robberies, which he committed during an eight-week period last summer. The sentence was imposed March 20 by state Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Mellaci Jr. in Monmouth County. Pursuant to the No Early…

  • Poplar Brook flood plan will impact park

    Army Corps proposes berm, basin at Joe Palaia Park BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer Heavy rains caused flooding in October 2005. OCEAN TOWNSHIP — A conceptual plan to mitigate the risk of flooding along Poplar Brook could see major changes at Joe Palaia Park, including the loss of some of the park’s fields and structures.…

  • Sea Bright officials tour Oceanport court

    Boros explore sharing municipal court facility BY SUSANNE MORELLI Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT — Borough officials recently paid a visit to neighboring Oceanport to attend a meeting and tour municipal court facilities as it explores a proposal to consider sharing court space. Councilwoman Dina G. Long read a memo on the visit on behalf of…

  • Community health centers to receive stimulus funding

    Two New Jersey community health centers will receive $2.6 million in federal stimulus funds over the next two years to provide health care to low-income medically underserved residents. The Center for Health, Education, Medicine and Dentistry in Lakewood and the Monmouth Family Health Center in Long Branch and are among 126 health centers nationwide that…

  • Study to look at school consolidation

    Focus on merging districts, creating K-12 districts BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer Monmouth County Executive Superintendent of Schools Carole Knopp Morris is seeking to conduct a school consolidation feasibility study that could result in the merger of several area school districts. The study, which is expected to be conducted in the coming months, will look…

  • City, MTOTSA talk future of neighborhood

    BY KEN WALTER Staff Writer Long Branch officials and residents of MTOTSA and their attorneys were scheduled to meet yesterday to discuss zoning changes that would permit the homes in the three-street neighborhood to remain in the Beachfront North Phase II redevelopment zone. Long Branch Mayor Adam Schneider and attorneys for MTOTSA confirmed last week…

  • Judge tells youth: ‘You are our future’

    RBR’s Boy’s 2 Men program mentors young males BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff State Superior Court Judge Lawrence Lawson speaks to students in the Boy’s 2 Men program on March 9. State Superior Court Judge Lawrence Lawson is calling on area students to seek out educational excellence and avoid being caught up…