Category: Atlanticville News

  • FCS opens second thrift boutique

    LONG BRANCH — Family & Children’s Service (FCS) opened its second storefront thrift shop last week at a new location in Bradley Beach. In October, the Long Branch-based FCS relocated its fashion-forward Thrift Boutique to a storefront location on Branchport Avenue. Just three months later, the organization is celebrating the grand opening of its second…

  • Nonprofit celebrates centennial year

    FCS hopes to continue serving community for another 100 years BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Family & Children’s Service Centennial Committee members B.J. Thompson (l) and Lee Weber. LONG BRANCH — With 2009 now in full swing, one local organization is celebrating its 100th year of providing services to the community. Family & Children’s Service…

  • Unger seeks vote on historic preservation

    City attorney could present proposed law next month BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — Councilman Brian Unger is urging the city administration to wrap up revisions of the proposed Historic Preservation Ordinance that was introduced over a year ago, in order to get something on the books. In a letter sent to City…

  • Assembly panel passes beach bill

    The Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee passed legislation, sponsored by Assemblyman Dave Rible, seeking to save taxpayer dollars by eliminating duplicate government inspections of beaches. Under current law, the Seaside Bathing Establishments Act requires enforcement by the county Sheriff’s Office to ensure the safe operation of seaside bathing areas. The Department of Health and…

  • NOTES

    Members of the Eatontown Lions Club worked at the New Jersey Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center where they cleaned glasses, sorted them by strength using a lensometer and then prepared them for shipment to Lions eye missions and other organizations overseas. Seek and Find Professional Counseling Services has relocated from Ocean Township to a new location…

  • Council gets overview, update on city programs

    BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — More than half of the people evaluated through the city’s employee assistance program (EAP) have a success story to tell, according to Peter Strub, Long Branch Human Services coordinator. Since the EAP was first introduced in 2001, Strub said that his department has seen and evaluated 109…

  • 2 issued summonses for drinking in car

    OCEAN TOWNSHIP — A Neptuneman and an Asbury Park woman are facing charges after a township police officer saw a liquor bottle thrown from a car into Deal Lake. On Jan. 17 at approximately 11:34 p.m., Ocean Township Police Officer Randy Slawsky was on patrol in Loch Arbour in the area of Edgemont Drive when…

  • Camp Sunshine to honor N.Y. Waterway

    LONG BRANCH — Camp Sunshine is honoring New York Waterway as part of its third annual A.J.’s New Jersey Polar Dip at Avenue Beach Club in Long Branch on Jan. 31. Participants will plunge into frigid waters of the Atlantic at 2 p.m. to raise money for Camp Sunshine, a national retreat in Maine for…

  • Police arrest man for intent to sell pills

    OCEAN TOWNSHIP — An ongoing investigation into the illegal sale of prescription drugs has resulted in the arrest of a Spring Lake Heights man. On Jan. 14, officers from the Ocean Township Police Department’s Special Assignment Unit and Detective Bureau arrested and charged Jerome T. Kacprowicz, 57, of Spring Lake Heights, with possession of a…