Category: Atlanticville News

  • Police union drops protest against twp.

    OTPD to enact new police schedule in new year BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer The Ocean Township Police Benevolent Association (PBA) Local 57 has decided to drop two of four unfair labor practice (ULP) complaints it filed against the township in 2005. PBA Local 57 President Bruce Friend made the announcement at a Dec. 15…

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    ERIC SUCAR staff Scott Lewis (r) helps audience members sing a part of the song “Twelve Days of Christmas” during a visit from the Holiday Express at LADACIN Network in Ocean Township on Dec. 16.

  • Local teen wins day with Eli Manning

    BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer West Long Branch resident Stefanos Koursaris, 14, poses for a picture with Super Bowl MVP quarterback Eli Manning at Giants Stadium. When Renee Koursaris went food shopping in October and saw that Oreo cookies were on sale, she decided to purchase the snack and thought she was getting a good…

  • Rible works with state to curb gang activity

    Assemblyman Dave Rible met with state and local officials Dec. 9 to strategize against gang activity and related crimes in Monmouth County. In attendance were representatives from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office, Long Branch Public Safety Director William Richards, and representatives from the Asbury Park and Neptune Township police departments. The…

  • Husky Brook Park gets green light

    BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer EATONTOWN — The Borough Council has decided to move ahead with the construction of a new park after the project was previously voted down due to the current economic climate. Council voted 3-3 at an emergency meeting Dec. 5 on a resolution to award Freehold-based Precise Construction with a contract…

  • Beach renourishment project starts in city

    BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the city of Long Branch began pumping hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of sand onto a quarter-mile stretch of beach in Long Branch in order…

  • A horse and carriage ride

    CHRIS KELLY staff Micky and Preston Yanes, of Sea Bright, get a closer look at a horse after taking a carriage ride along the oceanfront Dec. 13.

  • Event raises over $7K for twp. native battling cancer

    OCEAN TOWNSHIP — The Power Center in partnership with The Beauty Foundation for Women’s Cancer Care raised over $7,500 at the Fight Like a Girl Against Cancer event. The fundraiser, held Dec. 7, was dedicated to Betsi Eberhardt Kelli, 39, a native of Ocean Township who is battling stage IV kidney cancer. Led by the…

  • Party host, partygoer face alcohol and drug charges

    OCEAN TOWNSHIP — Police have charged two men with drug and alcohol offenses after breaking up a party at an Overbrook Avenue residence last week. On Dec. 8 at approximately 11:52 p.m., police received a call from a resident reporting three suspicious people in front of an Overbrook Avenue residence in the Oakhurst section of…