Category: Atlanticville News
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Upgrades aimed at mitigating track pollution
BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent OCEANPORT — Attorneys for the Long Branch Sewerage Authority and the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA) are working toward an agreement between the two agencies that would cut down on the pollution in Branchport Creek caused by storm-water runoff from Monmouth Park racetrack, which is operated by the NJSEA.…
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FRANK GALIPO The Eatontown Memorial School choir sings at the borough’s annual Christmas Tree Lighting event Dec. 7.
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City schools host ‘A Celebration of Hope’
Students in the Long Branch School System entertain during the first A Celebration of Hope event. LONG BRANCH — The city public schools held its first A Celebration of Hope extravaganza at the high school’s Bresett Stadium last week. “We wanted to do something that everyone could enjoy,” said Long Branch Superintendent of Schools Joseph…
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Exhibit displays history of Eden Woolley House
Ocean Twp. Historical Museum hosts annual holiday event BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer PHOTOS BY FRANK GALIPO staff Above: Exhibit Director Peggy Dellinger (l) tells the story of the historical Woolley House to Georgia Watt of Wall. Below: Ocean Township resident Bob Jaroszewski (r) examines the part of the exhibit dedicated to the move of…
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City to crack down on drunken driving over holiday season
LONG BRANCH — The city police department will be cracking down on drunken drivers as part of the annual holiday season Over the Limit, Under Arrest campaign. Beginning Dec. 8 and running through Jan. 2, Long Branch police will have additional officers assigned to look for motorists who may be driving while intoxicated. The patrols…
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Grant supports job programs at fort
$3M in federal funds will provide job training and other services BY LORI ANNE OLIWA Correspondent Workers at Fort Monmouth can rest assured that the employment and job search services currently in place will continue through 2010, due in part to a $3 million National Emergency Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. The National…
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Baykeeper calls on DEP to keep oyster project
Scriven says program benefits towns and the river BY SHARON LEFF Staff Writer A volunteer oyster gardener culls a group of young oysters before they are placed in the river. SEA BRIGHT — The NY/NJ Baykeeper is enlisting the public’s help to stop the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) from canceling a program to return…
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‘The Bishop’s Wife’ comes to the Eatontown Playhouse
Adapted for the stage and directed by Long Branch resident Dave McGrath, “The Bishop’s Wife” is being performed at the Eatontown Playhouse throughout the month of December. The play is a story of an overworked bishop’s desperate attempt to construct a cathedral and along the way loses sight of what is truly important. It takes…
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Man faces charges for breaking into gas station
OCEAN TOWNSHIP — Police have arrested and charged an Asbury Park man in connection with a burglary at a township gas station last week. On Dec. 2 at approximately 2:57 a.m., officers with the Ocean Township Police Department responded to a burglary alarm at the Getty gas station on Route 35, according to police reports.…
