Category: Atlanticville News
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Police search for stabbing suspect
OCEAN TOWNSHIP — Police are searching for a suspect who allegedly stabbed an attendant at a local gas station in a robbery attempt this week. On Oct. 6, at approximately 12:54 a.m., township police received a 911 call in reference to a robbery at the Hess Express gas station on Route 35. Ocean Township police…
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Voters pass $8M school referendum
Shore Regional to undergo $14M improvement project BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer Voters from four area towns have approved an $8 million referendum to help fund major improvements to the heating and electrical systems at Shore Regional High School. “I’m very pleased with the community’s support of this referendum,” Shore Regional High School Business Administrator…
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Riders sought for charity bike-a-thon
Timmy’s Tour de Shore 2008, a bicycle ride to raise awareness and money for pediatric brain tumor research, is slated for Oct. 12 at Fort Hancock’s Gateway National Park on Sandy Hook. The event, which is sponsored by Epic Advertising of New York City, includes a 2- or an 8-mile Fun Ride on Sandy Hook,…
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Monmouth U. helps to open thrift shop
WEST LONG BRANCH — Monmouth University students have taken on the task to help a nonprofit organization open a thrift shop in Neptune. Professor John Buzza has brought the Monmouth University Center for Entrepreneurship and students together with the RedeemHer Organization to open the thrift store. All proceeds from the store will be donated to…
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Volunteers interact with senior citizens
Monmouth County programs foster social relationships BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Nothing brightens a day like a friendly call or visit, especially if someone lives alone or cannot leave their home. For more than 30 years, the elderly and shut-in residents of the Monmouth County have been given brighter days through two programs of the Monmouth…
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Resident calls new ramp ‘impossible’
LONG BRANCH — One city resident, who has been vocal in seeing that a handicapped accessible ramp be built along the oceanfront, is not entirely pleased with the outcome of the project. “The good news is that there is an access ramp for handicapped and elderly people to get to the beach in Long Branch,”…
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Children’s nature play is focus of conference
Child Care Resources will hold its sixth Early Childhood Conference, “Leave No Child Indoors: Nature in the Lives of Young Children,” in the Student Life Center of Brookdale Community College, Route 520, Lincroft, on Oct. 18 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The Student Life Center is near parking lots 6 and 7. There is…
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NOTES
The Asbury United Methodist Church on Atlantic Avenue in Long Branch is holding a Roast Pork Dinner 6 p.m. Oct. 14. The dinner will include roast pork, sauerkraut, salad, potato, vegetable, roll, cake and coffee and the dinner costs $7 for adults and $4.50 for children under the age of 12. For more information, call…
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Spokes for Hope
Clockwise from top: Posters signed by Lance Armstrong are raffled off to raise funds for the “Spokes for Hope” bicycle ride Saturday. Participants in the ride travel down Ocean Avenue in Deal. Walter Valentine, of Middletown, prepares for the ride. PHOTOS BY SEAN BRADY
