Category: Atlanticville News
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Despite discord, fort reuse plan approved
Eatontown mayor votes yes to bypass Fed’s intervention on plan BY JENNA O’DONNELL Staff Writer The Fort Monmouth redevelopment authority approved a reuse plan for the fort property last week despite objections from officials, residents and two of the mayors on the panel. During a Sept. 3 special meeting at the Tinton Falls Municipal Complex,…
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Melanie McGowen (l-r), Juliette LaFerlita, Casey Little, Allie Masciana and Kelly Boyle, all 13 years old of Lincroft, make their way down the boardwalk during the first Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network walk in Long Branch on Sept. 7. SCOTT FRIEDMAN
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MTOTSA to ask high ct. to end blight fight
City seeks N.J. Supreme Court to overturn Appellate Division ruling BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Agroup of oceanfront homeowners are planning to ask the state Supreme Court to close the chapter on a more than decade-long battle to save their homes, their properties and their neighborhood from being condemned. Attorneys representing some 17 property owners…
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Art, historic site extracted from Roosevelt community
Jacob Landau’s studio meets its final days BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer ‘Without art we are an endangered and endangering species.” Those are the words inscribed on Jacob Landau’s tombstone, and in light of recent happenings in Roosevelt, the small western Monmouth County borough where he lived from 1954 until his death in 2001, seem…
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BOE appoints business administrator
BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer EATONTOWN — The Board of Education (BOE) appointed a full-time school business administrator to fill the post that has been served as a part-time position for nearly two years. At the Aug. 25 BOE meeting, members voted to appoint Robert Green, 37, to serve as the school business administrator. “I’m…
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Boro official seeks change to funding formula
Councilman DeBruin says state funding method is ‘archaic’ BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — A borough official is requesting that the state revise what he is calling an “outdated” funding formula to determine the amount of money a municipality pays to its public library. Councilman J. Thomas DeBruin said at the Sept.…
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Resident celebrates ADA ramp
BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer (l-r) Austin and Linda Gelzer, Ricky Fernandez, City Councilman Brian Unger, Timothy Johnson, Timothy Peterson, Bill McLaughlin and Wally Bruchman gather at the Long Branch oceanfront to celebrate the completion of the Cottage Place beach access ramp. LONG BRANCH — City resident Austin Gelzer said that after more than a…
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Virginia man sentenced to 45 years behind bars
Jury issues guilty verdict for Long Branch murder and attempted murder AVirginia man has been sentenced to a 45-year prison term for a 2006 murder and attempted murder in Long Branch. On Aug. 28, Rahsaan Lewis, 27, of Nathalie, Va., was sentenced for the first-degree crimes that pertain to an August 2006 shooting in Long…
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Township man found guilty for 2004 double murder
Man faces life in jail for killing grandmother and ex-girlfriend An Ocean Township man was convicted last week of the “brutal and depraved murders” of his ex-girlfriend and grandmother and is facing a life sentence without parole. He is scheduled to appear for sentencing next month. A jury returned a guilty verdict Sept. 2, convicting…
