Category: Atlanticville News

  • Jazz & Blues

    Top: The crowd listens to Jonny ‘B’ and The Blue Blazers perform at the Long Branch Jazz and Blues Festival at the Long Branch oceanfront Aug. 30. Bottom: Daille Kettrell, Edison, and Mike Hogan, South Amboy, rock out as they entertain the crowd. PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff

  • Twp. museum to open at Woolley House this year

    Ice cream social at historical building set for Sunday BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer After nearly four years of hard work, a major project to restore the historical 250-year-old Eden Woolley House is nearing completion. “At this point in time, all we need is to restore the baseboard molding and paint the house and then…

  • Trop rock show to help New Hope Foundation

    Jim Morris and the Big Bamboo Band will take the stage at New Hope Foundation’s first Trop Rock Festival on Sept. 21 from 1-7 p.m. at the Shore Casino in Atlantic Highlands. Other featured musicians include John Frinzi, Doyle Grisham, Rackett, Sunny Jim White, Charlie DeCosa and Gary Philips. Tickets are $40 per adult and…

  • The buzz about honeybees

    Threatened state insect necessary for ecosystem and agriculture BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Beekeeper Angelo Trapani, who operates Trapper’s Honey in Millstone with his wife Anna, checks to see if his honeybees have made any progress on two new honey frames. They thrived with the dinosaurs, ancient Egyptians and even…

  • In service to others

    Church members return from mission trip to Malawi BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Bob Rhoad had a truly amazing experience. That’s how the Upper Freehold resident described the mission trip he and other Allentown Presbyterian Church members took in the first two weeks of August to Malawi, Africa. His father, Ed, and 13-yearold son, Ethan,…

  • Wawa critics question traffic at proposed site

    Testimony on Eatontown Wawa application to continue in November BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer EATONTOWN — A traffic expert hired by objectors to a proposed Wawa convenience store is accusing the project’s traffic engineers of providing “inaccurate” data to the Borough Planning Board. Appearing before the Aug. 25 Planning Board meeting, traffic engineer Alexander Litwornia…

  • Canvas ties bind Ocean Grove ‘tenters’

    Some have been summer homes for generations of families Living in close proximity makes for strong ties among tenters. OCEAN GROVE — The most coveted summertime address on the Jersey Shore may also be the most unusual: the tent colony in Ocean Grove, which has a 20- year waiting list for rentals. One reason for…

  • Legislators call for beach replenishment

    Boro sand project to require federal and state funding MONMOUTH BEACH — Legislators are calling on the federal and state governments to provide funds for a sand replenishment project in the borough. Sen. Sean Kean and Assembly members David Rible and Mary Pat Angelini have sent letters to Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa Jackson…

  • ‘Big Steps for Little Feet’ walk set for Sept.

    Charity event to raise funds for neonatal unit at Monmouth Medical BY LAUREN BECKETT Correspondent LONG BRANCH — Monmouth Medical Center’s Regional Newborn Center will be celebrating its 40th anniversary in September with a charity walk benefiting the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The second annual Big Steps for Little Feet will be held at…