Category: Atlanticville News

  • City to pay $500K to Pier Village developers

    Developer’s taxes to be reduced for three years as repayment BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH – City officials agreed last week that the developers of Pier Village will be paid $500,000 over the next three years for acquisition costs related to the redevelopment project. Council voted unanimously 5-0 at the June 10 municipal…

  • Condo group discusses water pollution, road

    LONG BRANCH- Several topics were discussed last week at the city Coalition of Condominium Associations meeting, including updates of the Save Ocean Avenue Committee and water pollution in the northern area of the city. Dennis Sherman, co-president of Ocean East Condominium, presented an update on the Save Ocean Avenue Committee at the June 11 meeting.…

  • Group seeks volunteers to monitor birds at beach

    Volunteers are needed to monitor endangered beach-nesting birds in northern Monmouth County towns, including Long Branch,Monmouth Beach and Sea Bright. The Wreck Pond Watershed Association is hosting a workshop for the 2008 season tonight on the beach in Long Branch at 6:30 p.m. Volunteers interested in attending the workshop are asked to register by visiting…

  • Robbery at boro bank second time this year

    Suspect in bank robbery still at large, caught on video camera Police are searching for the suspect in connection with the robbery of the Hudson City Savings Bank in West Long Branch. WEST LONG BRANCH – Police are searching for the man responsible for robbing a bank in the borough this month, marking the second…

  • Cruisin’ to the Jersey Shore

    Top left: Long Branch’s Tony Califano relaxes during the 14th annual “Cruise to the Jersey Shore” event held along the Long Branch oceanfront June 15. Bottomleft: The engine block of Belford residentAlexYantin’s 1966 Ford. Top: Reflections of people walking around Toms River’s Bruce Corduan 1956 Olds Holiday 88. Bottom:Mark Tarrant, ofOcean Township, shows his 1962…

  • Two men plead guilty to $66K fraud scheme

    Accused operate check fraud scheme out of hotels in boro EATONTOWN – Two men pleaded guilty last week to operating a check fraud scheme that they ran out of hotel rooms in the borough and Neptune Township. On June 5, Samuel Heggs, akaMarcus X-Caliber Armstrong, 25, of Union, and Devron Lockett, 24, of Baltimore, Md.,…

  • Halfway house runaway arrested in Ocean Twp.

    OCEAN TOWNSHIP – A Red Bank man was taken into custody last week after being wanted by police for leaving a halfway house in Hoboken. Ocean Township Police Officer Randy Slawsky was patrolling in the Oakhurst section of the township on June 2 at approximately 12:30 a.m., when he spotted a male riding a bicycle…

  • Local man arrested for burglaries

    OCEAN TOWNSHIP – A 24-year-old townshipman is facing charges after fleeing the scene of a robbery last week. Police arrested and charged Cecil Romero Bailey with multiple counts of burglary and resisting arrest following a breakin at the township’s Industrial Park, where five businesseswere reportedly to have been burglarized, according to police reports. According to…

  • LBC to host networking meeting June 18

    The Long Branch Concordance (LBC) is scheduled to host a “Networking, Planning and Celebrating Summer!”meeting 2-4 p.m. June 18 at the Brookdale Community CollegeHigher Education Center on Broadway. Several important resource materials created by the LBC will be available at the meeting, including a list of housing services, a resource booklet for immigrants and a…