Category: Atlanticville News

  • City Housing Authority awarded $250K grant

    LONG BRANCH – The city Housing Authority was awarded a $250,000 grant last week that will fund programs to support housing selfsufficiency. The Long Branch Housing Authority (LBHA) received the Resident Opportunities and Self-Sufficiency (ROSS) Family and Homeownership Program grant from the federal Housing and Urban Development office. The funding will enable the authority to…

  • Stretching out

    Connor Lyness, 10, (l) and his sister, Corinne Lyness, 4, (r) both of Matawan, stretch their muscles before competing in the annual New Jersey Marathon Fun Run/Walk along the Long Branch oceanfront on May 3. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Eatontown nonprofit builds affordable units

    The 14-unit Carver Hotel project to house low-income residents BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer EATONTOWN – The Affordable Housing Alliance (AHA), based in Eatontown, is expected to start renting out rooms next month at its newly constructed affordable housing complex. The AHA built the 14-unit Carver Hotel project in Neptune at the site of the…

  • On the catwalk

    Above left, Monmouth University students model clothing from local businesses during a fashion show at the university’s Woodrow Wilson Hall Auditorium in West Long Branch on April 30. The event was hosted by Monmouth University’s Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship classes. Above right: Monmouth University Professor Dr. Joe Mosca (r) gives student Kate Dobbin (l)…

  • Mother’s Day gift benefits Spring House

    Brendan Dibble, 16, helps raise funds for Monmouth County moms BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer EATONTOWN – Every year when Mother’s Day approaches, children and husbands rush to stores to buy a variety of gifts ranging from cards to flowers to candy. This year, a 16-year-old from Manasquan is asking the community to take a…

  • Ocean advocates seek to block LNG facilities

    Groups rally against proposed LNG facilities off the Jersey coast BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT- Local environmentalists have drawn a line in the sand and continue to voice their opposition on proposals to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage facilities off the coast. In recent weeks, two controversial proposals, one from ExxonMobil and…

  • Long Branch calls for 4.9-cent tax rate hike

    LONG BRANCH – The average city homeowner will be paying $2,784 in taxes annually if the City Council adopts its proposed $45 million municipal spending plan next month. The council introduced the municipal budget onApril 22 and set the public hearing on the spending plan for May 27. The budget calls for a 4.9-cent tax…

  • Ocean man pleads guilty to hit-and-run fatality

    Timothy Napolitano, 30, faces 5 years behind bars for 2007 incident OCEAN TOWNSHIP – A township man is facing five years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to a hit-and-run last year that resulted in the death of an 84- year-old woman. On April 21, Timothy Napolitano Jr., 30, of Ocean Township, pleaded guilty to…

  • Boro seeks replacement for retired police capt.

    BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer EATONTOWN – The Borough Council is currently searching for a police captain to replace Capt. Jerome Brady, who retired on March 31 from the position he held for three decades. At an April 23 council meeting, where Brady was honored by council for his years of dedication and service to…