Category: Atlanticville News

  • 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…

  • ‘School’s Out, Now What?’

    Long Branch’s Dayshawn Solamon, 5, creates his own art at the Long Branch Library during the Long Branch Concordance’s, “School’s Out for Summer, Now What?” mini-fair. The event was an opportunity for community members to come out and learn what options are available during the summer for families and children in the city, such as…

  • Nonprofit to hold Community Awareness Meeting

    The All Neighbors Foundation (ANF) in Long Branch is scheduled to present the Community Awareness Meeting on May 12 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Long Branch Brookdale Community College on Broadway. Guest speakers at the event will include the following: NancyArnavas, an affordable housing counselor; Angenett Washington of Lovin-Hart shelters for women in…

  • Enrollment triples for CYMCA program

    Black/Hispanic Achievers participate in volleyball fundraiser BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer RED BANK – Enrollment for the Community YMCA’s Black/Hispanic Achievers Initiative has tripled in its second consecutive year in the Red Bank area. The program returned to the CYMCA during the 2006-2007 school year with 13 participants after a nine-year hiatus in the area,…

  • Boro asks state, feds to halt bridge project

    Sea Bright calls on Corzine, N.J. & U.S. attorneys to act BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer Sea Bright officials are taking their case to have the Highlands Bridge construction project halted to state and federal officials. Mayor Maria Fernandes announced at the April 15 council meeting that she has sent letters to Gov. Jon Corzine…

  • Boro celebrates Arbor Day

    West Long Branch residents and members of the Borough Shade Tree Commission gathered at Franklin Lake Park on April 26 for Arbor Day festivities. The event was part of the borough’s yearlong Centennial Celebration. Approximately 40 people attended the festivities where there was a dedication of a borough butterfly garden, a bird-watching expedition and the…