Category: Atlanticville News
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Volunteers clean debris at Lake Takanassee
PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Brookdale Community College student Mike McIntyre tries to get a piece of garbage out of the lake during a cleanup of Lake Takanassee in Long Branch by the Monmouth University chapter of New Jersey Community Water Watch on March 1. At Right: Monmouth University student Candice Jahn of Toms River…
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New Ocean Township clerk to start Monday
Deborah Smith steps down as clerk after 26 years of service BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer OCEANTOWNSHIP- Anewclerkwill begin serving the township on Monday, filling the position vacated last week by Deborah Smith. The TownshipCouncil appointedVincent G. Buttiglieri, a former South Plainfield councilman, borough clerk and business administrator, to replace Smith. Buttiglieri officially assumes the…
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Raid closes massage parlor
OCEAN TOWNSHIP- Two NewYork women are facing prostitution charges after police raided a township massage parlor on Route 35. An investigation by theOcean Township PoliceDepartment SpecialAssignmentUnit led to a police raid of the My Day Spa massage parlor at approximately 9:15 p.m. Feb. 21, according to police reports. Police arrested and charged Yang Shumsker, 62,…
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ERIC SUCAR staff Max Springman of West Long Branch took a ride down the large hill at Glenwood Cemetery in West Long Branch on Feb. 22.
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Monmouth County launches TV program
Monmouth County is hitting the airwaves with a monthly televised program designed to bring the county’s many governmental services directly to residents. Titled “Monmouth In Focus,” the show is a televised companion to the county newsletter of the same name and is hosted by Cynthia Scott, a former News 12 reporter now employed by the…
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‘That’s Entertainment’
PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Left, Kayla Kappmeier performs the Lip Gloss dance during the Ocean Township Elementary School 2008 Fall Follies’ “That’s Entertainment” held in the Ocean Township High School auditorium on Feb. 21. Right, Ingrid Fenniman and the rest of the Fish Fish Fish perform their dance.
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ERIC SUCAR staff Emerson Simoes (l) and Jamil Pitts, both of Long Branch, took advantage of the snowstorm by riding down the large hill at Glenwood Cemetery in West Long Branch on Feb. 22.
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Hearing on teachers’ contract set for March
Fact-finding hearing postponed, new date set for March 27 BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer Employees of the Ocean Township school district will continue to work under the terms of an expired contract, since a fact-finding hearing on the matter has been postponed until March. The hearing, initially planned for Feb. 21, was rescheduled to March…
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Activists file ethics complaint against DEP
PEER: State aide worked too close with developers of Tak. site BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Environmental activists filed an ethics complaint Monday, charging that a top aide at the state Department of Environmental Protection provided “coaching” to a developer for an oceanfront project in Long Branch. FILE PHOTO The Life Saving Station No. 5…
