Category: Atlanticville News

  • ‘College Goal Sunday’ to be held in Long Branch

    Attendees of Feb. 10 event qualify for $500 educational award LONG BRANCH – The third annual New Jersey College Goal Sunday is scheduled to be held at seven sites across the state on Feb. 10, including at Long Branch High School on Indiana Avenue. Brookdale Community College will be hosting the event at Long Branch…

  • Pizza deliveryman robbed at gunpoint

    OCEAN TOWNSHIP – Police are searching for a man who reportedly robbed a pizza deliveryman at gunpoint last week at the Twinbrook Apartment complex on Aldrin Road. On Jan. 30 at approximately 11 p.m., a 33-year-old pizza deliveryman from Brick was delivering a food order to a residence in the Twinbrook Apartment complex. When the…

  • Teenager shot with pellet gun

    OCEAN TOWNSHIP – A 17-year-old townshipmale is facing charges for shooting another teenagerwith a pellet gun, according to police reports. On Jan. 25 at approximately 9 p.m. Ocean Township police received a report from Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch that a 17-year-old male was being treated at the hospital for a leg wound after…

  • Police arrest suspects in pocketbook thefts

    OCEAN TOWNSHIP – Police arrested three individuals in connection with a series of reported thefts of pocketbooks in the parking lot ofWegmans Food Market on Route 35. On Jan. 25, Ocean Township police learned that the three suspects in the pocketbook theft case were staying in an Asbury Park apartment, according to police reports. Police…

  • New affordable home unveiled for city family

    Interfaith Neighbors constructs two-story home on Norwood Ave. BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer The new home on Norwood Avenue in Long Branch was constructed by Interfaith Neighbors Inc. for the Pothier family. LONG BRANCH – A Long Branch family achieved the dream of homeownership last week when they became firsttime homebuyers in a city neighborhood.…

  • City tables measure to acquire Keelen property

    Public hearing and final vote on $2.2 million bond ordinance set for Feb. 13 BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH – The public hearing and final vote on a $2.2 million bond ordinance to support the acquisition of property in the Broadway Corridor redevelopment zone was tabled last week due to a lack of…

  • $564K federal grant will fund 180’s programs

    BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer HAZLET – The nonprofit 180 Turning Lives Around now has 564,000 more ways to help end domestic violence and sexual assault in the community. The nonprofit organization received a $564,000 grant as part of the Senate Appropriations Committee FY 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill. The funding was announced Dec. 27 by…

  • Local health center donates school supplies in city

    LONG BRANCH – A school supply drive by the Natural Healthcare Center in West End was an “overwhelming” success with over 1,800 school supplies collected for the Long Branch School District, according to a press release from the health-care center. Organizers plan to make the drive an annual event. As part of the center’s Community…

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    ALEX TOWLE Chris Kautz (r), 10, of Wanamassa and Ryan Huntley, 11, of Oakhurst use fruit and vegetables to create electricity at the fifth-grade science fair at the Ocean Township Intermediate School on Jan. 23.