Category: Atlanticville News

  • Monmouth Mall seeks approval for expansion

    Hearings on project set to continue at Jan. 14 Planning Board meeting BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer EATONTOWN – The owner of Monmouth Mall is seeking approval from the borough Planning Board for a series of expansion projects at the Route 35 site. Vornado Realty Trust, which owns Monmouth Mall, is planning to build four…

  • Fireman served area for over 3 decades

    Former fire official Philip C. Payne dies following stroke BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH – A moment of silence was observed at the Dec. 19 Eatontown municipal meeting for a former fire official who was on life support after he had had a stroke. A day later, Philip C. Payne died at…

  • L.B. resident continues legal battle for a home

    Bruce MacCloud seeking counsel in appeal of eminent domain case BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Long Branch resident Bruce MacCloud is appealing a Superior Court ruling that set the value of his oceanfront home at $220,000. MacCloud filed the appeal in the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division in Trenton on Dec. 3 and…

  • Shelter warns: Avoid ‘free to good home’ ads

    BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer There is nothing Ursula Goetz loves more than a litter of cute, cuddly kittens. Ursula Goetz and a shelter cat So when stories come out about animal cruelty, she wonders why people don’t just put their pets up for adoption at a shelter as opposed to giving them away for…

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    ERIC SUCAR staff The “Hillbilly” smashes his foot into the face of the “Referee” during the fourth bout of the evening at the National Wrestling Superstars pro wrestling benefit at the Seashore Broadway gymnasium on Broadway in Long Branch on Dec. 28.

  • The Atlanticville’s top stories of 2007

    The year offered a variety of news stories ranging from municipal officials convicted for accepting bribes, to a statewide study on the use and abuse of eminent domain, a taxpayer revolt, and the resignation of more than half the members of a borough zoning board. 1 1. Former mayor gets 366 days behind bars Former…

  • $124M contract awarded for new Highlands bridge

    Advocates seek injunction to stop demolition BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer Just one day after opponents of the Highlands bridge demolition filed an injunction to stop the bidding process, a contract was awarded to seal its replacement. Highlands bridge The state Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded the contract to replace the 75-year-old drawbridge that joins…

  • $124M contract awarded for new Highlands bridge

    Advocates seek injunction to stop demolition BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer Just one day after opponents of the Highlands bridge demolition filed an injunction to stop the bidding process, a contract was awarded to seal its replacement. Highlands bridge The state Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded the contract to replace the 75-year-old drawbridge that joins…

  • 2007: The year in photos

    CHRIS KELLY staff Clockwise from top: Tina Alibrando, Spring Lake, waits for the start of “The Ride for Missing Children” race on Sept. 16 along the Long Branch oceanfront. A sunrise along the Jersey shore on Aug. 30. Anthony Orechio, 7, waves an American flag as a classic car cruises by during the Ocean Township…