Category: Atlanticville News
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Info sought on natural disasters
The Monmouth County Office of Emergency Management wants to hear about residents’ personal experience with natural disasters such as flooding, erosion and other weather-related events. A Natural Hazards Mitigation questionnaire has been posted at www.visitmonmouth. com as a way of collecting this information from residents. The 15- question survey takes about five minutes to complete…
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State preservation funds approved by taxpayers
Councilman takes steps to save beach club site from development BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer State voters approved a bond initiative at the polls last week that Long Branch Councilman Brian Unger said could be used as a funding source to preserve the historic Takanassee Beach Club property on Ocean Avenue. Public question No. 3…
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City man faces charges for vandalizing cars
LONG BRANCH – A city man was arrested last week for vandalizing several parked cars in Long Branch. Police arrested and charged Derek R. Carle, 36, with eight counts of criminal mischief, criminal attempt, drinking in public and resisting arrest Nov. 5 at approximately 12:45 a.m. Police Officer Kristie Buble was on patrol when she…
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Veterans Day Ceremony
Fort Monmouth marked its 90th anniversary the week of Nov. 5 through 8 with a weeklong celebration that culminated Nov. 8 with the 90th Anniversary Festival on Greely Field. The festival began with Fort Monmouth’s annual Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. with the commandant of West Point, Brig. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr. as…
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NOTES
Joan Huegel, of Ocean Township, a longtime shelter volunteer for the Monmouth County SPCA, was the lucky winner of the 2008 C Class Mercedes-Benz car raffle at the Kick Up Your Paws fundraising event at the home of Max and Becky Weinberg Oct. 13. Joan is a foster mom who takes in litters of newborn…
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Woolley re-elected for seventh term on council
Newcomer John Hegarty wins seat on the West Long Branch council BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Joseph C. Woolley WEST LONG BRANCH – The political makeup of the West Long Branch council may not have changed after last week’s election, but a new face has joined the borough’s governing body. Demo- cratic newcomer John Hegarty…
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Local volunteers help Calif. wild fire victims
American Red Cross members continue work at disaster sites BY CARA SCHULTZ Correspondent Two local volunteers with the American Red Cross Jersey Coast Chapter went to the aid of thousands of wild fire victims in the San Diego, Calif., area last month. Joe Raffetto, a longtime Red Bank resident, received training at the Tinton Falls-based…
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EAT: GOP wins three seats on all Dem council
Republicans ran ‘grassroots’ campaign; no donations accepted BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer John R. Schiels EATONTOWN – The all-Democratic six-member Borough Council will have a shift in party representation come January with three Republicans prevailing in last Tuesday’s election. Republican newcomers John R. Schiels and Theresa A. Forbes won the two full-term seats in the…
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Municipal park planned in the city’s downtown
Broadway Park to include concert area, paved walkways BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH – Plans for a city park in the downtown Broadway area could be moving forward as soon as this month. At the Long Branch workshop meeting Nov. 7, Richard E. Brown of Birdsall Engineering Inc. recommended that the council award…
