Category: Atlanticville News

  • Activists plan rally to save beach club site

    LONG BRANCH – Local residents, environmental groups and historic preservation groups are scheduled to gather at St. Michael’s Church on Ocean Avenue Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon to stage a rally in an effort to save the Takanassee Beach Club from being developed. The proposed developer for the 5-acre oceanfront site originally applied to…

  • The facts about cell towers

    The New Jersey Coast Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers will host two talks on the afternoon of Nov. 11 on some common misconceptions about cell phone towers, at the InfoAge Museum at the historic Camp Evans Site in Wall Township. Elya Joffee, an expert in the field, will address the truth…

  • Sporting event to help raise funds for kids

    Organizers of the eighth annual Turkey Bowl announced that The Kids Helping Kids Athletic Challenge will be held this Thanksgiving fundraising season. The event will take place Nov. 3 from 2 to 5 p.m. at The Edge Sports Academy in Eatontown where children will have the opportunity to raise money for chronically and terminally ill…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Oakhurst resident Dona Yasser, dressed as Professor Trelawney, tells Ben Edelson, 9, Toms River, his fortune during a Harry Potter Hogwarts Halloween Party Oct. 27 at the Ocean Township Library.

  • Former L.B. councilman gets four months in jail

    Zambrano confined to home for four months after prison sentence BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Former Long Branch Councilman John R. “Fazz” Zambrano will begin serving a four-month jail sentence in December for accepting a cash bribe while in office. Zambrano, 45, will start the prison term Dec. 10 and after completing his sentence will…

  • Kean seeks to cut $1 billion in spending

    Assemblyman Sean T. Kean is running in the 11th District state Senate race to continue his efforts to make New Jersey an affordable state. Sean T. Kean Kean, a Republican, is being challenged by Democratic candidate John Villapiano to fill the seat vacated by Sen. Joseph Palaia in the Nov. 6 election. “People are leaving…

  • Villapiano calls for new state college, drug testing for new drivers

    John A. Villapiano, Senate candidate for the 11th District, held a press conference Oct. 30 to propose legislation to put the brakes on teenage substance abuse. John A. Villapiano A former State assemblyman and county freeholder, Villapiano said if elected Nov. 6, he will move to institute mandatory drug testing before drivers’ permits and licenses…

  • Coalition endorses Kean

    The Long Branch Coalition of Condominium Associations (LBCCA) decided at their monthly meeting last week to endorse Sean Kean for state Senate in the 11th District in the November election. At the Oct. 24 meeting, the association also discussed several matters concerning the city, including plans to preserve Ocean Avenue, according to the group’s president,…

  • Residents question Pier Village II tax break

    Taxes on upscale project to be phased in over five years BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH – Some Long Branch residents protested a measure adopted by council last week that provides a tax break to the developers of a luxury redevelopment project at Pier Village. Council voted 4-1 to approve ordinance 40-07 at…