Category: Atlanticville News

  • Medical center hosts parenting skills classes

    Program offers insight, strategies for parents of young children BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH – – There may not be a “how-to” book on parenting, but a class offered at Monmouth Medical Center (MMC) in Long Branch can act as a guide. To help parents develop skills that will help them better understand…

  • Teamwork on student life issues

    City, Monmouth U monitor off-campus housing BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Long Branch police and Monmouth University are involved in a joint initiative to preserve the quality of life in city neighborhoods and, at the same time, ensure safe living conditions for students in off-campus housing. “We are concerned that off-campus students are living in…

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    ANDREW MILLER staff Sierra Melli, of the Eatontown Pumas, makes a move past defender Katherine Horan, of the Rumson Purple Pride, during an Eatontown Recreation soccer match for fifth- and sixth-grade girls Sept. 22.

  • Police chief tapped as borough administrator

    Search on for new chief to replace Jackson BY AMANDA BELING Staff Writer EATONTOWN – After a through application and evaluation process, the borough has chosen to hire current Chief of Police George Jackson as the new administrator. Jackson will be retiring as chief of police and will be sworn in as borough administrator Oct.…

  • International Foreign Film Series at BCC

    The International Center of Brookdale Community College is presenting a special selection of films with global themes. The scheduled films include: “Pan’s Labyrinth,” Wednesday, Oct. 3, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Warner Student Life Center, Paramount TV Lounge (lower level), Guillermo del Toro’s academy award winning epic, which is set against the postwar repression of Franco’s Spain.…

  • Music of Invention returns to its roots

    The Black Box of Asbury Park’s Music of Invention series returns to Asbury Park for its fourth season beginning with a performance by Philadelphia-based cellist/vocalist/song- writer Monica McIntyre, 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Joyful Noise Café, 1400 Asbury Ave., Asbury Park. Monica McIntyre Innovative, melodic and soulful, Monica’s cello-accompanied songs are a mix…

  • Rolling with the Riptide

    Cyclist talks about joys of riding and women’s involvement in sport BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Members of Riptide Cycling, a racing team that maintains a roster of women at various riding levels, ride through Monmouth County. UPPER FREEHOLD – Fast, fit and over 50. That’s one way to describe township resident Audrey Wendolowski, a…

  • University critic seeks council seat

    BY AMANDA BELING Staff Writer Joseph G. Hughes WEST LONG BRANCH – Joseph G. Hughes, a critic of Monmouth University’s expansion plans in the borough, has entered the race for one of the two seats on the Borough Council up for reelection in November. Hughes, an attorney, is the president of the West Long Branch…

  • Faire game

    CHRIS KELLY, staff Corcoran MacDirmad, Ocean’s Mick LaSala, engages Syr Teric Gwynedd, Bridgewater’s Theo Stern, in battle during the Renaissance Faire sponsored by the Lakewood Lions Club and the Society for Creative Anachronism Sept. 16.