Category: Atlanticville News

  • 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…

  • Broadway property owners await appeal date

    Building owners seek right to be redevelopers BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH – Three property owners in the Broadway redevelopment zone are waiting for a court date in their appeal of a state Superior Court ruling that gives the city the go-ahead to condemn their buildings. The property owners are seeking full discovery…

  • Lawmakers face roadblocks on the hard road to success

    Some say system in Trenton must be changed BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer The idea that there is too much politics in Trenton has been around for so long, it has become a cliché. The familiar bugaboos of partisanship and petty rivalries disrupting the legislative process are well known and well despised. The jockeying for…

  • Residents: Does Jones wear too many hats?

    City attorney says UEZ director adding title but not $$ BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH – Some residents voiced concerns last week about adding another title to the two that city official Jacob L. Jones already holds. Jones, the city’s director of community economic development and the director of the Urban Enterprise Zone…

  • NOTES AROUND TOWN

    Monmouth University’s Graduate Department of Psychological Counseling and the university community collected school supplies for children who reside in the Long Branch Housing Authority’s complexes. Monmouth University graduate students distributed the supplies at the Long Branch Housing Authority’s Back to School Festival Sept. 8 at Jerry Morgan Park in Long Branch. The school supplies included…