Category: Atlanticville News
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September 2007: The thrill of the hunt
Possessed by the color of leaves, from the ground up into the sky, I am always on the lookout for unusual cultivars and new happenings in the plant world. Autumn color is a benefit to seek out when selecting a new addition to your garden, and you should definitely consider it. The dazzle of ginko…
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L.B. residents: We’re hostages of redevelopment
BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH – Several Long Branch residents living in redevelopment zones along the city’s oceanfront told the City Council last week they feel like “hostages” under the city’s plan to take their homes by eminent domain. At the Sept. 11 municipal meeting, a resident from the Beachfront South redevelopment zone…
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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…
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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…
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Unger: Leashes would ensure surfers’ access
Says safety measure would make rules on surfing uniform BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer A proposed ordinance would require surfers to be tethered to their boards. LONG BRANCH – – A measure proposed by Long Branch Councilman Brian Unger to tighten surfing rules in order to expand surfing areas along the city’s shoreline has been…
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Ocean advocates fight offshore LNG ‘island’
Corzine asks for protective status to block facility BY AMANDA BELING Staff Writer Local officials and environmentalists held a press conference Sept. 7 to voice their opposition to a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage facility within miles of the coast. Rendering of the proposed Safe Harbor Energy facility. At the press…
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In the Service
Navy Seaman Apprentice David S. Downes, a 2000 graduate of Ocean Township High School, Ocean, has completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. During the eight-week pro gram, Downes completed a variety of training, such as classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and…
