Category: Atlanticville News

  • Eatontown moves to repair Wolcott Park

    Borough to apply for $213K matching grant from county freeholders BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN – Borough officials are hoping that the county government will pick up about half of the total tab for Wolcott Park’s planned facelift. Altogether, the estimated cost of renovations to the municipal park off Willow…

  • Board hires construction management firm

    Will oversee 3 phases of building referendum BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN – Before any digging for the school district’s nearly $30 million building referendum begins, a Middlesex County construction management firm will be on site. Epic Construction Management Services of Piscataway will be on the job, at different rates…

  • Oxley swears in 5 officers

    FREEHOLD – Monmouth County Sheriff Joseph W. Oxley swore in five newly appointed sheriff’s officers at a brief ceremony at the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office on Monday. The new officers will begin training at the Burlington County Police Academy as part of the 92nd Recruit Class on Oct. 2 and graduate on March 15, 2007.…

  • Photos of N.J. doorways wanted

    The New Jersey Historic Preservation Office is seeking images of New Jersey’s doors and doorways in celebration of the 40th anniversaries of the National Historic Preservation Act (1966,) the New Jersey Historic Trust (1967) and the New Jersey Historic Sites Council (1967.) Selected images will be published on a poster to be produced for the…

  • Library will host annual Archives Day

    More than 50 organizations have reserved exhibit tables for the 11th annual Archives and History Day celebration at Monmouth County Library Headquarters in Manalapan. Archives and History Day, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Oct. 14, according to a press release from Gary Saretzky, an archivist for Monmouth County.…

  • Eatontown police probing 18 car burglaries

    EATONTOWN – Borough police are investigating a rash of burglaries to as many as 18 vehicles parked in two separate locations on Saturday, Aug. 19. Though no arrests have been made to date, some of the personal belongings and valuables removed from some of the vehicles have been recovered, according to Detective Sgt. Thomas C.…

  • WLB explores moving police headquarters

    Council mulls one of three building options presented by architect BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer Officials in West Long Branch have asked an architect to design plans for a new police headquarters to be situated in the open space next to the current borough hall on Broadway. However, the Borough Council’s…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Students hold American flags high during the Long Branch School District’s 9/11 memorial ceremony held Monday at Long Branch High School on the fifth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks.

  • Meeting to address violence in Long Branch

    Prosecutor will meet with NAACP, police, community groups BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office will meet with Long Branch community leaders this month to address violence in the city’s neighborhoods. The meeting was requested by Lorenzo “Bill” Dangler, president of the Greater Long Branch NAACP in the…