Category: Atlanticville News

  • Surfers object to loss of beach path

    BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer LAYLIWHYTE Surfers say they have used this path to the beach for 20 years. DEAL – Despite surfers’ concerns about public access to the beach at the end of Ocean Lane, borough officials say the property is privately owned and a public easement exists only 180…

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Barry Weshnak and his wife, Carol, are the Big Brother and Big Sister, of Kaylie, 6, and Lorenzo, 7, who they take for a stroll during the annual Big Brothers Big Sisters picnic reunion at Wolcott Park in Eatontown on July 15.

  • Fort panel will go for $315K in federal funds

    Lucky, Bauer to lead new base reuse group BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer To apply for federal seed money to start up a business, the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Plan-ning Authority, Eatontown will need some correction fluid and a typewriter. Somewhere in the Arlington, Va., headquarters of the U.S. Defense Department’s…

  • It’s expensive to be poor in Monmouth County

    Top: Volunteers for the Meals at Noon program serve food at the Second Baptist Church in Long Branch. Demand rises at food pantries; housing costs, low minimum wage cited BY CHRISTINE VARNO & LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writers The high cost of living in Monmouth County is forcing some residents to make hard choices, and in…

  • Council approves razing vacant Main Street building

    Attorneys for owner, contract purchaser say they’ll go to court BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer SUE MORGAN The borough of Eatontown has ordered demolition of this vacant building on Main Street. EATONTOWN – Borough officials say they tried everything for more than a year to persuade the owner of a condemned…

  • Police investigate bank fraud

    OCEAN TOWNSHIP – On July 10, a Raleigh Court resident reported that he had been contacted via e-mail on his home computer by someone claiming to be from JPMorgan Chase Bank and advised that his account had been suspended for suspicious activity. He was told that to reactivate the account, he should log on to…

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    MIGUELJUAREZ staff Camron, 3, Tinton Falls, learns to balance a dish with help from a volunteer during the annual picnic reunion of Big Brothers Big Sisters in Wolcott Park in Eatontown on Saturday.

  • Appraisers to come knocking in city

    Redevelopment spurs county to order reassessment BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH – A county ordered reassessment of all taxable properties in the city is expected to get under way before the end of the month. The reassessment will be performed by Realty Appraisal Co., West New York, and will…

  • Legislators unite against offshore drilling bill

    DEP, environmental groups join effort to block bill that lifts ban BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer CHRISTINE VARNO Rep. Frank Pallone (D-6) was joined by officials from the DEP, N.J. Public Interest Research Group and Clean Ocean Action at a press conference on offshore oil drilling Friday at the Long Branch…