Category: Atlanticville News

  • Borough OKs $780K for garage, downtown properties

    Mayor: Acquisitions will not involve use of eminent domain BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN – With about $500,000 in bonds to spend, Mayor Gerald Tarantolo says that the borough will only deal with property owners in the town’s Main Street redevelopment zone who actually want to sell their real estate.…

  • Notes

    Fort Monmouth will host an Organization Day and Independence Day Fireworks on Friday, June 30 beginning at 3 p.m. at the football field near the Nicodemus Avenue Gate, located off Broad Street in Eatontown. A fireworks display, co-sponsored by the borough of Eatontown and Fort Monmouth, will be set off at 9:15 p.m. to top…

  • Council backs mobile home park purchase

    Council passes resolution endorsing alliance’s plan to buy park with 133 units BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN – None of the residents now living at a local mobile home park will be uprooted if an area nonprofit organization buys the land it occupies. In asking for the borough government to…

  • Lifesaving station on endangered sites list

    Preservation group wants Takanassee Beach Club saved BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer U.S. Lifesaving Station No. 5 is threatened by development and is on the state’s list of endangered historic structures. LONG BRANCH – Three historic buildings on the Long Branch shore have survived more than a century’s worth of hurricane…

  • WLB hires architect to study renovations

    Holmdel firm also to look at adding onto new town hall BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH – An extreme makeover for the 95 Poplar Ave. structure, known around town as the “old borough hall,” is something to be considered by an architectural firm contracted by the governing body…

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    “Futbol” fever grips the crowd at PorDo Sol, Long Branch, watching the Brazilian National Soccer team compete against Ghana in the second round of the World Cup tournament on Tuesday. Brazil defeated Ghana, 3-0, to advance to quarterfinals.

  • MTOTSA attorneys to appeal court decision

    GLORIA STRAVELLI Harold Bobrow (r), who stands to lose his home to redevelopment, makes his feelings known at a rally in Long Branch last Friday. Will fight ruling allowing city to proceed with eminent domain BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer An attorney for a group of Long Branch homeowners will appeal a state Superior Court…

  • Court decision riles anti-eminent domain rally

    More than 100 gather as residents vow to carry on fight to save homes BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH – A crowd of more than 100 activists from the city and towns across the state gathered on the Long Branch oceanfront Friday evening to call attention to their fight…

  • Dwek property to be sold for chain restaurant

    Buyer offers $3M for former Lone Star Steak House in Eatontown BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer FREEHOLD — The empty Lone Star Steak House in Eatontown, half-owned by troubled real estate mogul Solomon Dwek, could be revived as another chain restaurant now that a state Superior Court Judge has greenlighted the…