Category: Atlanticville News

  • The pluck of the Irish

    Teacher shares passion for Irish music in Irish Heritage classes BY LARRY RAPPOPORT Correspondent BY LARRY RAPPOPORTCorrespondent At left: Marian Lawlor (middle) plays the tin whistle during a jam session at the Dublin House in Red Bank. At right: Lawlor teaches students to play the bodhran drum in an Irish music class offered as part…

  • County sought incinerator as way to handle garbage

    It’s likely that no issue has ever evoked more emotion, pro and con, in Monmouth County than the incinerator the county proposed to build at its Tinton Falls landfill about 15 years ago. The incinerator would have been used for the disposal of solid waste. The issue reached fever pitch during the summer of 1991…

  • City acts to include tech firms in redevelopment

    Companies would access fiber-optic network already in place BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH — The City Council approved a resolution last month to incorporate a business and technology incubator in its redevelopment plans. “A lot of good could come from [a business and technology incubator], so let’s get the…

  • Solid waste coordinator has grown with job

    Larry Zaayenga learned on the job and helped to build county operation BY DICK METZGAR Staff Writer BY DICK METZGARStaff Writer PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Monmouth County Solid Waste Coordinator Larry Zaayenga oversees operations at the county landfill in Tinton Falls. Zaayenga has been with the county for 28 years. Larry Zaayenga jokingly refers…

  • K-9 responds to train station

    The Long Branch Police Department responded to a report of a brief case left unattended at the train station on Friday afternoon, according to Detective Sgt. Fernando Sanders. The police department brought in a bomb-sniffing dog from its K-9 unit shortly after 1 p.m. and, according to Sanders, “the dog sniffed the package and came…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Angel Ruiz, a third-grader at Holy Trinity School in Long Branch, sings along with classmates as they entertain residents at Monmouth Care Center in Long Branch on March 6.

  • Council OKs taking of Broadway Arts properties

    Building owners: We want right to develop our own properties BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer An overflow crowd filled Long Branch City Hall last week as residents and business owners pleaded with the City Council to vote down an ordinance that would allow the city to acquire properties in the Broadway…

  • Lenkiewicz announces slate for L.B. council

    Platform includes working with schools, anti-gang initiative BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH – Mayoral candidate Alfred “Alfie” Lenkiewicz announced the names of five council candidates Monday night who will run on his ticket in the May election. Lenkiewicz’s The New Wave Team includes council candidates Ralph DeFillipo, Stephen Molnar,…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Holy Trinity School third-grader Ben Brizuela, 9, Long Branch, reads to Mary Poll, a resident at Monmouth Care Center, on March 6 during a celebration of the birthday of Dr. Seuss.