Category: Atlanticville News
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Council bans alcohol on public beaches
Other resolutions name new zoners, oppose closing of Holy Trinity BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Long Branch LONG BRANCH — At the final municipal meeting of the year, the City Council did some housekeeping, passing several resolutions including a ban on alcoholic beverages on city public beaches. According to ordinance No.…
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Patricia Kilroy and her nephew, Kevin Barnett, Fair Haven, head for the ocean during the annual Polar Bear Plunge held on New Year’s Day in Sea Bright.
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N.J. slogan vote extended
TRENTON — Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey announced he has extended the deadline for New Jersey residents to vote for the best state slogan, from Jan. 1 to Jan. 8. “The response so far has been overwhelming,” Codey said in a press release. “Extending the deadline ensures that all New Jersey residents have the opportunity…
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Earth Angels brings music to ill children
Foundation arranges for musicians to perform at hospitals BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Hugo Harmatz Former Meat Loaf guitarist Ray Andersen performed a concert for children at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch on Dec. 29. LONG BRANCH — Being in the hospital at holiday time can be a downer for…
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Catching the bad guy with ‘Mike the P.I.’
Red Bank author spins detective yarns into book for young readers BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Making up stories to tell his son, Andrew, led Michael Tuite to write “Mike the P.I.,” a book of detective stories geared for middle-school readers. Michael Tuite likes to make up stories…
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Teen anger program offered
Prevention First has announced that beginning in January, an anger management program for adolescents called Keys to Inner Visions (KIV) will provide life-skills education to resolve conflicts and shape the development of healthy beliefs and clear standards for behavior for adolescents ages 13-16. The small educational groups will counsel low-level juvenile offenders referred by Juvenile…
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Council to recommend new pay-to-play rules
Aaron: State regulations BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH — The City Council was expected to make recommendations for new pay-to-play regulations at Tuesday night’s municipal meeting. The state Senate approved new pay-to-play guidelines on Dec. 8 that “permit units of local government to pass stronger laws limiting the awarding…
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Two charged in auto thefts at apt. complexes
OCEAN TOWNSHIP — Ocean Township police responded to four separate car thefts from three apartment complexes in the township last week and arrested two men for the crimes. On Dec. 19 at about 6:10 a.m., officers were dispatched to an apartment in the Continental Gardens apartment complex, where a woman reported that two men had…
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Probe of crash continues
EATONTOWN — The investigation into a motor vehicle accident that led to the death of a 17-year-old Brick Township girl last week is continuing, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. The victim, Princess Young, died of crash-related injuries on Dec. 18, two days after she was involved in the single- vehicle crash on Route…
