Category: Atlanticville News

  • City adds to contract with Aaron’s firm

    Long Branch prepares for lawsuit challenging eminent domain process BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Long Branch LONG BRANCH — The City Council increased its contract with a local law firm last week in anticipation of a lawsuit by a group of property owners in one of the city’s redevelopment zones. At…

  • VA clinic will stay at fort till 2010 or later

    BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN –– It is up to the 23,000 military retirees and veterans who use the Patterson Army Health Clinic at Fort Monmouth to hold a federal official to his promise that they will still have access to health care on post for at least another five…

  • Boro still has sights set on Howard Commons

    Tarantolo proposes reviving age-restricted housing plan BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN – Borough officials are still hoping they can sell the U.S. Army on a five-year-old plan to allow the conversion of an empty military housing complex at Fort Monmouth to affordable, age-restricted living quarters. At the direction of Mayor…

  • Contractor chosen for police station

    Top bidder revises estimate and council hires another firm BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — The contractor hired by the borough last month to patch up the water-logged local police station apparently underestimated how much the entire job would actually cost. Now, an Oakhurst-based contractor has been assigned…

  • City approves tax break for Seaview Manor

    Allows LBHA to level tax payments over course of 20 years BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH — The City Council authorized a tax exemption program with the Long Branch Housing Authority (LBHA) for the new Seaview Manor affordable housing project last week. The ordinance for the financial agreement was…

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    Above, Daisy Hoagland pauses in front of her home on Ocean Terrace in Long Branch, which is slated to be razed for redevelopment. Below, supporters take part in a walk along the oceanfront to protest what members of the MTOTSA alliance say is an abuse of eminent domain. PHOTOSBYMIGUELJUAREZ staff

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    PHOTOS BY MIGUEL JUAREZ Above, James Murphy, 9, Oceanport, and Sgt. Jorge Osorio compare their camouflage face painting at the Shore Players’ Fall Festival held at West Long Branch Borough Hall on Saturday. At right, Pamela Roldan, 7, West Long Branch, won the prize for the best Halloween costume.

  • No injuries reported in mall gas main rupture

    Two-vehicle crash severs main; mall evacuated for about 90 minutes BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN — About 90 minutes after a gas main break cleared customers and employees out of the Monmouth Mall on Tuesday, it was back to business as usual at the sprawling shopping center. No injuries were…

  • McGuire will appraise Broadway properties

    Residents blast council for hiring firm that appraised MTOTSA BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH — The City Council amended its agreement with the appraisal firm for the downtown Broadway Corridor redevelopment zone last week, despite the concerns of local residents. “McGuire Associates in some methods were unprofessional,” Harold Bobrow,…