Category: Atlanticville News

  • MTOTSA faults city on rehire of appraisal firm

    Residents: McGuire was unprofessional in dealings with MTOTSA BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Long Branch City Council called on a familiar name last week when it named McGuire Associates as the appraisal firm for the downtown Broadway redevelopment zone. But residents of another redevelopment zone whose properties have been appraised by the firm were outraged.…

  • In the Service

    Marine Corps Reserve Lance Cpl. William W. Branin III, a 2003 graduate of Shore Regional High School, West Long Branch, and the reserve Marines of 4th Combat Engineer Battalion, Roanoke, Va., are presently deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Branin joined the Marine Corps Reserve in February 2004.

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Evelyn Ashear, 5, (in white shirt) of Oakhurst finds her way through the mirror maze with Gloria Catton, 5, of Elberon in the Monkey Maze Fun House on Aug. 10 at the Ocean Township Italian American Festival.

  • Robbery suspects caught fleeing scene

    OCEAN TOWNSHIP — It was almost 10 p.m. when an employee of a local retail establishment stopped at the Wachovia Bank on Route 35 and Fairmont Avenue to make a night deposit. According to police, when the 56-year-old man pulled up to the night deposit box in his car, an individual, later identified as Christopher…

  • Clearwater to join suit to block development on Sandy Hook

    Environmental group will ask court to allow it to join other plaintiffs BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer Monmouth County Friends of Clearwater (MCFC) will join a suit to block the National Park Service from leasing historic buildings at Fort Hancock to a private developer. If successful, MCFC will file a complaint claiming the NPS discriminated…

  • Motorcyclist dies after collision with car

    OCEAN TOWNSHIP — A collision between a car and a motorcycle on Route 18 north earlier this month resulted in the death of the motorcyclist. According to police, the accident occurred on Aug. 3 at approximately 10:15 p.m. A Manalapan man, Nathaniel Mumford, 57, was traveling north on Route 18 in his 1987 Honda Accord…

  • Hammer, nails and heart build a home

    Local churches join forces on Habitat for Humanity project BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Norman Weber, Lincroft, and Bob Lightburn, Point Pleasant (above), members of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Lincroft, work on a wall of a Habitat for Humanity house in Red Bank on Aug. 10, while David Gibbons, Oakcrest,…

  • Two men wanted for seeking bogus donations

    BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH — City police are looking for two men posing as police officers in order to receive cash donations. According to police reports, within the past two weeks, two Portuguese-speaking men have visited local Brazilian-owned businesses and introduced themselves as members of the Long Branch…

  • No more McMansions in Monmouth Beach

    Ordinance cuts lot coverage to 27 percent from 40 percent BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent BY LIZ SHEEHANCorrespondent MONMOUTH BEACH — In a unanimous vote, the borough’s Board of Commissioners approved an ordinance that will bring an end to the building of what some residents believed were homes too big for the lots they were constructed…