Category: Atlanticville News

  • Report might threaten Abbott district funding

    New version includes two additions BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer A new report on the economic requirements for Abbott district school funding designation could recommend that Long Branch be disqualified for the state money. According to the report submitted to the state Legislature last week, “The commissioner of the New Jersey…

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    Scott Pilling staff A Long Branch High School graduate mugs for the camera during graduation ceremonies on Friday.

  • Oceanfest expected to draw thousands to Shore area

    BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH –– This year’s 15th annual Long Branch Oceanfest celebration is expected to attract more than 200,000 people from across New Jersey and neighboring states next month, the co-chairwoman of the event said last week. “Last year we were told that over 150,000 people attended…

  • MTOTSA residents complain about home appraisal process

    BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH — Residents living in one of the city’s oceanfront redevelopment zones say they are appalled at what they have encountered as part of the redevelopment process. “It has been two years since MTOTSA [Marine and Ocean Terraces and Seaview Avenue] has been talking at…

  • Photos of 2 passions: baseball and home garden

    “Crocus” The photography of Andrea M. Tarr, West Long Branch, will be on exhibit at the Red Bank Public Library through July 28. The exhibit will feature works from two of the photographer’s collections, “The Garden of Andrea Tarr” and “Rounding the Bases.” “The Garden of Andrea Tarr” reflects the artist’s passion for both gardening…

  • In the Arts

    The English Department of Brookdale Community College is inaugurating the Novel Brookdale project by inviting the community to add Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edward P. Jones’s “The Known World” to summer reading lists. Jones will visit the College October 17 as part of the new Novel Brookdale project. The college students, staff, faculty and administrators are…

  • WLB to Pentagon: Fort Monmouth should stay

    Council moves to oppose Pentagon BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer West Long Branch WEST LONG BRANCH — Leaders of this borough are joining their counterparts in neighboring communities to protest the proposed shutdown of Fort Monmouth. During its June 1 meeting, the Borough Council unanimously and without discussion approved…

  • 29 special officers finish police academy training

    FREEHOLD — The Monmouth County Police Academy held graduation ceremonies May 25 for 29 recruits who will serve as part-time police officers in their respective towns. The group of Class II special law enforcement officers, many of whom have full-time jobs outside of police work, began their training last August. They were required to report…

  • Four arrested in city drug bust

    BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH –– A Long Branch man was arrested last week for allegedly distributing cocaine and other illegal substances in two city residences. On June 3 at approximately 12:40 a.m., the Long Branch Community Response Unit, Detectives Unit and the Patrol Division simultaneously executed two search…