Category: Atlanticville News

  • 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…

  • Woman arrested for assault with vehicle

    LONG BRANCH — A Tinton Falls woman is being charged with deliberately trying to run over her girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend in Long Branch last week. On June 12 at approximately 2:30 a.m., the Long Branch Police Department received a report from a subject who said someone tried to run him over with a Jeep Grand Cherokee…

  • Man arrested for gun possession

    BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH — An Eatontown man was arrested in Long Branch last week after allegedly being found in possession of a handgun. On June 9 at approximately 4 a.m., the Long Branch Police Department received a report of a male and female arguing outside an Ocean…

  • Citizens group objects to land sale to NJNG

    Gas co.: remediated site will not be used for housing BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Sale of a parcel of contaminated land in Long Branch to New Jersey Natural Gas Co. (NJNG) means the site will be remediated to a lower standard, according to a citizens group that is protesting the…

  • Ocean Twp. may rescind seasonal housing rules

    Long Branch will keep two ordinances in face of lawsuit BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Late last summer, both Ocean Township and the City of Long Branch adopted housing ordinances that restrict seasonal rentals. Now, Ocean Township is set to rescind its housing ordinance in response to a lawsuit challenging the…

  • Photo

    CHRIS KELLY staff Monmouth Regional’s Pete Geronimo and his teammates can’t get to the pitcher’s mound fast enough after the Golden Falcon’s won the programs’ first Group III championship on Saturday in Toms River. For story, see sports.