Category: Atlanticville News
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MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Ocean Township’s Lauren Gallo slides safely around Howell catcher Lauren Mastrodonato during the Spartans’ win in Howell last Thursday.
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Shore beaches trashed with harmful litter
2004 cleanup data show BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Staff Writer BY GLORIA STRAVELLIStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Volunteers collected and cataloged debris fouling the ocean and local waterways during Clean Ocean Action’s 20th annual Beach Sweeps held April 23 at more than 50 locations throughout the state. A week before thousands of volunteers turned out to…
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L.B. voters turn down school budget for 2nd year
3.3-cent increase in $75 million budget fails to win approval BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH — For the second year in a row, the Long Branch school budget was rejected by voters at polls last week. The $79 million budget that would have increased the tax rate by 3.3…
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Tucci seeking W. Long Branch mayor’s office
Will face off against Paolantonio; named to Zambrano BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — The first woman to be elected to the Borough Council is looking to make history again as the town’s first female mayor … for at least 12 months. After 20 years on…
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Residents to be heard on Stop & Shop plan
Larkin tells meeting Ocean Gate application BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer OCEAN TOWNSHIP — The township will hold a special meeting to give residents the chance to weigh in on a controversial shopping center application, Mayor William Larkin said last week. “You will get your own special meeting to ask questions,”…
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Ft. Monmouth bracing for BRAC on May 16
Fate of county BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN — Officials at all levels of government are bracing for next month’s highly anticipated federal Department of Defense (DOD) announcement about the fate of Fort Monmouth. The list of military installations affected by this year’s Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)…
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Eatontown man arrested for attempted murder
BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer MIDDLETOWN — A 21-year-old Eatontown man was arrested on three counts of attempted murder on April 19 in Asbury Park. Three days earlier, Terry Haupt became enraged when, according to police, he saw his girlfriend speaking with another man at the Elks Club in…
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Ocean Township voters approve school budget
Taxes will rise 3.3 percent in Ocean, decrease in Loch Arbour BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer OCEAN TOWNSHIP — Voters approved the passage of the Ocean Township School District’s 2005-06 spending plan with a tax levy of $44,143,259 on April 19. The tax levy represents a 3.3 percent increase, or $1,429,561.…
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Red Bank man, 54, still in hospital after crash
Authorities investigate collision that killed passenger in van BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN — A Red Bank man injured in last Thursday morning’s fatal two-vehicle collision on Route 35 is still recovering in an area hospital five days after the crash that resulted in the death of one…
