Category: Atlanticville News
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Twp. woman victim of sexual assault
OCEAN TOWNSHIP — Police are seeking a man who attacked and sexually assaulted a township woman on April 12 at about 9 p.m. The 45-year-old woman had just gotten off a bus on Route 35 and was walking along a wooded area near the Continental Gardens Apartments when she was grabbed and punched in the…
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Youth arrested for steroid possession
BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH — A Long Branch juvenile was arrested last week for possession of steroids, according to police reports. On April 13 at approximately 11 a.m., the police department received a call from an anonymous source reporting that a 15-year-old resident on Washington Street was in…
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Residents get a break: No tax hike in budget
Increase of $1.5M to be covered by L.B. revenues BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Increase of $1.5M to be covered by L.B. revenues BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer A budget with no tax increase for Long Branch residents was introduced by the City Council last week. “We have a budget that will not increase taxes,” Ronald…
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3 seek seat vacated amid controversy
Council accepts Collins’ resignation; nixes band funding BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer A former freeholder who lost his last bid for re-election and a Memorial School teacher are two of three nominees vying for the Eatontown Borough Council seat vacated by John J. Collins. Former Monmouth County Freeholder Edward J. Stominski, a onetime Eaton-town…
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SUE MORGAN Maj. Robert M. Collins, who recently returned from duty in Iraq, visited his second-grade pen pals at Memorial School in Eatontown last week. Story, page 3.
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Vetter second-graders meet military pen pal
Soldier-dad returns home and meets daughter BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer PHOTOS BY SUE MORGAN Madeline Collins, 8, daughter of Maj. Robert Collins, shows her classmates the helmet her father wore while on duty in Iraq. Below, Collins signs autographs for Vetter School second-graders, who were his pen pals…
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Sam Mills, LBHS athlete and football pro, dies
BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Sam Mills LONG BRANCH — A former Long Branch football athlete succumbed to intestinal cancer on Monday at his home in Charlotte, N.C. Sam Mills, 45, who was born in Neptune, was a graduate of the Long Branch High School class of 1976 and went on…
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Concordance takes part in global convention
BY MARVIN LEE Correspondent BY MARVIN LEECorrespondent WEST LONG BRANCH — The collaborative organization known as the Long Branch Concordance (LBC) took part in a panel discussion last week at Monmouth University. The group was invited by the school to participate in the annual Global Understanding Project, which involves Monmouth University faculty members, staff and…
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Right on track
BILL DENVER, Equi-Photo Trainers and thoroughbreds returned to Monmouth Park in Oceanport April 15, to prepare for the opening of racing season.
