Category: Atlanticville News

  • Friends share love of swimming, helping others

    Teens coach Special Olympics athletes BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer SCOTT PILLING staff The Friends of Special Children Special Olympics Team is training for the games held at The College of New Jersey in Ewing. Ocean Township — About a dozen years ago, two little girls in kindergarten had no idea…

  • Notes

    The Long Branch High School marching band and the Sound Wave Jazz Band will perform during the seventh annual “Kids in Concert” on May 12 at the State Theater in New Brunswick at 7:30 p.m. Hosted by the Education Law Center. Kids in Concert celebrates the artistic talents of students attending New Jersey’s urban public…

  • ‘Eye Am’: The faces of the muster zone

    Portraits of immigrant work force now on display BY PAT HALSEY Correspondent BY PAT HALSEYCorrespondent Three times a week, Paul Guba left his Highlands home at 4 a.m. to set up his photographic equipment in a gathering hall for day laborers in Freehold, letting his subjects get comfortable with him before he invited them to…

  • Ex Shore Reg. teacher indicted on sex charges

    Indictment says physical contact occurred at swim clubs BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — A former Shore Regional High School teacher and coach who allegedly engaged in a physical relationship with a female student from the time she was 15 to 18 years old, has been…

  • Expert: Center noise levels will be low

    BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer OCEAN TWP. — The hearing on the retail center application that includes a Stop & Shop supermarket continued before the Planning Board last night with testimony on sidewalks and noise. Members of The Concerned Citizens of Ocean Township were in the hallway of the municipal building…

  • Trail grant application in the works

    If all works out well, walkers will have a longer trail to use along Deal Road. The Township Council approved by resolution a request to seek funding from the state Department of Transportation to provide a pedestrian/bike trail extension from the point where an existing trail ends at the boundary of Joe Palaia Park along…

  • Police arrest man soliciting money

    OCEAN — Township police arrested a Red Bank man who was soliciting money from local businesses and residents. James E. Harrington, 40, of Wallace Street, Red Bank, was arrested and charged with three counts of theft by deception, two counts of wrongful impersonation and one count of hindering his own apprehension on March 15 at…

  • WLB complies with subpoena for documents

    CFO says borough had no dealings with contractor in FBI sting BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — The borough won’t be spending a lot in postage to send records subpoenaed by a federal grand jury. Because the borough has received hardly any money from Washington, D.C.,…

  • Petco employee files lawsuit

    No criminal charges filed with close of county prosecutor BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN — One of the five persons rescued, but injured, in the March 4 explosion and collapse of the Petco store here has filed a lawsuit against several parties that his lawyer says could be…