Category: Atlanticville News
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CHRIS KELLY staff After 40 years in Long Branch, Brunswick Monmouth Lanes is slated to close soon and will become a Siperstein’s location.
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Police, fire officials evacuate bldg.
BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH — A fire in an apartment unit on Montgomery Avenue last week has been deemed accidental after an investigation was conducted by the city Fire Bureau. On Feb. 25, at approximately 6:35 p.m., the Long Branch police and fire departments responded to the report…
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Theatre Brut Festival explores art unfettered by convention
Second festival features 19 short plays this weekend at NJ Rep BY KATHY HALL Correspondent BY KATHY HALLCorrespondent Brian O’Halloran (above, foreground) and Betty Hudson (r) performed in plays that were presented during NJ Rep’s first Theatre Brut Festival last year. Gabor Barabas, executive producer of the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, isn’t…
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Police seek information regarding missing girls
Krystyna Hammond An investigation into the whereabouts of two Ocean Township girls continues after they were reported missing on Feb. 9 by their parents. The girls, Krystyna Hammond, 14, and Alexis DeLima, 12, were last seen at the Hammonds’ Willow Drive apartment. According to police, Alexis called her mother on Monday. They had a brief…
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W. Long Branch hires firm to conduct reassessment
New values to take effect in 2006 BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — Representatives of a real estate appraisal firm hired to re-assess all properties in the borough will probably not come knocking at residents’ doors this summer. However, by sometime in October, they can expect…
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Deal Yeshiva pools hearing set for March 1
Planners still at work drafting age-restricted zoning changes BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — Deal Yeshiva Academy’s proposal to construct two outdoor pools has been rescheduled for a public hearing before the borough’s Planning Board March 1 at 7 p.m. Though the controversial application by the…
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Occupants evacuated in apartment complex fire
BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH –– Fifty firefighters from three fire departments battled a fire in the Edgewater East apartment complex on Avenel Boulevard in Long Branch last week. At approximately 8:23 p.m. on Feb. 16, police officers Christopher Grant and Ki-Jung Kim responded to the complex and observed…
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Residents don’t want train line in their towns
Line would cross Red Bank, Eatontown, Tinton Falls, Shrewsbury Boro BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer If it’s up to the informed residents who attended the Town Hall meeting on the proposed Lakehurst to Red Bank train line, there will never be another commuter line running through eastern Monmouth County. Support for…
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Officials caught in FBI sting
WLB mayor, councilman charged with taking bribes from contractor BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer West Long Branch Mayor Paul Zambrano and Borough Councilman Joseph DeLisa have been released on $50,000 bail following their arraignment Tuesday in a federal court on one charge each of extortion. Zambrano and DeLisa, both Democrats, were arrested early Tuesday…
