Category: Atlanticville News

  • Four towns discussing shared services

    WLB, O BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — A new street sweeper, a regional repair garage and a few other wish list items could be coming to four area communities under a proposed shared services agreement. Nothing is set in stone yet, but mayors Paul Zambrano…

  • Notes

    Two informational meetings will be held at the Monmouth Beach Cultural Center on Ocean Avenue to inform the public about an organization that offers support to people with cancer, their families and caregivers. The Wellness Community, a charter of a national organization, is the largest support program in the country devoted solely to providing free…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • MTOTSA, supporters rally to stop eminent domain

    Out of town marcher: BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer CHRISKELLY staff Members of the MTOTSA Alliance and supporters rally in Long Branch on Sunday to raise awareness about what they say is the abuse of eminent domain. It was just 35 degrees on Sunday afternoon, but the chill in the air…