Category: Atlanticville News

  • Police Beat

    Ocean Township Police arrested and charged Peter J. Woefel, 49, Poullney, Vt., with driving while intoxicated on Route 35 Dec. 17. Police arrested and charged Steven M. Ujszaszi, 24, Freehold, for possession of heroin on Route 66 Dec. 17, according to police reports. Police arrested and charged Orestes V. Martinez, 58, Neptune, with eluding, possession…

  • Employee target of pellet gun

    BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer OCEAN TOWNSHIP — A Tinton Falls man was arrested Dec. 21 for allegedly shooting an employee of an Ocean Township car wash with a pellet gun and leaving the scene, according to police reports. On Dec. 19 at approximately 1:30 p.m., the victim, a 47 year-old…

  • Frank’s to be rezoned for age-restricted housing

    No plan on table yet; boro eyes two other sites for senior housing BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer West Long Branch officials will do whatever it takes to accommodate any developer who wants to construct new, upscale, age-restricted housing on the spot where the defunct Frank’s Nursery and Crafts…

  • Contract is awarded for new Gregory School

    Long Branch on way to having eight new facilities open by 2006 BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer A construction contract has been awarded for a fourth new school in the Long Branch school district, which is well on its way to having eight new public school facilities in operation by 2006.…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff The first snowfall of the season on Dec. 27 produced just enough snow for Ramiro Castano to have to get out his snow shovel to clear the sidewalk outside his Bath Avenue home in Long Branch.

  • Visions of 2004

    Clockwise from top — Long Branch High School flag holder captain Joy Kimble warms up before the squad’s performance in October; students gaze at the bonfire during Monmouth University’s pep rally in October; Adam Sarafian clears 14 feet 6 inches during the Monmouth County Track and Field Championships in May; West Long Branch police Lt.…

  • Helping out

    CHRISKELLYstaff Theresa Burke (l-r), West Long Branch, Patty Bellucci, Long Branch, and Jackson’s Gina Richardson prepared food on Dec. 26 for the less fortunate at the St. Vincent de Paul Society of the Holy Trinity Church in Long Branch.

  • Thrift shop renovation a model of brotherly love

    Family members team with The Arc to update Red Bank store BY KATE PICHEL Correspondent BY KATE PICHELCorrespondent FARRAH MAFFAI staff Vincent Puma (l) and Victoria Stelmach, director of development for The Arc of Monmouth, talk during the grand reopening of the newly renovated Arc of Monmouth Thrift Shop, Red Bank. As the youngest of…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff A seagull takes flight as the wash from a wave hits the shore at Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park, Long Branch.