Category: Atlanticville News

  • Ho-Ho-Holiday Express keeps on rolling

    CHRIS KELLY staff (Above) Matthew Felis (l), Fair Haven, Michael McGrath, Hazlet, and Aishah Saeed, Farmingdale, dance while Tim McLoone, founder of Holiday Express, supplies the music at a holiday party for clients of Monmouth Center for Vocational Rehabilitation in Eatontown. (Photo left) A troupe of more than 200 volunteers helped stage close to 50…

  • Ring out the old, ring in the new at First Night

    Welcome in 2005 and usher out 2004 with music, entertainment and activities for the whole family at Red Bank First Night 2005. Festivities begin at 6:30 p.m. for the rain-or-shine event, produced by the Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation. Locations throughout Red Bank will host over 50 different acts, including jazz and blues performers,…

  • Hearing on Monmouth U dorm carried to Feb. 7

    Board schedules special meeting devoted to controversial application BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — Supporters and opponents who are following Monmouth University’s plans to construct a new dormitory, tennis courts and other facilities inside its borders but near a residential area, will have to wait until…

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    JIM REME Monmouth University plans to demolish this existing home at 10 Norwood Ave. (above) in West Long Branch, which formerly served as the college president’s residence. A newer, similar design will be constructed on the same footprint, as illustrated in the architectural rendering below.

  • Mon. U to demolish Norwood Ave. home

    80-year-old structure has served as president’s residence BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer In the summer of 2006, the president of Monmouth University could be watching students walk to and from classes from a new Norwood Avenue residence on a hill overlooking the West Long Branch campus. Acting on the advice of as many as…

  • Car pursuit in two towns ends in arrest

    BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer OCEAN TOWNSHIP — A Brick Township man is facing eluding and narcotics charges after leading township police on a car pursuit last week. According to police, Stephen M. Somonski, 28, was traveling on Route 66 about 2:45 p.m. Dec. 18 when Patrolman William Crosta attempted to…

  • Pallone intervenes for environmental group

    Asks NJNG to share soil samples of Troutman BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer ALong Branch citizens group concerned about contamination of Trout-man’s Creek has gotten some help from a local congressman. In a Dec. 13 letter, Rep. Frank J. Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) asked the N.J. Natural Gas Co. (NJNG) to share…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Tim McLoone and volunteers for Holiday Express supply the music, while Joyce Ligus (r), Howell, dances during a party for clients of the Monmouth Center for Vocational Rehabilitation in Eatontown.

  • West Long Branch expecting reassessment next year

    Boro awaiting formal notice from county BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — Word inside the borough hall is that all residential commercial and vacant properties in town are to be reassessed next year — even if the certified letter from Freehold stating so has not arrived…