Category: Atlanticville Opinion
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News of SRHS plan delayed by state DOE
Board denies withholding info BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH – People are wondering why the Shore Regional High School District waited until late July to announce its plans to float a nearly $50 million bond construction referendum on Sept. 26. Board of Education President Anthony Moro says that…
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West Long Branch super, a ‘super’ mom
West Long Branch’s new Superintendent of Schools Elizabeth Keshish was recently named winner of the nationwide online search for “Mom, the Everyday Athlete” conducted by the Wheat Foods Council of Parker, Colo., as part of their nutrition education effort. The council searched for one exemplary mother “who let her inner athlete shine through keeping an…
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Vultures circling Fort Monmouth
If you like eminent domain abuse, privatization and corporate takeovers of the arts center and Sandy Hook, you will love the proposed invasion and occupation of Fort Monmouth by real estate speculators and corporate war profiteers. I attended the last two meetings of the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority and saw the vultures salivating and…
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Affordable housing becoming scarcer in city
Many good people in our area, working people and people with disabilities, can not afford market rate housing. In a society as wealthy as ours, I believe we have an obligation to help them. The city of Long Branch and the Long Branch Housing Authority (LBHA) have plans to tear down the 290 units of…
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Call for meeting on wave of violence
In the wake of the murder that took place [Aug. 19], the gunshots heard on Aug. 15 in the Ludlow Street area, and the shooting of a 17-year-old high school senior that took place last month on Ellis Avenue, the Greater Long Branch NAACP, along with the Concerned Citizens Coalition, is asking for an emergency…
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Many made Clearwater Festival a success
I want to thank all Mon-mouth County Friends of Clearwater (MCFC) volunteers for your hard work and dedication that made this year’s 31st annual Clearwater Festival successful. By all criteria, this was the best festival in Asbury Park that we’ve ever had. I would like to especially thank those new committee chairpersons who took up…
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Needed: Partners for anti-tobacco program
Did you know that according to the Center for Disease Control tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, causing nearly 440,000 deaths each year and resulting in an annual cost of more than $75 billion in direct medical costs? More than 8.6 million people in the United States have…
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From the White House to the schoolhouse
Former pol runs popular current events class at Seabrook Village BY LARRY RAPPOPORT Correspondent BY LARRY RAPPOPORTCorrespondent Gary Engelstad, resident life director at Seabrook, hosts a popular current events class that draws a crowd of up to 200 residents. When Gary Engelstad gives a class on current events, people take notice. No wonder. A former…
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Obituaries
Adele LaSecla Manning Mrs. Manning, 79, of Lakewood, died Aug. 27 at Ocean County Medical Center, Brick. Born in Union, she resided in the Belford section of Middletown, prior to moving to Lakewood 12 years ago. She was employed at the Middletown Board of Education for 10 years, and she and her husband co-owned Dairy…
