Category: Atlanticville Opinion
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Letters Policy
Letters to the editor may be mailed to the Atlanticville, 659 Broadway, Long Branch, NJ 07740. They also may be sent via e-mail to [email protected]. Letters should be limited to 250 words; Your Turn guest columns to 750 words. All submissions may be edited for length, libel, content and grammar, and are subject to rejection.…
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Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast
“Schooner at Horseshoe Cove” by Jim Ferrier There’s nothing plain about “Impressionism to Realism,” the exhibit of more than 200 paintings done en plein air (French for in the open) currently at the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury. The works by more than 40 New Jersey artists capture gardens, landscapes, seashore views and pastoral…
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With a little improvisation, 13 can be a lucky number
Improv Jam’s Summer League preps up-and-coming comics BY KELLY RIZZETTA Correspondent BY KELLY RIZZETTACorrespondent Will Kervick, of Ocean Township, Robby Webb, Rumson, Zach Jones, Brick, and Kevin Karoll (seated) compete as “The Foxy Ghandis.” Below, Mike O’Keefe (l-r), creative director, and Pete Capella, artistic director, introduce the teams in Improv Jam’s Summer League. Allowing rival…
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In the Arts
Rick Alviti Red Bank-based Phoenix Productions will host “A Tribute to Elvis” starring Rick Alviti and the Rick Alviti Showband at the Strand Theatre in Lakewood on Saturday, Aug. 26 at 8 p.m. Alviti, who is one of the country’s foremost Elvis Tribute artists. Tick-ets are $35, $40 and $100. The $100 ticket incl-udes a…
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Questioning politicians is the American way
Ever since the August council meeting in West Long Branch where Councilman Joseph Woolley quit his post … or maybe not, I have seen my name and motivations for attending council meetings twisted and debased by our current mayor and council. This is nothing new to me as the same occurred in a more surreptitious…
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Why was Farber in office?
I feel that retired Judge Richard J. Williams did not go far enough as Attorney General Zulima V. (“Free the Guilty”) Farber should have been terminated and fined for having her live-in boyfriend, Hamlet E. Goore, receive special treatment from the Fairview P.D. and allowing him to drive his unregistered vehicle to their home in…
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Monthly tab for SRHS referendum $16 – $21
Residents of district’s four sending towns to go to polls on Sept. 26 BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer Voters in four sending towns will vote on a $50 million referendum to upgrade Shore Regional High School. WEST LONG BRANCH — The monthly tax hike that property owners in the Shore Regional…
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Citizens’ group touts tax reform proposal
(Response to letter by John Hendrickson) While I’m sure I’m not alone in sharing your frustrations over the current New Jersey tax mess, I would like to offer you some hope of a citizen-based solution. As president of The Silver Brigade, www.silverbrig-ade.com, I’d like to invite you to join us on Sept. 14, 7-9 p.m.,…
