Category: Atlanticville Opinion

  • Boro teen gets Gurbisz scholarship

    American Legion $500 award named for soldier slain in Iraq BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN – A borough teen is this year’s recipient of an American Legion scholarship named for a borough resident who perished while serving with the U.S. Army in Iraq last fall. The Capt. James M. Gurbisz…

  • On Campus

    Katherine Tomaino, Oceanport, a student at Shore Regional High School, West Long Branch, has won a $2,000 scholarship from the Dante Alighieri Women’s Society of Central Jersey, Matawan. Winners were chosen based on outstanding academic achievement and an essay contest on the theme “What My Italian Heritage Means to Me.” Christina Marie Zambrano, West Long…

  • The sign on the door says Gone Fishin’

    Greg Bean Coda If you’re reading this and have a complaint that I’m not writing about taxes, corruption or weighty issues this week (is my boss listening?), I can’t help you. That’s because I’m on the Middle Fork of the Powder River in Wyoming, enjoying the scenery on a friend’s ranch and trying to coax…

  • Try peaceful protests to curb eminent domain

    The issues and effects of eminent domain fortunately do not impact on me, but to those of you on whom it does, my heart goes out to you. I and others are not insensitive to your plight; I feel bad for those of you who have lost your homes and to the people of Long…

  • Henny Hughes romps in Jersey Shore Stakes

    Track schedule in limbo as result of state’s partial shutdown OCEANPORT – Henny Hughes put on a show at Monmouth Park Saturday as he made a triumphant return to the races with a 10-length victory in the $150,000 Jersey Shore Breeders’ Cup Stakes (G3). The 3-year-old colt by Hennessy, trained by Kiaran McLaughlin and ridden…

  • For the Record

    The Takanassee Beach Club and property on Ocean Avenue, Elberon section of Long Branch, is currently owned by Scott, Virginia and Christopher Peters, whose family has owned the site since 1680, according to Scott Peters. According to Peters, Stanley Chera, principal in Takanassee Developers LLL, is the contract purchaser of the property, which is slated…

  • Summer hoops league helps mature players

    Future varsity players gain experience against tough competition BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer JEFFGRANIT staff Ocean Township’s Melanie Sidram pushes the ball up the court during a Freehold Township Recreation League summer hoops game at Freehold Township HighSchool on June 28. Jackson Liberty’s girls basketball team is getting a head start…

  • Superintendent’s plan sought by member At and after the Long Branch Board of Education meeting June 28, both some members of the public and board members told me they could not hear comments at the meeting. I apologize for the problems we have with the public address system, and told them I would place some…

  • L.B. is belly of the beast of eminent domain

    The issue of survival is solemn. In Long Branch, the politicians and “redevelopers” are gambling with people’s lives as though they are chips. Worse, Russian roulette. Whose home will get the bullet next? Just as they are bulldozing the homes of the Palestinians and the homes of the New Orleanians, they are bulldozing the homes…