Category: Atlanticville Opinion

  • Growth will transform city into entertainment center

    Growth requires change … and change is difficult, I know. I was given an eviction notice after 30 years of living and working as an artist in my loft in Asbury Park. I was devastated. But that shock led to a change, a big change. After moving my studio and home three years ago into…

  • MTOTSA members: Political change needed

    The Long Branch political arena is manifesting itself around greed. The Schneider Team agenda is, at all cost, to continue to steal homes from median income taxpayers. There would be no legal recourse if they chose to stop it today. Yet they continue to pursue the seizure of homes for private developers and private gain.…

  • ‘New Wave’ has a plan to change way L.B. is run

    My name is Bill McLaughlin and I am president of the Long Branch Coalition of Condominiums which totals 40, as well as former chairman of the Sewerage Authority. I have been attending Long Branch City Council meetings for the last 20 years and have been known as the “Long Branch watch dog.” I have seen…

  • Mayor, council manage tax dollars responsibly

    Recently I’ve been talking with my neighbors and friends in Long Branch about the upcoming election for mayor and city council. People often say they are concerned about their property taxes. I’d like to remind people that the municipal portion of our property taxes has stayed stable over the last couple of years and this…

  • Rumson mom ‘brews’ rollback of school budget law

    Newsome: Parents must choose ‘between their wallets and their children’ BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer PHOTOSBY CHRIS KELLY staff Above, Owen Doherty, 7, rehearses for a benefit concert for the Coalition of Families for Excellent Education (COFFEE). Below, Vince Mottern, Hightstown, accompanies Stevi Incremona, 15, Fair Haven, who will also perform…

  • Council, Board of Ed to rework school budget

    Long Branch voters reject school spending plan for second year BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer LONG BRANCH – City officials are expected to make changes in the school district’s $83.7 million spending plan that was rejected by voters last week, according to a school official. The budget was voted down April…

  • Eminent domain struggle leads to change

    Although I am not familiar with the city of Long Branch, I am very familiar with the battle the residents now face in an attempt to keep their homes. Having worked along with many others to protect the homes in Fort Trumbull, Conn., I feel as if I have more than a passing knowledge of…

  • Vote May 9, have a say in who runs the city

    To the fine citizens of Long Branch: first let me tell you I have no personal agenda in writing this letter. Nothing is at stake for me regardless of what persons are elected this May 9. I am a long-time resident who has seen Long Branch as it was. a simple and thriving town with…

  • What’s the evacuation plan? There is no plan

    Coda Greg Bean About 20 years ago, it dawned on people in northern Massachusetts that if the Seabrook nuclear power plant near the border of that state and New Hampshire melted down, or if there were a bad hurricane or other disaster, people were pretty much S.O.L. because there was absolutely no evacuation plan. The…