Category: Atlanticville Opinion

  • Letters

    Yes, Mr. Mayor, you can save MTOTSA As everyone knows by now, Long Branch is trying to use eminent domain to seize its beautiful MTOTSA neighborhood and turn the beachfront land over to private developers so they can make millions building upscale condos for the wealthy. The City Council has rightfully come under withering criticism…

  • Residents feel pain of school costs

    We have come to the time of year when New Jersey residents will head to the voting booth to cast their ballot on the only budget on which they are asked their opinion – school budgets. Municipal governments do not place their budget before voters for approval, and the governor and state Legislature would not…

  • Local school budgets, board seats up for vote

    Eatontown school district The Eatontown Board of Education’s total budget is about $18.1 for the 2006-07 academic year. The budget calls for a 3.5-cent tax hike that would raise the school tax rate to nearly 49 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. The owner of a property assessed at the updated borough average of $400,000…

  • For the Record

    Hammod Zokari, one of 14 individuals (including a Monmouth Beach resident) indicted by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, was released on bail by the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. A story in the April 13 issue incorrectly reported that Zokari was not released. The Eatontown Board of Education’s adopted budget…

  • In spring, she bares the collector’s soul

    Coda Greg Bean My wife spent the weekend giving the upstairs a spring cleaning, and at the end there were many trash bags filled with mysterious stuff. “What’s in the bags?” I asked. “Nothing much,” she said. And so I didn’t even peek before she hauled those bags outside where some would go to Goodwill,…

  • Letters

    Diocese of Trenton, “We deserve a break!” I was surprised with this week’s news regarding the regional meshing of several area parishes, along with needed financial support in order to prevent the school closing of St. Mary’s, Ocean. In the midst of the media news and a massive marketing plan there lies the quaint, yet…

  • Obituaries

    Rev. Father Garrett J. Fitzgerald The Rev. Garrett J. Fitzgerald, 57, of Trenton, died March 16 at Capital Health System/Fuld Campus, following a short battle with cancer. He was born in the Bronx, N.Y. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest for the Diocese of Trenton in 1975, and was administrator at Holy Trinity Roman…

  • SRHS board introduces $13.2M budget

    Of four sending towns, Sea Bright would see largest tax hike BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH – The smallest of Shore Regional High School’s sending towns could see the largest tax hike if district voters accept the regional Board of Education’s proposed $13.2 million budget for academic year…

  • Eatontown school budget up by 3.5 cents

    Board adopts $18.2M budget; voters will have say on April 18 BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN – District taxpayers would see their property taxes rise by about 3.5 cents per $100 of assessed valuation if they approve the Board of Education’s budget of nearly $18.2 million for the 2006-07 academic…