Category: Atlanticville Opinion

  • Letters

    Campaign targets alcohol abuse among youth On March 28, approximately 100 concerned parents, teens, educators, law enforcement and community members came together to discuss an issue that has had a place on our local front pages all too often – all these concerned people came together to seriously discuss underage drinking. In an effort to…

  • 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…

  • Coyote was just taking a nice walk in the park

    Coda Greg Bean I was listening to the folks on National Public Radio last Wednesday morning, talking about the poor coyote that authorities were chasing around New York’s Central Park with helicopters, tranquilizer darts and the like, and I wondered why they just didn’t let the critter be. There’s no telling how the misguided animal…

  • Letters

    Proof that plan for redevelopment changed The homeowners have finally gotten their day in court, where the city’s claims that “they should have come forward sooner” and that “the plan has never changed” were debunked with clear physical evidence. The 1996 “Long Branch Redevelopment Plan” shows the MTOTSA neighborhood in green (green areas are designated…

  • Talks ongoing between Board of Ed., teachers

    Second meeting with state mediator set for April 12 BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN – The local teachers’ union and school board are closer to a contract than they have been, but are still hammering out the details. For now, Eatontown Board of Education President John Schiels remains optimistic that…

  • There’s a word for that, and the word is …

    Coda Greg Bean My son was looking for some important paperwork recently when my aging brain went into full-tilt freeze mode. It not only temporarily erased one word I was looking for in my memory bank, it erased two. “Where did you say the papers were?” he asked. “They’re out there in the thing under…

  • Letters

    Save Monmouth County before it’s too late More than half the people in the United States live within 50 miles of the ocean, and as this national shift continues, coastal environments like Monmouth County are expected to deteriorate from over-development. As more people move here, the very land that enchants us – the beaches, farmlands,…

  • District cheers approval $29.8M referendum

    Superintendent: Children of Eatontown will benefit BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN – By sometime in 2007, students at Memorial School might be able to walk their building’s hallways without dodging each other, and open locker doors. Recessed lockers to replace the stand-alone models now protruding into the corridors of the…

  • Obituaries

    Barbara A. Dean Mrs. Dean, 77, of Middletown, died March 20 at Meridian Nursing and Rehabilitation of Red Bank. Born in Belmar, she resided in Monmouth Beach before moving to Middletown several years ago. Mrs. Dean was a reading teacher for the Monmouth Beach Board of Education for more than 30 years, retiring in 1992.…