Category: Atlanticville Opinion

  • If you want good spin, it’s gonna cost you

    Coda Greg Bean Sometimes, I think I’m in the wrong end of the publishing business — the wrong end being the end where people aren’t lining up to give me vast amounts of money to say nice things about them. According to a recent article posted on Adweek.com, the Bush administration and other federal agencies…

  • Anna Little wins freeholder seat

    Highlands councilwoman surprise victor in GOP vote for freeholder BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer Clockwise from top: Newly elected county Freeholder Anna Little speaks after her upset victory over four candidates on Saturday in Manalapan. Little, currently a Highlands councilwoman, will attend her first freeholders’ meeting March 9. Little receives a…

  • This grant was made for walkin’

    BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer OCEAN — Walking is good for the body, and may soon be good for the wallet as well. The township’s Human Services Department has applied for a Leaders Academy for Healthy Community Development Grant from the state Department of Health and Senior Services in order to…

  • Letters

    Bush is overboard on issue of U.S. ports President Bush is spying on private calls and communications, yet he is ready and willing to let a foreign nation-controlled corporation take control over six of our major shipping ports. President Bush says the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a good friend of ours — and we…

  • WLB police officers move up in the ranks

    Stahl, Gomez, Kramer take on new police duties BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer West Long Branch WEST LONG BRANCH –– When the borough’s police chief and captain came forward to formally assign duties to three newly promoted officers before a standing-room-only crowd last week inside the Borough Council’s chambers, you could…

  • School board candidates in Eatontown, WLB

    Four candidates, including two incumbents, are running for three, three-year terms. On the Eatontown School District Board of Education. The two incumbents are Frederic Naimoli, of Sherwood Drive, and George Marcouiller, of Wall Street; newcomers are Denise Kisijara, of White Street, and Julie Robertson, of Mackenzie Road. Marcouiller is now completing a one-year unexpired term…

  • Obituaries

    George W. Hock Mr. Hock, 83, of the Port Monmouth section of Middletown, died Feb. 14 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in Irvington, he had resided in Newark and in Middletown before moving to Port Monmouth. Mr. Hock was a sheet metal worker with Sheet Metal Workers Local 25, Carlstadt, for 40 years,…

  • Letters

    Referendum will This has undoubtedly been one of the tougher years on the residents of Eatontown. We all had our fingers crossed hoping the federal Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) would pass by Fort Monmouth when considering base closings. Some of us were reminiscing about the gas lines of the 1970s as we watched…

  • Obituaries

    Marie Galloway Brossa Mrs. Brossa, 77, of Eatontown, died Jan. 22. Before her retirement, she was a nurse at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. Mrs. Brossa is survived by five sons, Cliff, John, Patrick, Robert and Luther Brossa; two daughters, Nancy and Rosemarie; 19 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. The Braun Funeral Home, Eatontown, was in…