Category: Atlanticville Opinion

  • Time to aim higher in coastal preservation

    TimDillingham Tim Dillingham Last year was a year of bad reviews for the coast. The Environmental Pro-tection Agency led off with an assessment of the nation’s estuaries that found them to be "in fair to poor condition," with our own northeastern estuaries rated as poor. The U.S. Oceans Commission released a review of the health…

  • City needs to focus on fighting fires, not legal battles

    When your house is on fire in Long Branch, who are you going to call — the high priced lawyer from North Jersey or the paid firefighter who is two minutes away from your house? I read last week’s front-page story in the Atlanticville about how the City of Long Branch continues to waste our…

  • NJCWW thanks supporters of annual education week

    New Jersey Community Water Watch’s (NJCWW) third annual Education Week was an enormous success. Thanks to the cooperation of student volunteers, community members, schools, and businesses across the state, NJCWW AmeriCorps members were able to educate nearly 3,300 students, grades pre-K through 8. Starting in Camden on Monday and finishing the week in Newark on…

  • GERTHA MAE PITTS, 68, of the Cliffwood Beach section of Aberdeen, died Jan. 14 at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel, following a lengthy illness. Born in Tuskegee, Ala., she moved to New Jersey in 1956. She was a master presser at Miller’s Cleaners, Freehold, for 15 years. She was a former member of the New Mount…

  • City, state miss mark on conflicts of interest

    When the Long Branch City Council changed its ethics ordinance, it cleared up some ambiguous language in the statute. Unfortu-nately, while the statute is unquestionably clearer, it remains largely meaningless. The revision used as the state’s standard for a conflict of interest is the standard soon to be in use for the city. The creation…

  • Board offering course to boost math scores

    Eighth-graders By Sherry conohanStaff Writer By Sherry conohan Staff Writer MONMOUTH BEACH — To help students pass the math portion of the state-mandated Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment test (GEPA) this year, the Monmouth Beach School is offering a six-week cram course outside of regular classroom studies. The course is intended to boost the performance of…

  • Toll booths are massive generators of accidents

    Guest ColumnJohnMillett Guest Column John Millett Citizens Against Tolls (CAT) has released data clearly illustrating the high number of accidents at or within 2.8 miles of the 11 Garden State Parkway (GSP) toll plazas. This information, extracted from a New Jersey Department of Transportation data base based on police reports, covers four years, 1997-2000. The…

  • OBITUARIES

    Greater Media Newspapers prints obituaries as a free community service, at no charge to the families of the deceased or to the funeral homes that provide the information. THOMAS G. THOMPSON, 53, of Pompano Beach, Fla., died Dec. 28 at home following a short illness. Born in Newark, he resided in the Elberon section of…

  • Poor performance holds up school’s passing grade

    Eighth-grade class GEPA math test scores did notmeet state standards By Sherry conohanStaff Writer Eighth-grade class GEPA math test scores did not meet state standards By Sherry conohan Staff Writer MONMOUTH BEACH — The failure of last year’s eighth-graders to score a passing grade on the state-mandated math test has resulted in the Monmouth Beach…