Category: Atlanticville Opinion
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Borough school budget with 6 percent increase passed
Borough school budget with 6 percent increase passed Plan calls for spending more than $3.5 million in 2002-03 school year By Sherry conohan Staff Writer MONMOUTH BEACH — A school budget of $3,549,325, which will allow for hiring a half-time librarian and bringing the Spanish teacher in for a fifth day every week, has been…
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Guest Column Michael J. Pagones West Long Branch too small for school’s growth (An open letter to members of the West Long Branch Borough Council)
Guest Column Michael J. Pagones West Long Branch too small for school’s growth (An open letter to members of the West Long Branch Borough Council) I have read with great interest the issue of the Kilkare farm and the plans of Monmouth University to turn it into a parking lot. I am proud of the…
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The Eatontown Pop Warner football organization is getting a sense of how agonizingly slow the wheels of a governmentLet’s hope latest delay for Pop Warner is last bureaucracy can turn.
The Eatontown Pop Warner football organization is getting a sense of how agonizingly slow the wheels of a governmentLet’s hope latest delay for Pop Warner is last bureaucracy can turn. In its quest to build a suitable storage and organizational facility for the teams in its program, the group has found the Board of Education…
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University wants construction to end, too
In response to Mr. Jacoby’s Feb. 28 letter, "Overpass Expansion Resembles Hol-land Tunnel," I would like to share some insight into the New Jersey Department of Transporta-tion’s (NJDOT) decision to build an underpass instead of an overpass across Route 71/Cedar Avenue. As a concerned neighbor and a member of the community, Monmouth University has a…
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Don’t combine authorities; eliminate Highway Authority
Don’t combine authorities; eliminate Highway Authority Citizens Against Tolls has learned Gov. James E. McGreevey will soon present his plan to combine the New Jersey Highway and the New Jersey Turnpike authorities. Unless there is a significant cut in costs throughout the bureaucratic structure of these authorities, we do not see many reasons to proceed…
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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. CHARLES "TODD" BALL JR., 74, of Hood River, Ore. died Jan. 23. Born in East Orange, he was raised and educated in Long Branch. He was a…
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Borough facing 6 percent school tax hike
MONMOUTH BEACH — A proposed school budget of $3,549,325 that will require an increase of 4.75 cents in the tax rate has been introduced by the Board of Education. A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. March 26. The proposed budget, introduced at the board’s March 14 meeting, is up $168,008…
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Zoners must not be in a rush to judge
Last week the members of the West Long Branch Zoning Board of Adjust-ment set out to fail. That may seem like a crazy notion, but there really is no other explanation for the board’s attempt to vote on an application without allowing objectors to testify, particularly when you consider that the board was voting on…
