Long Branch News

LONG BRANCH - When the city started planning its redevelopment two decades ago, officials intentionally started with the oceanfront, expecting progress there to eventually spread across Ocean Boulevard to the blighted Broadway corridor.

Aaron Karol's friends and family will never forget his exuberant optimism, contagious laugh and easy going and down-to-earth approach to life that touched everyone around him and left them feeling a little lighter and happier.

TUCKERTON Anyone looking for knockoff designer handbags at Saturday's Christkindlmarkt was out of luck.

EATONTOWN - After another contentious Planning Board meeting and up to $10,000 in additional taxpayer funds being spent on planning, the borough is no closer to having a solution for the dilemma that is the Old Orchard Country Club.

Very quickly this morning, snow began to fall thickly from cloudy skies, coating the landscape outside our windows in white.

Owners of the Old Orchard Country Club sent a mailer to residents backing a proposed controversial land use change of their property to commercial along Route 36 and open space in the rear, which is up for a public hearing at 7:30 p.m., tonight.

By Christopher Sheldon Senator Jennifer Beck has taken a stance against a proposed liquified natural gas port that would be located 24 miles off the Long Branch Coast.

It's been more than a year since Superstorm Sandy. But on Saturday, a small cadre of bulldozers rumbled back and forth along the oceanfront in Long Branch, pushing huge piles of sand into place as part of yet another post-storm beach replenishment project.

New Jersey Repertory Company will present the world premiere of "Admit One", a new comedy by Wendy Yondorf playing January 16 through February 16, 2014 at 179 Broadway in Long Branch.

Sen. Jennifer Beck is leading legislators' opposition to a proposed liquified natural gas terminal off the Monmouth County coast.

The number of incidents of harassment, intimidation and bullying in the 2012-13 school year has dropped off by 36 percent since the previous school year, according to the State Department of Education.

A pair of Monmouth County men accused of possessing heroin in Middletown and resisting arrest were indicted on those charges this week.

It's sometimes called "highway hypnosis" or "white-line fever," and it's familiar to anyone who has ever driven long distances along a monotonous route.

Robin Ann Brooks, 45, Long Branch was arrested after she was seen with a knife near the Long Branch Middle School on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

An artist's conceptual rendering of what the new Sea View Towers will look like on the Long Branch beachfront.

A handwritten, working lyric sheet for Bruce Springsteen 's 1975 hit "Born to Run" could sell for as much as $100,000 on Thursday, Sotheby's has predicted.

By Christopher Sheldon The plan to build a new condos in place of Sea View Towers in Long Branch will be heard for the second time on Wednesday.

By Christopher Sheldon The Army Corps of Engineers are in the midst of replenishing most of Long Branch's beaches.

Residents objecting to a proposed Walgreens to be located at the confluence of Broad Street, Route 35 and three local roads got some good news at Mondays planning board hearing that the company has no plans to make it in to a 24-hour store.

Law enforcement officials will be cracking down on drunk drivers as part of the annual holiday season "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" statewide campaign.