Clock ticking on Howard Commons
GSA giving borough less than two months to
deliver plan on housing
By sherry conohan
Staff Writer
      In a surprise move, the federal General Services Administration has given the borough of Eatontown 50 days to come up with a plan for development of Howard Commons, the Fort Monmouth housing complex that’s being converted to civilian use.
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      CHRIS KELLY A staircase to the upper floors of Sunrise Apartments on Cooper Avenue, Long Branch, is what remains after demolition crews went to work earlier this week.
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Responding to complaint, state probing nonprofit
Six fire companies
express confidence in Fund Drive Association
By carolyn o’connell
Staff Writer
      A state agency is investigating the operation of the Long Branch Fire Department Fund Drive Associa-tion.
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Making a friend from bits of fabric and fur
Shop goes beyond selling teddy bears to teaching the art of sewing them
By gloria stravelli
Staff Writer
      It isn’t all snip, snip, stitch, stitch in Leslie Bennett’s workroom.
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Black liberation flag raised at Monmouth U.
Annual ceremony kicks off Black History Month activities at university
By Sherry conohan
Staff Writer
      WEST LONG BRANCH — After listening to a litany of inventions by African Americans that have helped make America what it is today, a knot of about 15 people watched as the black liberation flag was raised over the campus of Monmouth University Feb. 1 to kick off Black History Month.
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DWI charge comes for fire chief in Jan. 6 accident
      EATONTOWN — The borough fire chief was charged with driving while intoxicated at the time of an automobile accident in which his fire department vehicle, an SUV, was totaled.
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~ Notes Around Town ~
      Eatontown Mayor Gerald J. Tarantolo was happy to report the receipt of a cable television franchise fee check in the amount of $44,572.
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      CHRIS KELLY Rubble is what remains of the 27-unit apartment building, the Sunrise, which will be replaced by new structures at Beachfront South in Long Branch.
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Personal stories bring experience of WW II to life
Brookdale producing series highlighting
32 veterans’ service
By sherry conohan
Staff Writer
      Before Gilmon Brooks was a witness to history, he made a little history of his own. Brooks, who grew up as an Army brat, was in Iwo Jima during World War II when six U.S. Marines raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi, a moment captured for generations to come by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal.
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Approval signals rise in
downtown development
Five-store project to be built at corner of Union and Liberty avenues
By CAROLYN O’CONNELL
Staff Writer
      LONG BRANCH — A new building, a new look and more amenities are in store for lower Broadway. John A. Brockriede, a resident and longtime developer in the city, received Planning Board approval to move forward with a commercial building that is designed to hold five businesses on the corners of Liberty and Union avenues on property he purchased about six years ago.
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Pets perish
in house fire
By carolyn o’connell
Staff Writer
      OCEANPORT — An overburdened extension cord is suspected as the cause of a fire that killed six family pets and left two borough residents without a home. The borough’s fire department was called to the home of Donna Shaw and her daughter Allyson, 47 Sagamore Ave., to fight the blaze which reportedly began around 8:30 a.m. on Sunday. "When the volunteer firefighters arrived, the fire was coming out of the front windows and smoke (was coming out) from the rest of the home," said Fire Chief Rick Gallo.
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