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Friday, February 8, 2013

Shore Regional and Eatontown School Districts Cancel Weekend Events

After-school events at Shore Regional and West Long Branch Schools cancelled

Shore Regional High School and the Eatontown School District have cancelled all events this weekend because of the snowstorm that will be hitting the Long Branch-Eatontown area in the next few hours. All Friday evening activities at Shore Regional and all after-school activities at the West Long Branch School District have been cancelled as well. Shore Regional posted the following announcement on its web site on Friday afternoon: • ALL evening (after 6pm) activities for Friday 2/8 have been cancelled at SRHS. Building must be unoccupied by 6pm. • ALL Saturday (2/9) events have been cancelled. Building will be closed (completely) to allow for anticipated snow removal. • ALL Community events scheduled for Sunday have been cancelled. • High …

Bob English

4:42 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013

Eatotontown Memorial School Italian Dinner is still being held on Friday night/tonight from 430 to 600 PM.   more ›

Thursday, November 8, 2012

UPDATE: Long Branch School District Closed Again Thursday

Thursday's nor'easter caused latest closure

  The Long Branch School District will remain closed on Thursday, Nov. 8, school officials announced early this morning. The school has been closed since Monday, Oct. 29, because of Hurricane Sandy. A message on the school district's web site states that Thursday's closure is due to "streets with low-lying power and cable lines, which school buses cannot travel." A message on the school district's Facebook page states that the district anticipates reopening all schools on Friday. The original plan was to have half days today and Friday, but the nor'easter and the several inches of snow it brought to the area changed that.

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Peter Koenig

3:20 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Respectfully: JCPL - really, FirstEnergy of Akron, Ohio - is entirely responsible for this disaster. Throughout the aftermath, it continuously posted bogus restoration predictions, and refused to provide reliable or meaningful information. When I called "JCPL" the call was taken by a FirstEnergy dolt in Akron who did not know where Long Branch was, kept asking me "what township" I lived in, and …   more ›

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

West Long Branch Schools to Have Early Dismissals Again on Thursday

Temperatures expected to rise again tomorrow

West Long Branch Public Schools students will be dismissed early again on Thursday due to extreme heat. On Wednesday, the district announced that Frank Antonides will have an early dismissal at 12:15 p.m. and Betty McElmon Elementary School students will be dismissed at 12:45 p.m. Afternoon preschool classes have been cancelled as well. Students were dismissed early on Wednesday because of the rise of temperatures to the mid nineties.  The Jersey Shore area is expected to see similar temperatures on Thursday before falling into the mid-eighties on Friday. Here is the National Weather Service Report for Thursday and Friday: Thursday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny, with a high near 91. West wind between 7 and …

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