Asbury Park Press from Asbury Park, New Jersey • Page 19

I Around the region The Long Branch Housing Authority breaks ground for a new park that will serve three nearby public housing projects and address a long-standing lack of recreation In the area. C3 Encroaching waters The water line gets closer on Loch Arbour beach (left) as residents cope with the Insatiable lappings of the Atlantic. C3 Freehold Township The Planning Board agrees to recommend that the Township Committee allow the Asbury Park Press and the Colts Pride at Freehold development to move soli to their properties. C7 On probation A West Long Branch man is sentenced in Crazy Eddie case. Page CIO Not so fresh Airlines should freshen their air, instead of drinks, critics say.

page CIO Old Bridge Township Superintendent of Schools Andrew Korshalla asks Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. to remove the antenna that has caused an uproar. C3 Old Bridge Mayor Barbara Cannon Is set to present a $41 .9 million budget to the council. C3 eg C2 -C3 C6 Town digest. Almanac Obituaries C- SECTION Thursday, July 21, 1994 Asbury Park Press 1 11 Mandate to build school MWjVJw is upheld Asbury Park teen hit, lolled by train By refusing to hear an appeal, the state Supreme Court lets stand a lower court ruling ordering construction of a Colts Neck Township high school.

Hid)-- P'y it By JEANNE JACKSON PRESS COASTAL MONMOUTH BUREAU ASBURY PARK A 15-year-old city boy was killed yesterday when he was hit by a train as he rode his bicycle around a gate to cross the railroad tracks, a fire captain said. Gregory Jones, Fifth Avenue, was apparently dead at the scene, after he was hit by the southbound NJ Transit train about 5:30 p.m. at Sixth Avenue and Memorial Drive, according to Fire Capt. Terry Weldon. Paramedics tried cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the scene and on the way to Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune, but the teen did not have any vital signs.

He was pronounced dead after the hospital also performed CPR, Weldon said. The left side of his skull had been crushed and there was a great deal of bleeding, he said. Torron Hubbard, a friend of Jones, said the boy had left a friend's house on Fifth Avenue and told his friends he was going to get something to eat at McDonald's. His friends started to worry when he did not return in 20 minutes, and they went to look for him, he said. Allen C.

Jones, no relation, the conductor, said a northbound train had pulled out of the station and Jones may have thought that the gates were down because of that train, and didn't see the southbound train to his left. The conductor was not available for further commment. Public Safety Director Frank DiBiano said there were two witnesses to the accident and they will be interviewed by police today. The train left Long Branch at 5:16 p.m., said NJ Transit spokeswoman Penny Bassett Hackett. It slowed into the Asbury Park train station and was probably traveling at 30 mph when it hit Jones.

The trains cannot slow down quickly. By the time an engineer sees someone on the tracks, it is usually too late, Hackett said. A train traveling at 60 mph needs 1,500 feet to stop, she said. Please see Train, page C4 PETER ACKERMANAsbury Park Preii Gregory Jones was killed when he rode his bicycle around a crossing gate. nil, Matawan to oppose takeover of station Sir 2 W2i I 5 il By ELLEN BRADFIELD PRESS CORRESPONDENT COLTS NECK TOWNSHIP The state's highest court has upheld the position that the Freehold Regional High School District must comply with a 1986 referendum to build a new high school here.

On Wednesday, the state Supreme Court issued its denial of the regional board's petition to hear an appeal of a 1993 decision by state Superior Court Judge Patrick J. McGann Jr. ordering the regional board to proceed immediately with plans to construct the school. A further petition to the Appellate Division was denied earlier this year. For Mayor Thomas McClintock and local Board of Education President John Burtnick, the decision represents an end to years of litigation, instituted by the Township Committee and school board after the regional board's decision four years ago not to use almost $30 million in bonds approved in a September 1986 referendum for the construction of the school.

In a joint statement issued last night, McClintock and Burtnick said, "It is our sincere hope that the (regional) board will now accept the ruling of the courts and proceed without further delaying tactics. Too much money and time have already been squandered on litigation and it is clearly time to put these resources to work on behalf of education." McClintock said he is gratified, but not surprised by the decision. "John Burtnick and I hope to meet with the regional board and administration to offer our assistance in getting construction under way. We want to assure them that there will be no delays from our Planning Board about getting on with this," he said. Regional board President Louis Goselin, reached by telephone, declined to comment on the decision, saying he just learned it had been released, but had not yet read it or discussed it with his colleagues.

McClintock and Burtnick believe the decision has come none too soon, citing increased elementary school enrollment in five of the regional's eight sending districts. Howell and Manalapan townships recently opened new middle schools to address the growth, while Colts Neck, Freehold and Marlboro townships hope to put building referen-dums before the voters later this year. "Since building a high school is a nearly four-year process, construction should begin promptly to avoid serious overcrowding of the high school system once this wave of new students reaches high school age," McClintock said. I jus on ft Making a historic house call 19th-century doctor's office moved By JAMES A. BRODERICK PRESS CORRESPONDENT MATAWAN The Borough Council will oppose a plan by NJ Transit to take over operation of the train station here effective Jan.

1. That was the theme of an announcement by Mayor Robert W. Shuey and Councilman John E. Shepherd Jr. at Tuesday's council meeting, concerning a recent notification received from NJ Transit officials.

Shepherd, who supervises borough operations at the station, said the council has formally contacted its representatives in the state Legislature, seeking their assistance in arranging a meeting with NJ Transit Executive Director Shirley A. DeLibem Representatives for the district are Sen. John O. Bennett III, Assemblywoman Clair M. Farragher and Assemblyman Michael J.

Ar-none, all R-Monmouth. In addition, Shepherd said, he has contacted Sen. Joseph M. Kyrillos Jr. and Assemblyman Joseph Azzolina, both R-Monmouth, who represented the borough before legislative redistricting.

The legislators, Shepherd said, also will be asked to lend their weight to efforts to retain the station under borough control. Shepherd, referring to a story in Monday's Asbury Park Press, disputed reports that the state agency is dissatisfied with the borough's maintenance of the station. "We've met continually with transit officials," Shepherd said, "and almost always concerning maintenance. Whatever they asked us to do, we did promptly and well, sometimes using other borough workers and equipment to complete the tasks." Shepherd said he frequently suggested maintenance that transit officials disapproved, such as repairs to broken sidewalks. "They told me it wasn't necessary," he said.

As to the painting of benches, one of the jobs the state officials said was lacking, Shepherd said he has deferred some minor maintenance tasks pending renewal of the borough's lease which expires in October. The agency has recently agreed to extend the current lease by two months, to Dec. 31, Shepherd said. Shepherd explained the potential loss of about $180,000 in parking revenues is not behind borough efforts to retain control of the station. Please see Station, page C7 By KRISTEN HALLAM PRESS MIDDLETOWN BUREAU HOLMDEL TOWNSHIP Gerald Ceres beamed like a new father.

A 35 mm camera dangled around his neck. He scurried from one side of McCampbell Road to the other, video camera in hand. "I can't believe it's finally happening," Ceres said. "We've waited for this for eight years." Ceres, president of the Holmdel Township Historical Society, was recording the move of a 171-year-old doctor's office from private property on the north side of McCampbell to the Village School on the south side. A handwritten sign reading "Bon Voyage, Little House" hung beneath the house's left front window.

The move marks the end of an eight-year battle over the fate of the building, involving developers, the Township Committee and the historical society. Only a few years ago, the demolition pf the doctor's office was a possibility, but now the building will be protected at its new site on public land, Ceres said. The 'listorical society will take possession of the house. The building is the oldest publicly preserved doctor's office in the county, and Please see Historic, page C5 -'7r) 4. -S- Millstone crowd demands a say in mining rules I By DIANE BAKST PRESS FREEHOLD BUREAU MILLSTONE TOWNSHIP Residents furious over the township's proposal to amend a recently adopted mining ordinance packed the municipal building last night to deliver a resounding request for inclusion in the decisionmaking process.

About 100 residents formed a standing-room-only crowd as the Township Committee was to introduce a set of revisions to a mining and soil removal ordinance passed in May. That ordinance required the miners to provide more frequent and specific work reports to the township and established mining fees to help offset the cost of increased traffic checks and police patrols of the mining pits. After that was adopted, Committeeman Seymour Littman and Mayor Frank J. Muzzi-cato met privately with the miners to, as the Please see Mining, page C4 A successful operation: Stan Butler (left), Stafford Township, prepares to heave a hunk of lumber that was part of the "bridge" used to move the Dr. Cooke house to a new site across McCampbell Road, Holmdel Township.

Later, Wayne Yarusi (top), of W.A. Contractors and Building Movers, Westfield, directs as Butler drives the flatbed truck across the road without disturbing the sign (above) that was hung on the house for the move. MICHAEL RAFFERTYAibury Park Prtit L- fft.