Jury Raises Price For City On Condemnation

A jury has given Fred and Dorothy Strahlendorf what they say Long Branch would not-a fair price for their home On July 15, a six-person sitting in Superior Court Judge Ronald L. Reisner’s Freehold courtroom ruled that the $179,000 value the city placed on the Strahlendorf’s two-story home was not adequate and awarded the longtime city residents $500,000 for their house and property which is just 235 feet from the city’s beachfront….[ William] Ward argued in court that the property was enhanced by its very location of being one house in from the beach. – By Carolyn O’Connell, Staff writer