Mayor Helen Marchetti Park
The public hearing on an ordinance to rename the Center Avenue park as Helen Marchetti park will be held at the October 12 meeting of the Mayor and Council, after being introduced as the last meeting by Councilman Brian Dougherty and unanimously approved.
Dougherty, who has been a next-door neighbor of the former Mayor for many years, introduced the ordinance and noted the park is on the same street and two blocks away from where the nonagenarian lived her entire life with the exception of a few years.
Dougherty noted Mrs. Marchetti was born in the house and was always “the fiercest defender of Atlantic Highlands” and noted that “no one ever loved Atlantic Highlands more than Helen Marchetti.”
The former Mayor, the first woman to serve as mayor of the Borough, died Sept. 19 at the age of 98.
