Category: Brick Bulletin News

CHRIS KELLY staff Colleen McKenna and Jesse O’Donnell help Riley Newport-Crecca, 8, to stay on his feet as he skates for the first time at the Ocean Ice Palace in Brick on Dec. 27. CHRIS KELLY staff

New Brick National prez hints politics could be involved BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Brick Township officials and police have stepped up an investigation into the way Brick National Little League officials kept or didn’t keep the organization’s books. “The township is doing an audit to quantify the amount of money that is unaccounted…

Longtime BOE member Frank M. Pannucci dies of a heart attack two days after transplant BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer For Nicole Pannucci, there was no turning back once she found out she was an organ donor match for her ailing father. Frank Pannucci’s first reaction was “absolutely not,” his daughter said, after she…

CHRIS KELLY staff A skater casts a long shadow at the Ocean Ice Palace in Brick on Dec. 27. CHRIS KELLY staff

Longtime dog lover makes a new friend BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer ERIC SUCAR staff Chuck Logdon has always been a dog person. The former longtime owner and manager of the Sunset Landing restaurant in Asbury Park and his late wife, Dotty, made sure there was a dog in their Thiele Road home while…

BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Brick Township Public Works Director Glen Campbell got a baptism of sorts when he coordinated his first major snowstorm over the weekend. Township streets were choked with nearly 2 feet of snow after the massive storm over the weekend. Brick officials said cars parked on the street hampered cleanup…

BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer “Unwarmed by any sunset light the gray day darkened into night, a night made hoary with the swarm and whirl-dance of the blinding storm” from “Snowbound” by John Greenleaf Whittier The early winter snowstorm that clobbered New Jersey recently could rank in the top 10 storms for the Shore…

CLAIRE SHEPROW Brick Township Historical Society member Janet Nielsen talks about Christmas in the 1800s at the society’s annual Christmas tour at the Havens Homestead Museum on Dec. 11. Story, more photos on page 3. CLAIRE SHEPROW

BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Officials in the Ocean County Democratic organization were shocked to learn that former longtime party chairman Al L. Santoro had pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in an Operation Bid Rig scheme. “I never expected Al would do anything like this,” said Vice Chairwoman Marta Harrison. “We’re shocked, surprised and…