Category: Brick Bulletin News

  • ‘The Matrix Reloaded’ runs out of ammo

    Movie Critic By michael s. goldberger If you venture out to see The Matrix Reloaded, a typical sequel that trades on the original’s popularity but which delivers hardly more than special-effects razzle-dazzle and little creativity, please hope it isn’t raining. You see, wearing a sandwich board that gives away the ending, I’ll be stationed outside…

  • Word on the Street

    Word on the Street I’d like to see fewer developments being put up. They need to stop building new houses, condos and big projects. — Erin Byers Brick What improvements would you like to see in Brick? Traffic flow needs to be improved, as well as repaving the roads. — Justin Hudson Brick Recreational parks…

  • Landfill will accept dredged spoils

    Officials: Accepting fill on Superfund site will yield significant revenues By karl vilacobaStaff Writer By karl vilacoba Staff Writer Brick has executed an interlocal agreement with the Borough of Belmar to dump dredge spoils at the former Brick Township Landfill, Sally Ike Road, and may soon allow other municipalities to do the same. According to…

  • Zoners OK Traders’ Cove use variance

    Applicant Paramount Properties must return for formal site plan phaseCorrespondent By danielle medina Applicant Paramount Properties must return for formal site plan phase Correspondent VERONICA YANKOWSKI Jackson-based Paramount Properties, LLC, was granted a use variance by the Zoning Board of Adjustment to redevelop the Traders’ Cove marina, Mantoloking Road, as condominiums, a restaurant and a…

  • Talks under way to buy vacant Foodtown site

    Admin. exploring funding options; may sell other tract once eyed for rec center By karl vilacobaStaff Writer VERONICA YANKOWSKI The Brick Township Council recently passed a $5.95 million bonding ordinance to pay for the vacant Foodtown tract, Route 70 and Brick Boulevard. Admin. exploring funding options; may sell other tract once eyed for rec center…

  • MUA convinced Home Depot plan a risk to water supply

    Applicants seeVortechnics systemas adequate protection By karl vilacobaStaff Writer Applicants see Vortechnics system as adequate protection By karl vilacoba Staff Writer VERONICA YANKOWSKI Many in Brick are against a Home Depot being built adjacent to the banks of Forge Pond. The pond is the source of drinking water for Brick and a few other surrounding…

  • Brick prays for troops, a lasting peace to come

    Residents gather forinterfaith service at the Church of the Visitation By karl vilacobaStaff Writer Brick prays for troops, a lasting peace to come Residents gather for interfaith service at the Church of the Visitation By karl vilacoba Staff Writer VERONICA YANKOWSKI Stephany Klein performs with the Visitation Bell Choir during the National Day of Prayer…

  • First mental illness walk in state on Sunday

    Mount Holly selected as pilot site by nonprofit group NAMI NJ By jennifer kohlheppStaff Writer By jennifer kohlhepp Staff Writer They’ve talked the talk for 18 years, and now they, and others, will walk the walk. As New Jersey’s voice on mental illness for the past 18 years, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill…

  • Man charged with receipt scam at Target store

    By karl vilacobaStaff Writer By karl vilacoba Staff Writer BRICK — A Neptune man was charged with robbery last week following an altercation with loss prevention officers outside of the Target department store, Route 70. Ronald Swanson Jr., 38, was accused of gathering store receipts off the ground at the Target parking lot as part…