Category: Brick Bulletin Opinion

Residents saw the ‘real’ Mayor Scarpelli at Oct. 7 meeting Did anyone see the explosive meeting at Brick Town Hall on Oct. 7? If you weren’t there, you missed the best "Jerry Springer Show" that Mayor Joseph Scarpelli could produce. He attacked Republican Councilman Stephen Acropolis in an attempt to discredit him regarding some three-year-old…

Correspondent BY DANIELLE MEDINA BRICK –– The Board of Education last week released its annual report on violence and vandalism in Brick’s schools, and while the number of overall incidents decreased from the previous year, the district saw a rise in the number of vandalism and substance abuse reports. "The staff should be commended for…

The topic of televising Township Council meetings on Brick’s public access station received bipartisan verbal support at last week’s meeting. Judging by the typically low attendance at these meetings, we’ve always been skeptical of whether this would be worth the trouble. If 50 times more people watched on TV than attended, that would still only…

Art SholtyGuest ColumnResident voices disgust at aspects of last week Your Turn Art Sholty Guest Column Resident voices disgust at aspects of last week’s argumentative Township Council meeting Art Sholty Guest Column Resident voices disgust at aspects of last week’s argumentative Township Council meeting I attended the Brick Township Council meeting Oct. 7 and was…

As a longtime resident of Brick Township, I have often wondered why the main route to our beautiful beach areas has been so shoddy and rundown. When I learned a developer wanted to turn a long-neglected marina at Traders’ Cove on Mantoloking Road into an upscale condominium complex with a restaurant and marina, like Brielle…

Now that we, the taxpayers, have closed on the Foodtown site for $6.1 million, I would like to ask the administration who will be responsible for any injuries or accidents that may occur on that property while they figure out what to do with the site. Many people use this site to meet, carpool, shortcut…

Pick up a newspaper on any given day, in any given part of the country, and the chances are good you’ll read about a group of residents opposed to a development. These stories always seem to end the same. The local politicians, after being elected on pledges of curbing overdevelopment, do nothing. If they’re lucky,…

It seems, from the governor’s office all the way down to my hometown of Brick, politicians have certainly learned how to feather their nests at the expense of the taxpayers. I’m getting behind the GRIP (Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians) movement and voting out all incumbent politicians because it’s time to start the massive cleanup…

After constantly sitting through two to three lights trying to make a left-hand turn onto Old Hooper Avenue from Drum Point Road West, I circulated a petition to get a left-hand arrow put on the corner. Within two weeks I had more than 1,300 signatures. I forwarded them to the Ocean County Board of Chosen…