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  • Parents can take steps to keep from hurting children

    What should I do when my baby will not stop crying? How can I discipline my child without getting physical? Challenges like this face parents in Monmouth County each day. Children can be challenging; for all of the joy they bring, their behavior can interrupt a family outing, shopping trip and daily life. Without assistance,…

  • Writer fears labor dispute is behind recycling changes

    On March 22 I attended the Township Committee meeting in Freehold Township in order to express my strong objections to the changes in the scheduled hours of operation at the township recycling center. The new hours are a drastic cutback, which will be a hardship on all residents as well as an environmental disaster. After…

  • Students question school board candidates

    Candidates disagree on district BY DANIELLE MEDINA Correspondent BY DANIELLE MEDINACorrespondent CHRIS KELLY staff The four Brick Township Board of Education candidates (r-l) Dr. William Boyan, Virginia Reinhold, Frank Pannucci and Dan Rosa, listen to questions from Brick Township High School students April 4. They may be too young to cast a ballot in this…

  • Members of teachers union are making concessions on contract

    While I am encouraged by Herbert Resnick’s interest in Marlboro’s new contract (“Business Graduates Should Negotiate Teacher Contracts,” April 5), I am disheartened by his ignorance of certain facts and his apparent lack of understanding of the negotiations process itself. Collective bargaining is an arduous and complex task, governed by its own constraints and requiring…

  • Board of Education candidates

    Dr. William Boyan* Age: 49 Has lived in Brick for: 18 years Experience: Member of the Board of Education for six years Profession: Practices internal medicine Family: Married to Christine; children — Lauren, a student at Drexel University; and William and Michael, both at Brick Memorial High School Virginia Reinhold Age: 53 Has lived in…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Joe Pankewics, 17, (far right), listens with fellow students from Brick Township High School during a Candidates Night April 4.

  • Obituaries

    Ann “Nancy” McGrath Mrs. McGrath, of Manalapan, died March 28 at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born in New York City, she moved to Manalapan 40 years ago and was a communicant of St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Church, Manalapan. She enjoyed vacationing at the Jersey Shore, taking trips to Atlantic City and seeing Broadway…

  • Get out there and vote

    The annual school board elections will take place Tuesday, April 19. This is the only chance that New Jersey residents get to vote on something that brings them a direct, and substantial, tax impact. In Brick, under this year’s $124,310,790 school budget, approximately $73.8 million will be raised by the tax levy. If approved by…

  • Credit card offers: Pay now and keep on paying

    Greg Bean Coda By today’s standards, my grandmother had some pretty strange ideas about money. For one thing, as a survivor of the stock market crash and bank failures of the Great Depression, she refused to keep her money in a bank during a Republican presidential administration. She blamed the Republicans for everything bad that…