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Sports Shorts
2009 Women’s Professional Soccer Champions Sky Blue FC is hosting its final open tryouts on Jan. 5 and 6 at Robbinsville Field House, 153 Manor Way in Robbinsville. The deadline to register is Jan. 3. The Sky Blue FC open tryouts are intended for college seniors or players who have completed their college eligibility, and…
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CHRIS KELLY staff A skater casts a long shadow at the Ocean Ice Palace in Brick on Dec. 27. CHRIS KELLY staff
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Testa gets an early start on spring training in Florida
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer It was a holiday break for some but former Brick Township High School baseball star Joe Testa is still hard at work preparing for the start of spring training for the Minnesota Twins in Fort Myers, Fla. The left-handed relief pitcher, who now lives in Jackson, said he is scheduled…
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Daughter’s gift of kidney fails to save father
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…
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Currie already prepping for 2010 season
Mustangs will lose number of key players to graduation this June BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer Brick Memorial High School’s football team will commemorate a great 7-5 season that ended in the NJSIAA Group IV championship game during a season-ending surge of five wins in the last six games. But coach Walt Currie also wants…
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Probe of Brick Nat’l Little League finances widens
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…
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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
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Dowling looks back at tough first season
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer The challenges Patrick Dowling faced going into the Brick Township High School football season were as much in his own backyard as in the team’s challenging schedule in the Shore Conference Constitution Division. Brick’s Nick Lantieri, 15, retrieves a pair of skates for someone at the Ocean Ice Palace, Brick,…
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Legislature urged to act on brain injury bill package
The New Jersey Legislature is considering the development of a task force that would help develop best practices for education professionals who work with students with traumatic brain injury. The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey respectfully calls on the state Legislature and the governor to approve of this Special Education and Traumatic Brain Injury…
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