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Foodtown, Bradlees buildings razed
Demolition of Route 70 eyesore years in the making BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer The old Foodtown building is now part of Brick Township’s history. More than half of the dilapidated old Foodtown building is now gone. Demolition crews moved in late last week to begin taking it down. The razing is the first…
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BMHS girls soccer team gives coach his 250th win
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer BRICK TOWNSHIP — Coach Bill Caruso could not remember the last time that Brick Memorial High School’s girls soccer team went scoreless for three games in a row. “It’s been a while,” Caruso said as his team slipped into third place in Shore Conference A South after a pair of…
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Memory, behavioral expert will speak
Clinical psychologist Dr. Mitchell Slutzky will speak on a treatment model for memory impairment 6 p.m. Oct. 15 at The Worthington, 458 Jack Martin Blvd., Brick. A light supper will be served. RSVP to 732-206-9800.
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Cost to Brick school employees for health care premiums? Zero
But school officials say district reaps big savings in higher co-pays and direct-access plans BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer It will be another three years before the Brick Township Board of Education can ask school district employees to pay anything toward the cost of their health care premiums. And that angered a number of…
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Lillian Strakele Haines
Mrs. Haines, 88, of Rumson, died Sept. 11, 2009, at home. She had resided in the Colonia section of Woodbridge, Clark, and Sea Bright before relocating to Rumson 30 years ago. She was a secretary in Westfield and previously had been a secretary at Arthur L. Johnson Regional High School, Clark. Mrs. Haines was predeceased…
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Green Dragons win over Mid’town North on field goal
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer Football is a game of inches. But in the case of Brick Township High School’s team, it was a game of a foot — the foot of kicker Patrick Kearns — on Sept. 25. Kearns hit a field goal from 25 yards out, his second this season, with seven minutes…
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Start walking for a longer, healthier life this weekend
There is a movement afoot. It is taking place across the country to address the crisis of rising health care costs, physical inactivity and adult obesity facing our nation. The American Heart Association’s Start! campaign is a bold movement to get America walking again. Te focus of Start! is simple: Walk more. Eat well. Live…
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Rotary clubs will hold blood drive
The Brick Rotary and the Brick Morning Rotary Clubs will hold a blood drive from 2-8 p.m. Oct. 1 at The Mansion in the Brick Plaza Shopping Center behind A&P. To sign up, call Roger at 732-255-2557 or Gene-Ann at 732-239-6928.
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School board president defends changes in public comment rule
BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Brick Township Board of Education President Daniel J. Woska said the new public comment rules should make it easier for residents to get the information they want. “It’s to the public’s advantage,” he said recently. “Now they get the full time to ask or comment on what they want.”…
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