• Columbus Day parade slated for Oct. 11

    The 18th annual Ocean County Columbus Day Parade will be held Oct. 11 on the Boulevard in Seaside Heights at 1 p.m. According to Michael Blandina, parade chairman, many new organizations and groups will be participating for the first time this year. Annual favorites such as the Sicilian Cart, the Italian Gondola and the Italian…

  • Knights of Columbus to go to Citi Field

    The Knights of Columbus Council 836 is sponsoring a trip to Citi Field for a New York Mets-Atlanta Braves game on Sept. 21. Limited box seats are available at $119 per person. Send checks payable to the Brick Knights of Columbus Council 836 to Camille Frederick, 586 Charles Drive, Brick, NJ 08723 or call 732-920-7538.

  • Library will celebrate Lighthouse Challenge

    Several branches of the Ocean County Library will host lighthouse-themed programs to celebrate the 10th annual New Jersey Lighthouse Society’s Lighthouse Challenge, which seeks to raise awareness of the 24 lighthouses in New Jersey. The Jackson library, 2 Jackson Drive, will host Bob Volpe of the New Jersey Lighthouse Society. He will present the history…

  • Triathlon to benefit Dottie’s House

    Friends of Dottie’s House will hold its second annual triathlon 8:30 a.m. Oct. 11 at Island Beach State Park, Seaside Park. The event will also offer a duathlon for those that don’t swim. Last year’s triathlon sold out. This year the event will be limited to the first 350 registrants. If registered prior to Sept.…

  • Knights to visit St. Jude’s Shrine

    The Brick Knights of Columbus Council 836 is sponsoring a trip to St. Jude’s Shrine in Baltimore on Nov. 21. Participants will attend the noon Healing and Anointing Mass, tour the shrine and go to the gift shop and visitors center. The fee of $69 per person is due Aug. 1 and includes round-trip deluxe…

  • Tickets for Phillies, Radio City available

    A limited number of tickets are available to see the Philadelphia Phillies take on the New York Mets Sept. 11 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. The cost of $55 per person includes round-trip bus transportation to the stadium and a ticket to the game. The bus will leave Civic Plaza on Chambers Bridge Road…

  • Program held on foreclosure prevention

    The Ocean County Board of REALTORS ® and the Monmouth County Association of REALTORS® presented a Foreclosure Prevention Program to its members and related professionals. The event was held in the Mancini Room of the Ocean County Library on Washington Street in Toms River. Representatives from Chase, the New Jersey Home Mortgage Finance Agency, and…

  • 2nd Floor Youth Helpline volunteers lend an ear 24/7

    Call volume up, donations down in weakened economy BY RACHEL HOFFMAN Correspondent The phone is ringing. Simone Perry is poised and ready for action in a small wooden cubicle, headset firmly framing her young face, long braided tendrils of hair neatly tucked underneath. She’s come all the way from Brooklyn, N.Y., to pick up the…

  • Mates for life

    ERIC SUCAR staff Two monarch butterflies mate with each other at the Butterfly Charities in Brick on Aug. 27. The nonprofit butterfly exhibit at 570 Mantoloking Road donates admission fees to charities.

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