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Brick Township H.S. girls soccer team gearing up for season
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer Alack of offensive punch in recent years was compounded by injuries last season but Brick Township High School girls soccer coach Mike Berardinelli had some solutions. “It’s been a challenge the last couple of years but right now, it doesn’t seem as much a concern as in the past,” Berardinelli…
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New Jersey cannot survive four more years of Jon Corzine
Our state cannot survive another four years of a public leader who has shown nothing but contempt for the will of the people and arrogance that knows no bounds. It is imperative that our state be freed from the disastrous and failed policies of Jon Corzine’s administration. We were promised that our state’s finances would…
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Catherine O’Hara Lake
Mrs. Lake, 78, of Brick, died Aug. 23, 2009, at Ocean Medical Center, Brick. She lived in the Parlin section of Old Bridge for 44 years before moving to Brick in 1999. Mrs. Lake was employed by the Old Bridge Board of Education at Madison Park School as a lunchroom aid for 25 years. Her…
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Medical unit to visit Head Start programs
Ocean Health Initiatives Inc. (OHI) has announced that the OHI mobile medical unit will be stopping at several local Head Start program sites in September to conduct dental exams as well as hearing and vision tests specifically for the children participating in those specific Head Start program sites. The mobile medical unit will visit the…
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Teen’s family, friends pack courtroom for killer’s hearing
Sleep still comes hard for mother five years after daughter’s 2004 murder BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer In the end, the man who pummeled 16-year-old Brittney Gregory to death did not face her family and friends who packed an Ocean County courtroom last week. PATRICIA A. MILLER Brittney Gregory’s mother Debra Gregory, (far right)…
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Caruso hoping for return trip to state soccer tourney
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer Briana Fischer remembers previous years when she and the Brick Memorial girls soccer team went on a preseason retreat for some bonding off the field and tightening their team play on the field. But this year’s getaway from Aug. 9 to Aug. 12 to at the Dan Duquette Sports Academy…
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TNR is a misguided attempt at controlling overpopulation
The terms can be confusing — feral cats, wild cats, stray cats, domesticated cats, house cats. A feral cat is defined as an unowned and untamed domestic cat, born in the wild and without direct human contact. Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) seems like a cure for our feral-cat problems; however, this is the furthest thing from the…
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John H. Hanemann
Mr. Hanemann, 65, of Long Branch, died Aug. 26, 2009, at St. Barnabas Hospice at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. He was a member of Commodity Exchange Inc., New York City, since 1970, and named vice chairman of its governors committee in 2001. He was elected as president of the Commodity Floor Brokers and Traders…
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O.C. Library will be closed for Labor Day
All branches of the Ocean County Library will be closed Sept. 7 in observance of the Labor Day holiday and will resume normal branch hours on Sept. 8. The library’s website, www.theoceancountylibrary. org, and its free databases will be available during that time. For further information, call the library at 732-349-6200.
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