• BTHS American Legion team hung on despite problems

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer Brick Township High School’s frustrating varsity spring season fell short of expectations with six wins because of a lack of timely hitting. But there were signs of some improvement over the summer during the American Legion season. Just like during the spring season, the rainy weather challenged the team’s ability…

  • Sept. school referendum draws questions and criticism

    No public support for $172.7M plans at Twp. Council meeting BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer School district officials and the architect for the upcoming referendum had a hard time selling the $172.7 million project to some audience members at a recent Brick Township Council meeting. “I’m very angry,” Greenbriar resident Nan Coll said after…

  • Brick National falls in Cal Ripken World Series

    Errors again took their toll as Brick National’s state championship team was eliminated in the Cal Ripken Big League World Series, 15-7, on Aug. 3, by Eastern New York-Albany in the loser’s bracket at Widener College in Chester, Pa. “I was worried about hitting, and it was fine and our pitching was great, but our…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Bill Bittel, Brick, relaxes next to his 1991 Camaro during a car show sponsored by the Brick Morning Rotary Club at Brick Township High School on Aug. 8.

  • TCNJ’s James, Hamilton prepping for upcoming season

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer Quarterback controversy? What quarterback controversy? That was the tone of The College of New Jersey senior quarterback Chris James of Brick and his coach, Eric Hamilton, as they talked about the upcoming season. Although James and fellow quarterback Bill Picatagi return from last year’s team that finished 4-6 and is…

  • Brick American heads to Cal Ripken World Series

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer It’s off to Aberdeen, Md., for the Brick American Major League All-Star team. The squad was slated to board a bus at 2 p.m. Aug. 13 to play in the Cal Ripken World Series this weekend after winning its second straight Mid-Atlantic Region championship. The team, which also won the…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Team Shore Thing’s Jordan Beverly tries to earn backpoints against Team Pa Juicers’ Davey Firestone in the 135-pound class during the “Battle at the Beach” National High School Coaches Association’s sixth annual National Wrestling Duals, held on Aug. 9 at Long Branch High School.

  • Investigate facts about health care reform, Medicare

    Fixing our broken health care system is far too important to be derailed by myths and scare tactics perpetuated by special interest groups trying to block progress on health care reform. You may have heard the outrageous claim that health care reform will get rid of Medicare. In fact, for people in Medicare, health care…

  • Elegy for a much-loved mother

    PATRICIA A. MILLER Ocean View As I write this, it’s been 25 years to the day, almost to the hour, that my mother left this world. There has not been a day since that I have not thought about her or missed her. This is a little of her story. My mother was born in…

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