• A little night music

    Brick Township High School band director David Lyncheski conducts members of the concert band at the music department’s presentation of “Movies, Marches and More” on May 11. The event also featured the honors band and the jazz and percussion ensembles. FRANK GALIPO

  • In search of a good deal

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer Alan Bloomer, of Raritan, looks over an airplane up for auction on May 13. Rick Levin & Associates Inc. conducted an auction on behalf of the U.S. Treasury in the Dayton section of South Brunswick. SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Even though the holidays are a distant memory, there’s still a huge…

  • School board approves council’s cuts at stormy meeting

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer The Brick school district will have to make do with fewer school buses for the coming year, after the Township Council sliced $471,715 from the narrowly defeated 2009 school budget. “We reached out to every council person to go over line items to see where we could cut,” Councilman…

  • Sea of green a show of support for longtime coach

    Township Council members have no say in BOE matters, attorney says BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Although there was nothing they could do about the controversy over the new Brick Township High School football coach, the mayor and Township Council members left no doubt where their allegiance lay. PATRICIA A. MILLER Longtime Brick Township…

  • Scarpelli released

    Former mayor still has three years of supervised release BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Former longtime Democratic Mayor Joseph C. Scarpelli has been released from a halfway house where he spent the last few weeks of his federal prison sentence on corruption charges. Scarpelli left the federal Bureau of Prisons’ Residential Re-entry Center in…

  • Board hires Dowling after tumultuous public meeting

    School officials blasted for ignoring BTHS assistant coaches to replace Warren Wolf BY DANIELLE MEDINA Correspondent Despite the last-minute appeals by Warren H. Wolf, parents and students, the Board of Education stood by its man and unanimously hired Patrick C. Dowling as the new head coach of the Brick Township High School football team. Hundreds…

  • Photo

    FRANK GALIPO Brick Township High School’s Joseph Gallagher takes to his trombone during the music department’s “Movies, Marches and More,” a program that featured the concert band, honors band, and jazz and percussion ensembles during the May 13 show.

  • Cal Ripken game ends in cliffhanger

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer When the Brick National and Brick American Cal Ripken programs made up schedules for their very first interdivisional games in the Major Division for 10-12-year-olds earlier this year, no one imagined one of those games would be a dramatic late-season match-up between the top two league teams. But that’s what…

  • Sports Shorts

    Sky Blue FC invites incoming and current high-school age players to participate in a special training session 7:30-9 p.m. May 27 with some of the best women players and coaches in the country. Presented by Sky Blue FC, in cooperation with the New Jersey Girls Soccer Coaches Association (NJGSCA), the clinic will be held at…

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