• Civil Air Patrol earns honors

    New Jersey Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Wing Commander Col. Robert McCabe flew from South Jersey Regional Airport into Lakewood Airport on April 23 to personally present special awards to the cadets and commander of the Pineland Composite Squadron, a 70- member unit based at the airport. McCabe made it a point to visit the officers…

  • Dogs welcome at BlueClaws game

    LAKEWOOD — All dog owners are welcome to bring their four-legged friends to a Lakewood BlueClaws baseball game at FirstEnergy Park from noon to 3 p.m. May 9. WJRZ-FM (100.1) and WRAT-FM (95.9), two Greater Media radio stations, are hosting “Bark in the Park,” a Lakewood BlueClaws tradition for the past four years. Before the…

  • Brick man dies from stab wound to abdomen

    Girlfriend arrested and charged with aggravated manslaughter BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer BRICK TOWNSHIP — Forty-nineyear old Peter Manna was still alive and bleeding from a single stab wound when police and paramedics arrived at the Glenwood Avenue home he shared with his girlfriend. But Manna died early the following morning at 1:15 a.m.…

  • Holes in two pipes thought to be source of tritium leaks

    Oyster Creek back on line after transformer repair BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer LACEY TOWNSHIP — Engineers at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station have pinpointed the source of several tritium leaks over the past few weeks, a plant spokesman said. “We have narrowed it to two pipes,” spokesman David Benson said. “One had…

  • Sports Shorts

    A senior golf tournament, sponsored by the Ocean County Parks and Recreation, will be held May 7 at the Ocean County Golf Course at Atlantis, located on Country Club Boulevard in Little Egg Harbor. Check-in will begin at 7:30 a.m., followed by a shotgun start at 8 a.m. The fee is $27 per person and…

  • Heave ho!

    FRANK GALIPO Junior firefighter Nick Kordl, of the Point Pleasant Beach Fire Co. No. 1, lugs a fire hose while running the course during the junior firefighter event at the sixth annual FIRE/EMS Expo at the Brick Fire Training Center over the weekend.

  • BTHS girls track has mixed results in relay

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer It’s not just the relentless rainfall that has made for an odd season for Brick Township High School’s girls track and field team during the outdoor season. “In terms of the rain, this has been our worst spring in 10 years,” Brick Township High coach Bill Brunner said. “It’s not…

  • Brick Memorial Mustangs football players shaping up for fall

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer Anthony D’Elia is busily preparing for his college football career at Monmouth University as one of 14 players graduating from Brick Memorial High School’s NJSIAA Group IV Central state championship team. And 93 other players are preparing for next season in the weight room and with conditioning programs set up…

  • Football legend blasts choice for BTHS coach

    Brick applicants bypassed as Wolf’s successor BY DANIELLE MEDINA Correspondent Warren Wolf may have retired in December, but last Thursday night he faced one last opponent — the Brick Board of Education. With the appointment of an out-ofdistrict coach for the Brick Township High School (BTHS) football team looming, Wolf attended the board’s public meeting…

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