• Brick Garden Club will meet May 11

    The Brick Garden Club will meet 7 p.m. May 11 in the Cultural Arts Center, Herbertsville Road, Brick. Lee Crisci, president, will conduct a short business meeting to discuss upcoming events and trips for the club. The committees for the annual garden tour will also give reports. Following the business session, guest speakers Barbara and…

  • Church to offer soup kitchen

    The First Baptist Church of Laurelton, 1836 Route 88, Brick, will serve a soup kitchen on the last Thursday of each month from 5:30 to 7 p.m. All are welcome. There is no charge.

  • OCC to offer job search workshops

    The Department of Continuing and Professional Education at Ocean County College is offering the following • “Job Search Workshop with Résumé Writing,” offered 9-11 a.m., Tuesdays, May 5-26 or 6-8:30 p.m., Wednesdays, June 3- 24 at the OCC Main Campus, College Drive, Toms River. The cost is $52. This program reveals the secret of an…

  • Project Graduation will hold gift auction

    A gift auction and luncheon hosted by Brick Memorial High School Project Graduation 2009 will be held noon to 5 p.m. May 3 at Veteran’s Memorial Middle School, 105 Hendrickson Ave. Drawings will begin at 1:30 p.m. Admission is $15 and includes lunch, dessert, soda, coffee and tea. Advance prepackaged tickets are also available for…

  • Retired educators to meet May 14

    The Ocean County Retired Educators Association will host its spring meeting and luncheon at the Quality Inn, Toms River, at 11 a.m. May 14. Current members will have the opportunity to vote for OCREA officers during the election period following the business meeting. The cost of the luncheon is $22 per person and reservations must…

  • Rotary will host wine and cheese fundraiser

    The Brick Township Rotary Club will host a Taste of Spring wine and cheese tasting event May 4 at the Woodlake County Club, Lakewood. The event will benefit 14 local charities including POAC, Dottie’s House and the Boy Scouts of America. The evening will feature wines from four different distributors as well as beer and…

  • Oyster Creek nuclear plant offline after transformer failure

    NRC’s relicensing of 40-year-old plant was ‘rush job,’ opponent says BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer LACEY TOWNSHIP — The Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station has been in “cold shutdown” since one of the plant’s two aging transformers failed last weekend. “It was a conservative decision to shut down the unit to repair that transformer,”…

  • Two more ‘Alaska Experiment’ team members push the button

    Brick man, Middletown woman still in running in Discovery Channel’s ‘Out of the Wild’ BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer And then there were six. Just four days into the Discovery Channel’s “Out of the Wild – the Alaska Experiment,” three of the nine group members have given up. But Brick Township resident Daniel Rac…

  • Lacrosse season a learning experience

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer Members of both the girls and boys lacrosse teams at Brick Township High School and Brick Memorial High School are realizing there is more to the game than lining up against opponents in the powerful Shore Conference A South. “The game goes beyond the field,” said Dan Rosa, the new…

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