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Nick Zbranak’s power surge may be one for Ripken record books
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer John Brower has worked in the Brick National youth baseball program for 10 years and has been a player agent and coached the league’s All-Star teams, including last year’s state championship team. But he said he’s never seen anything like the start 12-year-old Nick Zbranak has had. The veteran manager…
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Nuclear a safe, dependable energy source
I take issue with your cartoonist’s slant on nuclear energy in New Jersey (April 9). We have an administration that is openly allied with the liberal green parties that refuse to consider building new reactors. Oyster Creek has shown that nuclear energy is a safe technology and would solve our need for a dependable safe…
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Oyster Creek an accident waiting to happen
A nuclear plant reactor tries to safely contain more radioactivity than is in the fallout of 1,000 Hiroshima atom bombs. The Oyster Creek spent fuel rod pool contains much more deadly radioactivity. The pool has a flimsy roof that could easily be penetrated to cause a fuming meltdown. Who would have thought that the World…
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Farewell to a longtime friend of Ocean County
We have received the sad news at Save Barnegat Bay of the passing of a giant in the environmental history of Ocean County, Robert Anstett, on March 19. After moving to Brick in 1967, Bob was a reporter and columnist for the Observer. He then headed the Citizens Conservation Council of Ocean County for decades.…
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Solved: the vexing case of the missing iPod
Are We There Yet? • LORI CLINCH For Christmas we surprised our young Huey with an iHome — a dream machine for anyone with an iPod. For those of you not in the know, the iPod is the technological replacement for your CDs, 8- tracks and cassette tapes. It’s your whole collection of LPs and…
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Oyster Creek’s new lease on life
The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission handed Ocean County residents something to keep them up nights for the next 20 years by relicensing the oldest nuclear plant in the United States. The Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station now has official permission to run until April 9, 2029, courtesy of the NRC’s decision on April 8. It…
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In tough economy, it’s time for the perfect tax
Coda Coda • GREG BEAN I was in the convenience store this week, listening to smokers gripe about the new 62- cent per-pack tax the federal government has imposed on cigarettes. That means the feds now get $1.01 per package of smokes, or $10.10 per carton. In New Jersey, where they add on $2.57…
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Business Briefs
Brick resident Maryanne Luccarelli received the President’s Award for continuous improvement through FirstEnergy Corp.’s employee excellence awards program. Luccarelli is general supervisor of customer accounting for the company. Luccarelli’s recognized efforts included improving communications through monthly meetings that reduced revenue losses through consumption on vacant accounts; organizing and leading a team to improve new service…
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Photographers recognized in state press assoc. contest
Greater Media Newspapers photographers won three awards in the New Jersey Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for 2008. Granit, General News, first place The newspaper group, based in Freehold, N.J., publishes 12 weeklies, serving Monmouth, Middlesex and Ocean counties. Jeff Granit and Eric Sucar were among the journalists honored at the NJPA awards banquet April…
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