• Parking permits, beach badges on sale

    The Brick Township Recreation Department has announced that season beach badges and season parking permits for summer 2009 are now on sale in the Brick Recreation Department. The price for season badges is $25 if purchased prior to June 15. After that date, the price increases to $30 for season badges. The price for season…

  • CONTACT to host luncheon and show

    CONTACT of Ocean and Monmouth counties will hold its 24th annual spring luncheon, gift auction and fashion show April 25 at the Ramada Inn, 2373 Route 9, Toms River. The event will offer a multi-course lunch, a fashion show, door prizes, a 50/50 raffle and a premium gift auction. Doors will open at 10:30 a.m.…

  • B-MAC to recognize pure acts of kindness

    The Brick Township Municipal Alliance Committee on Alcoholism, Drug Abuse and Youth Services (B-MAC) will be rewarding high school seniors who have done good deeds with its Spc. Christopher M. Duffy Pure Act of Kindness award. Up to four qualified high school seniors may each receive an award of $500. Eligible students must reside in…

  • Lions battle against preventable blindness

    Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center handles 500,000 donations annually BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Individuals across the country annually drop about 6 million pairs of glasses into local Lions Clubs’ refurbished mailboxes, but not many donors know where those used spectacles go. JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Allentown Lions Club President Robert Strovinsky sorts glasses with various prescriptions at…

  • Nurse indicted again for Toms River man’s death

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer FREEHOLD — A Monmouth County grand jury recently indicted a Brick Townshipwoman for the second time on a first-degree murder charge of a hospital patient. Lorie Hentges, 39, was charged with the April 14, 2007, death of Alvin Flamenbaum, 72, Toms River. Hentges was a longtime nurse in the…

  • Brick man pleads not guilty to multiple bank robberies

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer A township man charged with a string of bank robberies in Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex counties pleaded not guilty in federal court in Trenton recently. Peter A. Bielecke, 40, was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 12. He is accused of committing six bank robberies, the majority…

  • ‘Atomic’ plant has long history in Ocean Co.

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer The Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station was born on May 2, 1963, when thenowner Jersey Central Power & Light Co. announced plans to build the Oyster Creek Atomic Generating Station. That announcement marked a significant change from JCP&L’s original plans back in 1960 to build a coal-fired, electricity-generating plant…

  • Workshop tries to kick away injuries to the ACL

    Sky Blue Soccer hosts clinic to help players stay healthy BY KELLY D’ANNA Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Sky Blue Soccer pro Christie Shaner demonstrates warm-up techniques to help minimize injuries to the ACL during a workshop at the South Brunswick Family YMCA March 28. SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Sky Blue Soccer hosted a free ACL…

  • Saving Barnegat Bay

    ERIC SUCAR staff Mitch Altamura, 14, Brick, pauses at an isolated spot at Herring Point off Mantoloking Road during Save Barnegat Bay’s annual spring cleanup on March 28.

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