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State champs
Above: Brick Memorial High School’s Steve Santos celebrates after defeating Sayreville’s Ramon Santiago in their 152-pound championship bout at the NJSIAA wrestling tournament at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall on March 8. Santos won the match 8-4. Left: Brick Memorial’s Mike Morales hugs assistant coach Tony Nash as head coach Dan O’Cone claps after Morales defeated…
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JEFF GRANIT staff Brick Memorial’s Steve Santos grapples with Sayreville’s Ramon Santiago during their 152-pound championship bout at the NJSIAA wrestling tournament at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on March 8. Santos won the match 8-4.
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Basketball season comes to an end for three Brick teams
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer BRICK TOWNSHIP — Brick Memorial’s boys basketball team was supposed to be the last team standing in the NJSIAA Tournament. But it was the school’s girls team that outlasted the boys team, until Friday night, when the Mustangs were eliminated by Montgomery, 64-41, in the NJSIAA Group IV Central Jersey…
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Brick Memorial has not one, but two state wrestling champs
Santos and Morales both take home top honors in Atlantic City BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Brick Memorial’s Mike Morales wrestles Point Pleasant Boro’s Jordan Beverly in the 130- pound championship match at the NJSIAA tournament on March 8 in Atlantic City. Morales won 5-4. ATLANTIC CITY — Brick Memorial’s Steve Santos…
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Officials need to act on health, financial security
Since its inception in early 2007, AARP has collected over one million Divided We Fail pledges from citizens all across the nation who believe that health care and lifetime financial security are the most pressing domestic issues facing our nation today. One hundred and seventy-four miles separate our state’s capital from our nation’s capital. If…
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Why Joe DiMaggio will remain immortal
The change of seasons, especially in the east, brings bucolic dreams of springtime and its sister, baseball. For many the game recaptures a pastoral past, the remembrance of childhood aimlessly spent, rather than the problems of free agency and steroids, the greed of players and owners alike, and the spiraling problems of today. Fifty-eight years…
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‘Merchant of political chaos’ needs swift kick
Brick, a town that I truly love, has its own “merchant of political chaos,” and his name is Joe Lamb. This prestidigitator of smoking mirrors and manipulator of numerical figures is using his constitutional rights to spread false statements and facts about our elected officials. Joe is a phony dressed in a black suit. Be…
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Penny wise, pound foolish
After more than a year of a verbal tug of war, the township and the Transport Workers Union have at long last agreed on a contract they can both live with. Now that the applause has died down, consider this. The whole prolonged mess could have been avoided last September, when the township offered the…
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Md. woman allegedly pursues cop with her car
SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Police recently arrested and charged a 39-year-old Maryland woman with aggravated assault. Patrol officers were dispatched to Acme Nissan on Route 130 in response to a reported dispute at 9:30 p.m. March 5, according to a press release from Sgt. Jim Stoddard of the South Brunswick Police Department. When Patrolman Michael Urstadt…
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