CHRIS KELLY staff Meghan Oswin, Asbury Park, secures a life jacket on Billy, a long-haired Chihuahua, during Marine Max's "Pets on the Water" safety class in Brick on Sunday. More ... Township to buy Ocean Ice Palace for $5M Building, 13.3-acre site to be used as new community center BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer       The rink at the Ocean Ice Palace was empty at 10 a.m. one recent morning. A faint mist hovered over the surface of the ice. The only sound in the building was the hum of the condensers to keep it frozen. It's a scene Brick Township Council President Stephen C. Acropolis wants to cha... More ... Oyster Creek back online after 'cold shutdown'       'Very low levels' of radioactive steam released into atmosphere, NRC says BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer LACEY TOWNSHIP - Plant operators at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station faced some "challenges" recently after an electrical fault in a pum... More ... Book details long-ago summer camps, resorts BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer       BRICK TOWNSHIP - The boys and the young men in the photo are mostly likely all gone now. They peer at us through time, a vision from an idyllic summer back in 1920. They were campers and counselors from the long-gone Princeton Summer Camp, which was born on the shores of the Metedeco... More ... Redevelopment in store for old Foodtown site BY DANIELLE MEDINA Correspondent       BRICK TOWNSHIP - Planning Board members have unanimously agreed that the old Foodtown site on Route 70 is an area in need of redevelopment - the first step in the property's rejuvenation. If the Township Council agrees with the Planning Board's recommendation and passes a similar re... More ... Drum Point playground to get $950,000 upgrade BY DANIELLE MEDINA Correspondent       BRICK TOWNSHIP - The Drum Point Elementary School Playground is getting a major face-lift, thanks to a joint effort by the township and the school's parent-teacher association. But the school's students aren't the only ones who will benefit from the renovation. More ... Best of the best      ERICSUCAR staff The Ocean County all-star team stands along the sidelines prior to the annual Shore 44 Football Classic held at Brick Township School on Friday, July 20. The game brought together all-star football players from Monmouth and Ocean counties. More ... Former principal bashes school district in article BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer       BRICK TOWNSHIP - - Former Brick Memorial High School Principal Robert A. Anderson has bitten the hand that once fed him. More ... Family vacation, what a relief - not always! Amy Rosen Around Town       My family and I recently returned from vacation at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia. Picture this: one woman and four men driving eight hours. What is the woman not going to do as often as she wants? Hint: it's not shopping. When my husband gets behind the wheel of a car and starts the e... More ... McGuire gets life for murder, dismemberment She will be 101 years old when she is eligible for parole BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer       Melanie McGuire, a 34-year-old former fertility clinic nurse who was found guilty in the first degree of killing her husband, William McGuire, in their Woodbridge Center Plaza apartment in April, was sentenced to life in prison July 19. More ... Stork Club       Ocean Medical Center, Brick, has announced the following June births, all to Brick residents: Stacy and Michael McFeeley, a daughter born June 1; Lynn Rhoads and Robert Wingender, a son born June 1; Michelle and Robert Jordan, a son born June 6; More ... August programs and events at Brick Library       The Brick Branch of the Ocean County Library, 301 Chambers Bridge Road, has announced it's schedule of free events and programs for the month of August. Registration is required unless otherwise noted. Call the library at (732) 477-4513 or visit www. More ... OCREA accepting reservations for fall trip       Join the Ocean County REA (OCREA) on a four-day/three-night trip to Newport, R.I., and Essex, Conn., Oct. 1-4. The package includes round-trip transportation from Toms River, accommodations at the Best Western Mainstay Inn, three full breakfast buffets at the hotel, three complete... More ...