Jaclyn Koczan gets in a workout on a torrid Saturday for a good cause. She participated in the "We're Walkin' for Avery" fundraiser at the Brick reservoir. Kidz-4-Kidz, a children's theater group and offshoot of the Ashley Lauren Foundation, held the event for 4-year-old Brick resident Avery Lubrecht, who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer. More...
It's been three years since Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority commissioners decided in a split vote not to pursue the hefty interest former Democratic Mayor Daniel F. Newman owed on an unpaid sewer bill. Now Republican Township Council members and Mayor Stephen C. Acropolis want it back. More...
Ocean County College, Toms River, is offering the following day trips to attractions in New York, Philadelphia and New Jersey. Unless otherwise stated, all ages are welcome. • American Girl lunch and theater in New York City, 9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. July 13. The fee is $129. More...
As a citizen of Brick Township it gives me no pleasure to write this letter, but the recent vindictiveness and mean spiritedness of certain Republican members of the Township Council has exceeded even what I have come to expect from them. Their recent actions border on frightening. More...
My grandmother on my father's side was born in 1895 and lived most of her life close to the spot where the Golden Spike was driven on the transcontinental railroad. Her town was a true melting pot on account of the fact that it drew laborers from all over the world who worked on the Union Pacific Railroad and later in that company's coal mines. More...
Windfall profits tax won't ease your pain at the pump
A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson - a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist - and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers. More...
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