The Brick Township Garden Club will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 9 in the Cultural Arts Center, Herbertsville Road, Brick. Lee Crisci, president, will conduct a short business meeting to discuss upcoming events and trips for the club. The committees for the annual garden tour will also give reports. More...

Incidents of violence and suicide involving returning veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan are of great concern to everyone. Local papers across the country have reported on the numerous stories of assault, suicide, rape and homicide. More...

Iread with great interest the letter submitted by Mr. John Menshon, chairman for the Transport Workers Union Local 225 Branch 4, which represents Brick Township employees. Mr. Menshon implies that the council and I are anti-worker and anti-union. This is far from the truth. More...

Besides hanging out at his Texas ranch since vacating the White House, George W. Bush has apparently been spending some of his free time planning his presidential library. The library, projected to cost between $200 million and $500 million, will sit on about 25 acres at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. More...

Mr. Coiner, 65, of Hazlet, died Jan. 25, 2009, at home. He resided in Brick, and the Wanamassa section of Ocean Township, prior to relocating to Hazlet in 1998. He was a logistician at Naval Weapons Station, Earle, Colts Neck, from 1962 until retirement in 2000. He is survived by his wife, Julia Coleman Coiner; two sons and one daughter-in-law, Robert T. More...

On Sunday afternoon, a few hours before all of America hunkered down to watch the Super Bowl, Steve Santos got on the phone with a number of his Brick Memorial High School wrestling teammates and organized another of the many road running workouts he has called for the past couple of years on days when there is no practice. More...