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May 21, 2009
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FRANK GALIPO Brick Township High School's Joseph Gallagher takes to his trombone during the music department's "Movies, Marches and More," a program that featured the concert band, honors band, and jazz and percussion ensembles during the May 13 show. More...
Board hires Dowling after tumultuous public meeting
School officials blasted for ignoring BTHS assistant coaches to replace Warren Wolf
BY DANIELLE MEDINA Correspondent

Despite the last-minute appeals by Warren H. Wolf, parents and students, the Board of Education stood by its man and unanimously hired Patrick C. Dowling as the new head coach of the Brick Township High School football team. Hundreds turned out at a special May 14 meeting to express their anger a... More...


Scarpelli released
Former mayor still has three years of supervised release
BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer

Former longtime Democratic Mayor Joseph C. Scarpelli has been released from a halfway house where he spent the last few weeks of his federal prison sentence on corruption charges. Scarpelli left the federal Bureau of Prisons' Residential Re-entry Center in Brooklyn on May 15, according to the Bur... More...


Sea of green a show of support for longtime coach
Township Council members have no say in BOE matters, attorney says
BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer

Although there was nothing they could do about the controversy over the new Brick Township High School football coach, the mayor and Township Council members left no doubt where their allegiance lay. Almost all of the council members and Mayor Stephen C. Acropolis sported Kellygreen ties and whit... More...


School board approves council's cuts at stormy meeting
BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer

The Brick school district will have to make do with fewer school buses for the coming year, after the Township Council sliced $471,715 from the narrowly defeated 2009 school budget. "We reached out to every council person to go over line items to see where we could cut," Councilman Brian DeLuca s... More...


 Bulletin Board
•June programs and events at library
The Brick Branch of the Ocean County Library, 301 Chambers Bridge Road, has announced its schedule of free events and programs for the month of June. Registration is required unless otherwise noted. Call the library at 732-477-4513 or visit www.theoceancountylibrary. org for registration and detai... More...
•Eye Openers seeks volunteer drivers
•'Paws 4 a Cause' will take place May 30
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 Letters
•School board blundered with football coach choice
They replace Warren Wolf with who? Growing up, Warren Wolf was a fixture in our household. Not physically, but mentally. My older brother Paul played quarterback for the Brick team back in 1974 when Brick won the state title in a down-to-thewire win over Camden. I remember because I was there, all... More...
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 Editorials
•Veteran BTHS football coach 'astounded' by school board pick
One week ago the Board of Education incomprehensibly voted to ignore the pleas of parents, students and residents to appoint a veteran Brick assistant football coach at Brick Township High School to replace the legendary Warren H. Wolf. More...
•Reader blasts school board's choice of coach
•Just shut the door and walk away
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 Greg Bean's Column
•Lawmakers finally show a bit of common sense
My father died a hard death from lung cancer in 1983. From the first diagnosis, about six months before he passed, there was never any real hope, since his type of cancer is nearly always fatal. Still, he tried to beat it with ever-more aggressive chemotherapy treatments that took his hair and hi... More...
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 Obituaries
•Randi Louise La Fountain
Mrs. La Fountain, 57, of Gallatin, Tenn., died May 8, 2009, at home. She resided in Oceanport, prior to relocating to Tennessee three years ago. She was the former co-owner of the Middletown Swim and Tennis Club, and Bayshore Mobile Manor, Hazlet; and co-owner of Circle Trailer Sales Inc., Eatonto... More...
•Anna Maria Schneider
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 Sports
•Zbranak closing in on Brick National home run record
After an explosive performance in the first game of the season when Nick Zbranak hit for the "home run cycle," he still is driving them out for the Brewers of the Brick National Cal Ripken baseball league's Major Division for 10- to 12-year-olds. More...
•Baseball & softball teams advance in S.C. tourney
•Booster Club parents upset over new coach choice
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 Business
•Business Briefs
The Educational Foundation of the Brick Township Chamber of Commerce will hold a special event to congratulate and introduce their 2009 scholarship award recipients and celebrate the growth of their Tree of Learning at a cocktail party at the Brick Township Municipal Building, 401 Chambers Bridg... More...
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