Brick News

Police Officer Paul Catalina and K-9 Duke successfully navigated through a rigorous 16-week training and graduated from the Toms River Police Department Canine Academy on May 17, according to Capt.

Comcast has said it has rebuilt 144 miles worth of cable infrastructure since Superstorm Sandy struck the Shore area and has hired extra staff for coastal area offices as an influx of seasonal customers is anticipated.

May 17, 2013 - Neptune, NJ - Meridian Health's annual Research Day will take place at Jersey Shore University Medical Center on Tuesday, June 11, from 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. in Jersey Shore's Lance Auditorium.

Summertime on the storm-weary Jersey Shore is almost here: The air is heating up, boardwalks are being rebuilt and throngs of vacationers are expected to pack areas that just months ago were obliterated by Hurricane Sandy.

The mood has changed. A log from NJ Hope and Healing shows that people impacted by Hurricane Sandy have gone from feeling shocked, sad and tired with a loss of appetite to angry, hopeless and unable to make decisions.

Proceeds from sales at Sundaes on Route 88, Point Borough, on Thursday will go to a Point Beach High School student's effort to help fight the deadly disease that plagues him.

Brick police released a sketch of a man who is suspected of pulling a woman out of her car, then stabbing and robbing her Monday night.

A man allegedly stabbed and robbed a woman who was getting into her car Monday night, police said.

A woman is in stable condition after a man pulled her from a car and stabbed her Monday night, police said.

Two local residents have been indicted by grand jurors in Monmouth County on drug and child endangerment charges.

Brick's Camp Osborn neighborhood has gotten more attention that ever before over the last six months - all of it because of the fire that destroyed the community.

With the expectation of an influx of volunteers hoping to lend a hand in post-Sandy reconstruction this summer, Brick council members - with a few reservations - have approved a "quartering" ordinance which will allow volunteers to be housed in various places of public accommodation in town.

The winners were announced recently, but there were so many insightful, thought-provoking responses that we've decided to share more of them in today's @issue section: Being a teenager is tough.

About 70 trained divers showed up to scan and remove debris from the ocean floor off Brick Beach I Saturday morning, but Mother Nature had other plans when lightning and a pounding surf made the task unsafe, said Joe Skimmons, event organizer.

Volunteers from all over the world and from Ocean County's backyard have descended upon Normandy Beach -- those fragmented sections of the barrier peninsula that include portions of Toms River and Brick -- to help in a weekend cleanup after the superstorm destroyed and damaged a majority of properties there.

The theft of a vintage surfboard from a Normandy Drive home led to the arrest of a Lavallette man Friday, Brick police said.

Tennis Court Open House Battleground Country Club is holding an open house of their newly renovated tennis court facility on Saturday, May 11 at 9 a.m. The staff of instructors will be on hand and there will be a free rotational play and a one hour tennis clinic.

Debris and litter along streets, beaches and wood-lined roads will be removed through programs and volunteer efforts funded by an $18 million Clean Communities grant, according to a release from the Christie administration.

Just in time for Mother's Day, Meridian Health announced the re-launch of Meridian Momtourage, its interactive Web site community for busy moms in Monmouth and Ocean counties.

The Brick Township council this week awarded four contracts worth $8.2 million as part of its participation in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Private Property Debris Removal program.