Vol. 16 - No. 3
THE BRICK
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By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK – Old carpeting has been ripped up and water-stained ceiling tiles have been taken down as construction begins for a new teen center to be located in the Brick Civic Plaza in a storefront adjacent to the township Recreation Department. Funded by a $25,000 g rant f rom Ocean Partnership for Children, Inc. (OPC), the center would have two flat screen TVs for video games, a p u l l - d ow n m ov ie screen, an electronic workstation area for downloading and editing music, a pool table, and more. According to Director of Recreation Dan Sant an iello, township teens were surveyed to see what they would like to have included in the teen center. Although a majority of the teens wanted a pool, the space was designed
–Photos by Judy Smestad-Nunn The Brick Civic Plaza is under renovatioins. using the survey results, he said. “Not all kids like sports, so we want to help keep kids off the streets and give them something to do, and enhance Brick Township as a whole,” San-
taniello said. He said the Recreation Department is hoping to partner for grants with other organizations such as NJ Department of Children and Families and/or Preferred Behavioral
Hindenburg Tragedy Remembered During 80th Anniversary Ceremony
By Bob Vosseller LAKEHURST – It happened 80 years ago but it remains a point of local fascination and is seen by many as a
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turning point in aeronautical engineering. It put the borough and Ocean County on the global map. Several hundred people came
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out to remember the event which took the lives of 36 people involved with the final flight of the DLZ –129 (Ceremony - See Page 7)
Health whose specialists could mingle with the kids in an informal setting. Santaniello said counselors from the schools could come in and interact with the (Teen - See Page 4)
| May 13, 2017
Brick Schools See Tax Increase
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK – At a special budget hearing held on April 27, the Board of Education approved the 2017-2018 school year budget of $154,421,700. This would be a 1.22 percent increase over last year’s budget of $150,618,318, which equates to about $30 more a year on an average township home assessed at $293,600. The increase was reduced by $756,500 since the budget was f i r st i nt roduced i n March, said interim superintendent Thomas Gialanella during the meeting. The budget includes a tax levy of $ 1 0 4 , 7 7 1 , 9 41 , u p $1.26 million over the 2016-2017 tax levy of $103,511,385. The district would be receiving $37,600,849 in state aid, which has remained relatively flat over the past seven years. Some of the high-
lights of the budget include hiring a second STEM (science technology, engineering, mathematics) Academy teacher, a second American Sign Language teacher, and a state-mandated dance teacher for which the d ist r ic t r e ceive d a waiver in the past, Gialanella said. Also, the dist r ict would be hiring a behaviorist to better service special needs students to help keep them in-district, he said. The budget includes $3.1 million in anticipated surplus from the current school year to be used for a roof replacement at Warren Wolf Elementary School ($1,415,000), a new track at Brick High School ($861,100), and repaving the Veteran’s Complex parking lot ($855,508). Also, $2.67 million is earmarked for debt service, and $25,000 was budgeted for referendum services, said (Increase - See Page 4)
Bobby Rydell Talks About Second Chances At Toms River Library
By Bob Vosseller TOMS RIVER – Susan Toms of Forked R ive r s p e nt a fe w hours at the Toms River branch of the Ocean
County Library on May 7 awaiting the arrival of her idol, singer, actor and more recently, author, Robert Ridarelli, better known as “Bob-
by Rydell.” Toms had first met the performer in 1965 at the Suntan Hotel in Wildwood Crest, NJ. (Library - See Page 5)
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