THE BRICK
Vol. 18 - No. 18
In This Week’s Edition
TIMES
Your FREE Weekly Hometown Newspaper For Brick and Lakewood Townships
Community News! Pages 8-12.
Dr. Izzy’s Sound News
9 Tips To Help Detect Hearing Loss
Page 14.
Dear Pharmacist Amazing Health Benefits Of Prunes
Page 15.
Inside The Law Page 17.
Inside
Toms River Little League Champs Look Back 20 Years Later
Page 23.
Business Directory
Page 22.
Fun Page Page 20.
Wolfgang Puck Page 27.
Horoscope Page 27.
JERSEYSHOREONLINE.COM
| September 8, 2018
False Forecasts Hurt Shore Area Businesses
By Bob Vosseller OCEAN COUNTY - For most seasonal businesses who depend on day trippers to provide their service, a weather forecast of gloom and doom can be devastating and many said that is precisely what happened this summer season. Bill Petruzel, owner of Barnacle Bill’s arcade and miniature golf, which celebrated its 55th year of operation in Ortley Beach on July 21, said, “the weather is always important and this year we had a nontrend of sunny days followed by some rainy weather. It was not consistent.” “Generally we had a good season but if anything it was wet and we would have done a little better,” Petruzel added. Nearby is one of four Kohr’s (Shore - See Page 4)
–Photos by Bob Vosseller The Starlight Motel was busy on Labor Day but managers of the business said that the loss of beach operation and bad weather forecasts have hurt the business this summer.
Susan Bialasz of Somerset checks out a pink bicycle from The Beach Authority in Lavallette on Labor Day. She sympathized with business owners who were hurt by rainy weather this summer as well as bad weather forecasts that proved incorrect.
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FOR BREAKING NEWS
Brick Wants Independent Study Of Flood Cause
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK - The governing body has called for an independent engineering study to be done for the Aug. 13 flood event that resulted in water damage to hundreds of homes located near the Garden State Parkway where major interchange renovations were recently completed. Many areas all over town were affected by the eight inches of rain - the
normal rainfall for a two-month period, said Mayor John G. Ducey during the most recent council meeting. “It wasn’t just one particular area of our town. It’s all over north, south and central. We were hammered all over town by that storm,” he said. Most of the affected areas are not in the floodplain and had never flooded before, such as in Greenbriar 1, where (Flood - See Page 26)
Councilman Switches Parties
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK - Councilman Jim Fozman announced that he would be switching his allegiance to the Republican party after he said he was told he was no longer invited to political caucus meetings since “they feel I no longer share their political philosophy,” he said at the end of the Aug. 28 council meeting.
“I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me,” said Fozman, quoting the late President Ronald Reagan. In a prepared statement, Fozman said the all-Democrat council and mayor were distancing him because he was increasingly at odds with “their lack of transparency, and calling them out on the lack of (Councilman - See Page 5)
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